Confidence is Key

After scrolling through show after show I finally decided to watch Girl Boss. It looked interesting and relatable and I decided to give it a go. The first episode, “Sophia” surprised me as it was not like most of the other pilots that I had seen. It did not start out slow and clunky and it was actually entertaining and held various twists and turns. Most pilot episodes can be dull and boring as they spend most of the episode introducing characters and slowly setting up the plot. Although this episode exciting and I will give you an overview about what happened, I’d like to focus on the overlying theme I found while watching -- Confidence and persistence.
In overview, Girl Boss is about a 23 year old named Sophia who is really just like struggling at life right now. The episode starts with her having to push her car on trolley tracks because her car stopped working. Shortly after that she meets her friend at the bar and has a one night stand with the drummer of the band that was playing at the club. I did find the aftermath of the hook up humorous as they had a conversation about the bed where she compared it to sleeping in a biscuit, and then she made him make ocean noises so she could fall asleep. After the one night stand she goes to work, proceeds to get into an argument with her boss and gets fired (she’s going to tell everyone she quit so it looks better). She leaves her job and storms into a thrift shop where she finds a jacket that is worth much more than they were selling it for. She ends up stealing a rug and then going out to dinner with her dad where she confesses that hey maybe her life isn’t going as well as she had planned but she’ll figure it out. She goes home to find an eviction notice on her door and ends up ripping her pants.Although everything seemed to be going downhill, it was at point that she decided hey she could sell her jacket on eBay. What’s the worst that could happen? No one bids? Oh well. She comes back from her nightly routine and sees the bids at a whopping $185 and climbing. Things were starting to look up.
There are various areas in this episode that made me stop and think, “wow I would have just given up” but Sophia did the exact opposite. In the beginning of the episode when he car breaks down but she still pushes it to the destination without calling for any help. She has dinner with her dad towards the end of the episode so we know that he’s in the picture and could have easily helped. She persisted and did it herself!
In the bar I feel like her confidence was pretty high. I mean for pete’s sake she had the confidence to sleep with a guy she didn’t even know! And she also asked him to make ocean noises after they had sex. I would have evacuated so fast! At her job it was basically her confidence that got her fired. Yeah she ate her boss’s sandwich and kept telling her that it was fine but she also got fired for it so yeah the confidence wasn’t for the best here.
Even though she got fired she still persisted and found her way into a thrift shop. She doesn’t know it at the time, but that jacket will be the start of a major boost in her life and not just because it is fashionable. I believe the jacket symbolizes confidence. Everything that happened after she put the jacket on was done with a “can-do” attitude and nothing knocked her down. Even when she realized that everything was going downhill and her dad offered for her to move back in, she persisted through it and said that she would figure it out because that’s what adults do.
Girl Boss had a great first episode that was full of a lot of unsuspecting twists but no matter what happened Sophia had the confidence to persist through every obstacle. Although her confidence did put her in a few pickles she ended up with a great idea that could potentially be a good twist in her life right now. I’ll probably end up watching the rest of this show to figure out if Sophia continues to persist or if her confidence falls astray.