Girlfriends is a British comedy-drama television series, first broadcast on ITV on 3 January 2018.
It follows the lives of three middle-aged women who have been friends since their teenage years.
The series was written, created and directed by Kay Mellor.
The website's critical consensus reads, "Girlfriends offers an honest -- and frequently hilarious -- look at a time of life too often marginalized on TV, with wonderfully well-acted results.
"[2] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the season a score of 87 out of 100 based on 4 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".