Paper Girls

2022 - 7 - 29

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How to watch Paper Girls (digitalspy.com)

How to watch and stream Paper Girls full episodes online via Amazon Prime Video in the UK and US, plus trailer, release date and cast.

Paper Girls is out now on Prime Video. WATCH PAPER GIRLS ON PRIME VIDEO You will need to be a subscriber to Amazon Prime to watch Paper Girls, which currently costs £7.99 a month, or £79 for a full year – note that there will be a price increase on September 15, with the prices rising to £8.99 a month and £95 a year, so it might be worth signing up before that date to subscribe for the lower price.

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Amazon's 'Paper Girls' Could Be the Next 'Stranger Things' (Daily Beast)

The cast of the Amazon series breaks down the '80s nostalgia, the power of strong friendships, and popular graphic novels that inspired the show.

The older versions of the actress’ characters are mostly revealed later in the show. I’ve already mentioned Stranger Things twice in this piece, though none of the cast mentions the similarities in our interviews. But for Nelet, having a storied actress like Ali Wong play the older version of her character was the exact opposite. Though her character has planned her whole life out, with dreams that lead to the White House, when she finds the older version of herself (a miraculously sluggish Ali Wong), her life is in shambles. The four girls—Nelet, Fina Strazza, Sofia Rosinsky, and Camryn Jones—weren’t allowed to meet each other before filming began. “When we got super-tired, we just became super-energetic.” As the paper girls met one another, the connections were instant and intense, leading to a stellar friendship between them. They’re certainly mature for their age, but all of them keep bringing up food instead of talking about the show. I’m humbled to be able to work with her.” If you were 12 years old and had to cast an older version of yourself for a TV show, which celebrity would you choose? Just a few months later, Netflix unveiled the wildly popular first season of Stranger Things, which is certainly comparable to this new series. “Bring in Michelle Obama!” the actress demands.

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Amazon's 'Paper Girls' are 'honored' by 'Stranger Things' comparisons (INSIDER)

Camryn Jones, Riley Lai Nelet, and Fina Strazza said they learned more about the "intense hatred" that "clawed over the '80s" when filming the show.

So we wanted to do something that was anti-nostalgic, that was about recognizing we've actually made a lot of progress and it's worth pushing forward and looking ahead, not constantly dwelling in the past." We talk about the sexism and the racism and the homophobia and how a lot of people were not allowed to fit in and it was a very enlightening experience for us." "We watched a lot of fiction that views the '80s through rose-colored glasses," Vaughn said during the show's panel.

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'Paper Girls' review: Comic adaptation is more than 'Stranger Things ... (Mashable)

Four young girls on bikes in the early morning dark. One is flipping the camera. Credit: Amazon Studios/Legendary Television ...

This is the true charm of Paper Girls, right here: What would you do if you had to explain to your wide-eyed 12-year-old self why you are where you are in life? The young cast strike a good balance between seeming like kids and growing up fast as they're confronted with their own futures; Rosinsky's Mac is capital-T Tough but lets the cracks show, while Strazza keeps KJ's cards close to her chest early on and folds a potent cocktail of trauma and denial into her work in the back half of the season. The comics' giant, gory tardigrade battle on the edge of Lake Erie may have been a casualty of the VFX budget or of the simplification of the time travel mechanics. Wong imbues adult Erin with a worn-out resignation that pays off repeatedly through the season, clashing with her younger self over how to handle their situation and then sliding into furious exchanges about the direction her (their) life has taken. But that's about where the similarities to the Netflix juggernaut end — and the comparisons should end, too. And while the story begins in 1988, it would be inaccurate to say that Paper Girls is set in the '80s. Our young protagonists are '80s kids through and through; aspiring U.S. senator Erin (Riley Lai Nelet) has a dream sequence where she's facing off against Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential debate.

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Paper Girls review: Not just another Stranger Things (Radio Times)

New Amazon Prime Video sci-fi drama Paper Girls is far more than a clone of Netflix's biggest hit Stranger Things, despite the shows' similarities.

