The Girlfriend, which is Meet the Parents by way of Death Becomes Her and Parasite, is a silly thriller about two women fighting to the death over one man. Cherry, an ambitious working-class real-estate agent, is the girlfriend, while Laura, a wealthy art curator, is the overly possessive mother. Their rivalry is amusing at first–a swirl of misunderstanding, bad impressions, and prejudice has them at each other’s throats the instant they meet. But it very quickly escalates into something sinister and dangerous. Still, it never takes itself too seriously and pretends to be anything other than a highly entertaining soap drama, making it all the more entertaining to watch.
""The Girlfriend” is exactly the kind of psychological and soapy binge to kick off the fall TV season, easily devoured in one indulgent sitting with a cheeky drink and lots of yelling at the screen."
— Proma Khosla
"’The Girlfriend' is, at the end, escapist trash … but it’s glossy and richly satisfying trash, right up until the perfectly devilish epilogue."
— Richard Roeper
Laura has it all: a glittering career, a loving husband, and her precious son, Daniel. But her perfect life unravels when Daniel brings home Cherry, a girlfriend who changes everything. After a tense introduction, Laura becomes convinced Cherry is hiding something. Is she a manipulative social climber, or is Laura just paranoid? The truth is a matter of perspective.
A possessive mother and her son’s new girlfriend engage in increasingly dangerous ways to take down one another.
We get it, Amazon, you have the budget to play every single song in existence. No need to jam in a hundred needle drops per episode!
Meet the Parents meets Sirens meets Death Becomes Her.
Berlin
2 nominations
