The Girls on the Bus is an HBO show based on the memoir Chasing Hillary, written by Amy Chozick, who covered Hillary Clinton’s political campaigns. Based on the ads I’ve seen, it looks like HBO has turned that into more of a sexy, giggly romp than the rumination on journalism as a whole, and I’m not sure how I feel about that? I haven’t read the book, but I gather it’s fairly thoughtful. The ads play more like it’s Grey’s Anatomy on wheels. I will let CNN’s review tell it:
As very, very loosely adapted for TV by Chozick and Julie Plec (“The Vampire Diaries”), working with another CW veteran in producer Greg Berlanti, “Girls on the Bus” devolves into a CW-style drama that occasionally addresses the slow death of journalism on the most perfunctory level.
And:
[G]iven the times and timing one might have still hoped for better from “The Girls on the Bus.” Because at a moment when journalism would benefit from any kind of morale lift, the last thing it needs is another broadly drawn series that seems to put a spotlight on the profession’s principles before backing over them.
Hoo boy.
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