New from the catalog of the MAX platform which recently arrived in France, “The Girls on the Bus” is a little feel-good nugget to discover. Will the series return for a season 2?
It was one of the great new features that accompanied the arrival catalog of the MAX platform in France. This series, unpublished in France, is one of the little nuggets still unknown to the French public which was able to have visibility thanks to the new streaming service.
Co-created by Julie Plec (Vampire Diaries, Legacies, The Originals) and Amy Chozick, the drama The Girls on the Bus is based on a chapter from the book Chasing Hillarymemoirs in which journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton’s race for the presidency, and wanted to highlight her relationships with other journalists who followed her campaign across the United States.
The feel-good and feminist series chooses to follow four journalists with very different profiles who are brought together for better and for worse during the coverage of the American elections.
During trips on the press bus, which allows journalists to follow the slightest actions of the candidates in the presidential election, Sadie (Melissa Benoist, seen in Supergirl), a journalist gives herself body and soul to follow this campaign, will befriend three competitors.
She gets closer to three other women very different from her: Grace (Carla Gugino, seen in The Haunting of Hill House), experienced journalist who works in an old school way, Kimberlyn (Christina Elmore, seen in Insecure), journalist for a channel conservative news outlet, and Lola (Natasha Behnam, seen in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Generation Z influencer and activist who becomes a reporter on her networks.
A season 2 for “The Girls on the Bus”?
The first season of The Girls on the Bus ended on a cliffhanger and led the four journalists to make decisions with serious consequences. The showrunner Rina Mimoun had confided to TVLine that she already had plans for a potential sequel, with a second season bringing the group to follow the general elections by no longer traveling by bus but by plane.
Unfortunately, Deadline has taught us that the series’ timid audiences did not convince MAX executives to offer a second season to The Girls on the Bus. This is therefore bad news for those who appreciated the first burst of episodes of the series.
Like certain other fictions before it, The Girls on the Bus could perhaps be saved by another platform or an American television channel. After all, the fiction was originally commissioned by Netflix.
The series “The Girls on the Bus” is available on MAX.
