One of the most prominent themes throughout the first season of The Girlfriend Experience has been the theme of…

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One of the more admirable aspects of The Girlfriend Experience and the way it’s telling the story of Christine Reade is…

Carol Clover coined the term “Final Girl” in the ‘70s to describe a certain trope she recognized in horror films, and…

At one point or another, The Girlfriend Experience was going to have to take a breath. The show has been moving at an…

Throughout its first season, The Girlfriend Experience has been subtly defining itself from one episode to the next.…

Up until this point, The Girlfriend Experience has been structuring its episodes like a thriller, at least in some…

One of The Girlfriend Experience’s most notable strengths is its ability to balance tones and approaches to…

Power is an inherent theme in The Girlfriend Experience. There’s really no way around it. A show that’s “about” the…

“Retention,” the third episode of Starz’s new series The Girlfriend Experience, opens on Christine sitting alone in the…

A word of warning for those going into The Girlfriend Experience expecting a sexy guilty-pleasure good time: “Sexy” is…