Welcome to Tea & TV! For this inaugural episode, we discuss the pilot episode of Freeform’s The Bold Type: our first impressions of the main characters; the history of Cosmopolitan, Helen Gurley Brown, and Joanna Coles; examples of “bubble gum pink” fantasy situations and real life issues; our clothes envy; how we relate to the show; and our favorite moments.
What We’re Drinking
Cinnamon-Orange | MarketSpice Tea
Raspberry Hibiscus | H.E.B.
What We’re Reading
The Bold Type is an easy-to-love summer fling | Entertainment Weekly
How Snap board member and Hearst executive Joanna Coles made a series of bold moves — like bursting into a bathroom stall and tossing a man out of a cab — to reach the top | Business Insider
How ‘The Bold Type’ and Cosmopolitan Brought the Magazine World to TV | The Hollywood Reporter
How Cosmo Changed the World | Cosmopolitan
Helen Gurley Brown, Who Gave ‘Single Girl’ a Life in Full, Dies at 90 | The New York Times
The new Cosmo: Love, sex, politics? | Politico
What We’re Listening To
Blood In The Cut by K.Flay
Black Car by Leon Else
We Were Wild by Esmé Patterson
Whistle by BLACKPINK
Coyotes by Wild Belle
She Sets The City On Fire by Gavin DeGraw
Spirits by The Strumbellas
What We’re Watching
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