In their own way, each of the Paper Girls wants to change the world on some level. In a way, Paper Girls is the perfect Generation X parable. The production team reportedly fought hard against suggestions of ageing up the younger characters, (presumably in a bid by Amazon to capture the later-teen market, or to have one or more big-name actors in the roles), and I'm glad they stood their ground. The four girls are well-drawn from the off. With no shortage of excitement, thrills and big-ticket sci-fi moments — gigantic mecha-robot fights, tame dinosaurs, apocalyptic time-rifts open in the sky — the show manages to balance these whizz-bang scenes with rich and fulsome character development that would be at home in any top-tier drama. Paper Girls is not the same beast.

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The Ending Of Amazon Prime's Paper Girls Season 1 Explained (Looper)

An '80s setting? Check? A compelling story about the horrors of adolescence that boasts otherworldly concepts? Check. Sociopolitical commentary about the ...

If the goal of "Paper Girls" is to remind viewers that the '80s had its downsides, then frequently referencing the polarizing president who governed America for most of the decade is one way to emphasize the point. Christopher R. Rogers has already assured fans that the series has room to experiment and grow beyond the events depicted in the source material. Well, it turns out that the doc's significance to the development of time travel cannot be overstated. Toward the end of the season, we start to see changes in her character that hint toward the upcoming changes. That said, Prioress' revelations in the finale prove that there are ways to erase certain events from history, which will hopefully become clearer in the next installment of "Paper Girls." "Paper Girls" is no different in that regard, but the rules currently remain shrouded in mystery, for the most part. Basically, the goal of the series is to remind viewers that the '80s shouldn't be fondly remembered in every aspect. That said, the Amazon series takes it one step further by exposing some of the young characters to their own deaths, resulting in moments of personal reflection and existential dread that constantly linger. Prioress also informs Erin that the future can be what she makes it, suggesting that she still has time to make decisions that will lead to a more promising outcome for her down the line. "Paper Girls" is more about embracing the future than reveling in the past. Check. That said, "Paper Girls" is its own beast entirely, and Season 1 only scratches the surface of the universe's grand mythology. But that's nothing compared to the existential dilemmas that each of the girls must comprehend as the dramatic events unfold.

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Recommended: Paper Girls on Amazon Prime Video (PRIMETIMER)

What's Paper Girls About? In 1988, four 12 year-old girls are out delivering newspapers when they stumble upon a group of time traveling soldiers.

Their scenes have the sting that any of us might feel if we had to explain our worst days to our younger selves. And of course the entire story is an unsubtle allegory for left-leaning political concerns about class disparity, racial harmony, and gender roles. Obviously the girls join forces with the rebels in 2019, and obviously, adult Erin taps undiscovered strength as she suddenly becomes responsible for protecting a group of kids who have stepped out of their timeline.

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Paper Girls Season 1 Review – But Why Tho? A Geek Community (But Why Tho? A Geek Community)

Based on the Image Comics series of the same name by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, Paper Girls is a science fiction smorgasbord.

Paper Girls is a beautiful and powerful series that uses science fiction to propel questions of identity and growing up in a very real way. While the series’ cliffhanger makes Season 2 a must, Paper Girls is built by a stellar cast of young actresses that I can’t wait to see more from in the future. This ups the tension and the emotion in the series that never gets overshadowed by the mechs, the time travel, or to put it simply, the science fiction of it all. The future, as much as the Old Watch, is as much a specter of fear that grows throughout the series, and something that works perfectly. The beauty of Paper Girls is that it never loses its greatest storytelling device: a child’s perspective. Yes, this is a series about time travel and robots and pink-purple color filters that make everything otherworldly but it’s also about the process of grieving your dreams and with it, yourself.

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Amazon's 'Paper Girls' Is a Promising Adaptation of a Fantastic ... (Thrillist)

Brian K. Vaughan's time travel comic comes to Amazon Prime in the form of a live-action series. The new 'Paper Girls' series is filmed at a slower pace and ...

With any live-action version of a beloved comic, there's always a choice to make about how exactly the show or the movie ought to copy its source material. And that's really the main thing about a show like this, built for the languidness of streaming but based on a comic that gets pretty weird, pretty quickly. While chasing off what they think is a gang of teen boys intent on ruining their morning, the four girls stumble right into the middle of a time-travel war accidentally bleeding into their present from way into the far future, one side battling for the existence of time travel and the malleability of the timeline, and the other fighting to eradicate time travel forever and thus preserve events along the timeline in their current state.

