Riley Keough's performance is dazzlingĬhristine is a call girl for the 1 percent. There's so much thought put into each scene, the composition of each frame, and the camera angles being used that you could mute the show and still come away with a brilliant, emotional story. It's as if Kerrigan and Seimetz are using architecture and these cold spaces to tell us more about Christine.
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.Ĭlean, minimalist spaces dominate many scenes, giving the show an intellectual, distant feel that echoes our heroine's demeanor.
The gist of The Girlfriend Experience centers on what escorts and their clients do in the bedroom, but the show isn't set in the bedroom. This world is sleek and cool, clinical even. There's also what Kerrigan and Seimetz are shooting. At other times we're invasively close, lying right next to her while she's silent. Sometimes we see Christine's face through a restaurant's window and hear her intimate conversation from a distance. Kerrigan and Seimetz tell a rich story in each frame. Though Soderbergh didn't direct any of The Girlfriend Experienc e's 13 episodes, the spirit of his work lives on in the show's visuals.
He is, after all, an Oscar-winning director who's known for creating beautiful movies. It's generally expected that any project Steven Soderbergh puts his name on is going to be visually stunning. The Girlfriend Experience is gorgeously shot The Girlfriend Experience - which debuted Sunday, April 10, on Starz and is available in its entirety on the network's on-demand streaming service - immediately qualifies as one of the most fascinating shows on television. And when the show and our heroine begin to unfurl their dark wings - that's when it really takes off. 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. But the most difficult thing about it isn't the sex but finding a way to keep it from bleeding into her personal life - not that there's much there that Christine would deem personal. She respects it, analyzes it, treats it like a business, and ultimately excels at it. Avery is a fantastic idiot who's too dumb to see that she's awakened the Roger Federer of prostitution - someone who will be more popular, more powerful, and richer than Avery could possibly dream of.Ĭhristine approaches sex work like she does her education or her job at the law firm. It seems she could have studied to be a surgeon, a CIA agent, or a chef and achieved just as much success.ĭuring our first encounter with Christine, a frenemy named Avery introduces her to the world of private escorts. Keough's Christine is as smart as she is beautiful, resourceful as she is intelligent, and ruthless as she is determined law is simply the field she's decided to excel in. Riley Keough, the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley and heir to his hairline, plays Christine Reade, a second-year law student who's scored an internship at Kirkland Allen, a top law firm in Chicago. Related Steven Soderbergh watches TV: "Why do you think you can improve on what's real?"
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