Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira star as estranged friends in HBO Max's abortion road-trip comedy.
followed the journey of two teenage girls — one seeking to end her pregnancy and the other providing companionship and emotional support — with remarkable sociological groundedness.
This relatively novel premise of girls traveling across state lines to exercise their reproductive rights gets another iteration just a few months later in Rachel Lee Goldenberg’s much sunnier and more accessible.
Those strangers — played by Giancarlo Esposito, Betty Who, Breckin Meyer, Sugar Lyn Beard and Denny Lee — get progressively more cartoonish or nonsensical, with one forcing the girls into a life-threatening chase. Thankfully, the deepening bond between Veronica and Bailey makes up for the thinness and plot-device-iness of the later supporting characters.
In her chunky black boots and slime-green hair streaks, Bailey looks like the tougher one of the pair, but she lacks her childhood BFF’s cold pragmatism. Richardson is reliably excellent, particularly in adding darker layers to Veronica’s outward brightness, but Ferreira very nearly steals the picture in a schlubby-stoner role that’s a fun contrast to her baby-sexpot character on HBO’s.
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