Three women on a trip to Palma started talking about the parts of life people tend to edit out. The pressure of showing up for everyone else. The loneliness that can exist even when everything around you looks full. The friendships that hold women together through all of it.

Episode 1 centres on friendship. The friendships built in voice notes and kitchen conversations and late-night calls. The ones where someone says the thing nobody else will because they know you well enough to say it and love you enough to mean it.

This episode is honest in ways that surprised everyone in the room, including the women having the conversation. It moves between laughter and real emotion, and at several points during filming, the cameras stopped being visible entirely.

Girlfriends is produced by Violet Simon, a media and production company centring women's stories. Every episode is filmed, produced and distributed with full creative control.