5 h. ago The Girlfriend review – just how much of an incest vibe can one TV show get away with? A lot

This brilliantly slippery beast of a drama pits an adult son’s girlfriend against his mother in all-out war. Robin Wright is excellent as the parent with an interesting dynamic with her child. Yikes!‘This one’s different,” a son says to his mother when she teases him about his latest girlfriend. Clever, he says. Stunning, ambitious, funny – “you remind me of her”. Something flickers across Mummy’s face. “She reminds you of me?” she says, and it is not really a question.Welcome, friends, to The Girlfriend, an adaptation of the excellent psychological thriller by Michelle Frances, and an answer to the question many of us have surely pondered – just how much of an incest vibe can one get away with instilling in a shiny prestige miniseries, and can anyone get Robin Wright to star and make the whole thing disturbingly credible? Continue reading...

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42 h. ago The Girlfriend's Robin Wright admits why working on Prime Video's latest thriller was 'a grind'

Prime Video's new psychological thriller The Girlfriend stars House of the Dragon's Olivia Cooke and is directed by Robin Wright

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42 h. ago The Girlfriend's Robin Wright says filming was a 'therapy session' as she takes on dual roles

The Girlfriend is a new crime thriller series starring Robin Wright, who also directed three of the six episodes

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This thriller revels in the decadent pleasure of watching hot, privileged people implode in lavish settings

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1 week ago ‘We had to up the ante’: Robin Wright on her tense TV tale of incest and violence among London’s billionaires

The Girlfriend is a nail-biting drama that centres on a love triangle between a mother, her son and his girlfriend. Its director and co-stars take us behind the scenesA too-pure young man, training to be a doctor, scion of the wealthiest imaginable family, meets a smoking hot young woman, but is she who she seems? His mother thinks not. The quickest way to describe The Girlfriend is to say that it’s sort of perfect. The perspectives shift between that of Cherry, the girlfriend (Olivia Cooke), and that of Laura, the mother (Robin Wright, who also directs). Whoever’s take you are watching, that’s who you believe. Baroque events, blood and guts, flagrant lies – it all unfurls in exquisite interiors and idealised London street scenes.It is compulsive. I bit my nails to shreds. It’s not clear who’s the psychopath, but someone is – and the crisscrossing erotic tension gives it the inevitability of Greek tragedy. People this irresistible to one another never end up at peace. Continue readi...

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