The Bath Monster by Colin Boyd5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While she’s not exactly likable, the show is still betting on viewers wanting to see her continue her upswing, which presents a problem for show-runners going forward. The Sophia of the series at one point yells out her window at dawn, “Kiss my ass, world!” (A neighbor, Lionel ( RuPaul), answers, “As spokesman for the world, no thanks.”) She is otherwise on the ascent, though, roughly where real-life Amoruso was in 2006: brash, enterprising, and on the come up. As played by Britt Robertson, this 22-year-old Sophia is first seen happily singing along to “The Wild One” before she runs out of gas on one of the city’s near-vertical hills. Times are decidedly better for the “Sophia” of the new series, which debuted last weekend. In other words: it is, as one early reviewer of the show put it, the “absolute worst time for Girlboss on Netflix.” Amoruso stepped down as Nasty Gal’s executive chairwoman after the bankruptcy, and has since pivoted to a new company, but the demise of her first remains an essential part of her story and place in the tech-culture firmament. ![]() In the year since Netflix ordered a series based on #Girlboss, Sophia Amoruso’s best-selling memoir of her life as the head of e-comm start-up Nasty Gal, Amoruso’s company filed for bankruptcy and was sold for $20 million, a fraction of its onetime $200 million valuation, to British retailer Boohoo. ![]()
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