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The Girlfriend Experience , an icy new limited series from Starz and Steven Soderbergh, isn't selling love. That's the show's greatest seduction. Soderbergh, who serves as an executive producer, created a short film with the same name in In his film, Soderbergh told a story of economic decline and Wall Street excess, filtered through the lens of prostitution.
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It seems she could have studied to be a surgeon, a CIA agent, or a chef and achieved just as much success. During our first encounter with Christine, a frenemy named Avery introduces her to the world of private escorts. Christine approaches sex work like she does her education or her job at the law firm. She respects it, analyzes it, treats it like a business, and ultimately excels at it. The more she wrestles with this balance, the more everything begins to bleed together, and the more we find out just how little we know Christine.
Kerrigan and Seimetz tell a rich story in each frame. The two have created metropolitan porn. This world is sleek and cool, clinical even. It takes place in opulent restaurants, within the frosted walls of corporate conference rooms, and on the upper floors and penthouses of sky-scraping buildings.
Christine is a call girl for the 1 percent. She has to adapt her personality, her appearance, her humor, her intelligence, and even her name to make her clients feel doted on and comfortable. Her personality is bespoke, just like the suits her johns are wearing; her living is dependent how alluring a companion she can be.
