Last night I spent 6.5 hours binge watching the new Netflix Original Series, Girlboss. Prior to watching it, I read a couple of reviews because as a young woman looking up to Sophia Amoruso, I wanted to see what nasty things people had to say about her. And I was not disappointed.
, is an inspiring tale of an authority-challenging, scrappy twenty-something trying to figure out life, love, and how to make rent. It’s a dramatic comedy filled with humorous takes on terrible situations featuring Britt Robertson. Ru Paul makes comedic appearances, and the most moving episode was that of the chat room: a brilliant portrayal of Internet connections and bullying.
Doesn’t create a likable character with a rough life for you to root for. That’s the whole point. Sophia was the only one cheering for herself at this time in her life (plus her BFF in the show) and beat the odds stacked against her.
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Is an entertaining watch for young women loosely based on a true story. I don’t know why anyone else would expect something different, but this is it. And it’s great.
The first review I read was published on Mashable. By a man. I don’t know if you know this, but men are not the target audience for
It doesn’t matter that Sophia isn’t likable! That’s the whole point! She’s scrappy, struggled, was a millennial brat, and the show stays true to that instead of betraying her person for the sake of a happier storyline.
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Again, for those in the back, WOMEN DON’T HAVE TO BE LIKABLE. I’m not particularly likable either, and I’m proud. My goals in life lay outside of how others perceive me.
This reviewer’s other complaints stemmed from Nasty Gal selling to BooHoo after bankruptcy this past November, claiming that Nasty Gal was a failure and no longer relevant. THIS IS WRONG. Nasty Gal digitally paved the way for E-Businesses like BooHoo to thrive and be able to buy Nasty Gal. But more on that in a minute.
Another review was published on Dazed by a woman who hasn’t even watched the show. Her biggest issue was with the mismanagement that Nasty Gal endured in its later years, and how that means Sophia’s story isn’t meant to be told.
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On Netflix only covers the first two years of building Nasty Gal! Which they would have known if they took any time to even research it prior to writing their shit-on-Sophia piece. Yes,
Is a loose retelling with embellishment for entertainment purposes, but it is also an incredibly inspiring story for young struggling women like me.
SECOND. Accomplished women are held to an insanely high degree of perfection expectations. It’s fucking bullshit. Sophia Amoruso built a multi-million dollar company from nothing with no prior business education. Of course she was going to fuck up! That’s what people do. Everyone makes mistakes. Just because Sophia achieved a lot in a short amount of time doesn’t mean she’s not allowed to make mistakes. Plenty of fuck ups were shown in the Netflix rendition of Sophia’s story. The review claims that we probably won’t see the dirty realities of Nasty Gal (but the author wouldn’t know would she? She didn’t watch it prior to writing her review).
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THIRD. Nasty Gal had poor business practices, but they were not the actions of Sophia alone. So stop tying her to the stake already.
Nasty Gal sold to BooHoo in November 2016 after rounds of lay offs and bankruptcy, but it was not a failure. Nasty Gal revolutionized the e-commerce game. That’s not failure, that’s pioneering.
Sophia made the mistakes first, took the spotlight and the heat for all of this, even after stepping down as the CEO of Nasty Gal three years ago, and STILL shares her stories and her fuck ups for women like me. Sophia Amoruso has never hidden her flaws. She has openly admitted that she wishes she were more educated. She talks about her fuck ups for what they are, lessons. She learned from her mistakes, and was able to turn her inspiring story into a successful Netflix show, earning her even more recognition. So everyone else’s negative opinions are irrelevant if you ask me. She’s still hustling, the definition of a Girlboss.
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PS. Our President has bankrupted more than one company and was giving a starting loan in his elite life of $1, 000, 000 and we elected him President after he had his own reality show. Stop shitting on accomplished women already.It’s meant to be a funny tale of a woman hustling her way to the top of the fashion business – but you’ll never side with the overindulged star of this Netflix drama
Why you’ll love it: If you watch Girlboss and love it, I want you to get help. It is a “comedy” loosely based on the autobiography of startup millionaire Sophia Amoruso who made her fortune a decade ago (when this is set) with her vintage fashion brand, Nasty Gal. They have since filed for bankruptcy.
It all starts with a girl in a bedroom in San Francisco, wishing she could opt out of adulthood and just please herself all day. We meet her pushing a clapped-out car up a hill while wearing an outfit barely covering her butt-cheeks. If real Sophia is anything like fictional Sophia (played by the otherwise excellent Britt Robertson, the spunky teen from Tomorrowland) then she deserves none of her success and should immediately hand over every cent to charity for crimes against humanity.
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Fictional Sophia is a walking selfie, whining about having to work for a living. She says “love you in case I die!” whenever she bids farewell to her best friend. And she inexplicably steals food out of dumpsters despite having a dad who offers to help her out financially. It’s a show which fully mistakes being an overindulged horror-show for being an assertive millennial role model.
According to show creator and writer Kay Cannon, a Girlboss is “opinionated, confident, feisty” and, you know, strong or something. She and her co-producers (of whom Charlize Theron is one) are trying to make Girlboss the new Girl Power: the same vapid, non-specific, something-to-do-with-feminism-in-hot pants fluff but with added narcissism and less of a sense of humour.
Girlboss is so unrelentingly tone-deaf to the human condition it’s hard to know where to start. It purports to be not only Sophia’s story but a rallying cry to dyspeptic, wasteful goons everywhere who think the world owes them a lovely time with zero input or effort expended.
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The cry is: do what you like and figure it all out as you go along because you’re probably fabulous. Sophia’s epiphany here isn’t one of self-knowledge. She just finds an expensive jacket going cheap in a thrift store, sells it on eBay for hundreds, and cries. Money makes her cry. It’s everything wrong with the world today, distilled into a single, selfish tear.
She has no romance in her heart because all that’s at stake is her success. Trying to drag a romantic subplot over the top of it only serves to highlight her dreadfulness further, rather than showing her vulnerability. When Sophia has a sleepover with a boy and he remarks afterwards that he doesn’t know why, but he likes her, she smirks back, “You’ll figure it out, ” before forcing him to make ocean sounds to help her sleep. She is unrootable-for.
An impressive supporting cast including RuPaul Charles as Sophia’s pot-smoking neighbour and Dean Norris from Breaking Bad as her concerned dad, cannot help this hammeringly unfunny script.
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“Adulthood is where dreams go to die, ” whinges Sophia to a random old woman on a park bench who she sometimes uses as a sounding board. Girlboss is a show that could do with a grown-up in charge, because these kids have made a real mess of it.
Stand-out episode: Watch the tension headache that is episode one and tell me if you made it any further. I liked episode 13 best when it ended.
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