The bold type season 5 episode 1

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Wednesday’s The Bold Type premiere. Proceed at your own risk.

A contentious Bold Type romance has come to an end. During Wednesday’s fifth and final season premiere, Kat repeatedly ignored Eva’s texts after hooking up with the Republican Scarlet board member. When the two finally came face-to-face, Kat admitted that, as a biracial queer liberal, she didn’t like herself following their tryst.

“It’s not just that we see the world differently. It’s the things you believe, the things that you work to protect, those things hurt people like me,” Kat explained, adding that she wants to be proud of who she’s sleeping with.

Last July, star Aisha Dee took aim at her character Kat’s flirtation with Eva, writing on Instagram that “the decision to have Kat enter into a relationship with a privileged conservative woman felt confusing and out of character.”

“Despite my personal feelings about the choice, I tried my best to tell the story with honesty, even though the Kat I know and love would never make these choices,” Dee continued. “It was heartbreaking to watch Kat’s story turn into a redemption story for someone else, someone who is complicit in the oppression of so many. Someone [whose] politics are actively harmful to her communities.”

In the wake of Dee’s criticisms, “we had a lot of conversations,” showrunner Wendy Straker Hauser told TVLine during a recent interview. “We always really do try to have an open dialogue, and so many of our storylines are collaborative.”

Hauser also notes that the end of Kat and Eva’s relationship was “always planned” — but the pandemic production shutdown and the show’s abbreviated six-episode final run did speed up the pair’s demise.

“This was always part of what we had thought was Kat’s arc of just being able to fall for somebody, have open dialogue, potentially have them learn and grow from each other and perhaps even Eva’s mind would be opened and changed on certain levels with certain things,” Hauser shares, “and Kat could see other things, and they could kind of make the world a better place, which is like the dream that we all have, I think, on some level, that we can go across the aisle and we can start to begin to repair and work together. But we didn’t have the space to finish out that storyline, and so, given the short season that we had this year, we altered things a bit and ultimately got to the same place, but a lot faster.”

The Bold Type fans, what did you think of the season opener? Grade it below, then hit the comments!

The Bold Type is back for its final season.

And while it’s bittersweet welcoming Jane, Sutton, and Kat back for the remaining six episodes, we’ve sure missed them during the lengthy hiatus. 

The Bold Type Season 5 Episode 1 didn’t miss a beat picking up with the girls enduring a massive hangover from a whole night of drinking their problems away. 

Sutton was trying to forget the end of her marriage with Richard and that she was personally responsible for breaking up another marriage after sleeping with her married ex-boyfriend, Billy.

Jane was in denial about her feelings for her writer, Scott, while Kat was trying to forget that she slept with her frenemy, Ava. 

But while alcohol helped them forget their troubles for a night, all those issues bubbled up to the surface the next morning along with a throbbing headache. 

The free mimosa’s celebrating the upcoming Scarlet work retreat didn’t help.

Jane and Kat tackled their problems head-on by the end of the episode, but Sutton’s path forward wasn’t so clear and involved more alcohol. 

A lot more, actually. 

During the retreat, Sutton was throwing back drinks like it was her job, which prevented her from doing her actual job.

After an unsuccessful trust fall — Sutton fell forward not backward — she was unable to pitch her fashion idea to the board and guest-star Carson Kressley.

Thankfully, no one knew the reason she was missing from the meeting because Ava, who found Sutton drunkenly roaming the halls, got her safely back to Jane and informed Oliver and Jacqueline that she came down with food poisoning.

Oliver and Jacqueline are both close to Sutton, so I think they’d understand that she’s going through a tough time, but it’s not worth sabotaging the job she’s worked so hard for. 

She’s going through a world of pain, but using alcohol as a coping mechanism is dangerous. I hope she snaps out of it soon before it costs her everything she loves. 

Ava did Sutton a solid even though it would have been understandable if she walked away considering how things ended with Kat. 

When Kat initially brushed off Ava with a text, I was a little frustrated. Kat is always so outspoken and eager to stand up for what she believes in. She’s not the type to ghost people, which is why I’m glad that she eventually worked up the courage to be real with Ava. Despite her feelings for her, there were too many things she couldn’t overlook. She didn’t agree with who she was as a person or the issues she championed and believed in. 

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Opposites attract, but it could never work when they disagreed on fundamental human rights and issues.

“I want to be proud of who I’m sleeping with,” was such a solid line. It should be everyone’s motto for life!

With only a handful of episodes left, I’m hoping this is the last we’ve seen of Ava. Kat deserves a happy ending. And I’m not going to lie, I’m excited that Adena will be returning in some capacity. They deserve a second chance. 

Jane was only at the retreat briefly before running off with Scott to pursue a big story. 

After getting the green light from Jacqueline to speak to Nicole about the sexual harassment at her company, Jane realized that Mark’s latest assistant was also a victim of abuse.

The assistant, Rana, was hesitant to speak up, but Jane did a great job at convincing her by earning her trust 

Jane shared a personal story about having feelings for her employee, which was also her way of telling Scott she had a crush on him. 

Of course, she couldn’t do anything about them because it would be inappropriate and could potentially cost her the job she’s also worked so hard for. 

However, that’s not the only thing she should be concerned about. 

After publishing the story, Jane’s other writer, Addison, informed her that her original victim’s story didn’t add up. 

What did Jane overlook? Was she so eager to break the story and prove herself in her new role that she didn’t properly fact-check?

Did she let her feelings for Scott cloud her judgment or distract her?

This isn’t good for the woman being dubbed “the future of Scarlet,” particularly because it is a story that affects Jacqueline personally. Jacqueline’s husband was involved with Nicole, and naturally, Nicole thinks this is a hit piece that was born from jealousy.

It also puts Jane in a terrible situation as Jacqueline entrusted that Jane would ensure the story would be bulletproof before it was published.

Elsewhere, Alex was forced to confront that “canceling” Joe for the hit piece he wrote and for a homophobic tweet he posted several years ago was wrong of him and ruined the guy’s life. 

People change, but I’m sure Alex will likely tackle that topic on his podcast. 

The episode was heavily focused on the idea that making mistakes doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a terrible person.

 Everyone messes up, everyone makes mistakes, but it’s about how you bounce back from them and handle the situation that speaks to your character. 

What did you think of The Bold Type Season 5 premiere? Let us know in the comments below! 

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