![]() The pedigree of the talent runs deep, and pays off in its refusal to be what you expect. It was co-created and co-written by Amy Siemetz, director of the 2012 thriller Sun Don’t Shine and star of Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color, and Carruth himself provided the cold, synthy score. It follows a young law student – played in a genuinely star-making turn by Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough – as she takes her first steps in the profession, while attempting to balance her studies and an internship at a brazenly corporate law firm. Like the movie, The Girlfriend Experience is a story of prostitution. ![]() I ended up watching all 13 in one go, and I have never been happier to be so far behind on my work. “Watch a couple of episodes and see what you think,” my editor told me on Monday. But where that was gossamer thin – a wispy mediation on last decade’s banking crisis – this is a full-blown story with a clear sense of its own momentum and trajectory. The series is superficially based on Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film of the same name.
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