#gg 4.06

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This wasn't clear to me, but maybe it is to you so I want to ask: why did Rio introduce Beth to his family when he did? And furthermore, is Rio's grandma actually involved in his and Nick's illegal activities? Or was the "boss" he was introducing her to Nick? But based on what we saw of Nick and Rio's relationship, I find it hard to believe that Rio would willingly introduce Beth to Nick. He also seemed so surprised to see her as if he had never heard of her. So did Grandma actually want to meet her? Does Rio talk about her to his family? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THEM?! These two have me so twisted up!

You and me both, Anon! 🥨

To address grandma first: no, she wasn’t part of the crime operation. At least, not in any way the show presented to us. All the assets Nick holds and all the contracts he cut are in her name, absolving him (and Rio) of their crimes. So Grandma was just that – a grandma.

As far as why Rio introduced Beth to Nick in such a domestic setting… My understanding of it is that Nick wanted it that way. His whole schtick is that he’s just your friendly neighbor councilman. My guess is he didn’t want to meet in some shady diner or anywhere outside his control. He would have wanted to seem non-threatening. Meet Beth and also not appear to be at the root of all these criminal activities. I don’t think Nick knew that Rio told Beth she would be meeting his boss. I think Rio told her that to intrigue her and maybe even to give her some crumbs to provide to whomever she was informing (because I’m convinced he knew she was.)

The thing is, Rio sees everything as an opportunity. So my guess is he thought he’d use the family dinner setting to his advantage. It was a clear intent for him to appeal to Beth’s humanity. Show her he wasn’t a monster. Get her to see him as a real person and maybe change her mind about whatever she was doing to cooperate with law enforcement. He played Nick and Beth off each other. They each came to that dinner wearing their masks. Pretending to be the personas they usually put on for polite society. But Rio knew them both. Had seen them each without their masks. So it was an opportunity for him to throw both Nick and Beth off with unexpected outcomes as they met each other. Nick was surprised that Beth was just a soccer mom. Beth was surprised that Nick wasn’t some shady crime boss. Neither of them got what they were expecting and it bought Rio time to play his long game.

I hope that all made sense. It’s so murky and a lot of the plot makes so little sense. Who knows whose idea it was to have them meet at a family dinner. But it certainly worked out in Beth’s favor. 😂

#gg 4.06 #grandma loves grisham #beth loves being fingered in public places #good girls nbc #brio #asks #headcanon

[pynkhues]

OTP meme: Brio, 10

Thank yooouuu!

10. Who gets jealous the most?

I think they're both terribly jealous people when it comes to each other, haha, and it probably does stem from their relationship having so much uncertainty and ambiguity to it. Neither of them every truly feel secure in what they have, at least before 4.16, and I do think it's telling that their clearest moments of jealousy and possessiveness came out of their murky boundaries.

Like, I do tend to think that Beth's moment of clear jealousy in 2.06 when Rio hugged Dylan wasn't just because he was with another woman, but was with another woman in a work context, making Beth feel insecure on two levels - professionally and romantically. Similarly, Rio's moments of tangible jealousy, namely with Dean in 2.06 and with Nick in 4.06 stemmed from moments were their relationship was especially ill-defined. After all, I do tend to think Rio smashing the corvette in 2.04 was partially in response to realising Beth was not leaving Dean, and we saw how much of a mess he was over what Nick could actually offer Beth.

It makes for such an interesting area to talk about, because I don't think either Beth or Rio are particularly jealous people generally, they just bring it out of each other because they're absolute disasters when it comes to one another, haha.

Ask me shippy questions!

#beth x rio #beth boland #rio #nbc good girls #they are a mess and i love them #welcome to my ama #otp ask meme #gg 2.06 #gg 4.06 #gg 2.04

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got tagged in this a few days ago by the wonderful @mrgaretcarter!

Rules: Pick a bunch of your WIPs and summarize them as badly as possible, then ask your followers to vote on which one they’d be most likely to read. Multiple/all/none options are completely optional.

venturing into my google docs to remember all the stories i've abandoned is always such a wild time!! there is truly just whatever in there.

#dollsome's deep thoughts #obviously the pete davidson one was Of Its Time i.e. 2021 romangerri brainrot era

[alittlequad]

Handssss 2.05//4.06

#nbc good girls #beth x rio #gg parallels #gg 4.06 #these are bloody terrible #but I needed to see this #I don’t have ps anymore okay #I miss being able to gif #gg 2.05 #brio #gg spoilers #gg s4

[xstrawmari]

Me: Beth looks so cute.. actually, that purse looks familiar...

