The Bleak World of <i>The Girlfriend Experience</i>
The universe of The Girlfriend Experience, which returns for a second season on Starz Sunday night, is so sterile you could perform surgery in it. For a show so preoccupied with sex and power—two intrinsically messy subjects—it takes place for the most part in disturbingly pristine environments. A Republican fundraiser, Erica (Anna Friel), lives in a vast townhouse more devoid of clutter and personal items than an upscale furniture catalog. A high-class sex worker, Anna (Louisa Krause), entertains clients in a glass-walled apartment whose sole item of furniture is a vast white sectional she never once sits on.
The lack of set decoration isn’t about budgetary issues— is nothing if not of a character rejecting every preconception of how women are supposed to feel and behave.
