Norah’s Soup

The people who work on Ginny & Georgia have a joke about Norah. They say she is the suburban character in the show. This is because of her controlling mom, her need to look perfect and her lack of personality outside of her group of friends, MANG.

Someone shared a script from a cancelled episode of Season 2 on a TV production website. The episode was going to be about Norah’s anxiety about MANG falling.. The writers took it too far and made it a weird and scary story about Norah’s mental health and her obsession with her friends.

This is what happened in that lost episode.

Act I: Getting Everything Ready

The episode starts with silence. Norah is in her kitchen, which’s spotlessly clean and bright. She is standing at the stove wearing an apron over her school clothes.. She looks stiff and uncomfortable. In front of her is a copper pot filled with water that is simmering slowly.

Norah is talking to herself in an empty voice. “A group is like a recipe ” she says. “If you don’t keep it together it falls apart. If one person leaves the whole thing is ruined. I have to keep MANG.”

She reaches into a bag on the counter. Pulls out a jacket that belongs to her friend Abby. She puts it in the water. Then she pulls out some of Max’s hair. Adds it to the pot. The water starts to look thick and grey. Norah smiles,. Its not a real smile. Her eyes are empty and cold.

Act II: Dinner Time

The scene changes to the dining room. Max, Ginny and Abby are sitting at the table. They look sick and weak with veins showing under their pale skin. They’re not talking, just staring ahead.

Norah comes in with four bowls of dark soup. “I made soup, guys ” she says. “It’s a recipe. It will keep us together forever. No more fighting, no secrets.”

She puts a bowl in front of Ginny. Inside the bowl is a piece of paper with Ginny’s handwriting on it. It’s a journal entry about her self-harm. The ink is bleeding into the soup.

Max says she’s not hungry and wants to go.. Norah gets angry and says, “This is our home, Max. This is MANG. If you don’t eat the soup you’re leaving me.. If you leave me I don’t exist.”

Act III: Becoming MANG

The part of the episode is like a nightmare. Norah stares at her friends. They start to eat the soup. The sound of them chewing and swallowing is loud and disgusting. As Ginny eats, the ink from her journal entry starts to show under her skin like poison.

Abby tries to push her bowl but her hands are shaking. She spills the soup on the floor. It starts to dissolve the wood showing a deep hole underneath the house.

Norah tells Abby to eat the soup saying it’s her security and identity. Without MANG Abby is a girl with parents who don’t love her. Abby starts to eat. Her eyes are empty and she’s crying.

Act IV: Agreement

The final part of the episode takes place in the living room.. All the doors and windows are gone and its just a empty box. Max, Ginny and Abby are sitting on the couch. They’re not moving. They look like dolls with skin like porcelain.

Norah is standing in the middle of the room holding the copper pot. She walks up to Ginny and whispers in her ear “We’re so perfect now Ginny. No one is dramatic or sad. We just sit here. Look pretty until the show ends.”

The camera pulls back showing that the house is floating in a black space. There’s no houses or school just Norah’s kitchen and living room stuck in a loop.

The End

The episode ends with a close-up of the stove. The burner is still on. The soup is boiling away leaving a thick black crust on the bottom. Of credits there are lines of computer code, on the screen. The last sound is a pitched whistle that gets louder and louder until it stops leaving complete silence.