#idk if it is #but it looks like her date night purse #screams internally #gg spoilers #reminds myself to keep low expectations #sooo excited for this #gg 4.06 #nbc good girls

[whiskeyjack]

family or business?

#nbc good girls #gg spoilers #4.06 #brio #beth x rio #good girls edit #good girls gifset #im not making connections here you are

[hereliesbb]

4.06 Brio scene minus Dean

#beth x rio #nbc good girls #brio #gg season 4 #gg spoilers #4.06 #sorry for the sh!t quality once again 😂

[medievaldarling]

“So dinner was...uh...fun.” SLAY ME

#nbc good girls #good girls nbc #spoilers #gg liveblogging #gg season 4 #4.06

[faerieherondale]

I'M DYING, I'M DEAD OMG

#good girls nbc #beth x rio #brio #nbc good girls #gg season 4 #4.06

[michelleelizabethtanner]

how do you think the song whole life applies to brio?

Aaa, Anon, ty for the ask. How romantic was this song, amirite?? Like, poor Rio. He very reasonably was so upset with Beth for her attempted murder – so much so that he killed an innocent young woman to show Beth who’s boss – but then was just like, “I can’t. I’m too mentally unstable to fight this so let’s just get married.” How funny is this whole premise of him forgiving her, seemingly without anything on her part to earn it. Not really. She brought him Boomer. Ooooo. She bought him a spa shop to wash his money. Why was Rio so excited about that? She gave him crumbs and he kept coming back.

This show gave Beth a lot of outs and it made Rio so deliciously out of control about her. And don’t get me wrong, I love it all. But sometimes the humor of the implausibility of it all hits me and I can’t help but laugh. Like, sure, this aloof and calculating gang leader is such a fool for this woman that he’s screwing up everything, including risking his life and family. And yet, here we are with these fools. Rio is just damaged enough, and Beth validates him in just the right ways for him to actually risk his entire kingdom for her.

The song choice is just 🤌. This music department wanted to make SURE we all knew that Rio forgives Beth and is back to pining.

The mark where [s]he left me

A clip on my wing

Oh, let it soften

I forgive everything

I once hummed the seasons

Now, I'm whistling

Half of my whole life is done

Let it drift and wash away

Shadows soften toward some tender light

In slow motion I leave them behind

Essentially, translated to, “I’m too old for this bullshit. Let’s start fresh and be friends.”

I keep looking for ways in which this song can be mutually applicable for them, and I’m just not finding it. Beth was nowhere near forgiving him and letting it all “drift and wash away.” She was still in the process of her incremental softening to him. She was still guarded and nowhere near the place where Rio was here. Not even in the final scene. It’s maybe one of the many ways Beth and Rio have a disproportionate relationship and power dynamic. It’s the one consistent thing about them. She never sees it, and to him nothing is more obvious. Her audacity to shoot him and cry victim. Her privilege to move in society in ways he never can. Her demand to matter in his world while never offering him the same privilege. And he’s the one always having to bend. Always having to forgive. So I view this song and their whole relationship as pretty one-sided in that way.

Yes, she chooses him in her own ways. Yes, she has great feeling when it comes to him. Powerful feeling. Frightening feeling. But she uses her own lack if emotional intelligence as an excuse to never be the one to give. We saw her try, in the final moments of the show. We saw her offer him protection. But it cost her nothing. (Well, nothing except her marriage. Nothing except her old self.) She basically won. She self-actualized at his expense. She propped herself up on his strength. She made a joke about it even. And Rio, in true tropey-love-interest fashion, was happy to do it for her and loved her all the more for it. “You got it, boss.”

As you can see, I have conflicting feelings about it. About this song. If pushed, I’d say that season 4 gave Beth forgiveness too quickly. She could have earned it. I wish she would have ended the season and series as a better person. As someone more empathetic and self aware. Which is why I love 4.08. I like to see her cry for him. Watch her watch him suffer. Beth being honest with herself is rare and redeeming. But my feelings about this fluctuate with my mood, so maybe tomorrow I’ll be more forgiving of her frustrating selfishness when it comes to Rio. Don’t come for me. I still love Beth. I’m like Rio – I forgive her everything. If he loves her, then so can I.

