While we expected Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage to shake things up in the Season 1 finale by introducing Mandy’s ex, I was surprised to see them pull the plot-point trigger on Georgie buying the tire shop from Jim. While I assumed in my live blog coverage that Georgie would get the money from his meemaw and her new side hustle, his doting mom Mary was the one to come through by putting up the family home as collateral. The Big Bang Theory already gave us an idea of how this potentially sticky situation might play out, though EP Steve Holland has me thinking otherwise.
TBBT reintroduced Georgie as an adult and revealed he owned the popular Dr. Tire franchise in Texas. Additionally, Sheldon revealed that Mary “sold” their childhood home at one point, so does this mean Georgie’s partnership with Ruben turned into a raging success? TVLine asked Holland about it, and his answer makes me a bit worried.
Anything’s possible. We haven’t thought that far ahead yet, but one of the things that we liked about [Mary putting the house up as collateral] is that it makes the stakes higher. Georgie has always had this drive to succeed, but now there’s a lot of pressure on him. It’s not just his future that he’s risking. It’s also his mother and his sister’s house that he’s risking. We like piling as much on Georgie’s shoulders as we can.
Well, that’s concerning. As if it wasn’t depressing enough keeping track of all the reasons that Georgie and Mandy will end their marriage, now we have to worry about the possibility of a retcon in which Zoe Perry’s Mary will lose her house? This show has found humor in some of the more tense moments, but can it continue to do so after resting such high stakes on the shoulders of its main characters?
