I
had seen The Bold Type being advertised as I was browsing Amazon for something
to watch one day. I followed their twitter account to see what the show was about
for months before I finally started watching so knew a couple of things that happened
in the first 2 seasons of the show. After
bingeing seasons
1 & 2 in about 2 ½ days earlier this year, it is safe to say that I was
hooked and, luckily, I didn’t have to wait too long for seasons 3 to air!
The
show follows Jane, Sutton and Kat, three young women in their 20’s living and working
in New York City at a fictional woman’s magazine called Scarlett. Jane a
writer, Sutton a fashion assistant and Kat is head of social media. Each girl
has her own independent personality and I can see a little bit of myself in
each of them.
Jane’s
dream, since she was a little girl, was to be a writer for Scarlett magazine and
you can really see that passion come through as she grows throughout the show. She’s
always fighting to find the hard-hitting but important topics to write about
and cares about the people she is writing about, trying to help other people
see their causes and get more people talking about the issues going on in
today's society. She tries to save Scarlett on a few occasions because it means
so much to her and doesn’t want it to lose sight of what the magazine is all
about. Whilst she is more on the reserved
side, she is not afraid to speak her mind if she feels that something is
unjust.
Sutton
is the complete opposite of Jane. She’s loud, proud and unapologetic, speaking
whatever is on her mind and goes after whatever she wants. But that is not how
I am similar to her. She also has this vulnerable side which was really shown at
the end of season 2 and throughout season 3 when having to deal with her mother
and her childhood. She doesn’t like to accept help from people, even when her
boyfriend tries to buy her a very expensive sewing machine, she turns him down,
not wanting to be bought by someone. She is very independent and headstrong,
but she is learning to let others into her life in order to help her and that she
doesn’t have to do everything on her own.
Now
Kat is who I am probably least like, except for the fact that I want to into social
media alongside writing. She is a young black woman who is discovering her
sexuality throughout the show. You see her struggle with her true feelings and
how to deal with them, see her get her heart broken and put back together
again, but you also see her killing it at her job, being on top form and the
head of the entire social media team of a magazine in her mid-twenties is quite
an achievement. Despite coming from a privileged background, multiple times
throughout the show, she fights for the under-represented and makes sure they
have a voice and that it is heard.
As
a 24 year old myself, I find the characters highly relatable and inspirational as
they work in a similar industry to one that I am aiming to work in one day. The
show is funny, relatable, and real. It tackles important topics such as racism,
sexism, the Me Too movement and having to decide to have your eggs frozen at the
age of 25 because you might not be able to have children later on in life. This
show allows you to see the highs and lows of modern life for a working woman and
what they have to deal with.
It’s
refreshing to see this happening in a show that is based around millennials as
they usually get a really bad rep on social media and just in general. So to
see a show about three young women who are going after what they want in a
world where there are so many barriers trying to stop them is inspirational. It’s
like Sex in the City but for today's generation.
They
have just started filming season 4 and I cannot wait because season 3 ended on
a major cliff-hanger!
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