Featuring two huge stars, the show has an 87% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Michelle Frances, the show follows Laura (Wright), a woman who seemingly has it all: a glittering career, a loving husband, and her precious son, Daniel (Laurie Davidson, Will).

Her perfect life begins to unravel, however, when Daniel brings home Cherry (Cooke), his new girlfriend.

"After a tense introduction, Laura becomes convinced Cherry is hiding something," the plot synopsis adds.

"Is she a manipulative social climber, or is Laura just paranoid?"

The Girlfriend also stars Anna Chancellor (The Split), Leo Suter (Vikings: Vahalla), Shalom Brune-Franklin (The Assassin), Tanya Moodie (Motherland) and Waleed Zuaiter (Gangs of London).

As well as playing one of the leads in the series, Robin Wright directed three of its six episodes.

The show has received very positive write-ups from critics, who have praised it for its performances, its twists, as well as its mix of pulpy thrills and social commentary.

Holding an 87% Rotten Tomatoes score at the time of writing, you can read some of these glowing reviews below:

Collider: "Directed by Wright, the series doubles and then triples down on the shocking twists and turns, making for an exciting and nail-biting journey as Cherry and Laura face off through an intense six episodes."

Financial Times: "The Girlfriend is bold and brassy, but its understanding of social and financial tensions is more subtle than the heightened drama of the package in which it arrives. This is glossy, nasty, moreish fun, then, but of a fittingly high pedigree."

The Guardian: "Class distinctions, the power of money, the different kinds of love we are capable of, how liberal parents should be, how emotions can warp under pressure, how desperate we can become to be believed, and how we distinguish between ambition and greed, need and desire. All this is at play in The Girlfriend, which has lost little of the book’s psychological acuity and retained all of the suspense."

London Evening Standard: "The performances are uniformly excellent. Wright is magnetic, walking a fine line between maternal concern and suffocating possessiveness. Cooke, meanwhile, delivers a star turn: slippery, charismatic, and fascinating."

RogerEbert.com: "The Girlfriend is, at the end, escapist trash … but it’s glossy and richly satisfying trash, right up until the perfectly devilish epilogue."

How to watch The Girlfriend

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All six episodes of The Girlfriend are streaming in Ireland and the UK via Prime Video.