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Paper Girls review – a hugely fun sci-fi caper that's like an all-female ... (The Guardian)

Paper Girls (Amazon Prime Video) is a good if unseasonal yarn. This adaptation of Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's comic-book series begins on 1 November ...

They band together first in the face of men’s aggression, and this awareness of the common dangers that connect them, even when they differ superficially and challenge each other, gives the whole thing an unusually firm grounding. The girls have become embroiled in a time-war. Then they are grabbed by more mysterious strangers and taken into a steampunky craft that deposits them in a forest … in 2019.

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Yes, 'Paper Girls' Has Kids on Bikes in the Eighties -- But It's No ... (Rolling Stone)

The Brian K. Vaughan comic from which this series is adapted not only predates Netflix's juggernaut, it leans into potent character studies over sci-fi ...

“People grow up and things change,” the older Erin explains to a younger version of herself who feels stunned and betrayed. And so many modern genre shows are too focused on plot to give you characters to invest in — a.k.a. the whole reason to put time in watching a TV show instead of the quicker experience of movies — that it feels refreshing when one of them leans this far in the other direction. But once they embrace the reality in front of them, they’ll likely enjoy it a lot. (One episode, for instance, is credited to Folsom, Rogers, and the other Halt creator, Christopher Cantwell.) It’s not just that this show is much less interested in direct homages to the films of that era. And the new show is quite good at what it sets out to do. While characters in time-travel stories usually require lots of convincing about what’s happening, the adult Tiffany accepts it almost immediately. Mostly, though, the series is excited to confront the girls with their adult selves, who are rarely what they expect. Now along comes Amazon Prime Video’s Paper Girls. The comic, written by Vaughan and illustrated by Cliff Chiang, debuted in October 2015, and dealt with a quartet of middle schoolers in the Eighties riding around on bicycles and finding themselves caught up in a science-fiction nightmare. Nor is it just that the premise revolves solely around science-fiction, with no horror components to speak of, and no images that will prompt some viewers to watch through the filter of their slightly outstretched fingers. (It did not help itself by not leaning into the specific nature of its own apocalypse, and was canceled after only one season.) It’s not just that its central quartet is female, when the bike-riding Eighties heroes tended to be boys.

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Paper Girls Review: A Singular, Satisfying Take On Girlhood And ... (/FILM)

Paper Girls is the rare comic book adaptation that both honors and improves upon the source material.

The show never beats its point home, but its vision of '80s America is a place that's clearly tough for immigrants, people of color, queer people, and the poor. "Paper Girls" also doesn't seem concerned with the social artifice that often comes with teen comedies. One of the best directing choices "Paper Girls" makes involves framing important shots on the girls' faces, trusting the actors to convey the truth of their characters' most formative moments. A character-driven series headlined by four talented young leads, "Paper Girls" is the rare comic book adaptation that both honors and improves upon the source material. Soon, the group is hurled into the future, where they recruit the help of their future selves to find a way home — and a way to avoid starting an all-out war between two dueling political groups with different ideological opinions on the ethics of time travel. This is the thought exercise that reverberates across time in "Paper Girls," a tremendously heartfelt and funny sci-fi series premiering on Prime Video today.

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Amazon's latest sci-fi Paper Girls is Stranger Things meets Doctor Who (digitalspy.com)

Strap on your helmet, the Paper Girls are about to take you on the paper route of your life!

The spectrum of what it means to be female is also explored through these girls and guess what? Where it stumbles into Doctor Who territory is only partly to do with the time-travel aspect. Literally, they ride (bicycles) together and are willing to risk their lives for one another in a way that mirrors the Hawkins gang. Yet here Sofia Rosinsky's foul-mouthed Mac is free to be herself without explanation. They're strong, central, intriguing female characters, where historically they would have been accessories to the main story. The girls spend so little time in their actual era you begin to question if it should even be billed as an '80s show.

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Will There Be a Season 2 of 'Paper Girls'? Cast Talk Potential ... (Distractify)

Based on the popular sci-fi comics by Brian Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, Paper Girls is a show following a group of adolescent girls who get accidentally ...

“I think that the show definitely takes its own creative liberties," Fina added. "So I think that when she finds out [she’s gay], it's shocking, but she kind of knew it was coming, I think.” Unfortunately, at this time there is no confirmation as to whether or not Paper Girls has been renewed for a second season.

