McCarthy's Michelle Darnell is a woman who hit the heights of the Fortune 500, only to watch everything crumble beneath her when a corporate rival found a way to make her take the fall for insider trading. Good: Melissa McCarthy really does make a good boss The scenes where Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Bell just hang out are often fun.
Here's the good, bad, and weird of The Boss. That it ultimately doesn't is testament to just how hard it's always been to write good scripts for these sorts of movies. It doesn't have a story beyond, "What if Melissa McCarthy played the boss?" That it almost succeeds is a testament to her strengths as a performer and the rest of the game ensemble cast.