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Calls itself a loose retelling of the early life of Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso, played by Britt Robertson as the fictionalized Sophia Marlowe. The show's first season deals with the rise of Amoruso's multi-million dollar fashion empire, but it also includes a few other story lines featuring other characters that were able to shape her story, like Annie, her best friend. But is Annie from Girlboss based on a real person? Since it's made very clear at the beginning of every episode that the show is a real loose retelling of Amoruso's life, there's a chance that Annie might not be based on a real person.

Is based on Amoruso, there's no word that Annie could have a real-life counterpart. Amoruso's actual first employee at Nasty Gal was Christina Ferrucci, who she hired on Craigslist, and she could be the inspiration for Annie, reported Racked. According to Deadline's character description of Annie, she's a character who is a bit of a wild woman and the life of any party. In the series, viewers get to know Annie as Sophia's best friend, who she met after being detained at a Dodgers game. This was the catalyst for the beginning of their friendship, and by the time Sophia started her business, Annie was basically her right-hand man, helping fill many of her orders and eventually planning her website's launch party.

Shows that the she and Sophia had been friends years before she began helping out with Nasty Gal. As we learn in Top 8, she once saved her from being attacked by a gang of baseball fans at the Dodgers game they met at, broke up a fight between Sophia and a cocktail waitress once upon a time, and even hitched a ride with a truck driver when the duo hitchhiked to Coachella. As far as the show's storyline goes, it's clear that Sophia wouldn't have necessarily ended the season on such a high note had it not been for all the times that Annie had been there for her.

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Even if Annie isn't based on a real person, it definitely doesn't take away from the hilarity that we get from watching Annie and Sophia's friendship play out on screen.

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. They crack jokes! Their lines aren't bloated with expository dialogue! They dance around the fringe, having a blast, while the main character keeps up narrative appearances.

Netflix's Girlboss, which premiered April 21, isn't a perfect show, but it's flawless in this regard: The sidekick is awesome. Annie, played by a perky Ellie Reed, is the real MVP here, and she ultimately redeems the series.

First off, let me state that by using the word sidekick, I don't mean any offense. Annie is categorically a sidekick, and that by no means diminishes her importance. As I said, to me sidekicks are of the

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Played by Britt Robertson, Annie is fairly average as far as second bananas go. She's an aspiring makeup artist. She's dating the local bartender, Dax (Alphonso McAuley). She and Sophia have a bestie catchphrase: Love you in case I die! Oh, and she really has the hots for Sophia's dad, played by Dean Norris, whom I know exclusively as Hank from

It helps that Sophia Marlowe is so goddamn annoying. The show itself is likable; Sophia is decidedly not. In the first episode, she steals a carpet, mocks her boss, and hollers at more than a few pedestrians. Like a lot of main characters these days — Hannah Horvath, we're looking at you — Sophia isn't meant to be morally upstanding or appealing at all. This is deliberate. Sophia is a Girlboss! Who said Girlbosses had to be sparkly angels of delight? No one. By contrast, though, Annie is minty fresh. The premiere is airless until she shows up, cackling about the untimely death of Peter Jennings and mixing Kahlua with Coke. (She garnishes this interesting mix with an olive. Classic quirky move.)

Succeeds because it treats Annie with respect. The show really picks up in episode 5, titled Top 8. The concept is silly and purposefully dated: Annie wants to be in Sophia's Myspace Top 8. Nostalgia-induced humor aside, the episode is the most poignant because it forces Sophia to reckon with the world around her. Put plainly, our Girlboss is unlikeable because she's self-absorbed. She's self-reliant and individualistic to a fault, sneering at all those who try to help.

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You think I'm overreacting, and that sucks, Annie spits on her way out. And it sucks that I'm not in your Top 8. And you know what sucks most of all is that you don't seem to get any of this. Whole thing sucks. It sucks.

The episode then takes us on a tour of their friendship. It turns out, Annie's been in the business of saving Sophia's ass for years. They meet in lockup, where Annie rescues Sophia from a gang of zealous baseball fans. When Sophia gets in a spat with a cocktail waitress, it's Annie who materializes to break the tension and toss drink waivers at the crowd. And when the two really sink their teeth into a genuine BFF fight on the way to Coachella, Annie's the one who crawls back to a sobbing Sophia. The gist of the montage is, if Annie weren't around, Sophia wouldn't be, either.

The same goes with the whole Girlboss ethos. Sophia Marlowe, based on the entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso, starts the clothing company Nasty Gal over the course of the series. The title Girlboss implies a sort of singular success — i.e., lone girl becomes a boss and it's her against the world. But Sophia Marlowe couldn't have launched Nasty Gal without Annie. A later episode details Annie's essential role in the company, proving that the Girlboss can't be a lone wolf. Similarly,

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Wouldn't have launched without Ellie Reed or Annie the character. Where Britt Robertson is sullen and sour, hiding behind blunt fringe, Ellie Reed brings toothy smiles and an appealing outlook.

Interestingly, the only episode not to feature Reed is titled Garbage Person, which is exactly what Sophia is without her best friend. Annie is the best sort of sidekick. She balances the show's solipsistic protagonist with an unwavering devotion to joy and generosity. She's the anti-Girlboss, and she saves the series from being a droning catalogue of one woman's achievements.

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