McCarthy is playing the "47th-richest woman in the world," but she must by this point be Hollywood's number-one source of foot-in-mouth disease, having time and time again demonstrated to male executives that people will watch female-fronted comedies. The turtleneck gag is admirably silly but so slight it never really builds to anything, which is just the movie in a nutshell. This holds true even once she's taken the plunge from top executive of several unspecified companies to sleeping on a former subordinate's couch.
The fiery comedian, playing a CEO named Michelle Darnell who puts elements of Donald Trump's mouth under Suze Orman's hairdo, has made turtlenecks a permanent part of her wardrobe. This is the film's best joke, because instead of being beaten into the ground, it goes completely unremarked upon. You never see Melissa McCarthy's neck in The Boss. Melissa McCarthy plays Michelle Darnell, an industry titan trying to rebrand her image after a jail sentence, in The Boss.
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