First of all, this post contains spoilers for
The Bold Type‘s series finale. If you haven’t watched it yet, then what are you even doing here? Go
Marie Kondo your sock drawer or something. Begone. Read no further.
ANYHOO, we’re all here because we finished
The Bold Type‘s fifth and final season, right? Kat becoming editor-in-chief? Who’da thunk it? Given her breadth of experience, it does at least make more sense than Jane, but I particularly loved the moment Jacqueline just waved across changing the most important hire at the last minute by going, “Oh yeah, the board was fine with me hiring the person we fired a couple months ago.” No questions here, move along.
The Bold Type is inspired by real-life events. The executive producer is former
Cosmopolitan editor Editor-In-Chief
Joanna Coles, who used her 30 years of experience working at the iconic mag as inspiration for
Scarlet Magazine, the fictional magazine around which everything in
The Bold Type revolves.
That storyline about the yoni egg getting stuck inside a vagina for example? Yep, that really happened (only it was slightly more traumatic than what we saw on screen).
So when I caught up with
Katie Stevens (who plays Jane),
Aisha Dee (Kat) and
Meghann Fahy (Sutton) ahead of
It turns out… almost. There was “an insane night” out in Montreal (where