While his unnerving 1993 debut, “Clean, Shaven,” really floored audiences who saw it back in the day, when director Lodge Kerrigan’s belated third film “Keane” first made the rounds on the festival circuit in the fall of 2004, it reintroduced the filmmaker to the forefront of a then-flourishing American independent cinema. In the nervy, visceral portrait of a paranoid father searching for his abducted daughter and finding a surrogate in a pre-fame Abigail Breslin, he proved how much can be done with a modest budget under one mil and a spirit of resourcefulness.

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When Steven Soderbergh takes a filmmaker under his wing and aegis and tries to give him a little lift, that’s bound to mean that the filmmaker is exciting and worth the watch. Before they broke out big, Soderbergh shouted out filmmakers like pre- “Moonlight” Barry Jenkins and Amy Seimetz. Another filmmaker Soderbergh was an early champion of was Lodge Kerrigan, the filmmaker behind the excellent debut “Clean, Shaven,” and more recently “The Girlfriend Experience” on Starz.

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Lodge Kerrigan and Nick Santora have both been drafted for the pilot of Youtube’s “Dark Cargo.” The show, produced by Ben Stiller and Nicky Weinstock, is set to start production at the end of March, according to Deadline.

The plot for the new show follows long haul driver Joe Dobbs as his encounter with a random stranger sends him down a path of outracing the police, time, and the malevolent forces chasing down the big rig.

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You make bold aesthetic choices, you tell a thought-provoking mosaic-like story about a complicated, unknowable main character, you constantly challenge the audience’s perception of who your main character is and why she does what she does. What to do for a second act once you’ve propped a compelling show up on own its two legs? If you’re “The Girlfriend Experience” writer/directors Amy Seimetz and Lodge Kerrigan, with the blessing of executive producer Steven Soderbergh, you take a torch to it.

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It doesn’t get talked about by the TV press as much as “Male Anti-Hero Drama Variation No. 5743,” but the first season of “The Girlfriend Experience” was one of our favorite bits of television of last year. In fact, it took second place in our Best TV of 2016 piece, so much did we love Starz’s adaptation of Steven Soderbergh’s movie, produced by Soderbergh himself and directed by the indie dream team of Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz.

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Making the transition to an anthology series is risky for any show. Switching gears to a brand-new story could either help illuminate and expand the themes of a series or, if not done right, allow it to crumble under the weight of its ambition. But with the combination of great talent involved and intriguing storylines set in motion, the high-wire act is one that can certainly be pulled off.

And it appears that could very well be the case for “The Girlfriend Experience,” Starz’s adaptation of Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 critically acclaimed film of the same name, which is hitting the reset button for season two.

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Steven Soderbergh has never been one to walk down the easy, expected path. When it was announced last summer that “The Girlfriend Experience” would be returning for a second season, it was with the understanding it Riley Keough would be moving on, and next batch of episodes would be built around a new lead character. Indeed, that’s happening, but the creatives behind the show are taking it one step further.

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“What I would like to see happen is what we did on ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ and what we did on ‘The Knick’ which is auteur driven TV. Filmmakers and directors that really take on a whole show and do the whole thing. I just think you get a better result, you get something that’s more unified and more specific, as opposed to having multiple directors coming in,” Steven Soderbergh recently shared about the TV landscape.

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Alison Bechdel is blameless in all this, but a couple of years ago, when the reductive-but-snappy litmus test for cultural sexism that bears her name was upwafting on the zeitgeist, it inspired a thought experiment of my own. Now, most of the mental quizzes I set myself when bored have mayfly lives, because after a while (and this is the problem with the Bechdel test and its subsequent dogmatization too), applying such agenda-based filters as a method of cultural critique becomes as robotic as Mr.

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20 Indie Filmmakers Who Found Their Second Acts On TV

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Steven Soderbergh's 'The Girlfriend Experience' Becomes A Starz Series, Amy Seimetz & Lodge Kerrigan To Write & Direct

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