Max Misfire ‘The Girls on the Bus’ Tries and Fails to Make Politics Fun Again: TV Review
variety.comAlison Herman TV Critic The Max series “The Girls on the Bus” wants to be a frothy workplace comedy about female empowerment.
Such proudly escapist fluff has a valued place on TV; “The Bold Type” got five seasons out of its more optimistic spin on “The Devil Wears Prada,” and while “Glamorous” was quickly canceled by Netflix, it had the right idea in casting Kim Cattrall as an exacting makeup mogul.
There’s no reason “The Girls on the Bus” couldn’t slot into this tradition of slickly produced, deceptively mindless entertainment, apart from one small detail: it’s set in the world of high-stakes presidential campaigns, possibly the least escapist environment possible in 2024.
Co-created by veteran showrunner Julie Plec (“The Vampire Diaries”) and journalist Amy Chozick, “The Girls on the Bus” is a loose riff on “Chasing Hillary,” Chozick’s 2018 memoir about covering the Clinton campaign for the New York Times.
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