The Girlfriend has officially landed on Prime Video - and we're totally obsessed!
Starring Robin Wright, Olivia Cooke and Laurie Davidson, the six-part psychological thriller follows successful and wealthy businesswoman Laura (Wright), whose picture-perfect life starts to unravel when her son Daniel (Davidson) brings home a new girlfriend named Cherry (Cooke). Laura is convinced that Cherry is a manipulative social climber and becomes obsessed with getting her out of her son's life - but is she just being paranoid?
Based on Michelle Frances' debut novel of the same title, the series is told from the perspective of both Laura and Cherry, with events changing depending on the POV.
The difference in their accounts had me wondering who is telling the truth. So, naturally when I caught up Wright, Cooke, and Davidson I just had to ask: who are we meant to believe - Cherry or Laura?
Here's what they had to say...
Who is telling the truth in The Girlfriend?
"I think it depends on what you've experienced in life, because I'm very biased towards my character, because I played her for five months. But I know my mum, watching this, she's going to be all over Laura," Cooke explained when asked who viewers should believe.
"Like that will be the person she roots for, because my mother still holds grudges against the 11-year-old children in my primary school that robbed me by not inviting me to their birthday party. She'll still be like, 'That Becky, I don't like her. There's something not right about her.' So, I think it all depends on like perspective and preconceived notions and prejudice."
Davidson added: "I think people will have an emotional response about who they support and then they'll go, 'Wait, what are the facts? This person did X, Y and Z, and how am I still taking that person's side, even though I've seen them do all this terrible sh**?'"
In the first episode, before Laura has even met Cherry, we hear her joking to her friend Isabella (Tanya Moodie) about Cherry's name. Cherry overhears them laughing and mocking her name, which creates quite an awkward first meeting that only becomes even more strained as tensions simmer beneath the surface.
On their strained relationship, Wright, who directed three of the episodes, explained: "The intention was to accept her and embrace her, because Laura's never seen her son so besotted with someone, and that means something to a mother when you see the authenticity come out of your child, going, 'No, I've never felt this before' and you're like, 'Oh, you found it!' But anyway, that's just intrinsic in a mum. I think you always want the positive side as the outcome. But really and truly, we took it to the extreme in the show and so did Cherry."
She continued: "But for every mum, I think there's that little bit of truth going, 'Nobody's ever really going to be good enough for my boy and this, this doesn't fall into melodrama, I don't think, because the psychological part of the psychological thriller aspect is it's very human what these women do and why they do it, why they're reactionary in the way that they are. You can view it as a civilian and go, 'I kind of understand why she did that.'"
All six episodes of The Girlfriend are available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
