#Bye #Girlboss.
The Netflix series Girlboss, shot in San Francisco last year in and around the Haight and elsewhere, has been canceled after just a single season, the latest in a wave of cancelations several of Netflix's high-profile new original series.
As Variety reports, the show based on Sophia Amoruso's memoir of the same name (except with hashtag), about how she built her multi-million-dollar Nasty Gal brand out of an eBay store when she was in her mid-20s, will not be returning despite only telling a piece of Amoruso's story in 13 half-hour episodes. It stars Britt Robertson as Amoruso, and the cancellation has prompted a flood of sad responses from Amoruso's large Instagram following.
The show was amusing in parts but largely more frustrating than anything because of the portrayal of Amorouso's character as a fairly petulant, egocentric, and unlikable young woman but I will say that the way the writers and director chose to dramatize chatroom comments using actors around a roundtable was hilarious.
Amorouso posted an Instagram "story" over the weekend discussing the cancellation, saying, "So that Netflix series about my life got canceled. While I’m proud of the work we did, I’m looking forward to controlling my narrative from here on out. It was a good show, and I was privileged to work with incredible talent, but living my life as a caricature was hard even if only for two months. Yes, I can be difficult. No, I’m not a dick. No, someone named Shane never cheated on me. It will be nice to someday tell the story of what’s happened in the last few years. Ppl read the headline, not the correction, I’ve learned."
The cancellation follows on the axing of Sense 8, which was also show partly in SF, and the Baz Luhrman hip-hop drama The Get Down. Per Variety, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos talked about those two shows at a recent conference, saying, "Relative to what you spent, are people watching it? That is [a] pretty traditional [test]. When I say that, a big expensive show for a huge audience is great. A big, expensive show for a tiny audience is hard even in our model to make that work very long."