‘Girls on the Bus’: Melissa Benoist and EP Rina Mimoun on Crafting the Abortion Storyline — and the One Element That Divided the Writers’ Room (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comEmily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for “Life Is a Highway,” the eighth episode of “The Girls on the Bus” Season 1, now streaming on Max.
When Rina Mimoun first produced an episode of television about abortion, she had no idea she’d be doing the same thing more than two decades later. “The Girls on the Bus” showrunner, who worked with Greg Berlanti on the “very special episode” of “Everwood” about women’s rights in 2001, did just that with the eighth episode of the Max series, which debuted on Thursday.
The episode picked up right where they last left off: Sadie (Melissa Benoist) ordered abortion pills to be delivered to her California hotel while on the campaign trail; when they didn’t arrive in time, she was stuck, as the next state on the trip was Missouri — where abortion is illegal.
After telling the other women about her dilemma in the beginning of Thursday’s episode, she also shared that the doctor could send the pills to a P.O.
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