It's A Face Not A Mask

***It's a Face Not a Mask*** is the second episode of the first season of Ginny & Georgia. It premiered February 24, 2021. It is written by Sarah Lampert and Debra J. Fisher, and directed by Anya Adams.

## Synopsis

*As Ginny struggles to fit in with her new friends, she faces fallout from a night with Marcus. Georgia helps problem-solve for both Paul and Ellen.*

## Plot

In the middle of the night, Georgia freaks out, believing she has a long hair on her chin; she asks Ginny to pluck it. She is freaking out since it’s her first day working with Mayor Paul. While Georgia is the kind of person that likes to keep up with appearances, for Ginny, keeping up with appearances and blending in socially has never been her specialty. Despite making friends with Maxine at school, she’s struggling to adjust to the social dynamics that it brings, and she isn’t entirely sure of Maxine’s friends or how genuine they might be.

At work, Paul talks about bringing a marijuana dispensary to town to make profits; the idea is to bring in funding to build a new library. Georgia offers to help Nick, who is Paul’s assistant to see if they can get planning permission, but he suspects that she is trying to seduce Paul and dismisses her. Later on, Georgia accuses Nick of also fancying Paul, and she bites back. She ends up telling him that she has a way of making herself malleable to make friends.

After sleeping with Marcus, Ginny heads to the pharmacy and asks for the plan B pill. She reads the leaflet inside the box to see the side effects and during her anxiety of swallowing the pill, Maxine picks her up to go to a social gathering. Meanwhile, Georgia tells Ellen that Maxine isn’t going to the cinemas with Ginny and gives her the low down of figuring out their daughters' lies that they tell them.

At the social gathering, the teens are smoking weed through a bong one of them made in a ceramic class. Ginny tries it for the first time. Meanwhile, Georgia finds Maxine’s secret Instagram profile and shows her mother, Ellen. She wants to ground her instantly. Samantha tells Ginny that she once dated Hunter and all the girls talk about him. She then tells Ginny that she’s going to have a baby with a black man so she can have cute mixed babies. Ginny blatantly doesn’t like her, and it becomes obvious that references to skin color are pissing her off. The topic of 'A Star Is Born' is brought up, and Ginny discusses all the versions. It becomes abundantly clear that this is her first time getting high, as she goes into way too much detail for the environment that she’s in, and embarrasses herself.

When Ginny gets home, her mother wants all the gossip from the social gathering. She talks about her “first high experience”. Georgia asks Ginny to promise to talk to her before she loses her virginity. The mother and daughter swear to have no secrets between each other.

At school the next day, Ginny tells Marcus that it’s been weird since they had sex. When he brushes it off, she tells Marcus that she took a pill to be safe before walking off, looking annoyed. She drops a tampon in class, and it hits Hunter in the face, and she’s embarrassed. Afterward, Hunter is understanding and offers Ginny some salty crisp as apparently, that will help. Ginny goes shopping with friends, and they start stealing clothes in a shop, however, they are caught.
Georgia comes to the rescue in the shoplifting debacle after being called. She reckons her daughter is being singled out for being black despite her other friends stealing as well. She accuses the store owner of racially profiling and then pays for the clothes. Georgia and Ginny go to Blue Farm cafe afterward and Ginny tells her mother that she wanted them to like her. Georgia wants her daughter to learn the value of money and asks Joe to give her a job.

In school the next day, Maxine tells Ginny that she got a lead in a show. She also tells Ginny to ignore Abby and the others, and admits to feeling dismayed that they involved her in the shoplifting.

During the weekend, Georgia takes her kids to the bowling club, and Paul “happens to be there”. She talks to him about planning for the dispenser. She makes it known that there’s no electricity and AC problems as Cynthia owns the building next door to the required location, so it cannot be much of a coincidence that Cynthia has pushed against it.

Ginny’s problems mount up, and in the evening, Marcus visits Ginny in her bedroom through the window. He asks her if they are cool. Ginny goes on a rant about how she feels left out in this town. She then admits to having just lost her virginity with him, and how she’s one of seven black kids in the school, and she’s been caught shoplifting. She then cries, and Marcus hugs her. It suddenly dawns on Marcus that he was her first time, and he kisses her. She kicks him out after he suggests they have sex again.

Georgia wants to cheer her daughter up, and she creates a living room dance party. The family dance together and spirits rise quickly. Ginny then mentions how her mother has always been good at blending and hiding.

Sometime earlier, Georgia is with Zion in a shop. She points a gun at the cashier and asks for all the cash. The next day, Norah and Abby visit Ginny. They bring her makeup and hang out with her. Ginny then narrates how makeup works best if no one knows you are wearing it because “it’s a face, not a mask”. She believes she hides like her mother too.

Kenny’s ex-wife is looking through the widow of the home Kenny shares with Georgia and her kids. In addition, Kenny’s ex-wife finds out that Georgia's real name is Mary, and due to a broken home, she lived off the grid between the ages of 14 to 18 years old. The ex-wife gets a full summary and wants to make sure Georgia doesn’t get her ex-husband’s money.

## Cast

* Antonia Gentry as Ginny Miller
* Diesel La Torraca as Austin
* Jennifer Robertson as Ellen
* Felix Mallard as Marcus
* Sara Waisglass as Maxine
* 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
* Jonathan Potts as Mr. Gitten
* Damian Romeo as Matt Press
* Sabrina Grdevich as Cynthia Fuller

### Co-Starring

* Amy Keating as Pharmacist
* Catherine Tait as Saleswoman #2
* Cherie D'Elia as Ms. Jakob
* Chris Kenopic as Clint Baker
* Colton Gobbo as Jordan
* Connor Laidman as Zach
* Devyn Nekoda as Riley
* Geoff Scovell as Ed Atkins
* Jennifer Baker as Mourner #1
* Jhene Erwin as Mourner #2
* Kyle Bary as Teenage Zion Miller
* Kiran Friesen as Daisy Atkins
* Matthew Krist as Gas Station Clerk
* Megan Fahlenbock as Amber Lynn Driscoll
* Nikki Roumel as Teenage Georgia Miller
* Rebecca Ablack as Padma
* Romi Shraiter as Samantha
* Tameka Griffiths as Bracia
* Tommie-Amber Pirie as Susan
* Tyssen Smith as Brodie
* Xavier Colbeck-Bhola as Deaf Student
* Neil Davison as Stunt Coordinator

## References

1. ↑ The Wrap
2. ↑ IMDb