While they plan their caper, it’s on with normal life, where Annie is preparing for the home-visit from CPS that will play into the custody battle for Sadie, and Ruby is in church with her adorable family. It’s why they shouldn’t be doing something like this, and why they have to do this. That’s when Beth’s youngest comes in to tell Mama she had a bad dream, because these women are, of course, all mamas. Annie is confident they’ll be putting drugs in their butts … unless they’re transporting guns, which at least can’t be put up their butts, she says. The episode opens with all three women drumming their fingers on their ever-present colorful mugs of coffee while Beth tells them that Rio will forgive their debts if do some mystery act across the Canadian border for him. Whether they be good, bad, or absolutely insane (looking at you and your sweater set, Beth!). And this week, Beth, Annie, and Ruby are making some choices. Their pasts may have been defined by men who made bad choices on their behalves, but their futures - and our futures with them - will be defined by the choices that they make. I shot a man.” It is perhaps the joke-for-joke funniest episode yet, but it’s also the one where the women begin taking accountability for their own bad-girl behavior, and how it will never stop affecting their lives. This is a tricky tone to nail: In one moment, they’re toasting with fruity margaritas to a crime well committed, and in the very next instant, Beth is reckoning with what it means to go back to her “normal” life, and Ruby is suddenly recalling, “Wait.
In “Borderline,” the high stakes finally meet witty execution in a more sustainable balance. What’s most special about the show, of course, is its three lead actors who can switch between the euphoric high of success and the crushing weight of reality with nothing more than a furrowed brow or twitching left eye, and with this third episode, everything is clicking into place. A series about three good women breaking bad to take some much needed control over their lives is an exciting concept, and Good Girls is still figuring out how to strike the balance between dark subject material and the buddy-crime comedy it’s striving to be. It seems we’re crossing the border into recapping Good Girls at just the right time - thankfully not with butts full of cocaine.
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