You are still addicted to Cruel Summer,
Brand New Cherry Flavor Where Clickbait, that the ambitious French series are already landing Opera and Germinal, adaptations and monuments of pop culture Foundation and Y, The Last Man, without forgetting the return of La Casa de Papel, Lucifer, The Morning Show, Sex Education… Do not throw any more, in this busy series re-entry, and more generally in these days of Peak TV, it is possible to miss a series, or even the end of one of your favorite series. The Bold Type ends thus with its season 5, of which the last six small episodes are available since Monday on Amazon Prime Video. What, The Bold Type is not one of your favorite series?
A series in tune with its time
Launched on Freeform in the United States in 2017 and on Prime Video in France a year later, The Bold Type, Where Those who dare, has imposed itself, under his air again Sex & the City, like one of the most feminist, political, committed series of the moment. Most discreet too. TO 20 minutes, each season was an opportunity to recall that by telling the underside of a women’s magazine, the series mainly commented on the time, the generation of millennials and the condition of women, and no subject was forbidden, with regard to other more serious series, also more general public.
“No subject is taboo, but certain themes are more difficult to tackle”
#MeToo from the male point of view, free movement of arms, wearing the veil, body positive, frigidity or America under Trump … “We don’t have a check list, commented showrunner Amanda Lasher at the time of season 3. Like Jane’s journalist character, we start from our lives, and also from those of actresses. Things that we unfortunately don’t see often on TV. No subject is taboo, but some themes are more difficult to broach. From the moment the whole team gets together, feels a connection, we are on the right track. It’s about being both thoughtful and respectful of the public. “
It’s all about empathy
A plot of season 4, continued in season 5, made a lot of talk about her across the Atlantic, when Sutton miscarries and then feels guilty about feeling… liberated. She did not want a child, will never want one, which society is still struggling to accept and which the series treats with intensity and accuracy, and above all with empathy. Other interesting themes are explored in this final season, with Alex’s crisis of virility for less toxic masculinity, the question of relationships at work and bonds of subordination, or the impact of political engagement in love. , when Democrat Kat falls for Republican Eva.
The end of a world and a love letter
The series always manages to leave a positive and tolerant message out of it, even if it must be admitted that with six episodes, where it would have been necessary to double or even triple, everything goes too fast and stays on the surface. Like Sutton’s alcoholism, a real subject in a series – and as in many series – where the heroines often have a drink in their hand.
The Bold Type seems, in fact, to be a collateral victim of the health crisis, which had already cost him two episodes less and an abrupt end in season 4. It is as if the world in which Jane, Kat and Sutton live no longer exists. , and besides, the Covid-19 does not exist there. If the subjects covered by series are more relevant than ever, its light, glitter and cuddly shape has become almost anachronistic. The writers and actresses could have made their revolution, they preferred to make this last season a
” love letter “ to spectators. And future series. Because the revolution continues.