Paper Girls Review

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Paper Girls, the Amazon Prime adaptation of the graphic novels by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, has some fairly big shoes to fill. The Eisner Award-winning comics have received widespread acclaim both for their artwork and storytelling. While there is plenty to mine from the source material, the Paper Girls streaming series, unfortunately, often feels like it's only getting half the story right.

Four paper girls residing in Stoney Stream, Ohio (a small town just outside of Cleveland) in 1988 find themselves in the middle of a war being waged across time when they are thrust forward into the year 2019. There Erin (Riley Lai Nelet), Tiffany (Camryn Jones), KJ (Fina Strazza), and Mac (Sofia Rosinsky) meet the older version of Erin (played by Ali Wong), who they enlist to help them find their way back to their rightful place in time, all while being pursued by the Old Watch, strict enforcers of timeline integrity who will go to any lengths to prevent any time travel whatsoever.

Science Fiction Rarely Addresses This Aspect Of Interplanetary Travel

The set-up for Paper Girls is intriguing enough. Much like Stranger Things, the story focuses on sci-fi elements as seen through the eyes of 80s pre-teens. However, this being a group of girls, the entire tale is given a fresh perspective that is sorely lacking in other media. All four characters are well-defined from the get-go, even if their stories don't always serve them all that well, and the central performances help to keep the show more interesting than it might otherwise be.

Mac, in particular, is given the most satisfying arc through the eight-episode season. Sofia Rosinsky turns in a performance that is both tough and vulnerable, revealing how Mac hides her feelings