The press notes playfully state that Starz’s outstanding new program was “suggested by” the 2009 Steven Soderbergh movie of the same name, which cast pornographic actress Sasha Grey as an exclusive escort getting clutch fiscal advice from her johns on the eve of the economic collapse. A saying usually misattributed to Oscar Wilde goes, “Everything is about sex except sex, which is about power.” Kevin Spacey recently invoked adage on House of Cards The Girlfriend Experience doesn’t need to make things so explicit. As she straddles a constantly rotating array of clients - it’s hardly a coincidence that she prefers to be on top - she takes on a distance runner’s expression of detached determination. Though sex may be a meaningful act to her, it’s not an intimate one. Co-creators Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz direct their camera’s leering gaze on impossibly chic restaurants, sleek modern offices forged from streakless metal and perfectly reflective glass, and other modernist luxuries with something close to infatuation. But in the many scenes depicting high-end call girl Chelsea hard at work, she reads as dispassionate, though never lacking in intensity. Halfway between lifestyle porn and actual porn, The Girlfriend Experience finds eroticism in everything except sex.
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