Ginny and Georgia
One of Netflix’s biggest hits, Ginny and Georgia, has returned for a long-awaited season 3 after an enormous time gap that left season 2 on a cliffhanger. Now, while Ginny and Georgia has returned for season 3, I am surprised to see where it’s debuted on the Netflix top 10 list.
As we speak, after yesterday’s release and today’s top 10 list update, Ginny and Georgia is all the way down at #8 on the top 10 list, unusual for a show you would imagine would debut near the top, if not assuredly #1 given its history of success on Netflix.
What’s going on here? I’m not precisely sure. It just doesn’t track that seven other shows would be higher than the return of Ginny and Georgia, which has commanded tens of millions of Netflix viewership hours. Rather, Sirens, the sister-based drama starring Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock has been planted at #1 for two weeks and remains there now.
Weirdly, the Netflix banner for the show actually says it’s #1 on the Top 10 list despite it saying #8 literally right above that. Maybe this is a technical issue?
Ginny and Georgia
One theory about Ginny and Georgia’s performance is simply that many people didn’t get the memo that it’s returned, given the sheer wait time between seasons. It has been almost two and a half years exactly between season 2 and 3, where season 2 was out on January 5, 2023, and season 3 just came out on June 5, 2025.
Even in this streaming era of lengthy waits, that’s usually 1.5-2 years. 2.5 is really pushing it, especially for a series that should not require any vast amount of VFX work or a hyper-busy A-list cast.
There have been social media jokes about how the show has taken so long to get through three seasons, Ginny’s younger brother Austin, played by Diesel La Torraca, has grown roughly two feet and looks sort of absurd now if the show is claiming he’s the same character age in a shorter period of time.
I do expect viewership of Ginny and Georgia to pick up, but this is certainly strange to see with a show this high-profile that was supposed to be anticipated by fans. Again, maybe many just didn’t know it was out and weren’t tracking the marketing being done. Or there wasn’t enough marketing in the first place.
The moral of the story here is that Netflix has to stop these insanely long gaps between seasons of shows. It’s exhausting for audiences and ridiculous for a show like Ginny and Georgia in particular. But who knows when this trend will end.
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