When the government passes a new law censoring all media outlets in the United States, banning any print or media news publications without explicit presidential permission, an unlikely crew of seven high school girls, having had enough of this, decide to take matters into their own hands, unite, and generate an undercover news/community forging app disguised as a teen app called "The Girls", challenging the suppression of education, truth, and culture, sparking a teen revolution, and risking their own futures all at the same time.

SYNOPSIS:

Seven teenage girls who all go to the same high school in a Dallas, Texas suburb, become collaborators on a secret news app disguised as a girly app they create, called “The Girls”, which they all contribute to as writers, interviewers, bringing them all together as friends, one summer as they are all present at a practice baseball summer game for their, where they all meet up after they all got a news alert, or social media ping, that the US Federal government is not in charge of all major news madia outlets, forcing them all to “filter” and “clean up” the news they are allowed to put out, ensuring it is all “safe for America”.

Emma Rodriguez, from Puerto Rican decent, a politically-inclined, strong-willed and a jeans a t-shirt with red lipstick girl, is the fire under it all, with Lola Simms, the Southern belle, blonde, long legs, is the outspoken, possible “newsfluencer” of Texas, who connects most comments and happenings to pop history and entertainment, Kiera Marshall-Wong, the Japanese-American tomboy, and by far the youngest, a genius in her own right, but obsessed with sports, Mimi Watson, the quiet, German import, who is a finance and economics Einstein, Marianne Thomas, Black, the future filmmaker and Katherine Hepburn-inspired young woman, and Julie Jones, the editor, and the one who bears the brunt of the world when it comes smashing on their doors, attacking their points of view, and threatening them with expulsion, trials, and even death. These seven girls inspire one another, to be themselves, but also, see things another way, bringing them closer together, and stronger in their own right. The parents, the principal, and the boys’ characters also must come to terms with their past belief systems, cliches of what a “girl” can and cannot do, and how they will support, or silence, their daughter, sister, girlfriend, or students.

Their commitment and collaboration eventually seeps through to the boys in the school, the state, the country, and the world as well. This is something that brings all young people together, and then, the wave hits adults, and eventually, most people who have been thirsty for the news, in a new, truthful, objective, and inclusive way. With no fear mongering or hate underlying in every politician’s message on the main media outlets. It goes farther, into science, technology, math, and the future of economics, the “what if” ideas that are meandering in the ether, they bring it all to the forefront. Arts, literature, books, movements that have been overcast by powers-that-be, terrified of what would happen if people started being happy once more.

The show’s world is colorful, at times a bit poppy, firecracky, with hints of drama, action, and lots and lots of witty repartee. This show was actually inspired by a movie dear to most people, “The Sandlot”. As it ended, that afternoon, I thought to myself, what if there were girls there, watching them play, and while the boys played and got all of this attention and approval, the girls did something totally unexpected, fierce, and then, the boys would cheer them on in the end.