Is the latest Netflix series to receive the kiss of death, in the form of a cancellation notice. After just one season the series joins a small-yet-growing group of streaming experiments that didn't quite land for one reason or another.
Confirmation of the cancellation came via Variety, with Sophia Amoruso -- the American entrepreneur whose life story served as the series foundation -- also addressing the news on Saturday in an Instagram Story.
So that Netflix series about my life got canceled, Amoruso wrote. While I’m proud of the work we did, I’m looking forward to controlling my narrative from here on out. It was a good show, and I was privileged to work with incredible talent, but living my life as a caricature was hard even if only for two months.
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She also addressed the show's caustic portrayal of her fictional self, as well as an on screen break-up -- spurred by a TV boyfriend's cheating -- that many read as a parallel to her IRL 2016 divorce.
Yes, I can be difficult. No, I’m not a dick. No, someone named Shane never cheated on me. It will be nice to someday tell the story of what’s happened in the last few years. [People] read the headline, not the correction, I’ve learned.
Is only the latest sign that Netflix is growing up as a content creator. The streaming service has launched an impressive number of original efforts over the past several years, but only recently has the company shown an increasing commitment to pulling the plug on ideas that aren't perceived to be working.
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Were shown the door -- the former after just one season and the latter after two -- in May and June, respectively.
Controversy followed the most recent cancellations. The company's detractors wondered why two series with admittedly mixed reviews were going away while critically reviled series' like Flaked and Fuller House were allowed to carry on.
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The Wing opened its first all-female members’ club space in Manhattan in 2016, growing to 11 locations serving 10, 000 members in the US and the UK. If you were visiting The Wing, you could wear your dress from Reformation, fresh from its 2012 relaunch, singing sweetly about its ethical manufacturing practices. That dress was possibly first spotted on one of many female-focused websites that blended fashion with feminism and mental health advice –
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Each of those companies had a charismatic female founder. Even if you weren’t a customer, these women were suddenly everywhere, styled and smiling and telling their success stories. The naysayers mostly focused on price: these websites were free to read, but everything else required a significant disposable income. Was it really inclusive? But these comments were eclipsed by the overall rosy glow. Here was the representation we’d all been clamouring for.
Of the moment the company launched its first space, when it still looked like Hillary Clinton would be the 45th US president.
Clinton wasn’t the only woman forced to concede a powerful position. In one week of last June, as the Black Lives Matter movement gathered more strength, Gelman stepped down from her role, publicly apologising for ‘leadership mistakes’, as did
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Christene Barberich, who wrote on Instagram: ‘I’ve read and taken in the raw and personal accounts of Black women and women of colour regarding their experiences inside our company. What’s clear […] is that R29 has to change.’
Reformation’s Yael Aflalo, and Jen Gotch of clothing company Ban.do, resigned around the same time, for similar reasons. In the same month, Leandra Medine Cohen moved away from
, issuing an Instagram mea culpa for ‘failing to deliver’ on her mission. And Shannon Spanhake left Cleo, a company designed to help working parents, when it was revealed she’d fabricated her professional background, taken six years off her age and created a toxic workplace.
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Exposed, again, a ‘toxic workplace’ and ‘a culture of intimidation and constant surveillance’. (She later returned as co-CEO before announcing in July that she would step down again.)
Men in senior positions also stepped down in 2020. Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian – often found cheering as his wife Serena Williams wins tennis games – left his company’s board so he could be replaced by a non-white board member. CrossFit’s Greg Glassman resigned after saying that he wouldn’t mourn for George Floyd. Adam Rapoport, editor-in-chief of US magazine
, went after staff spoke out about discrimination and a picture circulated of Rapoport and his girlfriend, both white, dressed as stereotypical Puerto Ricans for a fancy-dress party.
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But, Rapoport aside, male resignations attracted much less attention. Meanwhile, the death of the girl boss was analysed in countless articles. Sometimes the focus was collective, sometimes on individual companies.
Screenshots of Steph Korey’s demands on staff circulated on Twitter. Gelman issued an apology on Instagram. The general tone of the cultural response was one of shocked glee, as if each founder was Regina George and the buses just kept on coming.
It’s also worth noting wild disproportions behind these numbers – simply, there are far fewer women with senior positions to resign from. In the US, where these changes took place, only 14% of startups have a female CEO. In the UK, female-founded companies secured just 16% of equity deals provided by venture capital in 2018. A US study of the same year published in the
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Showed that female CEOs were far more likely to be fired than their male counterparts, even if the company was performing well.
Should 2020’s fallen women have stayed in their roles? Probably not. Did they deserve to pick up a disproportionate amount of attention for their failures? That’s where it gets complicated…
The women in question are alleged to have behaved badly or, at the very least, thoughtlessly. There is a real need to address inequality and damaging work cultures. But the invisible hand of sexism was also present, as were the usual questions about money: who has it and who doesn’t, and what that means. So, how does this break down?
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First, there was betrayal. Every brand where the female CEO stepped down traded on their ethics, either explicitly, such as The Wing, or implicitly, as Away did. They were supposedly feminist companies run by supposedly feminist women and, between them, they promised everything from ethical supply chains to mental-health support.
‘There’s a metaphor used in marketing. It’s called brand-as-person, ’ says Cleopatra Veloutsou, professor of brand management at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. ‘We give brands a character in the same way that we do with humans, ascribing a social class, values and so on. There’s also recent research that shows, for firms based around one entrepreneur, the company will take on their personality: they will make decisions as though they were the brand, so the brand then becomes consistent with the characteristics that person has. As consumers we look for brands that share our values. They form part of our emotional life.’
So, when brands fail to live up to the ethical standards that first made them appealing, we feel betrayed in the same way we would if a friend lied to us.
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‘There’s a very real emotional disappointment when we feel that we’ve been sold a line, ’ says Catherine Connors, a California-based serial entrepreneur, currently the League of Badass Women CEO. ‘I may be overstating it, but part of the reason this [feminist] marketing works is that we really want to hear it, to hear that we can do it, can chase our dreams, because we haven’t been hearing it for –
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