The Girlfriend Experience Season 1

Shockingly beautiful. Riley Keough has the makings of a great actress. She carries the series with a quiet intensity that is shattering when the dam breaks. Her panic attack at the office was devastating. One falls in love with her inherent decency, her tragic, youthful certainty that she can survive anything, her strength of individual character. She's a loner who bears her solitude with dignity. I admired the sinister tone that crept in more and more as the story progressed, via shadows, music, interiors, even wardrobe that, while chic, is also somewhat robotically utilitarian. Wow. I had no expectations whatsoever when I began this series, but now I think that everyone involved deserves a bouquet of well-wishes for many more successful seasons to come. I just hope those seasons come quickly, because "The Girlfriend Experience" is addictive.

A bold and sexy way to cast the real world of inside legal professions. The scenes were shot amazingly, can see the production must have spend a lot of money for leasing all the nice office and sex scene locations. The Director of Photography also has done an amazing job at casting and lighting all the scenes (especially the sex scenes), I love them all. As of the characters, Christine's dauntless, introvert, aggressive, rational, practical, naive and sexy character is irresistible. Also great job on all the wardrobe, definitely high quality drama. Humanity has been well demonstrated and illustrated through implicitly most of the times, a lot of ambivalence, empathy/lack of empathy, schizophrenia, emotional masochism, and so on. Very dramarealism for modern life. Cannot wait for season two!

"The Girlfriend Experience" is a hard series to define - and perhaps even harder to recommend. I'm not saying it's a bad show - it's actually a very good one, hence four stars. But it's good in a very precise and specific way, one that will most definitely not appeal to the majority of the audience who would even give it a chance. It takes a subject that is considered taboo or even distasteful and, instead of attempting to make it palatable or commercialized, explores it in complex and sometimes off-putting ways. I was mesmerized by it, but enjoyment is perhaps a bit of a stretch.I don't feel the need to summarize or set up the plot of the series - that's been done elsewhere - except to call it a woman's journey to self-realization. Or, as executive producer Stephen Soderbergh might say, an origin story. Christine Reade's transformation from smart, ambitious law intern to empowered, emboldened provider (the show's term for the girlfriend experience) is fascinating and unnerving. It twists and turns not only in terms of plot, but in what it chooses to show and withhold. Huge chunks of time go by between scenes - each episode uses its thirty minutes in the most efficient way possible - and characters come and go as needed without much explanation. What holds it all together is Riley Keough's towering performance, speaking volumes with the most minute expressions and gestures. She invests Christine with suggestions of an entire lifetime using nothing but her face. I'd argue that she makes the show; at the very least, she forms its center, if not quite its heart.This is the thing you have to understand about The Girlfriend Experience: it's not interested in letting you in, or making a statement about the life of a call girl, or doing anything other than what serves its own interests. The cinematography, while gorgeous, has an inherent remove; people are often filmed through windows, or framed in doorways, emphasizing their closed-off nature. The writing, too, is deeply controlled. At the end of the season, you won't know much more about Christine than you did going in, and that's the point. You probably won't even like her very much - no one is all that sympathetic, and most are morally compromised in some way, but we're following Christine as she lies, manipulates, and seduces to get what she wants. We see the choices she makes and how they affect others, but aside from a few small but revealing moments of honesty, we'll never know why. We're just not allowed.People going into this to be titillated will come away disappointed as well. The sex scenes, frequent yet brief, are occasionally as graphic as they can get without becoming smut (the kind of restraint the 50 Shades series could stand to learn). But as with the films of David Mackenzie they're coldly distant, a transaction between consenting adults who acknowledge it without words. In fact, one or two scenes are downright uncomfortable. The one thing they aren't, however, is exploitative. This is a choice that Christine has consciously made and, with a couple exceptions, she has total control of her clients in bed. This isn't a show about sex so much as what it can represent, what it means to the characters and how they use or react to it.And maybe that's what Christine's journey is: learning just how comfortable she is with her sexuality and what it can do for her - how powerful it makes her. I'm only guessing, because The Girlfriend Experience has no interest in telling me if I'm right or not. The final scene is so ambiguous that it, and the entire season leading up to that moment, are open to multiple interpretations. You'll be challenged by The Girlfriend Experience, you'll be left feeling cold, and if you're okay with that, you might even be entertained. It's up to you if you want to find out.

S 1 was great. Hot scenes. Really upset that Riley Keough, the main character was not brought back for S2 and S3. Watching S2 and really its not up to S 1's plot. Why was she not brought back.

I thoroughly enjoyed this series. Most fascinating female protagonist I've seen in a while. Riley Keough is brilliant and gorgeous. She defies all feminine stereotypes. She's not emotionally available yet she's able to connect with her clients with a sincere curiosity and tact that women in sex industry seemingly don't display. She's not a victim, although at one point you may find yourself wanting to pity her--but she doesn't need your pity. This show is nuanced and extremely thought provoking. It's sleek, sexy, and intelligent. Can't wait for second season.

This show is "okay". I bought it because I have thoroughly enjoyed Riley Keough's acting over the years, but this wasn't her best. This show dragged out the main storyline for far too long, and honestly most of the sex scenes became totally pointless. If you're a 'little' intrigued, but aren't sure if you should skip this one...let me tell you...SKIP IT.

I loved this show. I have watched a lot of television and I must say that this has been a very refreshing watch. The episodes are very short, which in return makes this a very binge-worthy season. If you aren't offended by the subject matter then give this a go and I bet you will not be disappointed in the slightest. I can't wait for the next season to arrive!

I clicked on the this movie by mistake. I watch for 15-30 minutes before I realized this wasn't the movie I thought It was. There are subtitles for one which I hate, no storyline I could find, acting ability nonexsisting & what I watched of it was really terrible.