The Bold Type – The Woman Behind the Clothes

By: Nicole Dintelman

This week on “The Bold Type” Jane (Katie Stevens) is enjoying morning coffee when joined by Ryan (Dan Jeannotte) who tries to make small talk. Jane interrupts him and tells him that they basically just need to clear the air. She kissed him and he says then you ran. Ryan tells her that she doesn’t need to explain because he read her article and knows she just wanted to do something unexpected. Jane asks him: “You read my article?” Ryan tells her that he did, multiple times and she should be proud. Ryan then grabs Jane’s phone and gives her his number. At the same time, Kat (Aisha Dee) sends Jane a message that reads: “Yasssss girl. Get on that.” Complete with a photo of Jane and Ryan.

Ryan tells Jane he has to get to work and tells her that he’ll see her later. Jane picks up her phone and calls him as he’s walking away. When he picks up she asks him to drinks. Kat and Sutton (Meghann Fahy) are proud of her for asking him out. Kat tells her that she needs to get laid. Sutton tells her to come find her later because she can’t let her go on a sex date looking like that. Jane yells after her that there’s nothing wrong with what she’s wearing and it’s not a sex date! Jacqueline (Melora Hardin) comes around the corner at that moment and says: “Sex date? Sounds like you’re working on a follow-up article.” Jane tells her no, but she does want to pitch her something. Jane wants to interview a Congresswoman. Jacqueline tells her to go for it, but in case it doesn’t work out take notes during her sex date.

Alex (Matt Ward) finds Sutton and tells her that Oliver’s (Stephen Conrad Moore) assistant in the fashion department just quit taking a job somewhere else. Sutton asks him how he learned of this information and he tells her that he overheard it while the fashion interns were picking out an outfit for him. Sutton asks him why the fashion interns were dressing him and Alex tells her that she’s missing the point. There is an opening in the fashion department. Lauren’s (Emily Chang) phone rings and Sutton has to pause her conversation with Alex. It’s Richard (Sam Page) wanting to take her to dinner. Sutton pretends that it’s someone making a dinner date with Lauren and quickly gets him off the phone. Alex tells Sutton that they have to get her off Lauren’s desk.

Kat has been working on a new social experience for the magazine. VR Goggles. Kat wants Scarlet to be the first magazine to have their own VR App. Jacqueline tells Kat that she wants her to present her research to the board the following day. After Jacqueline leaves Kat asks the participants how they’re enjoying the fashion show and one of them takes off her goggles and tells her she thinks she’s going to be sick. She then proceeds to throw up in Kat’s purse. Kat handles it like a pro. Clearly grossed out, she offers her water or maybe a toothbrush.

The designer for the Planned Parenthood canceled for the scheduled fashion show. Jacqueline tells Oliver that they will have to pull something together. Oliver tells her he will need all of the assistants and Jacqueline tells him she will approve overtime for any of them, but he has to make this happen. Sutton thinks this may her chance. She asks Lauren to put in a good word for her in the fashion department. Lauren tells her they can talk after the fundraiser and tells her to get her green juice. Sutton decides to go straight to Oliver. Oliver tells her that he needs everything this week. Sutton tells him that she’d love to help and he gives her a list of designers to call.

Sutton picks out an outfit for Jane to wear tonight. Jane tells her it’s not that kind of date and Sutton tells her not to take it off then. Sutton says she has no idea how she’s going to cover both Lauren and Oliver this week, but she has to make it happen. She’ll also be furious if Lauren doesn’t help her get this job. Jane tells Sutton that Lauren is the worst and she’s pretty sure that Madeleine Albright was referring to her when she said that there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women. Sutton says that she’s not going to let Lauren hold her back because she’s the description of young, scrappy and hungry.

While Jane is getting ready for her date Kat comes in and tells her that she just got off the phone with the VR people and she told them about her intern hurling. Their question to her was” “Is she currently menstruating?” Kat says it turns out women are much more likely to get motion sick from VR when we’re menstruating. Jane asks Kat if she can stop saying “menstruating” and Kat says no. Jane asks why that is and Kat says that apparently hormones play a part in it. Jane tells Kat so VR is inadvertently sexist and Kat says no it’s vertently sexist. Jane tells her that’s not a word and Kat tells her it’s definitely a word.  They use technology that favors the female brain.