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Interview: Paper Girls Actor Camryn Jones Says 'Sci-Fi Is in My Blood' (Game Rant)

Get to know Camryn Jones from Prime Video's Paper Girls! We spoke about SDCC, her character Tiffany Quilkin, the best crafty snacks, and more.

If it's a regular day, I will come home and go to the fridge to find some food, if I didn't take a to-fo Box in a drink from crafty [craft services] and then I will go back to my room and I'll either open a book or I'll play video games like Killer Instinct or GTA. If my family's there, I'll talk to them. If it’s a school day, I'll finish my homework and then I'll go to bed. I'll give you a regular day and I'll give you the night shoot. We might have a family movie night, and then I'll either read more before I go to bed or I'll knit and crochet. Now, I like to watch shows like The Umbrella Academy and I watch all the Marvel miniseries, and the movies. Jones: Not only did I make friends with the girls, and the other actors, I made friends with the crew, the directors, and everybody. Then I got the audition and I automatically fell in love with it when I read the bio. After my first audition and my callback, I read the first book. I actually went to see it with my Paper Girls costars. My dad had a lot of comic books growing up, and he was a big Marvel and DC person. It was really cool to be able to experience everything. I still talk with a lot of the crew today.

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Paper Girls: Season 1 Review - IGN (IGN)

Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's Paper Girls gets adapted into a faithful series. Paper Girls: Season 1 Review Image. Tara Bennett ...

There is certainly a lot of expansion from the comic book in regards to the lives of the four girls, which is welcome. Theirs are some of the best scenes in the back half of the season. However, it drives the plot of the story, so how much you connect to the time mythology is going to be directly related to how patient you are with the show’s slow drip of discovery that comes over the course of eight hours, and how much you really love time-travel paradox stories. Each year they get stuck in gives the storyline a bit of a reboot as they have to band together anew to get resourceful about keeping themselves alive and figuring out how to get home. As with all time-travel tales, the rules and minutiae of the premise change based on the individual needs of the story. All of them succumb and end up relatively disappointed in how their future selves have handled their lives. Paper Girls spends the majority of the season allowing the girls, Older Erin, and others to piece together the specifics of how it happens and determining that it’s a by-product of a ongoing “time war” in the future between the Old Watch, who wants no unauthorized time travel to retain one pure timeline, and STF Underground, who are rebels trying to peel the corrupt power away from those in charge. And it’s those girls in the title who are the standouts of this adaptation, embodied by four young actresses who are all exceptional in selling the realness of their characters and the growing relationships between them. But after the initial shock, she allows them to stay as they try to piece together what is happening, and why. The two end up connecting with other paper girls – tough girl Mac Coyle (Sofia Rosinsky) and rich girl KJ Brandman (Fina Strazza) – forming a loose alliance against the older teen boys harassing them in the wake of Hell Night. When Tiff’s new walkie talkie is stolen, the girls go to a construction site to get it back and the weirdness begins. Tiff is the assured intellect of the group while KJ is the peacemaker. Season 1 consists of eight episodes, with the first one, “Growing Pains,” doing a lot of the heavy lifting to establish tone, relationships, and basic mythology.

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Paper Girls Review: Prime Video Adaptation Delivers (Den of Geek)

Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's acclaimed comics series is brought to life in riveting fashion by Prime Video.

Despite some slight shortcomings, Paper Girls is a series that manages to be a satisfying adaptation of its printed self while also taking the story to bold new places. Less successful is the stiff direction of the pilot, an hour of television that has the burden of introducing our characters and throwing them into a conflict. (There’s a surprisingly cheapness to the first two episodes that is quickly forgotten once the narrative starts bringing to life some of the comic’s literally huge moments as the story progresses). The ability to generate deep rumination about one’s life is a staple of great science fiction, and it is something that Paper Girls excels at. The performances are across the board excellent, marking the latest casting coup of unknowns from Amazon. (Expect Paper Girls to be the group costume this Halloween if the show takes off). The main thing working against Paper Girls — Amazon’s mostly excellent TV adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s multiple Eisner-winning Image Comics series — is Stranger Things. Seeing how both chronicle the adventures of 1980s pre-teens who are unwittingly thrust into supernatural conflicts in which the fate of humanity is at stake, some comparisons are bound to arise.

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Paper Girls review: the Amazon series takes too long to get fun and ... (The Verge)

Paper Girls, a live-action adaptation of the comic from Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, comes to Amazon Prime Video on July 29th.

