Review Of Girlboss On Netflix

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.

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Girlboss fits perfectly into Netflix’s ever-growing library of edgy original content. The great thing about the online network is that they rarely impose restrictions on a production and let the creative team tell the story they want to tell. That frees up everyone involved to focus on quality content and storytelling without the worry of strict televised standards and practices. If the broadcast networks are ever going to be able to truly keep up with the budding and evolving online networks they need to start taking a hard look at why online streaming shows are becoming so popular and stealing away their former content creators as well as their consumers. It’s shows like Girlboss that perfectly highlight this.

Without crazy broadcast restrictions, the show was free to be more real. Meaning that the characters were allowed to talk about sex, have sex, and curse as the story dictated without ever having to pull it back. The sex scenes were, to be frank, perfect. There was nothing graphic about them and they even poked fun at the fact that television sex scenes seem to always end with the woman still in her bra. It’s the great big elephant in the room that online commentators seem to always pick up on, so it was refreshing to see the show stare the elephant in the face and show it who was boss.

Then there is the cursing which was quite on point. If someone doesn’t like cursing then this is certainly not the show for them. For most all other viewers who curse as part of their standard vocabulary then it’s very normal. In fact, it’s quite refreshing for a show to just be able to say whatever the hell it wants. Of particular note is that the show never used cursing just for the fun of it. The cursing flowed into the scenes and never felt forced or out of place. This is yet another major perk to being distributed online.

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During a press panel, it was revealed that this show was originally pitched to some broadcast network, but they wanted to impose crazy restrictions and changes. So, instead of compromising, they decided to bring the show to Netflix where it was welcomed with open arms. Every person who watches and enjoys this show should be extremely grateful for how hard Charlize Theron (Executive Producer) and Kay Cannon (Creator) along with their creative team worked to find Girlboss the right home. Netflix and this show were meant to be united in the creation of this uniquely wonderful dramedy.

At the very heart of this show is its lead, Britt Robertson, as Sophia. There is no better performer to whom the producers have entrusted this sassy sarcastic and complex character. Robertson works steadily and that’s because she’s mastered not only her dramatic craft but her comedic timing as well. It’s that perfect marriage of skills that made her the ideal lead for this show. Girlboss takes its comedic moments straight from real life events that could happen to almost anyone. One can only laugh at those genuine moments of ridiculousness. This isn’t slapstick comedy or even straight forward laugh out loud comedy, this is real, gritty comedy that requires a whole different skill set to pull off. It’s a skill set that Robertson has been known for ever since she first appeared on the short-lived Swingtown and that has followed her onto all of her bigger projects like Life UneXpected, The Secret Circle, and Under the Dome not to mention a whole array of movies. She brings an infectious energy that makes her character so intriguing and the show so addictive.

Even though she’s the heart of the show they have surrounded her with a ridiculously talented supporting cast who help make Girlboss what it is. Ellie Reed (Annie) is probably the biggest surprise of the show. She has played several roles, but this is certainly her biggest part to date, and she is phenomenal. Not only does she have an extraordinary chemistry with Robertson, but she can also juggle the comedy and drama with an ease equal to her more established co-star. Sophia is the heart of the show and Annie is Sophia’s heart, which is shown every time Sophia does something stupid to hurt her best friend, only to fall apart without her. This is just the start of great things for Reed who will almost certainly be on the brink of stardom following the airing of this series.

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The show covered a lot of ground as it spanned nearly two years in just thirteen episodes. That’s a lot to cover, but it allowed the season to have a really nice organic flow. To add to that, in episode 5, they jumped all the way back to 2001 to show where Sophia and Annie’s friendship began. And of course, it would include boob flashing and stealing from a kid because that’s just who these two are. They were

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