For example, is one of my favorites. I like Jimmy's snarkiness, Gretchen's instability, their overall messed up relationship, their Sunday Funday squad, etc. I even tolerated Netflix's
Loosely based on the best-selling book by Nasty Gal herself Sophia Amoruso, seemed up my alley. A Millennial who made a fortune despite not wanting to really do any work? Sign me up!
She's rude (even when she's at fault), she's lazy (she doesn't want the responsibility that comes with a real job and is constantly messing up at her job that pays her) and she's reckless (always!).
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I don't want to root for Sophia ever: Not during Episode 1, not during Episode 13, not when I'm browsing through articles about Amoruso's rise or Nasty Gal's downfall.
The first time we see Sophia, she is having car troubles and inconveniently stuck on a San Francisco hill. She gets annoyed at the trolly behind her for telling her to move her car out of the way. Because of course it's the trolly's fault she's stuck on a hill. She eventually gets out of her car and pushes it up.
Later, we see Sophia sitting on a bench chatting with an old lady -- a recurring character -- about all her problems. Cue the older woman saying your generation is so fucked up.
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The pilot doesn't get much better. She hooks up with a drummer (eventually her bf), is late to work, gets fired (she browses eBay her entire shift and eats her boss' sandwich) and then rips off a vintage shop owner by getting a jacket for $9 instead of $12.
There's a long montage -- with rock music playing in the background -- of Sophia walking through the streets of SF with the new jacket on. She steals a carpet, hunts through a dumpster for a bagel and goes to the park to lie on the carpet and eat the bagel. All in her nice, very hip vintage jacket.
The pilot ends with Sophia deciding that she can probably sell her jacket on eBay if she poses in it with the rug as her backdrop. It starts going for hundreds -- and she has an epiphany. This can be her job.
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There you have it: The beginning of Nasty Gal in pilot form. It's anti-climactic and actually quite infuriating to watch. You don't want to root for her to sell the jacket because she just spent all day doing nothing worthy of being praised. She thrives on not having to work hard to get the rewards that most people
I spent the whole episode wondering if I'm supposed to like this show because I'm a millennial female, while also fearing that non-millennials who watch it will think that all millennials act this entitled all the time.
It's only in the final episode that we see Sophia be somewhat of a tolerable human being. She thanks the people who supported her at Nasty Gal's launch party and confronts her boyfriend in an emotional conversation.
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It should be noted that IRL, Amoruso -- now 32, aka the tail end of the millennial generation -- is not the most liked person. She did in fact start Nasty Gal after selling vintage clothes on eBay, developed a following with the #GirlBos
But the real Nasty Gal and the show both have their problems. Nasty Gal filed for bankruptcy in November, and many blamed Amoruso's poor management skills. The company went through two rounds of layoffs in a two-year period, and former employees sued the company alleging the site fired women when they became pregnant.
If you get something out of watching yet another entitled millennial faking it 'til they're making it -- or if you love the #girlboss brand -- enjoy. Otherwise, shop elsewhere.
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Saba was a Los Angeles-based reporter who covers all things digital entertainment, including YouTube, streaming services and digital influencers. Prior to that, she spent two years at the Los Angeles Times covering entertainment for the Calendar and Company Town sections. Saba grew up in Santa Monica and graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in journalism and B.A. in political science. When not reporting, she is usually binge watching shows online or looking for new coffee shops to frequent.
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— starring Britt Robertson as flaky fashionista Sophia Marlowe — fall short of expectations. While the title may draw viewers who think the show is a journey through feminist theory in practice,
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’s premise of millennial hipster Sophia’s evolution from unlikeable loser to even-more-unlikeable purveyor of vintage fashion focuses less on feminist action and more on how one bored, privileged twenty-something, through luck and divine providence, falls up into niche business success based on a skill set of knowing little and demanding everything.
Billed as a comedy, the biggest laughs come from the well-cast supporting characters, whose roles as quirky friends and acquaintances color Sophia’s experience as a broke girl in tech-boom San Francisco. Actors such as RuPaul, Norm MacDonald, Jim Rash, and Melanie Lynskey shine as Sophia’s sassy neighbor, former boss, weird coworker, and perpetually put-out retail competition, respectively. The principal characters, however, are bland at best and unforgivably obnoxious at worst. But where a slicker satire might use the disagreeable aspects of these characters to illustrate a viewpoint on millennial culture,
Uses hackneyed concepts and staid responses (Is it a date? Is it not a date? Oh no!) to force conflict rather than allowing the characters to knead through hardships based on a model either absurd or realistic. Annie, Sophia’s bestie, is a pouty, daft minion; Shane, Sophia’s boy-toy, is a noncommittal doormat; and Sophia is so unpleasant and lacking in redeeming self-awareness that it’s difficult to imagine any viewers of any demographic rooting for her to succeed.
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, Sophia Amoruso’s best-selling autobiography. Yet the potential charm of a coming-of-age story about a young woman who finds purpose (and income) in an online vintage clothing retail business based in San Francisco is undercut by the flavorless illustration of a vibrant city and its eccentric residents. In
, San Francisco could be Anytown, U.S.A. And the vintage fashion, which could be a unique aspect of the show, is barely treated as anything more than a basket of props to make Sophia look busy based on the amount of product bloat she’s stuffed into her apartment, demanding the question of what this show is about if it isn’t about the main character’s relationship with her job. In place of narrative about a driven, albeit abusive, young woman pushing her vintage fashion brand,
Has plenty of moments in which Sophia complains about how much it sucks to be an adult. When the character cannot find the motivation to invest in her own journey (other than
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Has been cancelled after one 13-episode cycle. With a lackluster depiction of fashion and a lazy representation of the lean-around generation and millennial culture,
Is neither about a girl nor a boss — it’s about a full-grown woman who figures out a way to work for herself, which seems less like an earned perk of inventing her own career and more of a general necessity given that Sophia’s lack of work ethic, shoddy social skills, and broad-spectrum sense of malaise and entitlement render her incapable of holding down a job working for anyone else.
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