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Compelling and somewhat heartbreaking: Girls State, on Apple TV+, reviewed

6 April 2024

9:00 AM

6 April 2024

9:00 AM

Girls State

Apple TV+

Here’s a fun thought experiment: instead of entrusting the future of American democracy to one of two old men, what if you put it in the hands of 500 teenage girls instead? Girls State, the sister documentary to Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’s award-winning 2020 film Boys State, follows the events of a week-long civic engagement camp where high-schoolers create an all-female democracy from scratch.

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