![]() ![]() The packed episode picks back up with Ruby, Beth, and Annie trying to figure out how they can get Rio put away before he, er, puts them away. (One more time for the NBC execs in the back: Good Girls! Season Two! Please! Oh, please!) ![]() It bears weight until it can bear weight no more, and we’re left desperately wondering which way these good girls will break. So much happens in this hour that it seems to fly and crawl by all at once. Sara could die Dean could really, super die. And the decisions that they make in the finale are the highest stakes yet. Over and over again, small details pop back up as a reminder that the choices made along the way by Ruby, Beth, and Annie matter. ![]() In that same vein, “Remix” does something that I really appreciate from such a fast-paced, high-concept series: It holds itself accountable. And this finale finally calls her on it, putting the gun in her hand and telling her to choose: Kill, or be killed? Beth has been told by practically every person around her, friend and foe, that she can’t keep toeing the line between perfect suburban housewife and coiffed criminal mastermind. For better or for worse, Ruby, Beth, and Annie have made the choices they’ve made, so all they can do is accept the outcome. In all cases, the answer is: The road not taken would be both much better and much worse than the road that is taken. What would it be like if Annie and Greg reconnected for real? What would be like if Ruby decided to use a bad check for her daughter’s new kidney and just hoped for the best? What would it be like if Beth embraced her criminal capabilities and executed a coup on Rio’s empire? Multiple times throughout Good Girl’s season finale, we get hypothetical glimpses of these characters’ futures if they went in completely different directions. ![]()
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