Prime Video's 'The Girlfriend' Finally Treats a Man as a Plot Device

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The end credits of Prime Video’s revenge thriller The Girlfriend (premiering Wednesday, September 10) feature Ava Max’s “Sweet but Psycho,” which feels almost appropriate—except there’s nothing sweet about the characters played by Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke. They’re old-school ’80s evil in The Girlfriend . It’s basically War of the Roses , only Laura and Cherry (Wright and Cooke, respectively) aren’t a married couple divorcing — they’re the mother and girlfriend of Daniel (Laurie Davidson), and at the end of the day, only one can win the prize.

Daniel is the prize, and it’s oddly refreshing to see the male lead treated as nothing more than a plot device. He doesn’t matter, exc

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