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Three Women Episodes Recap — Everything That Happened In The Starz TV Series

Three Women is a 2024 limited TV series that premiered on Starz and, over 10 episodes, tells the stories of four women who are all in the process of radically changing their lives. Limited series and miniseries include some of the best TV shows ever, with the smaller format striking the perfect balance between the tightness of a movie script and the ample room for character and story exploration a TV show can offer. Starz's Three Women premiered in September 2024 with a weekly release of 10 episodes.

The TV series stars Shailene Woodley as Gia, DeWanda Wise as Sloane, Betty Gilpin as Lina, Gabrielle Creevy as Maggie, Blair Underwood as Richard, and John Patrick Amedori as Jack. With a 33% on Rotten Tomatoes, Three Women did not end up being the massive hit that other Starz series like Outlander became. However, with three weaving storylines, viewers should be able to find something they enjoy in the 10-episode show. Based on the 2019 book of the same name by Lisa Taddeo, Three Women intimately explores the moving portrait of women reclaiming their lives.

Episode 1

Three Women

Gia (Shailene Woodley) looking upset in Three Women
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The first episode of Three Women outlines the story going forward. Gia is a novelist struggling to come up with the next idea. To find her next plot, Gia decides to venture across America, where she runs into three women perfect for a novel about American sex. Lina is a married woman struggling to find happiness in her marriage. Sloane is a wealthy mother with a delicate open marriage with her husband. Maggie is a young woman who has lost her way after having an affair with her married English teacher in high school. Gia has got her story.

Episode 2

Cord

Lina (Betty Gilpin) sitting on the bed in a rustic doctor's office for Three Women
Betty Gilpin sitting on the bed in a rustic doctor's office for Three Women

"Cord" focuses on Lina, exploring her marriage. In the episode, Lina's husband Ed (Sean Meehan) is shown not to be solely uninterested in sex, but uninterested in touching Lina in any way. Worse yet, he denies her feelings about the situation, saying they are just in her head. At a crossroads, Lina meets up with a high school friend, Aidan (Austin Stowell), and the pair immediately kiss, despite both being in marriages. Lina shares what she did with her women's group and with Gia, with whom she's gotten closer, and they are all surprisingly in support.

Episode 3

Sloane

Sloane (DeWanda Wise) and Richard (Blair Underwood) smiling and laughing together in Three Women.
Three Women Intimacy Coordinator Interview Featured Image

Episode 3 of Three Women naturally deals with Sloan, as the title suggests. Gia is not in the picture as much as Sloane's family life is more deeply explored. Her mother, Dyan (April Grace), was overly critical during Sloane's childhood and continues to be so, leading to Sloane being hyper-obsessed with working out and creating an eating disorder in Sloane. Sloane and Richard's open marriage gets more strained as Sloane becomes increasingly infatuated with an oyster salesman named Will (Blair Redford), and Richard even admits he's not interested in an open marriage.

Episode 4

Maggie

Maggie (Gabrielle Creevy) looking annoyed, sitting in her yard in Three Women.

Maggie is the focus of Three Women episode 4. The details of Maggie's past are shown and help illustrate how her English teacher Aaron (Jason Ralph) was able to get his claws in her. As a 16-year-old living in Hawaii for a summer, she began a physical romance with a 31-year-old guy. When that ended, the wounded Maggie found comfort in her teacher who groomed her from freshmen year until they consummated the relationship her senior year. Aaron never went to jail, and Maggie struggled afterward. However, the end of the episode sees her committing to becoming a social worker.

Episode 5

Gia

Three Women scene of Jack (John Patrick Amedori) looking at Gia (Shailene Woodley).
Three Women scene of John Patrick Amedori looking at Shailene Woodley

With the three women of Three Women covered, episode 5 covers Gia's story, and she has quite a tragic one. The audience already knows both her parents passed away, but it's also revealed that Gia had a miscarriage. She was previously in a relationship with a man named Jack, but his overeagerness and her reticence made the pairing uncomfortable and difficult. When Jack accidentally got Gia pregnant, Gia was terrified, but losing the baby was even worse. This past combined with the pressures of needing a book fast are all driving Gia to the edges of her sanity.

