Pour One Out for ‘The Bold Type’
Programming aimed at young women tends to be painfully stupid and/or irredeemably farfetched, using fresh-faced characters as proxies for much older adults in a halfhearted attempt to broaden the audience while still pandering to that sweet target demographic. As a network, Freeform is certainly guilty of this practice, but with their consistently solid show The Bold Type, they’ve artfully sidestepped the genre’s tropes and produced a show that not only holds true to its name, but also, elevates the genre. The setup is fairly basic.
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