Prime Video’s The Girlfriend, adapted from Michelle Frances’ 2017 novel, is the kind of high-gloss, high-stakes drama that hooks you from its opening shot and doesn’t let go. Across its six tense episodes, it asks a deceptively simple question: when a new partner enters a family, is the perceived danger real, or all in the mind?
At the centre of this intoxicating miniseries is Laura, played with poise and quiet ferocity by Robin Wright. A glamorous career woman with the trappings of perfection – handsome husband (Waleed Zuaiter), sprawling Victorian home, and an adoring son, Daniel (Laurie Davidson) – she is blindsided when Daniel brings home his new girlfriend, Cherry. Played by Olivia Cooke, Cherry, with her dyed-red hair, low-cut dress and jarring PDA with Daniel, is everything Laura is not. From the moment the two women meet, sparks fly, but not the good kind.
