The Girlfriend Experience
is still that pretentious and intense series that I love.
I do not intend to use the term "guilty pleasure" in this or any other text or context.
Guilty to jail, pleasures to me.
The Starzplay series has always been to my liking.
Give me bad vibes in environments of icy elegance and you have me in the boat.
More in fiction than in reality, everything is said, but let's never rule out anything.
Over three seasons,
The Girlfriend Experience
has explored
the world of prostitution from the least grateful angles
. Less grateful for the narration, it is understood: neither poor girls who make mistakes, nor victims of trafficking nor stories of redemption. This approach, clearly designed to
provoke the viewer
, makes the series, inspired by the film of the same title by Steven Soderbergh,
frequently accused of frivolous and insensitive.
. It is, but that is its strong point: the disaffection with which its different protagonists exchange sex for money has always functioned as a mirror in which many other things are reflected. "Mirrors" is precisely the title of the first episode of his new installment. Managed by the Berliner Anja Marquardt,
this third season stars Julia Goldani Telles (
The Affair
) and travels to London and the world of the most advanced technology.
If what we see of Iris / Cassandra, scientist and whore, is fact or fiction, it is part of the mystery. Is Iris real and Cassandra virtual? Could be.
Each season of
The Girlfriend Experience
changes with its whore protagonists, but
the figure of the client is transversal
: those of Christine (Riley Keough) in the first could also be Anna (Louisa Krause) in the second or Iris now.
They and not they are the interchangeable meat
.
They are the ones who pass and they the ones who remain at the center of the story.
An intelligent, perverse and powerful narrative and aesthetic decision.
Also
an insulting idea for those who will never consent that a fiction about prostitutes does not consider them damsels in distress at all times.
The Girlfriend Experience
is anything but, ahem, accommodating.
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