Get ready to meet Three Women: The Starz limited series starring Shailene Woodley will premiere Friday, Sept. 13 at 10/9c, TVLine has learned. (The premiere will also be available to stream at midnight that same day on the Starz app.)
Based on the nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo, Three Women stars Woodley (Big Little Lies) as Gia, a writer grieving the loss of her family. “Struggling to discover a topic she feels passionate enough to write about, Gia takes a trip across the country,” per the official description, and “crosses paths with three women, each unheard and misunderstood, and feels pulled to share their true stories and desires in a space free of judgment.”
The women Gia meets are Lina (GLOW’s Betty Gilpin), an Indiana homemaker stuck in a loveless marriage who “embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming and transforms her life”; Sloane (She’s Gotta Have It’s DeWanda Wise), a glamorous entrepreneur whose open marriage to Richard (Blair Underwood) seems perfect until “two sexy new strangers threaten their aspirational love story”; and Maggie (Gabrielle Creevy), a North Dakota student who “weathers an intense storm after accusing her married English teacher of an inappropriate relationship.”
Starz has also released a trailer for the series (which you can watch above), where Gia’s latest work gets rejected by her publisher, sending her out on a cross-country road trip to find inspiration. (“I found what I didn’t know I was looking for.”) Out there, she meets Lina, Sloane and Maggie: “More than I wanted to tell their stories, I wanted to hear them myself. They all had the audacity to believe that they deserved more.”
Laura Eason (House of Cards) serves as showrunner of the series — which was initially developed at Showtime before moving to Starz last year — with Taddeo serving as creator and executive producer. Read on to learn more about the titular Three Women, and hit the comments to let us know: Will you be watching?
“Lina is a homemaker in suburban Indiana, plagued with a body of pain and exhaustion from her stagnant marriage. A teenager at heart, yearning for the thrill and adrenaline of young love, all Lina wants is to be loved and desired.”
“Sloane, a gorgeous and massively successful entrepreneur in the Northeast, seemingly has it all with an equally successful husband, Richard, and beautiful daughter. Yet her unconventional marriage makes it hard to pin down where Sloane’s desires truly lie.”
“Maggie, a waitress in North Dakota, is living with the lasting trauma of her secret relationship with her high school teacher. Overwhelmed by the cost of carrying this around while he suffers no consequences, she decides to file a complaint.”
This premiered in Australia in February.
And in Denmark in December. But there’s nothing surprising. There are international marketr too.
Starz is so weird. I have gone to cancel it several times and I always get a “wait don’t go, renew for only .99 cents a month for the next 4 months! So I do. Because honestly don’t care about $1 a month. If I still have it, I’ll watch this