The Bold Type Review: OMG (Season 2 Episode 4)

On The Bold Type Season 2 Episode 4, “OMG,” Sutton makes a drastic decision to charge cocaine to the company card so that she can remain friends with the social media influencer, Brooke Langley.

I realize we have two other gorgeous leads that we must address; however, can we take a moment to let that sink in?

Sutton signed off on the “miscellaneous” charge of cocaine so that she could stay in with the “cool kids” and network. This is a huge leap from her panicking about the difference between smashed candy and whole candy for a jewelry photo shoot.

It’s honestly so out of her character, but in a good way —  it’s amazing for her growth, as are all of the complications Jane, Sutton, and Kat are currently going through.

It seems our 3 favorite leads will be going through the ringer something serious this season.

Sutton will push her limits and moral boundaries to see just how quickly she can move up in the fashion world. Jane will keep hitting obstacle after obstacle until she learns to think beyond her own perspective. While Kat and Adena will probably have these same growing pains they’ve been having since The Bold Type premiere.

As I explain in my review of The Bold Type Season 2 Episodes 1 and 2, Kat and Adena have been so happy since they’ve returned from vacation. I love seeing my OTP happy.

However, when they were traveling around the world, Adena and Kat were separated from the realities of life and work. They could solely focus on loving one another and being happy.

But (a BIG but!) life was still waiting for them when they came back, and now they’re dealing with the implications of combining their completely different worlds.

In this episode, Adena isn’t being completely forthright when Kat asks her about her past relationships, and because of this, Kat leaps from assumption to assumption as if she were trying out for the Olympics.

Look. I’ve been there. I understand how frustrating it could be knowing your partner had previous partners before you because then you’re stuck playing the comparison game. “Am I as good as bed as their exes?” “Will I just be another notch on their belt?”

Nevertheless, Adena also has a point when she explains that her past doesn’t matter because she is with Kat now.

So what if she had jumped from bed to bed before? Those other women were not Kat. If we take a moment to truly think about it, it’s illogical to compare ourselves to our partner’s past flames because people behave differently with different people.

Comparisons will just make you go crazy — as we see with Kat. And it leads absolutely nowhere but an argument.

At least Kat and Adena finally hashed it out like the patient and loving soul mates that they are when Adena explains the true reason why she isn’t forthright with Kat.

As Kat explains, she was more mad about the honesty than the exes. And although I get that Kat feels like Adena’s evasion is the first step to her distancing herself from her, her throwing Coco in Adena’s face is messed up.

How would Kat know how Coco felt when she had hardly spoken two words to her? Kat just says that to make Adena feel as badly as she does.

Plus, Kat is reckless and always acts first and thinks later, so I can see what led Kat to say it — just not the logic behind bringing Coco up.

In actuality, logic isn’t the friend of any of the women in this episode.

Jane immediately reacts to Dr. Chow’s religion by making baseless accusations that didn’t have much logic attached to it; while, Sutton thinks through her decision to sign off on the cocaine but not in a solid way.

Jane’s initial comments at the table with Dr. Chow more than bothered me. I took it a bit personally because I am a Christian, and I absolutely hate when others conflate intelligence and religion.

People tend to act as if faith is only for religious or spiritual purposes, but that’s far from the truth.

Science and data are faith.

When you come up with a research question and gain findings based on an experiment you created to isolate the target variable, you’re completely functioning on faith that you’ve accounted for all possible biases and that your conclusions do show a direct relationship and not just a coincidence.

There have been countless science experiments that have been debunked later on when science had advanced because of a scientists bias or their inability to account for all contextual variables.

It is faith to believe that science will lead us to the how’s and why’s of life, just as it is faith to believe that the bible is meant to lead us to the how’s and why’s.

So when Jane attacked Dr. Chow with the assumption that you can’t be intelligent and religious. My feathers got ruffled a bit.

However, after she learned from her visceral reaction, she went to apologize and open up to the man who seems to be well-versed in more than just medicine, if you catch my drift.

Pinstripe catalyzes this huge part of Jane’s mini-episodic-growth. As usual.

Pinstripe has always been more than a charming journalist with a gorgeous smile. He’s dropped wisdom on Jane multiple times and he did just that in, “OMG.”

I’ve really missed his character. He and Jane have a chemistry and banter that hasn’t been matched yet. However, I can see for the growth that Jane must undergo this season, Pinstripe is not the person to guide her through it. Maybe just kick-start it.

Speaking of kick, I could’ve kicked that pen out of Sutton’s hand before she signed.

Sutton has understandable hang-ups as to why she’s been at Scarlet for the same amount of time as Jane and Kat but she hasn’t reached their statuses in her field.

Sutton: Kat, you come back from vacation, and you somehow have more responsibility. I still spend half my day reorganizing the fashion closet.

It sucks to see others become successful around you, whether you’re happy for their growth or not. However, we don’t all get the same ladders to success nor do we all start in the same place.

Sutton’s economic class and the idea that comparisons can hurt more than help come into play when Sutton makes her decision. By comparing herself to her best friends, she feels like she has to do whatever she can to make the playing field even and jump through her obstacles instead of over them.

However, Sutton comparing herself to Kat and Jane just isn’t fair to her. While Jane and Kat come from upper middle or high-class economic backgrounds, Sutton had to start from the bottom.

It’s completely unrealistic for her to expect to be in the same boat at two women who received ample environmental opportunities and/or connections.

I just wish she could’ve seen that before she signed that bill and put it in the books. Jane is right when she says that Brooke is not Sutton’s friend.

A friend does not laugh and cajole you when you’re clearly freaking out nor would a friend put you in the position to lose your job and livelihood because she wants to do drugs.

This just makes it 10x more horrible that Sutton put her job on the line in a decision that will surely bite her in the butt later on.

Sutton is going to need Jane and Kat when this all hits the fan. My only prayer is that she doesn’t lose her job. But who knows, maybe that’s also the growth that Sutton needs to become a better version of herself.

Jane’s seasonal arc seems to be her learning to think beyond her own perspective and privilege. Kat’s obstacle seems to be marrying her love life, work life, and social life. While Sutton’s seems to be recontextualizing her ambitions.

What did you guys think of The Bold Type Season 2 Episode 4? Are you also afraid fo the backlash Sutton will get? Did you take sides when our favorite OTP couple had their first big fight since the honeymoon?

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The Bold Type airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Freeform.

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