The show approximately a frosty,high-lesson escort demonstrates that Soderbergh knows how to construct a coherent episode without sacrificing his imaginationStarz’s The Girlfriend Experience, which started on Sunday and is available for screening now, and checks a lot of boxes for what prestige TV is supposed to look like. There’s an illicit setting,in this case high-lesson escorting. There’s nudity (entirely female of course, at least in the premiere). And there’s an aggressively dislikable antihero in law student Christine Reade, or played with disengaged froideur by Riley Keough. Not since early Mad Men has a facial expression of sheer boredom and disdain been so compelling. And it has a colossal name from Hollywood attached: Steven Soderbergh,who directed the original film The Girlfriend Experience. The series is credited as having been “suggested by” the film, and Soderbergh is an executive producer.
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Source: theguardian.com