The Girlfriend Experience: a welcome return for TV’s most audacious drama

The Girlfriend Experience: a welcome return for TV’s most audacious drama

The second season of executive producer Steven Soderbergh’s chilly drama about the lives of escorts ..

The second season of executive producer Steven Soderbergh’s chilly drama about the lives of escorts offers up dual storylines and three fascinating female leads

It’s easy to make a case for why, on paper, The Girlfriend Experience is the last thing we need right now.

In an ever-expanding world of original programming, small-screen networks and platforms have been feeling the desperation that’s affected their larger-screen counterparts for decades. In an attempt to lure viewers away from tenacious competitors, pre-awareness has become an increasingly attractive quality, leading execs to turn any and every film into a series (see: The Exorcist, Lethal Weapon, Fargo, Westworld, Taken, etc), prioritizing familiarity over originality and blurring the lines between warring media.

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