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? YAS! Sounds like a story about a kick-ass female entrepreneur who manages to make it big on the career ladder against all odds. A feminist’s dream. A real rags to riches story. Empowering. Inspiring. Weeeeeeell, not quite. And everyone has been calling it out.

The show is based on the life - and subsequent ‘femtrepeneur’ memoir - of Sophia Amoruso, the founder and owner of online fashion brand Nasty Gal. The portrayal of Sophia in the show is an exaggeration of her IRL story and persona.

In the show, Sophia Marlowe (standard change of name for the purpose of this on screen endeavour) starts off as a girl just trying to make a buck on eBay by selling clothes she finds in vintage stores and she’s actually alright. When she manages to sell her first jacket for a massive profit, you find yourself cheering for her. But as the show goes on, you actually low-key start caring less and less about her success and start worrying more and more about who she’s taking down to make it to the top.

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In short, Sophia is kind of a massive dick. She dumps on EVERRRYYOOONEEEE. Her best friend. Her “un-official” boyfriend. Her online competitors. She steals. She’s completely self-obsessed and even the character herself admits in one of the later episodes that she’s a “garbage person.”

And to be honest, half the internet else thinks so too. I hate this Sophia in Girl Boss. — Madam BeastMode (@MadamBitchesa) May 11, 2017

I put on Girlboss in the bg of doing homework and i already hate the main character — mimstagram (@koalateus) May 2, 2017

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I've started watching Girl Boss and I hate the main girl so much it paaaaains me — Amy Bullock (@amyazing6) May 1, 2017

Still rooting for sophia to fail. selfish, ungrateful, privileged white girl. on ep 10 and i still hate her. #GirlBoss — Eve Rizza Katalbas (@evekatalbas) May 1, 2017

I'm watching girlboss and I fuckin hate the main character but rupaul is great in it — shelbones (@ShelbyGloom) May 1, 2017

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Not *everyone* hates her of course, but apparently, according to Britt Robertson who plays Sophia, we’re actually MEANT to feel that way about her.

When asked about the backlash against her character, Robertson told Bustle: “I think that's sort of the point to the show, to be honest with you because she is [unlikable], it's a part of what the story is. She can't make her way in life because nobody understands her story or gets who she is. She's not a traditional female heroine. But, you know, I think it's all fair. You can feel however you want to feel about the character.

To be fair to Sophia, we’re all a bit sh*tty and self-centred at the age of 23. Dare I say it, but there’s probably a bit of Sophia in all of us. (Ew... lol)

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Listen to the #Podcast with Hey Violet right here or subscribe for free on iTunes to get new episodes sent straight to your phone every Friday.Netflix has produced a steady stream of original series, many of which have reaped critical acclaim and enthusiasm from binge-viewing audiences. Netflix does not, however, have the Midas touch when it comes to content, as some of their offerings, including the disappointing

— 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,

’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.

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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.

, 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

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, 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

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,

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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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