13 February 2023
The Girlfriend Experience S1-3
Iris (Julia Goldani Telles from The Affair) relocates to London, leaving behind her family and a half-finished neuroscience degree. She begins a double life: working at a tech startup while providing the girlfriend experience at night.
The 18-rated series is executive produced by Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Traffic), with Berlin International Film Festival winner Anja Marquardt (She’s Lost Control) directing this season. As LA Times says of this season, “The Girlfriend Experience predicted pandemic sex.”
Season 1 of the anthology series was Time’s second-best series of the year (and made Top Ten lists from Vulture and The Playlist to Slant, Collider and Slate), with Newsday calling it, “TV’s most adult show,” while The Guardian called Season 2 “the most compelling drama on TV”.
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The Mommy Club NBO
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Empini S1-2
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Youngins S1-2
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Unfollowed S1-2
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The Mommy Club S1-3
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Adulting S1-3
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The Chocolate Empire S1
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