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The NBC crime drama Good Girls developed a devoted fanbase after it premiered in February of 2018, but the series was canceled in 2021 after four seasons on the network. The show stars Christina Hendricks, Retta, and Mae Whitman as three Michigan mothers in need of cash who decide to rob a supermarket. After the heist, the trio develop a taste for the criminal life and their lives change forever as a result.
Though the series came to a close on NBC, it has found a whole new audience on Netflix, where its fourth and final season just dropped last week (sadly, Netflix declined to renew the show for a fifth season), and now that fans are starting to finish up the series, people are wondering, what does the Good Girls series finale mean?
The Good Girls Season 4 Ending, Explained
When Good Girls season 4 ended, there was still speculation that it would continue for another season, which is why the season finale leaves some plot lines open. At the end of season 4, Beth Boland (Hendricks) is elected to city council. Her husband Dean (Matthew Lillard), her sister Annie (Whitman), and friends Ruby (Retta) and her husband Stan (Reno Wilson) are all planning to move to Nevada to escape their lives of crime, but before that can happen, Mick (Carlos Aviles) shows up to Beth’s home and and shoots her.
The show flashes forward, and we see that Beth, Dean, Ruby, Stan and Annie actually did move to Nevada after all. Beth realizes though that their new lives are equally complicated as their old lives, and convinces her friends to pull off yet another robbery, during which, she is shot again. Beth wakes up back in Michigan, realizing that Nevada was just a dream. Her gunshot wound isn’t fatal, and in fact, the shooting was all a setup. Mick left his gun behind, and it’s the same gun used to kill counterfeit cash printer Lucy (Charlyne Yi) during season 3. Beth realizes that her prints are on that gun and this could end up putting her in jail. Ruby suggests they all just go to Nevada to leave their criminal pasts behind and Beth declines, saying she doesn’t actually want to leave it behind. But Annie realizes that Beth could be in serious trouble, so the she turns herself in for the crime, taking the fall so Beth won’t have to.
Meanwhile, Ruby and Stan have to make a decision whether or not they really do want to move to Nevada. Stan essentially gives her an ultimatum: come with us, your real family; or stay behind with Beth and Annie. In her final scene of the show, Ruby’s seen packing. But will she go? Or maybe she was unpacking? We’ll never know.
In the final scene, Beth and Rio, the money launderer she’s been working for-slash-flirting with for three seasons, sit on their park bench, but the tables have turned. She’s spent all her time thus far as a small-time crook, doing what he’s asked of her because he always had the upper hand in the relationship. She tells him, finally, “You work for me now,” to which he responds “You got it, boss.” Beth, now on the city council, wields more power than she ever has, and now she’s finally able to be a big time criminal.
Where To Watch Good Girls
All four seasons of Good Girls are currently streaming on Netflix in the United States. Individual episodes as well as complete seasons are also available to purchase on Amazon Prime Video.
