‘The Girls on the Bus’ takes you on a soapy ride with reporters following presidential campaigns
Associated PressJust in time for election year, a new Max series called “ The Girls on the Bus ” follows female journalists who are part of a traveling press corps with presidential candidates on the campaign trail. Julie Plec executive produces and co-created the show with Amy Chozick, who wrote “Chasing Hillary” in 2018, about following Clinton’s presidential pursuits for the New York Times. “You can literally equate this presidential election and the state of American politics over the last decade to the worst reality show you’ve ever had to sit through,” said Plec in a recent interview. When Sadie’s not taking calls from her editor, played by Griffin Dunne, who demands “get me copy,” she befriends three other female journalists on the road. I don’t even know if they know what they’re going to do next season, but I’m interested to find out where it goes,” said Foley, who noted the dual sides of his characters in “Felicity” and then “Scandal.” “Playing Noel years ago allows me to play these characters because producers and audiences of a certain age now, they think of Noel and they don’t think, ‘Oh, there’s going to be a turn,’ you know,” Foley said.