The Bold Type Review: Some Kind Of Wonderful (Season 4 Episode 10)

We’re so happy something wonderful happens on The Bold Type Season 4 Episode 10, “Some Kind Of Wonderful” because overall it’s quite painful to watch for both emotional and structural reasons. 

Sutton and The Bold Type fans deserve a better wedding — it has to be said. 

First and foremost, a bicoastal marriage seems very stressful. If Richard chooses to move back to New York, their story is basically a tennis match of them making compromises for each others’ dreams. 

In real life, that’s what a great marriage should be. On a TV show, it’s not really telling the story of their relationship, it’s just writing characters that bounce around aimlessly and sometimes have sex. 

The Hunters are beginning their lives together. But their story is backed into such an awkward corner, we don’t know how to begin that anew. 

We can’t wait to see what stylist Sutton Brady-Hunter does next, but the more serious she and her husband become, the less The Bold Type focuses on their love and it’s weird. 

It’s Sutton and Richard’s wedding day but nothing about their storyline celebrates their relationship. It’s mostly about the big choice Sutton has to make.

She gets everything she wants and that’s amazing. But it doesn’t change the fact that when you really examine the episode, it only actually celebrates their love for a few minutes while they exchange vows.

It’s Sutton and Oliver’s relationship that really shines on “Some Kind Of Wonderful.” It’s safe to say their employee/boss relationship is #goals. 

Plus, as much as I try to fight this, hearing Oliver propose the stylist job to Sutton makes me giddier than hearing Sutton and Richard’s vows to each other. 

Do you know what else always ruins a wedding? A breakup. Anyone’s breakup. 

It’s very sweet that The Bold Three put their relationship with each other before men. However, there is no instance in real life where a good friend breaks up with her boyfriend at her friend’s wedding and then tells the bride about it. 

Sorry, not even Jane, Sutton, and Kat are exempt from this rule. Jane’s breakup literally kills the mood and this is fiction. The Bold Type team made a choice to write every aspect of that breakup and it’s unnecessary. Period. 

We’re definitely not shaming Jane for breaking up with Pinstripe, but the fact that it happens at the wedding is so contrived. 

“An Embarrassed Feminist” is also such a dramatic title for an essay. Plenty of feminists stay with partners who have betrayed them. Feminists fight for a woman’s right to make choices.

Jane takes some time to let go of the false security she feels in her relationship with Ryan. There is nothing anti-feminist about that; it’s just human. 

I’m proud of the lessons Jane learns that inspire her to write the essay. It’s just so unnecessary to label natural decisions “embarrassing” to feminists. We all stay in comforting relationships for too long sometimes.

Perhaps Kat feels as if Scarlet is a similar kind of safety net that she needs to let go of. We can’t see any other reason she’d choose to release R.J.’s tax returns illegally.

Conversion therapy is disgraceful, but The Bold Type has done a horrible job connecting Kat and therefore viewers to the issue. 

As much as Adena means to the fabric of the show, she’s a guest character who has been on far too few episodes so far this season. If she were the main voice for Travis, the story would make sense. The fact that she’s an immigrant is an interesting complication that adds to the stakes of everything.

Kat has a pattern of throwing herself at an issue completely in the most extreme ways. 

Fighting conversion therapy and the people who support it is commendable, but breaking the law knowing you’ll lose your job because of it is privileged.

Kat loves Adena and she has had a similar experience as Travis, so maybe that’s why Kat is going so far. I still wish we knew more of the story. 

Overall, Season 4 of The Bold Type has relied on devices to push its plot along rather than trusting its characters to tell a natural story. 

But who doesn’t root for The Bold Three? We’re hopeful we’ll get to continue on this journey with them soon. 

The Fine Print 

• Judging from her scene with Richard, Jaqueline is back to her old self and it’s about time. 
• The timing of Oliver’s job offer and the fact that he “can’t” offer her the job of her dreams while she’s happy is so forced. 
• The “emergency contact” thread through Jane’s story is sweet. I’m eager to go on Jane’s surgery journey with her. 
• Andrew’s comment about Jane’s wardrobe at the beginning of the episode is so rude. 
• Verticles are predefined and assigned to you. Jane could get a promotion, but it’s infuriating that The Bold Type is insinuating that “creating” your own verticle is normal. Jane’s strongest is either health or identity. Scarlet has a similar verticle set up she’d be assigned to.

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The Bold Type is scheduled to resume this summer on Freeform.  

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