But then, love is not what “The Girlfriend Experience” is selling. It’s admirable, ambitious and hard to love. The series is overtly valueless - maybe it’s about valuelessness, not only in sex work. If you’re looking for judgment or celebration of Christine’s trade, good luck. What lingers are the moments and images, like Christine storming out of a restaurant after an argument, her reflection in a glass wall stalking alongside her, like a ghost. It’s a good thing that Starz is offering the option to binge the show the individual episodes are slight, but the cumulative effect is dreamlike. But even when it’s boring, it’s absorbing, like an art video playing in the lobby of a boutique hotel. Kerrigan’s are haunted by the sound designer David Paterson’s moody hum. Seimetz in “Upstream Color,” wrote a nervy electronic score for her episodes, while Mr. The directors also used their own collaborators on the soundtrack: Shane Carruth, who directed Ms. Starring Anna Friel, Louisa Krause, Carmen Ejogo Starting at 4. Seimetz trade off directing episodes, but the cinematographer, Steven Meizler, gives the whole work a consistent, glossy minimalism. The Girlfriend Experience Season 1 TV-MA 13 Episodes Drama 2016-2016 Christine Reade is a law student and an intern at a prestigious firm but her focus quickly shifts when a classmate introduces her to the world of transactional relationships. The visuals underscore the voyeuristic vibe - all those windows and blinds, facades that allow both separation and penetration. The series documents but doesn’t answer, letting that mystery serve as the show’s engine. This may make her perfect for her job, but it also leaves open why precisely she does it. She burns intense but cool, like an LED lamp.Ĭhristine is a cipher even when she has a burst of emotion, it’s never entirely clear whether it’s real or calculated. But the series is really more about a character arc, and Ms. What plot rises and fades over the 13 episodes involves Christine’s juggling of her two careers. It was a moody, flat-affect film about money having its way even as money was losing its way. Soderbergh’s slice of life was set amid the financial collapse of 2008, with the porn star Sasha Grey as an escort contemplating the next stage of her career. Soderbergh is an executive producer, it’s no remake. “The Girlfriend Experience” is “suggested by” the 2009 Steven Soderbergh film of the same title, but although Mr. (The full 13-episode series will be available to subscribers the same day, online and on demand.) That aesthetic - seductive and cool and expensive - captures both the tone and the subject of this icy but intriguing limited series, beginning on Sunday on Starz, about a law student who becomes an elite prostitute. It relishes the gleaming curve of fine stemware there are more crystal goblets filled with red wine than on “The Good Wife,” “Scandal” and the fourth hour of “Today” put together. Set in the law offices, restaurants and pricey hotels of Chicago, this half-hour drama is in love, or lust, with glass-walled dining rooms, translucent office partitions, shimmering skyscraper exteriors. “The Girlfriend Experience” is a show about selling flesh, but its true fetish is for glass.
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