The Bold Type is steeped in current events. Freeform’s drama about three 20-somethings working in media at the fictional Scarlet magazine in New York City often feels farfetched (I don’t know many women in media who have that much time to traipse around the city on a workday), but where the show truly shines is with the way it takes heavy conversations happening around us every day and translates them onto the show in a way that makes you think without making you feel like someone is shoving their opinions down your throat.
When I say The Bold Type tackles some really heavy conversations, I mean really, really heavy topics that are both personal and universal. Jane Sloan (Katie Stevens), one of the main characters of the show, lost her mom to breast cancer when she was younger and then finds out she has the BRCA1 gene mutation, making her susceptible to breast cancer. It’s a challenge she deals with for multiple seasons of the show before deciding to get a preventative double mastectomy — not a topic commonly discussed on TV and definitely not one discussed in someone so young, even though breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in this age group. The topic was presented in a way that makes you care about Jane and how she’s handling her own diagnosis but showing you as the viewer what happens next. What happens after the diagnosis, the surgery, etc. It shows you how to cope.
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