Snow Day

**Snow Day** is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of the Freeform drama series, The Bold Type. It aired on June 18, 2020.

## Synopsis

A blizzard hits New York City, and Kat is trapped at her new job with her nemesis; Sutton struggles to balance her career and relationship; Jane tries to emulate Jacqueline's leadership with her new staff.

## Plot Summary

Kat’s politics are a source of struggle for her. Agreeing to disagree, or just letting things go, it isn’t in her nature. Working at Scarlet and finding her voice, wielding some sort of power and often being validated, it makes it difficult for her to stand back and not say anything.

This is why working at The Belle is becoming difficult for while a primarily liberal establishment, it also has members like Eva, RJ’s daughter, who is the lawyer from an oil company and a conservative. One who acknowledges and initiates a conversation with Kat that gets Kat heated and leads to an insult. An insult heard by Kat’s boss, so she gets fired. Kat ends up moving in with Jane.

The idea of women being able to have it all still exists, but being super mom remains a challenge, and even with Sutton only a few months pregnant, she realizes that path isn’t for her. Being a stylist is a full-time job, which requires her leaving the office, working beyond a set time, and being that Sutton wants to be the kind of woman who takes care of her husband, kid, her job responsibilities, and probably herself last, it just won’t work. Even with a husband like Richard. Which makes it seem, unless she gets a nanny, something may give.

Oliver’s ex, Jasper, was supposed to get Carly for the day and not have to do much more than a greeting of “Hi,” “Bye,” and bring her back at such and such a time. However, a snowstorm traps Oliver with Jasper since Carly seems to have some inkling of hope her father figures may get back together.

Oliver, hover, isn’t at the point where he can move past the lying or that Jasper is an addict. In fact, Carly ends up being used as a means to get back at Jasper by making it so Jasper’s plan to hang out with Carly has to get cancelled. But with realizing he is taking out his pain and frustration on Carly, rather than communicating with Jasper, Oliver reneges. Which brings much joy to Carly and Jasper? Well, he takes it as a sign that maybe he can win Oliver back.

Jane’s vertical is about to launch, and while her Gen Z writer, Addison, does what Jane expected and wanted, Scott is a bit more challenging. Well, because Jane’s vertical she sees and hears in her voice. So Scott writing something akin to women needing to ask for help more, and her not liking the message, it leads to some awkward conversations.

The kind that, at first, Jane tries to avoid having for she isn’t used to playing the role of the bad guy, and while she has had confrontational moments with her friends, she hasn’t with an employee. Leading to, initially, her just writing the piece rather than guiding Scott to a place where they can see eye to eye.

This doesn’t work, and after a conversation with Oliver and then Jacqueline, Jane has a heart to heart. One that allows Scott to convey that the reason for his tone and message is because his mother didn’t ask for help when his dad died. So now he lives with a certain amount of guilt and wishes she would have spoken up rather than burden herself and his sisters for his benefit.

This leads to Jane deciding to give Scott another chance to write his article, and after he does, it goes up on the site.

## Cast

* Katie Stevens as Jane Sloan
* Aisha Dee as Kat Edison
* Meghann Fahy as Sutton Brady
* Sam Page as Richard Hunter
* Matt Ward as Alex Crawford
* Melora Hardin as Jacqueline Carlyle
* Stephen Conrad Moore as Oliver Grayson
* Dan Jeannotte as Ryan Decker