As it stands, Paper Girls feels like it could be the start of something cool. The best thing about the show is the girls themselves. The story ends in an interesting place, and if Amazon takes some of that Lord of the Rings budget to spruce things up, there’s a lot of potential. The day is important because, in the wee hours of the morning while the girls are biking through the neighborhood, there are still rowdy teens prowling the streets in search of kids to terrorize. (It’s not even a Fire Phone! The show also misses a perfect opportunity for an Alexa joke.) Sometimes the sky turns pink, but mostly, it looks like any other midbudget sci-fi series. Unfortunately, the other side of the equation, the sci-fi story, doesn’t hold up as well. It takes a long time to get to that point, though. It isn’t until the finale that Paper Girls really shows why it’s interesting — and you have to wade through eight very uneven episodes to get to that point. The girls don’t necessarily care about any of this. Whereas Paper Girls the comic is vibrant and colorful thanks to colorist Matt Wilson, Paper Girls the show often looks bland and cheap, particularly when it comes to the CGI and the futuristic outfits and locations. Overall, the show is just really well cast; the kids even look like their comic book counterparts. One travels through the years in order to fix things and improve life for humanity, while the other believes in keeping the timeline pure and thus goes about erasing the other side’s hard work.

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Paper Girls Series-Premiere Recap: Hell Day (Vulture)

The first episode of Prime Video's new series 'Paper Girls,' adapted from Brian K. Vaughan's comic, is sort of like 'Stranger Things' meets a PG-13 version ...

One of the white coats closes in on the four girls and Tiff considers trading that piece of tech — which the man seems VERY interested in — in exchange for their lives. The girls confront the cloaked guys in the basement of some new construction and realize they are not who they thought they were — their faces are scarred and they’re speaking a language none of them recognize. There’s someone else in the house and she threatens to call the cops, but it’s not Erin’s mother. Erin has a trippy dream about Ronald Reagan (the ’80s, baby!) and when she comes to, the guys in cloaks are leading them all off of some sort of small ship. The pilot is so efficient in that it drops you right into this world and very quickly you get a picture of who these girls are and how they might function as a unit. Tiff is convinced it must be the Russians. Remember kids, the ‘80s seem fun and all, but they were also full of paranoia about a nuclear apocalypse, so, like, it kind of evens out. They don’t really have time to process any of that because outside, the sky has turned pink, there’s a giant storm cloud that cannot mean anything good, and perhaps most off-putting: Everyone else in town seems to have disappeared. Mac, the first girl to get a paperboy route from The Cleveland Preserver, comes from the other side of town, and when we first meet her at 4:30 a.m., she’s stealing a pack of cigarettes off her passed out step-mother and lying to her brother about taking his walkman. And if you’re here because you assumed this series is about the evolution of the newspaper in America or some gender-flipped version of Newsies, um, buckle up. Rounding out the crew is KJ. Consider her the Sporty Spice (she is never without her field hockey stick). Her family is wealthy and well-known in town and she’s currently in a battle with her mom because she would rather die than wear the pink frilly dress her mother has picked out for her bat mitzvah. It’s hard enough being a 12-year-old girl — you’re getting confusingly close to that “not a girl, not yet a woman” stage in life — but add being thrown into the middle of a centuries-old war over time itself on top of that and you’ve really got yourself a stressful situation. Welcome to Paper Girls! If you’re watching the series because you’re a fan of Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s comic-book series, you are not alone!

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All The Differences Between the 'Paper Girls' Comics and the New ... (Cosmopolitan.com)

Love the 'Paper Girls' comics and want to know Amazon Prime Video TV show changes? Here are the 14 differences between the 'Paper Girls' comics and TV show.

In both the comics and the TV show, a character becomes the first in the group to get her period as they are traveling through time. In the TV show, there is only one robot on each side, and everyone is able to see them. In the comics though, they don't end up in the citadel together (only Erin does) and they don't travel via different pods. One of the biggest plot points in both mediums is KJ's sexuality. Tiffany in 1999 is an MIT dropout, more of a raver, and only has a boyfriend whom she doesn't see herself marrying. In fact, you don't even see the dinos the Old-Timers use until the very end of the show. In the TV show, the girls are given the device for safekeeping by Heck and Naldo before they die. In the TV show, the map is used to tell them where to find the robot on Larry's farm. Meanwhile, Dylan only appears briefly in the comics, but he doesn't meet Mac in the future after her death. The map leads them to the mall and other spots to find the folds. KJ's field hockey stick allows the girls to get a message across to not trust the other Erin, who wants to scatter them around the timeline to separate them. Here are 14 differences between the Paper Girls comics and the new TV series on Prime Video.

