A hard-nosed make-up mogul and the kind of businessperson who claims to be raising up the little guys while setting them against each other, she wants to buy Mia & Mel, and by extension Mia and Mel. In fact I’d probably think a chocolate teapot was a good business idea.Įnter pantomime villain Claire Luna (Salma Hayek), who’s about as maternal as those spiders that eat their babies, waving her chequebook. To be honest even I thought they needed a shake up and when it comes to business I’m as useful as a chocolate teapot. Their two employees, Barrett (Billy Porter) and Sydney (Jennifer Coolidge) are dedicated but underemployed no one seems to pay full price for anything. Mia (Tiffany Haddish) is the creative, outspoken colour wizard, Mel (Rose Byrne) the one supposedly in control of the business side, though she’s not doing a very good job – with her desperation for approval from any potential mother figure soon making her forget their original aims and their friendship. It’s ethical but small time – one store, two employees, one hit product that’s past its prime (their One Night Stand make-up set) – and the debts are mounting. Mel (Rose Byrne) and Mia (Tiffany Haddish), friends since middle school, live together and run their own cosmetics business Mia & Mel. It’s worth a watch for its super-talented cast, but it often feels like a sophisticated Chanel eyeshadow palette on a shouty pantomime Ugly Sister. While it tries to position itself as current, its tale of a rapacious female boss swooping in to take over a small cosmetics business run by two friends is pretty dated, and the jokes are thin on the ground. Two women, friends since childhood, see their make-up business face disaster after a cosmetics mogul tries to buy them out.Ĭonsidering how old-fashioned Like A Boss feels, I was expecting wall-to-wall matte plum lipstick and a sea of Rachel cuts.
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