INDIANAPOLIS — The 2024 general election is upon us — and so is the race for the presidency in Max's newest political drama series.
In "The Girls on the Bus," four female journalists cover a fictional Democratic primary as they join the candidates on the campaign trail.
"It was really wonderful playing in a fictional world because I could draw all of my experiences covering Hillary (Clinton), covering (Barack) Obama, covering all the women who ran for president in 2020," said former political reporter Amy Chozick, who is an executive producer and writer on the show.
Co-starring as the four journalists are Melissa Benoist ("Supergirl," "Glee"), Carla Gugino ("Spy Kids," "The Haunting of Hill House"), Christina Elmore ("Insecure," "The Last Ship") and Natasha Behnam ("Cupid for Christmas," "Mayans M.C.").
And the show debuts the same week President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump clinched their parties' presidential nominations to set up a rematch of the 2020 election.
"It feels like we are constantly having an election. It feels like the politics of our world right now are all-consuming, all-encompassing, all the time," executive producer and showrunner Rina Mimoun said. "I think as people are tracking the election that's going to be happening right now, I think the joy of this show is, this is the fun version."
A show about politics can be divisive, but "The Girls on the Bus" seeks to cover issues across the board and share a variety of opinions.
"It gets harder and harder in this society to maintain any kind of 'meet across the middle,' bipartisan perspective," executive producer and writer Julie Plec said. "It was really important to us to entertain first, educate later. I think we had a really nice balance there."
The first two episodes of "The Girls on the Bus" are released Thursday, March 14 on Max, followed by one episode each Thursday leading up to the season finale on May 9.