Skip to main content

Watch: Starz releases racy trailer for new series The Girlfriend Experience

Sundance Film Festival attendees will have the chance to check out the first four episodes of The Girlfriend Experience, an upcoming Starz series, on Saturday. With the studio having that rare opportunity, it has now released a new trailer for the drama from executive producer Steven Soderbergh.

Based on the acclaimed filmmaker’s 2009 film of the same name, The Girlfriend Experience follows Christine (played by Riley Keough), a second-year law student who takes on an unlikely job: working as a high-end call girl. As we can see in the trailer, the series will delve into her experiences on the job, including the risks.

Recommended Videos

“Does this kind of work ever make you scared?” a man asks at one point. Although Christine says no, we see that she doesn’t have everything as “under control” as she indicates. She’s shown escaping from at least one man, dealing with another man that she says is trying to “discredit” her, and arguing with another woman about why she would do “something so stupid.”

The series has an interesting format, with episodes being just 30 minutes compared to the hour-long episodes more typical of dramas. Soderbergh edited the series “like a movie,” telling the story over six and a half hours, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht explained in an interview with Deadline.

“Although there is a really strong narrative all the way through, this is almost like little slices of this young woman’s experience that just build, and build, and build, and build,” said Albrecht. “So instead of having to craft within each episode a complicated story, the story is really told as pretty much one person’s story.”

The storytelling style may work out to make The Girlfriend Experience ideal for binge-watching. Albrecht admits that his own inadvertent binge influenced Starz’s decision to release all 13 episodes at once on its On Demand and Starz Play platforms. “What we’re doing is we’re highlighting the unique features of premium, which is different than streaming and different than broadcast of ad-supported basic (cable),” he said.

Along with Soderbergh, the series is executive produced by Philip Fleishman, Gary Marcus, and Jeff Cuban, as well as co-creators Amy Seimetz and Lodge Kerrigan. The latter pair wrote and directed the first season.

The Girlfriend Experience premieres on Starz platforms on April 10.

Stephanie Topacio Long
Stephanie Topacio Long is a writer and editor whose writing interests range from business to books. She also contributes to…
Erin Brockovich is the movie you need to stream on Peacock this month
A woman and man walk down the street while holding coffee.

The year 2000 was an excellent one for director Steven Soderbergh. He directed not one, but two Best Picture nominees. Plus, Soderbergh took home the Oscar for Best Director for Traffic.

The other movie he made that year is even better than Traffic. Erin Brockovich, starring Julia Roberts at the peak of her powers, follows a single mother of three children who discovers a massive coverup being perpetuated by a major energy company. Here are three reasons you should check it out while it's on Peacock:

Read more
Amazon announces Prime Day 2025 will be July 8-11
Best Prime Day Amazon Deals

Amazon officially announced two major things about Amazon Prime Day 2025 today: the exact dates of the sale and a surprise about its length. Prime Day 2025 will run from July 8 through 11, confirming our suspicions of a mid-July date and surprising us by doubling the usual runtime for the event.

Historically, Prime Day has been two days long. The dates jump around every year, but the length has stayed consistent. Amazon announced the dates with a press release and a commercial featuring Lebron James imagining his post-NBA career.

Read more
Deliver Me from Nowhere trailer: Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen could lead to Oscars
Jeremy Allen White puts his arm in the air and sings into a mic.

Jeremy Allen White grabs his guitar and rocks out as Bruce Springsteen in the official trailer forĀ Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.

Springsteen and the E Street Band were red-hot entering the '80s following a string of successful albums, including Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, and The River. On the cusp of superstardom, the Boss grappled with his past and the pressures of being a rock star. Deliver Me from Nowhere picks up in the early '80s and chronicles the making of Nebraska, Springsteen's 1982 album that many consider his true masterpiece.

Read more