Streaming this week: Fun, light look at political media

If you liked The West Wing and Scandal and stories about journalism, The Girls on the Bus might just be your jam.

It's not a perfect show, at least not to start, and it has some obvious dialogue, but it's engaging, the characters are interesting and it moves along at a good pace.

The story follows four journalists who form part of the media pack following a US presidential candidate through her campaign.

There's idealistic print journo Sadie (a perky Melissa Benoist, Supergirl), veteran print journo Grace (Carla Gugino, The Fall of the House of Usher, elevating everything she touches as usual), conservative TV reporter Kimberlyn (an impressive Christina Elmore, The Last Ship) and TikTok creator Lola (newcomer Natasha Behnam, One-Night).

They each have different approaches to their job and the candidate, and have vastly different audiences.

It's a light, easily digestible way to look at the current media landscape and the state of US politics.

It's inspired by the novel Chasing Hillary and is from The Vampire Diaries' executive producer Julie Plec.

New Aussie comedy Population 11 does what Aussie TV does best - surrounds a main character with the strangest mix of oddbods and lets the action unfold around them.

From the very start our protagonist Andy (American Ben Feldman, Superstore) meets a local cop who wants to breathalyse without a breathalyser, before almost being run over by the local publican and accused of being an FBI or CIA representative by the local conspiracy theorist.

Andy's in town to find his dad, who happens to be missing, and track down some cash - what the deal is with the cash is unclear from the start.

As he hangs around town longer Andy gets tangled up in various incidents and personality clashes, and makes an ally.

It's fun and zippy.

Also stars Stephen Curry.

Another series adapted from a novel by Aussie author Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers) has arrived, and this one's a little less prestige and a little more melodramatic than its predecessors. Apples Never Fall follows the disappearance of Joy Delaney (Annette Bening), matriarch of a tennis-obsessed family with more than a few secrets. Set in Florida despite being filmed in Australia, the series slowly reveals more about each of the grown-up Delaney children, and father/husband Stan (Sam Neill) - and they all have things to hide. It takes a while to get engaged in this one, but by the time you're in episode four or five you are invested enough to finish and find out what happened.

Lindsay Lohan is back with a new Netflix romcom, released to align with St Patrick's Day, and it's just as shoddy as you're imagining.

Despite a strong performance from the romantic lead (Ed Speleers) who's trying his darnedest to work up some chemistry, this Irish-set film is a hot mess.

But, if you're a LiLo fan, it's not going to be the worst thing you've ever watched (that'd be I Know Who Killed Me).

Lohan's character wishes she was the one marrying her colleague Paul, instead of her friend, and a meddlesome Irish saint grants it.

Expect much cringe.