Jane heads over to Ryan’s for drinks. She hasn’t sat down since she got there and he asks her if she’s ever going to sit down and she tells him that she reads his column and knows what happens on that couch. Ryan tells her that he can get her a towel or something. Jane asks him if he is ever offended when people say he’s just a sex writer. Ryan says yes, it’s very offensive. He writes about sex and relationships. Jane says she doesn’t want her writing about sex to be her brand, she wants to write about bigger things. Ryan tells her it’s why a thousand ships were launched. It always comes back to sex. Ryan starts to kiss her and then her phone alert goes off. Helen Wolf (Linda Smith), the Congresswoman, is leaving the hotel and Jane wants to catch her.

The traffic Kat is getting on her article about the VR is not great. They’ve figured out her identity and are sending pretty nasty messages. Sutton is already being pulled in three directions at once. Oliver is yelling for her to sort garments, Lauren needs a seating chart and she told Richard she’d meet him for dinner. The poor girl’s head is spinning! Jane makes it just in time to catch the Congresswoman leaving for dinner. They’re taking three members of the press with them. Jane tries to get in, but they ask for her credentials and they tell her: “Sorry, not tonight Scarlet.”

Sutton is working on an outfit and Oliver tells her it was in the reject pile, but she shows him the armor for it. He tells her maybe and she’s very excited. Someone comes in and tells her there is a delivery downstairs for Lauren and she tells them to just leave it at her desk. They tell her she has to go downstairs to sign for it. Sutton goes outside and sees Richard in a car, he’s her delivery. He brought her breadsticks from Olive Garden. She tells him what she’s really doing working late. Sutton tells Richard she really wants to do fashion and he’ll probably think she’s crazy. He tells her that he doesn’t think she’s crazy. She tells him she really wants this and he tells her to go get it.

Kat is consumed by the Twitter responses she’s receiving. She’s now receiving rape threats. Jane and Sutton tell her it’s not funny, it’s scary. Kat tells her it’s not scary, they’re just words. It’s time for Kat’s presentation, but she makes the mistake of checking her phone one last time. It’s a nude photo of herself that someone has tweeted out. Now, she’s realized how serious this is. Kat goes into her presentation, not herself. Her phone continues to go off, as do the phones of the board members in the room. Kat is convinced they are receiving the nude photo of her. Kat becomes flustered and can’t continue her presentation.

Jacqueline chases Kat down and asks her what just happened and, at first, Kat tells her she doesn’t know. Kat shows her the tweet and Jacqueline understands instantly. Kat tells her that she shouldn’t have left and she will go back in and do it again. Jacqueline tells her no. She tells her to go take an hour and fall apart. When she comes back they will figure it out. Seriously, Jacqueline is the best boss! Kat, Sutton and Jane meet in the fashion closet for that time to fall apart. Kat says she doesn’t care about the picture, it’s the fact that they violated her privacy. Sutton points out that they’re not all bad. The CEO of a VR company tweeted her that she has her back.

Jane gets an idea to get an interview with the Congresswoman. She decides to try to interview about her outfit choices. That gets her in the door. They tell Jane she has ten minutes. When she gets there though, they tell her she has five minutes. Jane has fashion questions prepared. When she changes the questions to policy questions they cut the interview short and that’s that. Poor Jane, at least she tried. Richard calls Sutton and tells her that he ran into Oliver and asked about the assistant job and Oliver told him that he already has a stack of resumes. He also told him that he wants someone with fashion experience. Richard tells Sutton that he’s not telling her this to discourage her, he just wants her to move fast. Sutton gets another call while walking into Lauren’s office and answers it “fashion department” instead of “Lauren Park’s Office” and gets caught!

