Synopsis

Ginny Miller, an angsty fifteen-year-old, often feels more mature than her thirty-year-old mother, the irresistible and dynamic Georgia Miller.

Pro

Sara Waisglass: Yeah, I think the inclusion of ASL was really brilliant. I mean, it’s inclusive and authentic. And we, as people learn so much just from being able to interact with Chris [Kenopic], who plays our dad, who’s actually deaf. It was actually his son, who was our coach, and he would send us videos of the ASL and then we’d come to set and we’d learn it, and then we’d all practice. It became embedded in our performance and like, if we forgot a line, then the sign would remind us, and if we forgot the sign, then the line would remind us. So it was just really fascinating and really grounded us all.

Cons

There’s poor representation in the show: the depiction of sign language. One of the characters in the show is deaf and communicates solely through American Sign Language, yet many people have pointed out that some of the ASL in the show is actually inaccurate.

“If you’re going to set up a hearing character who has been married for, I’m guessing 20 years, to a deaf man who communicates solely using ASL, who signs with him, who interprets for him, who literally works as an educational interpreter in a school, you need to find an actress who knows sign language or actually take the time for them to actually learn sign language,” deaf TikToker Erin Rosenfeld said.