Barry Levinson on Capturing America’s Political Divide in Doc Series ‘Bucks County’: ‘This Is Not a Series About Heroes and Villains’
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor In late 2021, Barry Levinson and Robert May knew that they wanted to make a documentary about America’s deep political divide.
After listening to an episode of the New York Times podcast “The Daily,” which focused on school board wars in Bucks County, Pa., the directing duo decided to visit the once-idyllic swing county located in the country’s largest swing state.
There, they found plenty of political discord as well as two 14-year-olds — Evi and Vanessa — who are best friends despite their opposing political beliefs.
The teenagers would eventually become the main subjects of Levinson and May’s five-part docuseries “Bucks County, USA,” which explores whether a community can follow Evi and Vanessa’s abilities to find humanity in “the other side.” The first two episodes of the series will screen on Jan.
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