Few shows have been so obviously indebted to The Algorithm™ as Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia, a teen drama that name-checked its primary inspiration early on in its first season. “We’re like the Gilmore Girls,” Georgia tells her daughter, “but with bigger boobs.”
At every turn, Ginny & Georgia Season 1 revealed another shard of inspiration. The mere presence of Raymond Ablack—known to Degrassi fans as Sav Bhandari—highlighted the DNA this new Netflix series mined from the...