Girlbosses and Billionaires
The grind never stops even in space.
Girlbosses and Billionaires throws a vacuous influencer, a thinly veiled Katy Perry space-tourist, an aging actress named Edna, and a hapless nepo baby into a rocket and documents the farcical outcomes of girl power repackaged as a branded space mission. Satirising surface-level takes on fourth-wave feminism and the ethics of influencer culture, the show does a great job of skewering social politics and celebrities as deep as a puddle without slipping into lecturing or losing sight of the laughs.
The cast are clearly having huge fun with the material and all turn in strong performances, milking their respective caricatures for all they can. An unexpectedly dark turn into Hollywood space conspiracy is a hilarious highlight, and there’s no shortage of wonderfully ridiculous moments throughout, even if the show is a little uneven in pacing and doesn't always sustain its own momentum. It's a rough-around-the-edges hour, but a sharp, silly and gleefully cynical one.
★★★.5
