The Girls on the Bus
A very fictionalised, burnished version of life on the campaign trail for female reporters, the series is loosely based on Amy Chozick's experience as a reporter for The New York Times, chronicled in her 2018 non-fiction book Chasing Hillary. For the series, co-creators Chozick and Julie Plec (Vampire Academy) have invented four wildly different but equally ambitious, idealistic women who bond as they cover a fictional US presidential campaign. Melissa Benoist (Supergirl) plays Sadie, reporter for the New York Sentinel, a barely disguised New York Times. Carla Gugino plays the Washington-based veteran for a rival newspaper, Christina Elmore is the unlikely black conservative at a television channel resembling Fox News, and Natasha Behnam plays an internet influencer who gets serious about politics. There is a romance thwarted by a conflict of interest, a scramble to find an abortion pill while travelling through right-wing states, and above all a lot of sisterhoo
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