Good Girls: The 10 Best Plot Twists

Whether for shock value or overall storytelling, plot twists keep TV viewers coming back for more episodes. The best plot twists are the ones no one sees coming. While viewers saw some of the plot twists of the four seasons of Good Girls coming, the show has a knack for dropping just the right twists and turns. Since the beginning of the series, the show has offered more than just suburban moms turning to crime.

What began as a show set to follow three moms struggling to make ends meet for their families as they turned to robbery quickly escalated to money laundering and violence. Since the initial twist in Season 1 that forced the girls to work for a crime boss, each shocking turn has made their journey even harder.

10 Boomer Fakes His Death

From episode 1, it was clear that Boomer was a trash person. He got worse when he blackmailed the girls. This is why many fans felt relief when his wife, Mary Pat, ran him over with her minivan. After that, everyone thought he was dead, and Beth became murder suspect number one.

It turns out, Boomer didn’t die. Instead, he fled to his mother’s attic. Boomer being alive was a plot twist created to help the main character. While it makes sense for the writers to come up with a way to keep Beth out of prison, bringing Boomer back didn’t really add to the story. However, fans weren’t expecting to see him again.

9 Girls Print Money

At the end of Season 2, the girls are pretty certain Rio is dead, or at the very least in prison. So, instead of finally leaving the violent and dangerous life of crime, they choose to start printing their own money. At the end of Season 2, viewers see Beth figuring out what it takes to turn a bunch of dollar bills into tens, but it isn’t until Season 3 that their operation is up and running.

This a twist for Good Girls because the girls have spent the previous two seasons trying to get out of money laundering. Now they’ve decided to go all-in on it. While it wasn’t too much of a surprise for Beth, who seems to like crime a bit too much, it was a bit of a shock to see Ruby going along with it. While Ruby needs more money than the other girls, crime has put a big strain on her relationship with her family.

8 Lucy’s Death

Part of Beth’s plan to print her own money was to create a printing plate. Enter Lucy, a quiet graphic designer who works alongside Beth at a stationery shop. Lucy designs the plate and goes about her merry way, not knowing what she did. Then Rio comes back, and he needs a new printing plate. So, he takes Lucy hostage until she makes him one, promising he will let her go in the end.

After the plate is made, Lucy, still believing Rio, gets into his van. However, Rio decides to kill her to teach the girls a lesson. This came as a shock because up until this point, the girls have been good at keeping their friends from getting killed. So there was always a bit of hope that Lucy would be able to go free and have to leave town. But her death just proved that in Season 3, Rio wasn’t playing nice anymore.

7 Rio’s Son And Family

Rio is a crime boss who deals drugs and launders money. He hangs around dangerous people and gets into tricky situations. The last thing fans expected was that he would also be a family man. So his son running up to him at the park in Season 2 was a bit of a twist. Then, in Season 4, he takes Beth to meet his family.

Considering the threats he has made to Beth, Rio doesn’t seem like the kind of man who would spend the afternoon with his son at the playground or have family dinners at grandmas. These twists were added to humanize Rio, which it did, especially to Beth. Seeing a fatherly, loving, and caring side of him made him more than just a “crime boss.”

6 Stan’s Life Of Crime

Stan Hill is a good man. He always does what he thinks is best for his family, including helping his criminal wife and friends. However, he is always clear he disagrees with Ruby’s crimes. In Season 4, he is coerced into doing his boss’s “dirty” work – collecting money and punching faces. While trying to get out of this situation, he is presented with a deal he can’t refuse.

Knowing that his family needs more money, Stan also falls prey to a life of crime. Then, in a twist of fate, he starts selling fake handbags, making a decent profit. Stan has been one of the loudest voices of reason in the series, so seeing him succumb to crime is a bit heartbreaking.

5 Beth Shoots Rio

At the end of Season 2, Rio kidnaps Agent Turner and demands that Beth shoot him. While Beth is not okay with killing Turner, not having him around would make things easier for the girls. However, after agonizing about what to do, Beth turns the gun at Rio, shooting him instead.

While Rio is the reason why the girls are in trouble, Beth turning on him shocked viewers. They always had a magnetic relationship. While Beth claims she wants out of crime, it’s hard to believe that she would shoot him. What’s more, the end of Season 2 left viewers wondering if Rio was alive or dead.

4 Agent Turner’s Death

After Beth shoots Rio, Agent Turner sends Beth home. Turner offers to call emergency services if Rio “owes him one.” Rio apparently takes that offer and becomes an informant. However, Rio eventually sends Turner to a warehouse for a bust, but it was a trap. Turner is killed – a twist viewers didn’t see coming.

Turner had been on the case since Season 1, and it seemed as though he was going to be a thorn in the girls’ side for the rest of the show. There could have been the opportunity for the agent to get his hands dirty and join the girls to get Rio. Instead, however, Turner was played.

3 Rio Kills The Hitman

The girls decide that they need to get out from under Rio’s thumb. So, they hire a hitman. However, in Season 4, things get a little complicated when the FBI comes to investigate. After making a deal with the feds, Beth needs to keep Rio from being suspicious, keep the FBI happy, and keep Rio alive.

In a surprising twist, Beth manages to convince Rio that the hitman she hired is actually the FBI. So, naturally, Rio fights back and kills the hitman. What made this plot twist work so well was that Rio, who is usually one step ahead of the girls, didn’t know they had hired a hitman. As a result, Rio didn’t see it coming, which was a true shock to fans.

2 Rio’s Brother

At the end of Season 4, the girls think they finally have Rio behind bars. However, the charges don’t seem to stick, and Rio is set free again. The FBI hears that he was let go by someone at the top but didn’t know who. It turns out the big man behind Rio is his brother, Nick.

When Nick is introduced, he comes off as a perfectly normal city councilman who does community service to help at-risk youth. This is why it is such a shock when it’s revealed that Nick might be the real crime boss.

1 Robbing The Fine And Frugal

Of course, the twist is what started it all – Rio’s money at the Fine and Frugal. The girls are hard up for money, so when they find extra in the safe at the store they are robbing, they think it’s just luck. But one of the biggest shocks of the series was when Beth found Rio waiting in her at her house.

In the beginning, Good Girls seemed like a sitcom about three housewives who have to steal to make ends meet. Instead, it was always going to be a series about how they got sucked into the violent underground world of money laundering. Since that initial episode, the twists and turns keep on coming.

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