Home > Girlfriends > Series 1 « TV Series Page Girlfriends: Series 1 (2018) Episode List Series 1 Girlfriends Critics Consensus Girlfriends offers an honest -- and frequently hilarious -- look at a time of life too often marginalized on TV, with wonderfully well-acted results. 85% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 13 No Score Yet Audience Score User Ratings: 0 More Info × Close Episodes 1 Episode 1 Air date: Jan 29, 2018 In the premiere, Linda's husband vanishes while on a cruise and she returns home to get support from her friends only to discover they have their own problems. More 2 Episode 2 Air date: Feb 6, 2018 Much to Sue's disappointment, her birthday is once again upon her and tensions begin to arise. More 3 Episode 3 Air date: Feb 12, 2018 A terrified Linda is questioned on suspicion of murdering her husband Micky, but Gail and Sue unearth the shocking truth behind Carole's accusations as they try to rescue their friend. More 4 Episode 4 Air date: May 3, 2019 Carole is arrested after threatening Linda with a knife while looking for information about Micky's death. More 5 Episode 5 Air date: May 10, 2019 After taking an apparently accidental overdose, Linda is rushed to hospital. More Girlfriends: Series 1 Photos View All Photos (1) Tv Season Info Three friends cope with the responsibilities that come with being a modern woman of a certain age. Genre: Drama Network: Acorn Premiere Date: Jan 29, 2018 Exec. Producers: Kay Mellor, Polly Hill Cast Miranda Richardson as Sue Zoë Wanamaker as Gail Phyllis Logan as Linda Philip Cumbus Anthony Head Adrian Rawlins Matthew Lewis Chris Fountain Show More Cast News & Interviews for Girlfriends: Series 1 The Best and Worst Reviewed Television Series of 2018 by Network and Streaming Service 2018 TV Premiere Dates Calendar View All Girlfriends: Series 1 News Episodes 1 Episode 1 Air date: Jan 29, 2018 In the premiere, Linda's husband vanishes while on a cruise and she returns home to get support from her friends only to discover they have their own problems. More 2 Episode 2 Air date: Feb 6, 2018 Much to Sue's disappointment, her birthday is once again upon her and tensions begin to arise. More 3 Episode 3 Air date: Feb 12, 2018 A terrified Linda is questioned on suspicion of murdering her husband Micky, but Gail and Sue unearth the shocking truth behind Carole's accusations as they try to rescue their friend. More 4 Episode 4 Air date: May 3, 2019 Carole is arrested after threatening Linda with a knife while looking for information about Micky's death. More 5 Episode 5 Air date: May 10, 2019 After taking an apparently accidental overdose, Linda is rushed to hospital. More Critic Reviews for Girlfriends Series 1 All Critics (13) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (2) ... doesn't aways hit its marks -- particularly during the over-reaching opening minutes of Episode 4. But the three lead performances, particularly on the part of Miranda Richardson, are more than enough to carry the day. Jan 29, 2018 | Rating: B+ | Full Review… Ed Bark Uncle Barky Top Critic Wherever it goes, it will be real and glorious and fun. The results of people with talent to burn writing, playing and directing (as Mellor is also doing) what they know always are. Jan 16, 2018 | Full Review… Lucy Mangan Guardian Top Critic [Girlfriends] applies refreshing layers of honesty and genuine perplexity to the characters' stories. Age is an engine of Girlfriends. But so is empathy. Jan 26, 2018 | Full Review… John Anderson Wall Street Journal Top Critic I cannot lie: I expected a carousel of middle-age clichés: anti-wrinkle treatments, divorces, hot flushes. And, actually, Girlfriends delivers all of these things. But it is not awful or depressing. Jan 29, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… Carol Midgley Times (UK) Top Critic Girlfriends is part mystery, and we're hooked on wanting to know what happened to Micky. But the more important "mysteries," really, are the lives of these three women, each one heroic in her own life. Feb 1, 2018 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review… David Wiegand San Francisco Chronicle Top Critic Plenty to be going on with there, you might think, and a drama featuring older women should always be welcomed. But Girlfriends is a Kay Mellor six-parter so, the narrative is ludicrously overstuffed. Sep 6, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… Gabriel Tate Daily Telegraph (UK) Top Critic This increasingly bizarre series has morphed from drama to comedy to utter farce. There were moments of greatness at the beginning of Girlfriends, but recently we have been left staring at our screens perplexed. Sep 6, 2018 | Full Review… Sara Wallis Daily Mirror (UK) This cheerful clarion call is going to find many friends among the baby boomer demographic, and possibly beyond. Jan 29, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Jasper Rees The Arts Desk This rollicking menopausal melodrama boasts an all-star cast and a writer at the height of her powers. Jan 29, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… Christopher Stevens Daily Mail (UK) Think Golden Girls by way of Desperate Housewives and you have Kay Mellor's deliciously dishy Girlfriends, one of the juicier British imports since the original Mistresses. Feb 22, 2018 | Full Review… Matt Roush TV Insider No one could say Girlfriends, the daftest drama of the year (so far) didn't leave us in any doubt about what it wanted: larger suitcases for "dead" bodies. Sep 6, 2018 | Full Review… David Stephenson Daily Express (UK) Girlfriends trades on some standard older-ladies-doing-wacky-things humor, but that's just to put you at ease. Jan 29, 2018 | Full Review… Ken Tucker Yahoo! TV View All Critic Reviews (13) Audience Reviews for Girlfriends: Series 1 There are no featured audience reviews yet. Click the link below to see what others say about Girlfriends: Series 1! See All Audience Reviews News & Features 150 Erotic Movies Ranked worst to best! 2019's Most Anticipated 63 movies coming up this year 200 Essential Movies Chosen by RT staff! 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