Feelings Are Hard

**Feelings Are Hard** is the ninth episode of the first season of Ginny & Georgia. It premiered on February 24, 2021. It is written by Danielle Hoover and David Monahan, and directed by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta.

## Synopsis

*While Ginny and Georgia both find themselves caught between two men, Max and Marcus face painful situations of different sorts.*

## Plot

Ginny narrates how everyone thinks that “love is beautiful”, but she disagrees as she believes it’s painful and inconvenient. She stays up late at night continuously texting Marcus trying to apologize.

The next morning, Georgia tells Ginny that Marcus is having a CAT scan but will be okay. Suddenly, she sees Marcus return, and she watches him with despair from the window.
Georgia seems to regret sleeping with Zion, and he thinks it’s inevitable that she’s going to start ignoring him again. She’s also panicking about lawyer Marty, waiting for an update.

Years earlier, Georgia visits Zion. He’s annoyed that she disappeared. Georgia was worried that his parents were going to take control of Ginny and apologizes for making a mistake.

At work, Paul apologizes for storming out on her the other night. She tells him that they are great. She isn’t telling him that she slept with Zion. Meanwhile, the private investigator tells a judge about the Wolfsbane plant that’s poisonous and can cause heart attacks. He manages to get permission to dig up Kenny’s body for toxicology. They believe Georgia killed Kenny.

While Austin plays hide and seek with Zion, he finds a box full of money and documents, including his letters to his father that have been stashed away and never sent by Georgia. As Zion finds him, he stashes the box back away.

Later, Georgia picks Ginny up from work, and they both sigh as they enter the car. They both talk about their complicated situations with men. Ginny tells Georgia not to blow up their lives due to their father. Georgia calls her moment with Zion a momentary lapse. When they get home, Zion is cooking for the family and Ellen’s family. He tells Georgia that they could work now, as they are adults.

Sometime in the past, Zion returns home and plays the piano for baby Ginny. In the present day, Georgia is consumed by Zion, watching him cook. Ellen and her husband join for dinner with Maxine. Ginny is desperate to tell Max about her feelings for Marcus, but it’s making her anxious. At the table, Zion tells everyone that he’s here to stay in the town. There are so many unspoken words at the table. Ginny visits Marcus’s room and tries speaking to him, but then Padma enters. She asks Ginny if she likes him and then tells her that he’s selfish and will hurt her. As Padma leaves, Ginny tells her not to tell anyone about her and Marcus.

Georgia presses Zion about him staying. He tells her that he can provide for the family and that he wants to settle down. Zion feels Georgia is the only place that feels like home. He asks her if he can “come home”, and Georgia has a face expressed with love. At work, Georgia wants Paul to go on the offensive, rally, plant trees, paint fences, etc. Basically, she thinks they should show Wellsbury that they have a mayor who cares and acts. Paul loves the idea but then asks how long Zion is going to stay in town. “He never stays long” is her awkward response. The irony is, she barely stays around herself.
Sophie speaks to Max about how she can never feel like herself with her friends and that Max feels like a “vacation”. Sophie doesn’t want to hurt her, but she wants to break-up because ultimately, she doesn’t think it will work when they go to college. Max is devastated because she loves her. The women hug it out, and there’s plenty of tears between them.

Her friends come around afterward and give her moral support.

Zion tells Ginny that she loves her mother, and she’s his person. He insists he wants to be with her. He then mentions an apartment in Boston and that they are finally going to be a family. Ginny is happy and hugs her father.

Ginny tries again with Marcus and visits his room. This time he’s awake, and she apologizes for all the mean things she said. Marcus tells her he wasn’t ignoring her texts, and his phone is probably on the side of the road somewhere. The pair hug, nearly kiss, and then Abby catches them. Abby tells Ginny that her friend Maxine is devastated right now and she is not going even to consider what she saw. She does warn Ginny that she is not breaking up the group and to stop being selfish.

Georgia runs the campaign. Zion takes photos and sees how much she cares about the campaign and the mayor.

Sometime in the past, Georgia tells Zion that their relationship isn’t working, and she can tell he is angry. She wants him to be happy and get everything he wants, but she doesn’t want to hold him back. She wants him to live his life so that he doesn’t stop loving her.

After the campaign, Georgia speaks to Paul about Zion wanting to stay and give it a try. She apologizes and states she slept with him. Paul is irritated that she gave into unresolved feelings and that all she has is his story and that he is not the future, just the past, it seems like he knew that Georgia would sleep with Zion. Paul valiantly tells Georgia that they are cut from the same cloth, and they want power together. He tells her to choose, either him or Zion. Paul plonks an engagement ring on the table and states he bought it after their date because he knew a woman like her only comes around once in a lifetime telling her he sees her.

When Georgia gets home, Zion has packed his bags, and she is dismayed. Zion believes that Georgia wants Wellsbury, not him. He tries touching her face, but she’s too upset. Zion wants her to get everything she wants, and he kisses her on the forehead. He leaves her sobbing in her house. She finally contains herself and looks at the ring given to her by Paul and puts it on.

Zion has to see Ginny at work. Ginny senses that he’s leaving without her straight away and is dismayed that she believed him. As he tries to explain, Ginny storms off.

Ginny visits Marcus in his bedroom. She tells him her father left but follows it with, “I think I love you too”. Ginny admits that she tried to fight it. She also admits that she loves Hunter too, but she thinks about Marcus all the time. Marcus grabs her, and they kiss, and it quickly turns sexual.

Afterward, Marcus reveals he was a virgin when they first had sex and wanted her to think he was cool. Marcus then delves into how dark it got after his friend died, and he really scared himself. He then brings up how he saw Ginny with the lighter about to self-harm. Ginny explains how the burning helps her concentrate her exploding feelings. Marcus asks her to get help, and she agrees. Soon after, Hunter texts her, asking her if they can talk.

When Ginny returns home, Austin is in her room which makes her jump. He seems upset and shows how Georgia has been storing letters from him to his father. Ginny vows to send them to his father for him.

In the mayor’s office, Cynthia snoops around and looks through the electronic ledger — she finds entries that are not found in the system; she’s uncovered the fraudulent activity conducted by Georgia. Meanwhile, as the private investigator visits Kenny’s grave, it’s empty.

Later, Maxine finds Marcus’s phone and sees the texts between him and Ginny, including the photo where she is just wearing a bra.

## Cast

* Antonia Gentry as Ginny Miller
* Diesel La Torraca as Austin Miller
* Jennifer Robertson as Ellen Baker
* Felix Mallard as Marcus Baker
* Sara Waisglass as Maxine Baker
* Scott Porter as Mayor Paul Randolph
* Raymond Ablack as Joe
* Katie Douglas as Abby Littman
* Chelsea Clark as Norah
* Dan Beirne as Nick
* Humberly González as Sophie Sanchez
* Alex Mallari Jr. as PI Gabriel Cordova
* Sabrina Grdevich as Cynthia Fuller

### Co-Starring

* Al McFoster as Judge
* Andrea Grant as Woman
* Brock Johnson as Cemetery Caretaker
* Chris Kenopic as Clint Baker
* Christie Stewart as Ms. Griffins
* Dan Beirne as Nick
* Megan Fahlenbock as Amber Lynn Driscoll
* Kyle Bary as Teenage Zion Miller
* Rebecca Ablack as Padma
* Wilbert Headley as Man
* Alicia Turner as Stunt Coordinator

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11246194/?ref\_=tt\_ep\_nx