![]() ![]() Reflecting the ethos of its other iterations, Season 2, which premiered last night, is also something of a departure in that it takes on a new type of narrative. But in The Girlfriend Experience, the women hold the power and harness it to decide what is best for them they also don't let the rest of their lives become defined by their profession. ![]() Both the film and TV series are notable departures from how most popular culture depicts sex workers, by alternately demonizing them or portraying them as victims of circumstance, in effect unwilling participants with no agency of their own. The success of the TV version (with which Soderbergh is involved as an executive producer) is largely because of its depiction of women providing "the girlfriend experience," aka a sexual and romantic relationship in exchange for money and gifts. ![]() First, there was the Sasha Grey-starring, Steven Soderbergh-directed movie then came a television adaptation on Starz from Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz in 2016, with Riley Keogh starring as a legal assistant moonlighting as a sex worker for white-collar men with excessive amounts of money and sex drives. Since its original iteration in 2009, The Girlfriend Experience has taken many different shapes. ![]()
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