The Girlfriend Experience
Sexually explicitFrank sexual content.This show: 8/10AnthologyA new story or cast with every episode or season.This show: 8/10CynicalDeeply distrustful of institutions and human motives.This show: 8/10Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 8/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 8/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 8/10Deadpan coolDetached, understated and effortlessly stylish.This show: 7/10Elites & privilegeThe rich and powerful, glamorous or rotten.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Riley KeoughPaul SparksJulia Goldani TellesMary Lynn RajskubBriony GlasscoSabryn Rock
Written by
Lodge KerriganAmy SeimetzAnja Marquardt
Starring
Riley KeoughPaul SparksJulia Goldani TellesMary Lynn RajskubBriony GlasscoSabryn Rock
Written by
Lodge KerriganAmy SeimetzAnja Marquardt
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The Girlfriend Experience Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 8.2 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.3 | ||
| S2 | 6.3 | 6.6 | 6.0 | 6.7 | 6.2 | 6.8 | 5.9 | 6.8 | 5.9 | 6.4 | 6.1 | 6.0 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 5.6 | |
| S3 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.6 |
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About
"Intimacy rendered as spreadsheet, transaction, and performance"
An anthology drama about high-end escorts who treat sex work like a corporate side hustle, each season following a different woman navigating clients, control, and compartmentalized intimacy. The show is cold, clinical, and deliberately unglamorous, favoring sterile glass offices and hotel rooms over any romanticized version of the life. Dialogue is transactional, sex scenes are unsettling rather than titillating, and the tone stays flat and observational throughout. It rewards patience and attention to power dynamics more than plot, and it never explains its characters' motives, leaving you to sit in their detachment.
Watch it for
the unflinching, clinical look at how intimacy gets monetized and compartmentalized.
Maybe skip if
you want warmth, likable leads, or sex scenes played for pleasure rather than unease.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
All Seasons
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Season 12016
7.47K136h 19m
Season one is the story of Christine Reade, a second year student at Chicago-Burnham Law School and a new intern at the prestigious firm of Kirkland & Allen. Working hard to establish herself at the firm, her focus quickly shifts when a classmate introduces her to the world of transactional relationships. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide The Girlfriend Experience - emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price. Juggling two very different lives, Christine quickly finds herself drawn into the GFE world, attracted to the rush of control and intimacy.
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Season 22017
6.34K146h 21m
Season two follows two parallel storylines; one centering on the complicated relationship between Erica & Anna during the corrupt political climate of midterm elections, and the other on Bria, a former GFE provider forced to start a new life in New Mexico but lured by the ghosts of her past.
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Season 32021
5.32K104h 27m
Set in the London tech scene, Season three is the story of Iris, a neuroscience major. As she begins to explore the transactional world of The Girlfriend Experience, Iris quickly learns that her client sessions provide her with a compelling edge in the tech world and vice versa. She then begins to question whether her actions are driven by free will, or something else altogether, and heads down a deep path of exploration.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Riley Keough Christine Reade
Paul Sparks David Tellis
Julia Goldani Telles Iris
Mary Lynn Rajskub Erin Roberts
Briony Glassco Susan King
Sabryn Rock Kayla Boden
Bill Lake Carson Lewis
Trevor Hayes Dennis Masterson
Armin Karima Hiram
Aidan Devine Martin Bayley
Crew
Lodge Kerrigan
Amy Seimetz
Anja Marquardt
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