The Girlfriend Experience Season Two Shakes Up Format

BEVERLY HILLS: The second installment of the Starz limited series The Girlfriend Experience will feature two parallel story lines, breaking last season’s format.

Season two of The Girlfriend Experience will focus on entirely new characters, relationships, plotlines and locations while continuing to explore the price of intimacy and its emotional consequences. One story line for the 14-episode scripted anthology series will be set in Washington, D.C. and the other in New Mexico.

The story lines will be written, directed and executive produced by Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz, who also helmed season one. Kerrigan’s story line is set against the backdrop of the corrupting influence of dark money in the upcoming 2018 U.S. mid-term elections. It will track an unexpected and complex relationship between Erica Myles, a commanding and strong-willed finance director of a Republican super PAC, and Anna Greenwald, a confident and intelligent GFE provider at the top of her game. Anna Friel (Broken, Pushing Daisies) will play Erica Myles and Louisa Krause (Billions, Blue Bloods) will play Anna Greenwald.

Seimetz’s story line follows Bria Jones, who is forced to relocate to a remote location in New Mexico after discovering disturbing information about a regular client. Carmen Ejogo (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Selma) will play Bria Jones.

Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven, Magic Mike, The Knick) remains on board as an executive producer. “It was always our intention to change the universe every season, but Amy and Lodge have cranked up the ambition, scope and complexity of the show by creating two story lines even more provocative and confrontational than last year’s,” Soderbergh said. “I’m as excited as a Swedish person is allowed to get.”