Episode 6

Climax

Will (Blair Redford) and Sloane (DeWanda Wise) about to kiss in Three Women.

"Climax" goes back to following each of the three women in Three Women, resulting in shorter screen time for each. In Sloane's story, she and Will are growing even closer and the ever-compromising Richard finally allows him into their home. As Will and Sloane begin to hook up, Richard looks on distraught. Lina finally leaves Ed, who's so unaware, he can only laugh in disbelief. Her night with Aidan, however, is romantic and loving, everything she wanted. Maggie's story is much less titillating as she gives her court testimony about her sexual liaisons with Aaron.

Episode 7

Two Women

Aidan (Austin Stowell) about to kiss Lina (Betty Gilpin) in Three Women.

In Three Women episode 7, Jack is now back in Gia's life, and it seems that she is once again pregnant. Jack has dropped everything to move across the country and help her raise the baby. While Gia is still unsure about all this change, Lina is very sure about her decision with Aidan, even dropping her kids off at Gia's so she can rendezvous with the married man. The two friends are having opposite experiences. Gia is unsure about a man ready to be with her, and Lina is certain about a man with other commitments.

Episode 8

Twilight

Maggie (Gabrielle Creevy) talking to Aaron (Jason Knodel) in a classroom in Three Women.

In Three Women episode 8, "Twilight", the extent of Maggie's affair with her teacher, Aaron, is discussed in detail. The reality of the situation is shown to the audience, but the fiction created by Aaron and his lawyers is what the judge hears. This was clearly a case of Aaron grooming the underage Maggie. He even used the vampire film Twilight as a way to explain his feelings for her when they were together. Painted as a homewrecker who seduced an innocent man, the case looks bad for Maggie, who is still reeling from her father's suicide.

Episode 9

Sex On Drugs

Sloane (DeWanda Wise) in red dress on outside party in Three Women
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"Sex on Drugs" begins a few months after episode 7, and Gia is annoyed with Sloane for not committing to her book yet. A much more pregnant Gia catches up with Sloane, who tells her about her life. Sloane's feelings for Will are only growing more intense, and her friendship with Will's girlfriend, Lily (Lola Kirke), only complicates matters. To make things work, Sloane suggests a foursome between everyone, and with psychedelic mushrooms involved, things get messy. People get jealous, relationships get strained, and Richard forgets to wear a condom with Lily.

Episode 10

Her Name

The Three Women finale, "Her Name", mostly ties up the loose ends of the story. Maggie told her story and bravely confirmed with Gia that she could use it. While some still blame her, she now has a more confident outlook on life, and a chance meeting with a guy her age on an airplane suggests she's ready for a healthy relationship. Sloane finally confronts her mother about her bad parenting and reconciles with Richard, seemingly coming to terms with her love for him.

Lina's story ends with her realizing that her infatuation with Aidan is unhealthy, and she determines to become a more present mother to her son, Ryan (Finn Brown). Her relationship with Aidan is left up in the air. Gia's story is the most complicated. She does give birth to a healthy baby, but how Jack will figure into her story remains a question mark. Three Women was 10 episodes of probing looks at the sex lives of women in modern America, in all its shapes and forms, and like in real life, not everything ends with a tidy bow.

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Three Women
TV-MA
Drama
Release Date
2023 - 2024-00-00
Network
Starz

Cast

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    Betty Gilpin
  • Headshot Of DeWanda Wise
    DeWanda Wise
  • Headshot of Shailene Woodley
    Shailene Woodley
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    Blair Underwood

"Three Women" follows the intertwined lives of Sloane, Lina, and Maggie, each facing unique challenges in their personal and romantic lives. Sloane, a successful businesswoman, explores the boundaries of her open marriage. Lina, stuck in a passionless marriage, finds herself in a transformative affair. Maggie, a young student, navigates the repercussions of a controversial relationship with her teacher.

Creator(s)
Lisa Taddeo
Seasons
1

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