The Bold Type is a woke fantasy of magazine journalism

The New Yorker

The Freeform drama, says Jia Tolentino, "works in a key of woke fantasy; in this alternate-universe version of glossy women’s media, being a good person is as professionally essential as the ability to walk briskly around an editorial floor in a statement dress and spike heels. As with Younger, a show about the publishing industry that is quietly but obsessively tracked by people in publishing, The Bold Type became catnip to many young women in media, myself included. By filtering very-special-episode topics concerning race, class, and sexuality through inside-baseball industry drama, the show produces a bifurcated sort of rom-com pleasure: it’s fun to hold the show at arm’s length when it’s comically improbable, and it can be unexpectedly affecting when it veers toward the real."