Good Girls is a really interesting, and funny series, that “sees” through the struggle for money some mothers face in a hilarious way.
Let’s find out more about it!
- Good Girls is an American crime comedy-drama television series.
- It was created by Jenna Bans.
- It premiered on NBC on February 26, 2018.
- The series is executive produced by Bans, Dean Parisot, and Jeannine Renshaw for Universal Television.
- Dean Parisot is the one who directed the pilot.
- On May 15, 2020, the series was renewed for a fourth season which premiered on March 7, 2021.
- The series is also available on Netflix.
- The series follows three suburban Michigan mothers, two of whom are sisters, who are having a hard time trying to make ends meet. They are tired of having everything taken away from them so they decide to pull off an unlikely heist by robbing a supermarket, only to discover that they are in for more than they bargained for. Their successful robbery attracts the attention of the store manager after he recognizes one of the women, but for a different reason altogether than just the money.
- The character of Sadie was transitioned into Ben to accommodate actor Isaiah Stannard’s real life transition from female to male.
- Ironically, the character of Annie and Gregg’s child had at first been conceived as a boy.
- Ruby Hill always drinks from the same coffee cup. That cup has the words “Aunt Ruby” painted on it.
- Beth Boland always drinks from the coffee cup that says “I’d Rather Be Crafting”, which is also the name of the first episode of season 2
- This show reunites Mae Whitman and Retta from the film Operator (2016).
- Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman both have voiced the character Lois Lane.
- Hendricks voiced the character for All-Star Superman (2011) while Whitman voiced a younger version of the character in an episode of Superman (1996).
- Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman both appeared in the film “Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy” with Hendricks’s role as Zarina and Whitman’s roles as Tinkerbell.
- In the season one’s ‘Borderline’ Annie and Boomer have a dialog about the then upcoming movie Ocean’s Eight. Mae Whitman played the daughter to the movie’s star Sandra Bullock in 1998’s Hope Floats.
- Zach Gilford is the third actor from Friday Night Lights to have an on-screen relationship with Mae Whitman, following Matt Lauria and Scott Porter. The series is actually one of Whitman’s favorite TV shows.
- Christina Hendricks, Reno Wilson, and David Hornsby have worked with director Michael Bay.
- Hornsby was a flyer in Pearl Harbor(2001) and Wilson voiced Autobots and Decepticons in each of Bay’s Transformers movies. Hendricks had a role in the video game Need for Speed The Run, which Michael Bay directed a trailer for.
- The first time Mae Whitman has played an adult character from the start of a TV series, in the past in shows like Parenthood she had played teens who later evolved into adults at the end of their run.
- Both Mae Whitman and Lauren Lapkus have voiced the character April O’Neil for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.
- Mae Whitman and Reno Wilson have worked alongside Will Smith, Whitman appeared in Independence Day as the daughter to Bill Pullman’s President of the United States while Wilson appeared in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
- In season 2 episode 10, Annie mentions that she “only ever made it to brown birds”. Mae Whitman played a Girl Scout on the show Friends who was a Brown Bird and has her leg broken accidentally by Ross.
- Retta had worked alongside Lisa Edelstein on the series Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce and Christina Hendricks worked alongside Kiernan Shipka on Mad Men. Edelstein and Shipka voiced the daughter and the granddaughter of Mae Whitman’s character Katara in Nickelodeon’s Avatar franchise.
- Cloud 9, the name of the store used to wash counterfeit bills by the main characters, is the exact brand of stores used in the NBC television show Superstore (2015).
- The Canadian location the main characters dropped the washed money is actually the popular ATL CASCADE skating rink in Atlanta.
- Retta’s role was Written specifically for her.
- Manny Montana brings personal life experiences to the set of the show whenever they are getting ready to film to allow for higher levels of believability.
- Also, he corrects show writers on stereotypes
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