The Ending Of Good Girls Season 4 Explained

Speaking of Beth, she gets the closest thing to a happy ending out of the three main characters. The final scene of the series sees her meeting with Rio on a park bench having abandoned her plans to move to Nevada. Now that she is on the city council and has survived Nick's attempt to have her arrested for Lucy's murder, she's put herself in a position of real power.

Beth, barely able to contain her glee, tells Rio, "You work for me now." To which Rio responds, "You got it, boss."

Although all three of these endings leave clear questions begging to be answered — Is Annie really going to let herself go down for a crime she didn't commit? What will Ruby decide to do? How will Beth and Rio's relationship change now that she's the top dog? — it is, in its own way, a fitting end for the series. Although "Good Girls" began its run as a show about women who go to extremes to better their circumstances and protect their families, it became a tale about how easy it is to get in over your head.

As much as Beth, Ruby, and Annie tried to control their circumstances, they were constantly caught in the currents of the criminal underworld. They had to commit new crimes to cover up the old ones. The money they made rarely stayed in their hands for very long before it was stolen or had to be used to get themselves out of another pickle. Although they dreamed at various points about the end of their predicament, no end actually existed.

We'll never know how the women's stories come to an end, but perhaps that's okay, as their stories never really will have a clean conclusion. Maybe an unresolved finale was always the best note for "Good Girls" to end on.