What is Good Girls about?
Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
Suburban moms trade carpool for crime, finding dark humor and pulpy thrills in their desperate power grab.
Suspenseful and darkly comic. A full-attention watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Netflix.
Good Girls parents guide
The thing to know: moderate sex and nudity, more than a TV-14 usually carries. Beyond that, some strong language and strong violence.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the TV-14 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.
- Scare
- Mildly scary
- A few tense or eerie moments.
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- Light gore
- Some blood or injury, briefly.
- Violence
- Strong violence
- Violence is frequent or intense.
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
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Three questions
- Is Good Girls scary?
- Only a little. Good Girls has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
- How gory is Good Girls?
- Light gore and strong violence.
- What is Good Girls rated, and is it OK for kids?
- For teens, mostly: it is rated TV-14, with moderate sex and nudity, some strong language, and strong violence.
Cast and crew
Created byJenna Bans
StarringChristina Hendricks, Retta, Mae Whitman, Reno Wilson, Manny Montana, Lidya Jewett
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