This season of The Girlfriend Experience follows Iris (played by The Affair star Julia Goldani Telles), an American neuroscience major head-hunted by a London tech company who are in the business of trying to understand and quantify human desire.

What the company plans to do with that info is slightly murky, but Iris is only too happy to kick-start her career and start living her life.

However, desire is tricky to pin down through data alone, and so Iris decides to bolster her research by taking on a second job as Cassie, a high-end escort at also-quite-shady agency, The V.

Racking up a client list of London’s great and good, she sets about seducing them date by date, giving them whatever “girlfriend experience” they want, and working out exactly what makes them tick.

Needless to say, things get pretty wild pretty quick, and the twisty-turny plot is sure to hook you in from the very first episode.

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