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The Girlfriend Experience |OT| Sorry, No Sasha Grey This Time - April 10th on Starz

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TheOddOne

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Stumpokapow

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The film is critically acclaimed in large part because the main role is an outsider performance (the person is not a trained actress and she is not especially good); it strikes me that casting an actual actress will make this a more polished but less interesting take on the subject matter, as will extending the length to a season rather than a very short movie (maybe an hour ten).

Given that it's Starz, I suspect the motivation for making this show is mostly tits
 
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RatskyWatsky

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I'm very much looking forward to this, and as I said in the other thread, I love that they're doing half hour episodes. Should make the whole thing a lot easier to digest when binging.

A couple reviews:

The Hollywood Reporter said:
Keough's outstanding performance makes the whole thing work, make no mistake. But Kerrigan, Seimetz and Meizler weave a visually evocative backdrop, using only natural light, location-based shooting and a color scheme that allows for the intimacy of the writing to come out and help shape things.
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Time said:
The Girlfriend Experience intuitively grasps the manner in which constantly available information can transform lives. If it resembles any movie genres, it's the paranoid eavesdropping thrillers of the 1970s, like Klute and The Conversation.
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- Onion A|V Club review
The viewer’s feelings toward Christine and her behavior are likely to remain unresolved—but Kerrigan and Seimetz’s refusal to psychologically and morally pin her down is exactly what makes The Girlfriend Experience, in its pungently moody and disturbing way, ultimately difficult to shake off.

Grade: B+
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TheOddOne

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- W: Riley Keough Is Not Your Girlfriend, But She Can Pretend Convincingly.
Did you have reservations at all about the level of nudity and sex you would need to portray?

No, because before reading it I was aware of what the subject matter was, and it was on Starz and those networks allow lots of crazy sex. So I knew what I was about to read. I was definitely apprehensive about knowing whether or not I would be able to fully understand her because that’s not something I can relate to at all.

Did playing this role change your perspective on sex work and GFE’s, whatever preconceptions you had prior to this?

Yeah. No one really knows the world of sex work where people are doing it because they want to. What you hear is girls who are forced into being sex slaves and prostitution and street workers and things that are very not this story. I wasn’t even aware of this world. It just opened my eyes to a completely different world of sex work. There are girls who are doing this, girls we spoke with who did it because they liked it. And a lot of them were retired and still saying, “I don’t regret it, I loved my job.” It wasn’t something they were saying under pressure, they were being very honest with us. So I would just say that my education on different types of sex work has grown.
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TheOddOne

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- Vogue: The Girlfriend Experience Is a Racy, Taut Psychodrama.
Their series takes so many surprisingly dark, enigmatically ambiguous twists and turns, that, by the end of the first season, it really doesn’t resemble anything else I’ve seen on television. The episodes are only 30 minutes long, an oddly brief format for a drama. Each one offers only the slenderest window onto Christine’s experience, a blinkered perspective that reflects her compartmentalized existence. Characters drift in and out of her life, and it’s never clear if they’ll resurface or if their grievances and desires will come to bear on her fate. The many disappearances are unsettling, but they also echo the instability and uncertainty of working on the wrong side of the law.
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- BBC: The Girlfriend Experience's new take on an old profession.
Without giving anything away, I'll only say that the series builds to a finale that plays very much like a reach-the-summit triumph, even as it simultaneously emphasises, via its vision of pleasure as a purely solitary pursuit, that it's lonely on top.
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- Flavorwire: On ‘The Girlfriend Experience,’ Sex is Business.
But The Girlfriend Experience doesn’t tell; it only suggests. In the end, the viewer is left wondering what will become of Christine. Her apartments may keep getting bigger and nicer as she finds more and more success as an escort, but it still looks like a pretty depressing life to me. What it looks like to Christine is less clear. But maybe that’s none of our business.
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TheOddOne

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- TVLine: The Girlfriend Experience Review: Starz' Escort Drama Is Hot, But a Little Cold.
Like the services Christine is offering, The Girlfriend Experience definitely has its pleasures, but they’re more ephemeral than enduring.
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- New York Times: Review: ‘The Girlfriend Experience,’ a Window Into Upscale Transactional Sex.
If you’re looking for judgment or celebration of Christine’s trade, good luck. The series is overtly valueless — maybe it’s about valuelessness, not only in sex work. It’s admirable, ambitious and hard to love. But then, love is not what “The Girlfriend Experience” is selling.
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- Rolling Stone: Sex, Lies and Capitalism 101: Inside 'The Girlfriend Experience'.
"We weren't going to comment on the sex industry, [and say] whether it's good or bad," he says. "We also wanted the audience to really participate in a way that they have to make up their own minds about…the decisions that she makes." When asked if that non-choice was a choice in itself, he shakes his head. "I think Amy and I are both very non-judgmental people," he says. "I think we have tremendous respect for the character, and that's reflected in the work. At least I hope so."
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For some reason I was totally ignoring this show even though I liked the movie. Wasn't expecting the reviews to be so good... guess I now have yet another show to add to the pile...

