Winter's Cumin' Streaming 24' - The Girls on the Bus - Season One

Max (formerly HBO Max) has been pushing out content of late. While HBO is kinda dragging the chain with less than exciting titles this year, Max have given us Velma's second series recently (as a binge, also on Binge) while also giving us The Girls on the Bus finale this week.

Created by Amy Chozick and Julie Plec, inspired by Chozick's 2018 memoir Chasing Hillary. The series commenced mid-March on Binge. In Australia that is. 

What's the hip, fictional take on Chasing Hillary all about? The 10 part first season, chronicles 4 female journalists who follow every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, while finding friendship, love, and scandal along the way.

Former Supergirl, Melissa Benoist stars as the lead Sadie McCarthy, a journalist for The New York Sentinel.

She is joined in this girl power series by, Natasha Behnam, Christina Elmore, Brandon Scott, Scott Foley, Griffin Dunne, Carla Gugino and Riverdale's Mark Consuelos.

Is a political comedy-drama really necessary in an election year? Maybe, maybe not, but it was actually a little bit of fun.

This could be one of the best pieces of work Greg Berlanti has done in recent years. Well Found was actually a bit of fun.

I must say, the way episode ten The Everydays ended really made me feel Max could have a second season in mind. I originally thought this would be a great idea for a miniseries.

That said, I enjoyed this week to week on Binge. It was heartwarming whilst wildly different from the other election/political/journalist moment of 2024. That is the brilliant film Civil War. Which in fact I saw again last night, so expect a new review soon.

When I said Max were pushing out content, as I type this I am almost halfway through season three (could it be the last?) of Hacks. The Sex Lives of College Girls is apparently coming back soon, while the Batman spin-off The Penguin is also landing later in 2024. While speaking of spin-off's, the Dune one, is also incoming.

So Max is performing way better than the OG parent, HBO. Well that is until The House of Dragon returns next month.

Happy weekend gang!