Hello friends!
There are always new additions to streaming platforms, with a wide variety and abundance of movies and TV shows to watch in your free time. And I found a thriller, a short series of only six episodes with a lot of suspense, even though it might not seem that way at first when you see the title and the main image.
On Amazon Prime Video, in the top 10, at least in my country, I've seen this series, which I think is being watched quite a bit. What TV show am I talking about? This TV show is called The Girlfriend. A title that doesn't mean much to us, because there are also a movie with that name, but when we see the trailer and read the summary, it catches our attention, arouses our curiosity, and since it's not a long series but a short one, it's perfect for a quiet weekend afternoon before starting the busiest week of the week again. So let's enjoy it for a while, and to that end, I suggest this series, and to that end, I'll tell you a little about it. Hope you like it!
Well, let's tell something about this TV show. Here my review:
What is this about?
This series is about a girlfriend, of course. A boy from a rich and wealthy family (Daniel) meets a girl named Cherry, and they become a couple. One day, he decides to bring the girl home so his parents can meet her. Everything seems to be going very well, but it has a special effect on Daniel's mother, Laura, and from here, from this somewhat strange, yet seemingly normal, encounter, things begin to happen. Between them, and ultimately, they affect everyone. What will happen to this couple? Will the mother approve of her son's new girlfriend?
The girlfriend is Cherry, who works at a real estate agency selling houses, especially high-end ones. She wants to prosper and escape her mediocre life, and to do so she uses her ambition and intensity. But she's also fallen in love with the young doctor from a well-off family, Daniel. I don't want to give too much away because I don't want to give away any important details or spoil things!
The story begins when Cherry is introduced to his parents, but Laura's mother begins to distrust her due to a few small details (which I won't go into; you have to watch the TV show), and follows her, becomes suspicious, and begins to fear that she's hiding something more. Thus, she convinces herself that she's not good for her son, and things begin to happen, even though everything seems to be going well. He invites her on a family vacation with other friends to Spain, and during those days, she actually becomes even more convinced that Cherry is lying. But in front of everyone else, they both smile.
We're beginning to realize that Laura's mother is also very overprotective, treating her son like a baby, as if he were still her little boy. That's why she can't stand the fact that Daniel is now showing more attention to his girlfriend, and that he puts her first when it comes to making plans, for example. As I said, things happen, including to Daniel. There are difficult moments, where both possessive and twisted women begin to act in the worst possible way, and a war breaks out to destroy each other.
Throughout the episodes, we begin to wonder who's worse: who ends up being a psychopath or who was already one. Whether jealousy and trauma justify these actions, these lies, and such evil behavior, in short, while the others begin to see that something is happening and get angry.
Laura's, and Cherry's, obsession with getting Daniel becomes increasingly evident in every aspect of their lives, everything spiraling out of control... Are they ultimately the same?
The characters
The cast is good, with very known actors as protagonist, exactly the two female protagonists: the mother Laura is Robin Wright (do you remember Jenny from Forrest Gump or Underwood's wife in House of Cards? It's her, but she's done many more things). And on the other hand, the girlfriend Cherry is Olivia Cooke (Alicent in House of Dragons), I had seen her face before but it took me a while to remember her other famous role, although I've also seen on IMDB website that she has had many other relevant roles in the past.
Both women perform very well; one is an established star, and the other is on her way to becoming one. The men, on the other hand, both Daniel the boyfriend and the father, were unknown to me, but I think they also performed well in this intriguing series.
Anything else to comment?
Yes, THE BEST. What's most striking is the way the story is told. Because in reality, events often have two different interpretations; there are different versions depending on who's telling us what happened, right? And in this series, the same event is told to us twice: when names appear in big red letters, we're being told that it's being experienced through one of the two protagonists. Because as the TV show motto says: "There are two sides to every story".
For example, when the word "Cherry" appears, we know we'll see what happened at a given moment from the girlfriend's point of view, and conversely, when the word "Laura" appears, we'll see more or less the same thing again, but from the mother's perspective. And this seems extraordinary to me, because it gives us both versions and we can choose to side with one of the two with more information or simply enjoy everything the two women plot and intrigue.
And finally, the ending. Everything ends abruptly, we know something will happen, that it will end badly, but we don't know how... and after the end, everything seems like it will be fine, but... it's not quite over... I can't say more!
I have been telling so much, so better to watch the six episodes by yourselves. Take a look and comment!
More information about the TV show and the shared images here: Original title: The Girlfriend (2025) - IMDB: The Girlfriend
