Sophia In Girlboss

Is here and the new Netflix series is getting as much scrutiny as the Girlboss it’s inspired by, controversial Nasty Gal creator Sophia Amoruso. Our fictional Sophia (Britt Robertson) has already been called cartoonishly brash, a classic asshole genius, and a manic-pixie-jackass. All of this is true. But, if you stick around through all of season 1’s 13 episodes, you’ll realize there’s a lot more going on underneath all that bluster and vintage clothing.

When we first meet Sophia in Girlboss, she’s simply a caricature of everything we’re told is wrong with millennials, and then some. She’s self-obsessed, always late, and has a crippling case of Peter Pan Syndrome. On top of all of that, she also steals, has a misplaced sense of superiority, and is rude in ways that hint she’s never spoken to another human being.

Then, episode 4, Ladyshopper99, happens. This is the moment we see Sophia go from a sketch of countless awful qualities held together by rocker-chic duds, to a deeply sad young woman with a real history. A big part of that is thanks to a dinner conversation between Sophia, her artist friend Nathan (Cole Escola), and his mom (Nicole Sullivan). Nathan and his mom couldn’t have a closer relationship, which finally gets Sophia to open up about her own family, which includes an MIA mother and a (sometimes understandably) critical dad.

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, she explains, starting to get a far-off look in her eyes. I have this eBay thing, which I think is pretty cool. But, I know that [my dad] would just find a way to make it seem like I was doing it all wrong. I’m not even gonna mention it to him until I can buy…really everything that Barbie has.

Then, Nathan’s mom gives Sophia the kind of hug that nearly brings tears to her eyes. It looks like the first time the budding fashion mogul has received any maternal love in years. That’s when we realize Sophia is still haunted by demons from her childhood. She doesn’t act like a monster because she’s a natural Garbage Person as she’s called later in Girlboss; she’s thick-skinned because she still feels abandoned.

This plot point becomes even more obvious when Sophia goes nuclear and tells her best friend Annie (Ellie Reed) she’s essentially done nothing to make Nasty Girl the nascent success it is. Of course that’s a lie — Annie does all the hair and makeup for the eBay photos and essentially manages the business — but our resident narcissistic girlboss can’t see that. Sophia was deserted once by someone she loves, so she’s convinced herself she doesn’t need anyone else, that she's a one woman army. Again, this is totally incorrect.

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Is able to start reversing Sophia’s most self-destructive tendencies is to go right to the source. For the Christmas episode, Garbage Person, Sophia eventually tracks down her mom Kathleen (Alice Ripley), who’s a down-on-her-luck aging actress. Despite the mother-daughter pair’s longtime emotional and physical distance, they have the same scream-first, apologize-never attitude. While Sophia has been celebrating this behavior for the entirety of the series, her mom acts as a Ghost Of Christmas Future, revealing the sad, lonely life her daughter could have if she doesn’t get her act together. It’s no surprise Kathleen’s troupe is performing

When Sophia returns to San Francisco she's not a totally new person, but she finally has enough humility to ask Annie to forgive her. So, yes, Sophia is sometimes a manic-pixie jackass. But she's also the kind of nasty gal you'll end up rooting for if you're paying attention.

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Granted, it’s her phrase and, accordingly, should be hers to define. In 2014, Amoruso published #Girlboss, a self-help book-slash-memoir about the launch of her fashion brand Nasty Gal. Nasty Gal was an eBay store that became an e-commerce beast, selling clothes inspired by celebrities including the Olsen twins, Sienna Miller and Kate Moss, and pulling in revenues of almost $28m in 2011. The New York Times dubbed Amoruso a “Cinderella of tech”; she appeared on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and was named one of its richest self-made women. Then, in November 2016, she filed for bankruptcy. “It was a very slow face plant, ” she says, drily.

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Now the story has resurged via Netflix, which has fictionalised #Girlboss in a series of the same name (minus the hashtag). The first season covers the genesis of Nasty Gal. Its protagonist – based loosely on a 23-year old Amoruso – is unlikable and entitled: in the pilot, she gets sacked from her job in a shoe shop after eating her boss’s lunch. She is, predictably, a hot mess, and the opening scene has the usual visual and sonic tells of the bad girl: Suzi Quatro on the stereo, a car key with a disembodied Barbie head keyring. Naturally, fictional Amoruso is wearing a vest, jean shorts and knee-high boots. Watching things unfold, you get the feeling that this isn’t a protagonist whom the audience is supposed to side with entirely; by way of explanation (and perhaps defence) Britt Roberston, who plays her, has said that the character “can’t make her way in life because nobody understands her story or gets who she is”.

Watching a fictionalised version of her life, Amoruso says, “was “crazy”. How did she feel about how she was characterised? “It portrays a 23-year-old, ” she says firmly. “There are things that are a lot like me at that age, and things that are exaggerated. It was never the task to recreate me.” She hopes the series will make people laugh, though presumably, for her, it is discomfiting viewing. “One part that really gets me is episode 13. We’ve just launched the website and we’re having the party. The camera pans in on my character and you see that she’s alone. That’s a feeling that I’ve experienced a lot. When you are the founder, you’re not everyone’s friend. You’re not a peer.”

The series has sparked a testy conversation around Amoruso, and how her stories (real and fictionalised) represent modern feminism. This puts her in quite a strange position, given that she says she is a feminist but that the book is

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