‘The Girls on the Bus’ takes you on a soapy ride with reporters following presidential campaigns

By ALICIA RANCILIO
Associated Press

A new narrative series on Max follows female journalists on the campaign trail for the presidential election. “The Girls on the Bus” is based on the memoir “Chasing Hilary” by Amy Chozick, who covered Hillary Clinton’s two unsuccessful campaigns for president. Chozick and Julie Plec, who was an executive producer on “The Vampire Diaries” for The CW, are co-creators and executive producers. It stars Melissa Benoist as a newspaper reporter who befriends three other female journalists on the road, each representing different types and ideologies of journalism, played by Carla Gugino, Christina Elmore and Natasha Behnam. “The Girls on the Bus” premieres Thursday.