A few weeks later, and we’ve finally finished binge watching Girlboss. Why did it take so long? Well, let’s just say it’s not exactly binge worthy at the beginning; it starts off a bit slow. But, a few episodes in and you’ll find yourself eventually finishing up the whole series.
The 13-episode series launched back in April and it’s just one of the many adaptations of a successful person’s life. In this case, we’re centered on Sophia Amoruso who based the series off her 2014 book, #Girlboss. We’re constantly reminded that this is loosely based off her real life. “Real loose.” And, after watching the shenanigans that go down in each episode, yeah. It’s a real loose interpretation which has you questioning, “What actually did happen?”
Short explanation for you – Sophia (Britt Robertson) is an absolute troublemaker, a downright selfish twenty-something who finds herself with no skills… Except she’s able to flip vintage clothing and make good money out of it. She confides in her super bubbly best friend Annie (Ellie Reed), who automatically seems like the one person who can brighten anyone’s day.
As much as it pains me to even type this and become one of those negative eBay members or a disgruntled message board commenter, the show was a hit and a miss. The first few episodes, you see where everything is leading to and how she started her business but some of the scenes or storylines seemed way too unrealistic. I know, you’re thinking, “It’s a TV show. It has every right to be unrealistic.” But, it’s more of the fact the whole show seemed a bit scatterbrained with no real direction. One episode dedicated to a hernia and how she ended up taking a job at the Academy of Art to another episode on how she went all over San Francisco to find inspiration for the name “Nasty Gal.”
The throwback nods to the MySpace “Top 8” to Marissa Cooper’s epic death scene in The OC were a nice touch. The winning episode overall was the awesome interpretation of those infamous online message boards between fellow vintage sellers, who evidently found a way to ban Nasty Gal from eBay. She was then motivated to create an actual domain… But let’s not forget, this was when she had to create nastygalvintage.com since nastygal.com was a porn site and all. Did anyone ever encounter that? Shamelessly raise your hand!
Also, as much as I wanted to love Britt portraying Sophia, I just couldn’t get into it. She definitely got the badass vibes down, but being all up in your face selfish was just not appealing. It even took me a while to warm up to Annie, who ended up being my favorite part of the whole entire show.
I wanted to love you, Nasty Gal; I really did, especially knowing you took place in my area. But the long wait to the worthwhile episodes took too long. I’ll give you another chance if you’re picked up for a season 2 though!
GIRLBOSS is now streaming on Netflix.
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