Astrid & Lilly Save the World embraces the weirdness of high school supernatural slayers

polygon.com:

With big Buffy-sized shoes to fill in the high school students slay monsters genre, the creators of SyFy’s new series opted to take the template and make it weird. Very weird. Astrid and Lilly Save the World centers on two high school outcasts, who turn into unlikely heroes when they have to save their town from flesh-eating monsters.

“It takes the [Buffy] model and turns it on its head,” said Astrid & Lilly Save the World showrunner Noelle Stehman to SyFy.

Astrid and Lilly don’t know much about actually slaying monsters, but they do have seasons worth ofLaw and Order knowledge to help them get to the bottom of this mystery, as well as some bizarre superpowers. While some pieces of the first episode come straight from the high school media playbook, the quirky comedy shows a lot of promise with it’s zany humor and delightfully weird main characters.

Astrid & Lilly Save the World is a coming-of-age supernatural comedy, about — as you might expect — Astrid (Jana Morrison) and Lilly (Samantha Aucoin). They’re outcasts in their high school, but at least they have each other! And after accidentally ripping open a portal to another dimension, they also have people-eating monsters trickling into their world. Astrid and Lilly are the only ones who can hunt down the monsters and close the portal, before their small town becomes an all-you-can-eat buffet.

The SyFy show comes from co-creators Noelle Stehman and Betsy Van Stone, who previously worked together on YouTube mini series Clean Freaks.

In the pilot, we meet spunky Astrid and Lilly, misfits among their peers, but bonded by their love of detective shows. They have a nightly ritual of driving around and spying on the popular kids … for science! But after summoning the