Creating The Girlfriend Experience with Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz

The creators of the Starz series The Girlfriend Experience (which is inspired, but not necessarily based on the Steven Soderbergh film of the same name) join Matt Zoller Seitz for an in-depth look at one of the most fascinating shows of 2016. Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz co-wrote every single episode of the show, and divided the directing duties for the series between themselves as well. The result is a complex series that asks lots of interesting questions about sex, morality, aesthetics, and more. Lodge and Amy are happy to answer most of them - but there's a few mysteries they'd like to preserve.SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers throughout for the first season of The Girlfriend Experience.

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There’s little doubt that TV is driving the cultural conversation, but there could still stand to be more great conversation about TV. That’s where the Vulture TV Podcast comes in. In this weekly podcast, New York TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz and Vulture TV editor Gazelle Emami will go deep on what matters most the world of television, what makes good TV, and how good TV gets made. Their conversation could, and will, encompass everything from the hot-button points of a given show—did you see what happened on Mad Men?—to a discussion of TV’s new diversity...