> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# "The Girls on the Bus" Is Pulling Into the Station
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/the-girls-on-the-bus-is-pulling-into-the-station-03-2024/
- Published: 2024-03-14T16:00:07.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-14T16:47:05.000Z
- Description: Yes, that headline did make me cringe inside. AND outside.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:24, Julianna Margulies

[View the gallery](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/the-girls-on-the-bus/)

*The Girls on the Bus* is an HBO show based on [the memoir *Chasing Hillary*, written by Amy Chozick,](https://amzn.to/3IArqID?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) who covered Hillary Clinton's political campaigns. Based on the ads I've seen, it looks like HBO has turned that into more of a sexy, giggly romp than the rumination on journalism as a whole, and I'm not sure how I feel about that? I haven't read the book, but I gather it's fairly thoughtful. The ads play more like it's *Grey's Anatomy* on wheels. [I will let CNN's review tell it](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/entertainment/the-girls-on-the-bus-review/index.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io):

> *As very, very loosely adapted for TV by Chozick and Julie Plec (“The Vampire Diaries”), working with another CW veteran in producer Greg Berlanti, “Girls on the Bus” devolves into a CW-style drama that occasionally addresses the slow death of journalism on the most perfunctory level.* 

And:

> *\[G\]iven the times and timing one might have still hoped for better from “The Girls on the Bus.” Because at a moment when journalism would benefit from any kind of morale lift, the last thing it needs is another broadly drawn series that seems to put a spotlight on the profession’s principles before backing over them.*

Hoo boy.

###### \[Photos: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images; that's an affiliate link to Amazon up there. An Amazon Influencer, I earn from qualifying purchases\]