Is this meant to be just a one-and-done miniseries or are they looking at as a show to be renewed for more seasons?
 
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TheOddOne

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Blader said:
For some reason I was totally ignoring this show even though I liked the movie. Wasn't expecting the reviews to be so good... guess I now have yet another show to add to the pile...

Is this meant to be just a one-and-done miniseries or are they looking at as a show to be renewed for more seasons?
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No clue, they are calling it a limited series though but things could change.
 
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TheOddOne

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- Vulture: The Girlfriend Experience Is One of the Best Shows of the Year.
- Verge: The Girlfriend Experience is an immaculate show about empty sex.
- Sepinwall: Review: Even binging won't justify 13 episodes with 'The Girlfriend Experience'.
- Muse: The Girlfriend Experience, a Non-Judgmental and Hard to Pin Down Depiction of High-Class Escorting.
- Collider: ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ Review: Starz’s Superb Escort Drama Tackles Business & Pleasure.
- EW: The Girlfriend Experience: EW review.
- Observer: Steven Soderbergh on ‘The Girlfriend Experience,’ Sex, and Why Studios Don’t Hire Him.
- Vulture: How Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience Differs From Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 Film.
- Time: The Girlfriend Experience’s Riley Keough on Playing a Call Girl: ‘Who Are We to Say What’s Right?’
 
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Mediking

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Gotta be honest... might give this a chance purely because of the potential of super hot sex scenes. I'm a guy... lol. Maybe I'll end up actually liking the story and characters.
 
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neorej

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Looking forward to this. A similar show recently aired in the Netherlands, Diary of a call girl. Pretty good show that showed the human side of a escort girl.
 
Grizzlyjin

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Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Starz is dropping too many good shows on us, I can't keep up. I think I use my Starz subscription more than Netflix. 🙊
Until Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt comes back.

I'm going to watch the first episode if I ever get out of this Outlander binge hole that I'm currently in. It's up on the app.

I do wonder if they'll stick to that anthology plan. Guess it depends on how conclusive the season finale is. I remember The Affair was supposed to be the same way (new couple every season) but they never did it, and we'll be going into Season 3 with the same folks.
 
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xenist

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Tax season has gotten to me. Here I am watching this show and wondering how they deal with the taxes for all this shit.
 
Vert boil

Vert boil

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Watched two episode so far, not too bad. Only complaint is how little T&A&D there have been.

General:
Seems pretty obvious where it's going to go.
Boss being a client.
Ep 2:
The friend going crazy is a bit of a weird one, presume she just got stalky and was cut loose. When she climbed into bed I thought she had already taken a bunch of pills.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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I've watched the first two episodes and I think that it's pretty interesting so far. I actually feel the urge to watch more than one episode per sitting, which is probably due to the fact that each one is only 30 minutes long. The shorter episodes definitely give the show a different feel, but in a good way, I think. Also, the score is pretty cool - very Cliff Martinez-y.

Vert boil said:
Only complaint is how little T&A&D there have been.
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Yeah, what gives Starz?!
 
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LaunchpadMcQ

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Started watching this yesterday. The pacing and tone are really something; slow and creeping along, in more ways than one. It's slightly off-putting, but I want to keep watching. So far, from the first two episodes, very good stuff.
 
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phazedplasma

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This show went places I never thought it would go.

And Shane Caruth did the soundtrack! Amazing.

Sodebergh proving he has great taste in directors + writers.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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The Girlfriend Experience to Reset in Season 2 With New Cast, Two Plotlines

The new season will feature all-new characters and split its time between Washington D.C. and New Mexico, but it’ll still focus on the murky world of high-priced call girls and their rich clientele.
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Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies) will star in the D.C. storyline as Erica Myles, the lesbian finance director of a Republican super PAC who gets entangled with a prostitute played by Billions alum Louisa Krause. Season 2’s other storyline will follow call girl Bria Jones (Carmen Ejogo) as she flees a dangerous client and hides out in New Mexico, but finds she can’t easily escape the risky life she’s built for herself.

The Girlfriend Experience‘s second season is set to run 14 episodes, and showrunners Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz will divvy up the storylines, with Kerrigan handling the D.C. scenes and Seimetz the New Mexico ones. Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh returns as executive producer.
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