#that got long #gg 4.06 #grandma loves grisham #whole life #half of my whole life is gone #let it drift and wash away #good girls nbc #brio #headcanon #asks

[pynkhues]

Hey if you're still playing the game. Choose only one Ok 2x09 brio scene or 4x06? Also the 2.09 pre bedroom break bar scene oooor can't remember the episode number but it's the scene in S2 where they're on the bench and it's soo sunny and Rios being all smiley aka the cutest scene 🥺

Hey! Oh my god, you really chose violence with this one, anon, haha.

Mmmm, okay, are we choosing pre-physical intimacy? So 2.09 pre-bedroom, 4.06 pre-Rosa's bookshelf and the picnic bench scene in 2.08? Because if we are, it's super tight, but I think I'd give it to 4.06.

To me, it's a matter of where the new ground is, the new territory claimed and tread and felt, and I think in 2.09, that was ultimately in the bedroom. It was in the physicality of that first-last kiss and the tenderness, the uncertainty, and the awkwardness of it as an act that Rio thought was a start and Beth needed to be an end.

4.06 is different in that sense, their physical intimacy is a reset, sure, but it's also not new. What's new is Beth at that table beside him, the way he opened a door and let her inside in a way that he hadn't done since he showed up at the park with Marcus in 2.01, and the intimacy there is in the trust, in letting her into this part of his life, and in the way he touches her back. What's more, is that yeah, maybe it's a little manipulative - he suspects she's informing on him after all - but it's not entwined with an ending like 2.09 was, or, god, even 2.04, given Beth wasn't expecting to actually see him again.

It was something given freely albeit not entirely openly, and I think we saw the impact of that on both of them, but especially Beth, who, as s4 went on to show, finally started seeing moments like that as beginnings too.

And I mean, look, I adore that moment in 2.08 too (the domesticity! the way he says he'll take care of it!! 😭) but it can't compare for me! 2.09 and 4.06 are both just IT.

Make me choose between things!

#there's this sort of ownership of who and what they are in 4.06 in a way that i think there's not in 2.08 or 2.09 too #like in 2.09 she gives him the money #a rejection #in 2.08 she won't let him handle it #another rejection #and in 4.06 she tries to get the wire away from herself and while she does leave it there #the fantasy sequences are all about her not wanting to let him down #and it leads to her finally and truly choosing crime and choosing him at the end of s4 #so it doesn't feel like a rejection as much as an #mmmm #testing of the elastic between them for both of them #and i find that really exciting #gg 2.09 #gg 2.08 #gg 4.06 #make me choose meme #beth x rio #beth boland #rio #nbc good girls #welcome to my ama

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Anyone else getting fake relationship/come-to-my-family-bbq-and-pretend-to-be-my-girlfriend-so-my-mom-stops-hounding-me-to-find-a-nice-girl vibes from the 4x06 pics? Like what if it’s the plot of a hallmark Christmas movie...

#beth x rio #nbc good girls #brio #gg spoilers #good girls season 4 #gg s4 #gg season 4 #4.06

[alittlequad]

Rio in 4.06

#inject this into my veins #nbc good girls #beth x rio #manny montana #gg spoilers #brio #gg 4.06

[cagefreeromanroy]

hewwo, are you still taking gg gif set requests? if so, how about a side by side of rio counting on his fingers at the drop and beth unable to count cash in the kitchen in 4.06? 💕

Hi! I will make a set of all brio’s low brain activity moments in the near future and I’ll add these scenes to it if that’s ok!!

[whiskeyjack]

After tonight’s episode it truly seems like Rio’s feelings for Beth are genuine. He likes her 🥺❤️

We can only hope, truly - I really wish this was the deciding factor in his actions.

Imma try to do my best and articulate my opinion of the most recent episode, but I’ve never done this before on tumblr so please bear with me.

Unfortunately, I don’t actually think what happened at Rio’s family’s house is related to his feelings for Beth. At least on the surface. and the surface is….. incredibly thick and cemented. AND the feelings underneath this surface have been buried so deep that, probably, only painful vulnerability between the two of them will crack it open. I think, unfortunately (for them), both Beth and Rio are actually stupid enough to become physically intimate with each other again (aka one of their purest forms of vulnerability beyond honesty) with the path they are on currently. All that to say, maybe we will get a 2.13 reconciliation out of this season? I still have hope. Not much, but I do hold a sliver of it.

However, I think it’s important to point out that Rio didn’t let Beth touch him. And he never has since the shooting. He has always been the one initiating physical contact this season (the shoulder pat at the bar, the pool table, Rio stripping Beth for a wire, at the dinner table and in the guest room, etc) and during season 3. So, whatever physical contact they have had, it’s always been on his terms. (And, in my opinion, it absolutely should be.)

