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Max Misfire ‘The Girls on the Bus’ Tries and Fails to Make Politics Fun Again: TV Review
Based on journalist Amy Chozick's memoir 'Chasing Hillary,' 'The Girls on the Bus' tries to force presidential politics into 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. Her editor, Bruce (Griffin Dunne), may be a recovering addict modeled after Times legend David Carr, but Sadie’s greatest journalistic sin to date has been getting too invested in the losing campaign of Clintonesque senator Felicity Walker (Hettienne Park) in the cycle prior to the start of the series. There’s more time spent on her upcoming wedding than her policy positions; she is asked how she can work for a white nationalist network as a Black woman, but her views on LGBTQ issues, immigration and gun control remain obscure, lest they burst the show’s fictional bubble.
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