Lauren asks Sutton what she’s doing. Sutton comes clean with Lauren and Lauren tells her that she’s also short handed because her assistant is never at her desk. The seating chart she gave her is completely wrong. Sutton asks her if she wants a green juice and Lauren tells her that she knows she does. Jane arrives at Ryan’s for their second attempt at drinks and he asks how the Congresswoman was and she tells him that she thinks that she’s sweet. Ryan tells her that she probably hates that. Jane tells him that all she would talk to him is her choice of footwear. Jane then sees an article on his computer.

“Why girls sometimes fake it and do we even care?” Jane is instantly upset. She asks Ryan if he’s writing about her. Ryan tells Jane to let him explain the angle he’s going for. Jane thinks she’s research and Ryan tells her that her article inspired him. Jane leaves upset. The next day Sutton asks her if she’s sure that was happening when Kat comes in and tells them that the trolls tweeted her home address. Jane asks her if the police have been contacted and Kat tells them that the IT department is trying to find the guys IP address and legal is threatening to sue anyone who tweets the photo out. The girls are not sure what to say and then Kat gets word that Jacqueline wants to see her.

While waiting for Jacqueline, Kat sends Adena (Nikohl Boosheri) a message. Jacqueline sees her texting and tells her that she hopes she’s not engaging those online again. Kat tells her she’s not, but she can’t just sit there and do nothing. Jacqueline tells her that she knows this is hard and the anonymity of the internet has completely raised the stakes. She tells Kat that she’s stronger than that. Kat begins to cry and tells her she doesn’t know if she is. Jacqueline tells her that she knows that she is.

Sutton finds Alex in the fashion closet and he looks a mess. Alex asks her if she’s getting the black Jared Kushner vibe also. She tells him oh yeah and starts finding him something else to wear. Alex tells her she has to go for the assistant’s job. Sutton says that it may be an uphill battle especially, without Lauren’s recommendation. Alex tells Sutton that she made herself indispensable and Lauren doesn’t want to lose her. She’s too good at her job.

While looking at the tweets again, Kat comes across the one from Emily Ramos (Arlen Aguayo-Stewart). Emily has been cyber-bullied as well. Hearing this gives Kat an idea. Jane is trying to work on her article, but realizes that HuffPo has already done one and they actually got a quote. She tells Sutton now she’ll be writing about Congressional fashion. Sutton says her jumpsuit is beyond awful. Jane says that they should be criticizing her politics, not her pantsuits. Reading the comments Jane realizes that everyone is talking about what she’s wearing and not the fact that she voted to roll back the clean water act.

The Congresswoman told Jane in their interview that when she chooses an outfit she’s always thinking about how she can use fashion to her advantage. Jane then looks to see what the Congresswoman wore when she defended the Keystone Pipeline and the outfit is hideous. The Congresswoman is using fashion as a smokescreen. Jane has found her article. Jane asks Sutton to get her a green juice and Sutton tells her no. Harsh Sutton, way harsh. Jacqueline is going over the outfits for the fashion show and she loves Sutton’s idea. It needed no adjustments.

Jacqueline tells Jane that her article surprised her. Jane asks if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Jacqueline tells her that she has this idea of what kind of writer she should be, but she shouldn’t let that keep her from the kind of writer she should be. Jane tells her that she won’t and Jacqueline says that they’re uploading the article right now and good job. Kat developed a choose kindness campaign because of everything she went through being Cyber bullied. She also decided to pair with the CEO of the VR company that had her back during all of it.

Sutton decides to approach Lauren again about the job in the fashion department. She tells her how grateful she is about the time she’s spent at her desk, but it’s time that she moves on with our without her support. Lauren tells her okay, let’s figure out how to get her that job. Kat gets a text from Adena asking her if she’s ok and Kat tells her that she’s fine. Adena tells her that she needs to talk to her in person and it’s important. Ryan emails Jane his article and tells her that he hopes she’ll read it.

Jane read the article and the next place we see her is at Ryan’s door. When he opens it he says: “Hey, third time’s a charm?” Jane begins to read an excerpt from his article and when she stops he tells her not to stop because he loves hearing his own work. Jane asks if he’s going to invite her in. Ryan does and she doesn’t get too far in when they start kissing. Pretty sure Jane is going to be able to write that follow up article soon Jacqueline!