The Girlfriend Experience 3.3 on earlier tonight on Starz is entitled "Deep Fake" -- a good name for this episode and for the series in general, because:
1. The very essence of the girlfriend experience kind of call girl is that the woman provides not only the real sex, but illusions that she likes of even loves the client. We saw this literally tonight when Iris says "I love you" after her john tells her "I love you".
2. Iris's day job is about deep fakes, too, as she and her colleagues try to boil down sexual attractions to a series of algorithms. (Algorithms, by the way, have a way to go in our reality to match human intelligence, let alone emotions. I know someone whose video, a critical report on Trump's lies about winning the election, was taken down from YouTube, because algorithms flagged it as spreading disinformation because it had a clip of someone spouting Trump's big lie about winning the election.)
But back to Iris, who is much more fun and for that matter interesting to consider, she also in this episode talks about a video clip of a German politician being a deep fake. So what we have is someone who is a deep fake in her reality, in two jobs, at all hours of the day and night, recognizing deep fakes in our off-screen reality, as she looks at a clip on a television or computer screen.
And I was writing this, I was thinking of a good theme song for The Girlfriend Experience -- Simon and Garfunkel's "Fakin' It", released in 1967, written by Simon, one of his/their lesser-known but I always thought very best songs. Now there were certainly prostitutes back then -- "man's oldest profession" -- and algorithms, too, but they were mostly used in slide rules. I don't know if there were girlfriend experiences for sale in the 1960s, though.
See also The Girlfriend Experience 3.1-2: Intertwining Desires
And see also The Girlfriend Experience 2.1-2: Two for One ... The Girlfriend Experience 2.3-4: Hard to Come By ... The Girlfriend Experience 2.5-6: In and Out ... The Girlfriend Experience 2.7-8: Sundry Seductions ... The Girlfriend Experience 2.9-10: The End of Illusions ... The Girlfriend Experience 2.11-12; One and One Is Less than One
And see also The Girlfriend Experience: Eminently Worth It (my review of Season 1)
It all started in the hot summer of 1960, when Marilyn Monroe walked off the set of The Misfits and began to hear a haunting song in her head, "Goodbye Norma Jean" ...
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