That’s the elevator pitch for The Girlfriend Experience - one woman’s experience of exchanging sex for money - but it’s really just a starting point for the show’s attempts to explore under-the-table transactions as a general space: the hidden exchanges of the economy, business, family, and sex. This time around, the story moves to Chicago, where Christine Reade (Riley Keough) becomes interested in escort work after she discovers a close friend makes most of her income from it. The new Starz series is loosely inspired by Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film of the same name, which chronicled the work of a high-end escort (played by then-adult-actress Sasha Grey) trying to make money in New York City after the 2008 financial collapse. The Girlfriend Experience is, at times, irritating, captivating, uncomfortable, beautiful, heavy-handed, frightening, confusing, and a little bit dumb.
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