How Realistic is “Younger”’s Portrayal of the Publishing Industry?

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, we were inspired by a thread in our Facebook group and are looking back on season 1 of the TV show Younger! This is Olivia’s first watch and a rewatch for Becca, and we’re very excited to break down how it reflects the publishing industry, discuss how it portrays authors, talk about the fashion, share if we are on Team Josh or Team Charles, and more!

Obsessions

Olivia - Severance Season 2 + Reddit

Becca - Lost re-watch

What we read this week

Olivia - Nothing Serious by Emily J. Smith, Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner

Becca -

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Isola by Allegra Goodman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman.
0:21.6	And I'm Olivia Mentor.
0:23.4	And today we are talking about the TV show Younger, which I think is having a little bit of a mini resurgence because it's now on Netflix.
0:32.2	And Olivia, you'd never seen it, right?
0:35.1	I had never seen even a single episode before this experience.
0:39.4	So we both watched the first season, and I thought it would be really fun to talk about
0:44.0	specifically the publishing aspect in it and how realistic we thought that was.
0:48.5	Yeah, it's going to be a fun conversation. I had no idea how much of a fandom there is for this show, but there
0:55.1	really is. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. But before we get into that, let's do some highs and lows.
1:00.6	What's your high? Oh, so my high is that, I feel like this is the second time that my high has been
1:06.1	some type of pottery painting experience recently, but we're just going with it. So I went to this place earlier
1:12.1	this week that I've been wanting to go. It's called Happy Medium. I think there's two or three
1:16.7	locations in New York, and it's an art cafe. And so you go, you make a reservation, and you get
1:24.0	seated at a table, and they give you a menu. And the menu is all different kinds of art
1:29.2	projects that you can order. And so you can order pottery painting. There's watercolors. There was
1:36.3	Valentine making, collaging, like charcoal, like all kinds of different things. So everyone can do
1:42.6	something different. And they bring you the
1:45.5	supplies. I think the pottery painting was, I think like the base fee was $25 plus the cost of whatever
1:52.3	you painted. So I think it was like $50 altogether. It didn't strike me as like totally unreasonable.
1:57.3	And then there were some cheaper things like maybe watercolor was just $25 flat.
2:02.3	First of all, I'm obsessed with this concept.
2:04.8	Second of all, we went on a Tuesday night.
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