Neither of them are in a place to let their walls down with each other, especially Rio. As far as physical vulnerability is concerned, I think he carries a shit ton more hurt and probably has very sturdy protective walls around himself (as he should). I think I agree with Manny (during the s3 timeline) when he said something along the lines of ‘if Rio and Beth were to get physical again, Rio would appear weak’. Rio needs Beth to prove her loyalty to him, and so far, she hasn’t done that in the slightest. Something doesn’t add up with the ‘Dave’ she had him kill, the car tracker, and now the wire (or lack thereof). I would say Beth is being painfully obvious and not making the best decisions regarding... everything, but then again, so is Rio. They’re both incredibly bad at crime, it’s embarrassing at this point haha but I'm digressing.

This game that they’re both playing with each other of ‘who’s going to break first’ seems to be basically on track to blow up again for both of them I think... and we all know that neither of them are able to deal with any type of emotional intimacy very well. So, I really hope this time we get an emotional/verbal explosion instead of a physical one as a result. while hate sex would be great, I think it’s about time these two grow up and try to talk about their feelings (I mean, let’s be real, will they? Probably not. Would we even love them so much if they could? Hard to say... haha). That entire guest room scene was a power play over Beth for sure, and Rio had her wrapped around his finger (pun only semi-intended lol). It left Beth wanting, and therefore Rio did win that particular game: 1) because he brought Beth closer into his physical orbit on his terms, and 2) he made her lose control instead of the other way around. And we all know loss of control is literally their kryptonite.

I can’t say for sure what’s going on in Beth’s head; she’s still too infuriatingly good at compartmentalizing and expressing what she really feels, with the exception being maybe when she took on the role as ‘the banker’.... however, I do think that Rio is putting a lot of trust (arguably too much) in her hands. Of course, much of it seems like power plays, and until he reveals his cards, we won’t know for sure. I don’t think he’s dumb (... except when it comes to counting? haha), but I think we also know that he’s way more comfortable taking risks with regards to Beth, rather than vice versa. I don’t think his animosity towards her has shifted in the slightest, but his laxness towards letting her closer has, both physically (on his terms) and professionally (arguably for possessive reasons), and—as many lovely souls have already pointed out, he does know Beth, and what makes her tick (and therefore what will inspire her trust). I think there were some layers of possessiveness at this dinner as well, but it seemed to be more related to his personal reasons to make a statement (or aka another lovely power move) against Nick in front of the entire table, and less born out of romantic feelings for Beth. Whatever the reasons, at this point, both he and Beth are so entrenched in such a complicated and ugly history with too much going on, it’s really impossible to know, especially since we only have one side of the story. We don’t have Rio’s perspective, and still know very little about his life, history and motivations (this dinner being one of the firsts overloads it was very overwhelming for me—so this is the story I made up in my head haha).

I get what the show is trying to get at in this episode, I do. Could it have been more thoughtfully executed and developed? Absolutely. I mean, that can definitely be said for a lot more than this episode.

Beth and Rio both have utilized their arsenals of sexual chemistry against each other as manipulation post-shooting (Beth in s3, and now Rio in s4). They both are aware of it, of course, and they both are determined to out-play each other. I think, at this point, Rio has accepted, feelings aside, that he wants to bring Beth into the family business... bc she is more useful than not, and now - it’s not up to him anymore... 1) it’s up to his family, if they accept her or not (but I highly doubt they know the real history between the two of them though) and 2) it’s up to Beth to choose him (not romantically, but professionally, at least for now) over turning him in. And if this increased physicality reminds her of how he well he not only knows her, but can play her like a guitar? Even better.

The show does seem to be going down the road of re-establishing a physical relationship between the two of them, and as the love-triangle spoilers have been revealed, it probably will result in layers of possessive, hateful, spiteful, hurtful and emotional consequences, especially if the third party is a complicated relationship with another family member. I just hope that while that’s taking place, we get a look into what’s bubbling beneath the surface, because you can bet it’s probably gunna be volcanic..... and this time, I mean I just really hope the only weapons used are words from both of these trigger-happy souls 🙈

#gg spoilers #nbc good girls #ask #hereliesbb #4.06 #analysis #(a bit anyways?) #whiskeyjack gg analysis

[hereliesbb]

adorable tension filled brio dinner scene that stole my entire soul nbd

#beth x rio #nbc good girls #brio #gg season 4 #gg spoilers #4.06 #cousin b r o t h e r