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Paper Girls Recap: Let's Go to the Mall! (Vulture)

In the second episode of 'Paper Girls,' Erin, KJ, Tiff, and Mac learn how different 2019 is from 1988 — and that the futures they imagined for themselves ...

KJ tries to make a personal appeal, explaining how she gets bullied at school for being Jewish. She also has that heart-to-heart with Erin in which she apologizes for, uh, shooting her (“I’m sorry I shot you, it won’t happen again,”) and commends her on how tough she acted throughout the entire ordeal. She discovers that her house has been knocked down and that her dipshit older brother Dylan is now a doctor. She wonders why she was the one who reacted with such violence and not one of the other girls. Hearing them reminisce about nice memories at the mall only makes her feel embarrassed about what she doesn’t have and so tears into each one of the girls — calling KJ “the psycho who killed a guy with a hockey stick” is gut-wrenching to watch — before announcing that she’s going off to find her brother and she’ll stay with him. In the midst of being shot at and ripped from 1988 only to be plopped in 2019, Erin, KJ, Tiff, and Mac are confronting who they are — sometimes internally, as they reckon with the decisions they are making in a time of crisis, and sometimes quite literally, as they meet their future selves. All of this is compounded by the fact that here, in 2019, her mother is recently deceased. Equally as cutting is adult Erin’s reminder that they’re the same person and she started quitting things a long time ago. Instead of a self-assured U.S. senator who is married with four kids and lives next door to her sister and best friend Missy, Erin discovers a Xanax-popping paralegal who lives alone, doesn’t speak to Missy much anymore, and ran away and hid in her room at the first sign of trouble. That whole “You are literally the worst version of how my life could’ve gone” is going to sting for a while. If the pilot episode of Paper Girls is all about giving people a look at the action they can expect with the series, the second episode slows things down and reveals the emotional center of the show. This is the last straw for Erin, who stops the passive-aggressive act toward her older self and goes full-on aggressive. Like, give her a minute to digest the insanity that is taking place, kid!

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Amazon Prime's Paper Girls review: A beautifully written time-travel ... (Polygon)

The Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's comic Paper Girls is out today, and the release date is a perfect time to read our ...

Save for a few fun visual effect moments pertaining to a dinosaur’s monstrous mouthbeak, Paper Girls the show suffers from dully lit locations and underwhelming visions of the future. It’s hard not to wonder what kind of visual magic might’ve happened on screen if the show had a Stranger Things budget, or if the live-action proceedings were animated instead of rendered in the flesh. The tensions of the show can be felt more tangibly during the emotional excavations performed by the girls themselves, as they strive to become bigger than the unsatisfactory futures they’ve witnessed play out in front of them. What made Vaughan and Chiang’s comic series so lovable, aside from the characters at the heart of it, was the erratic visual excess of every page, a cotton-candy fever dream of neon hues and dazzling machinery. And while the politics of said war remain shadowed in obscurity, the girls become enemy number one simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Also great is Jones as Tiffany, a strong-minded brainiac with dreams of MIT and valedictorian speeches. Not friends but also not strangers, the girls adopt a buddy system on their routes to help avoid altercations with aggressive neighborhood boys, until, in the middle of an escape, they chance upon… This isn’t to say that the other girls aren’t handed their fair share of growing pains. For Mac, a troubled, tough-talking wannabe punk doing her best Jane Lane cosplay, happiness looks like household stability and a guarantee that food will be present on the table for her at night. The hard pill response to all of these inquiries is the echo of one’s own asking. Such is the conundrum at the center of Paper Girls: Why is my older self so extraordinarily dull? How come my older self’s apartment lacks the presence of a Nobel Prize, or even a laundry unit?

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Paper Girls Review (Game Rant)

A strong cast and thoughtful themes don't quite elevate Paper Girls above its most basic flaws.

Much of the conflict in the show comes from how the characters grapple with the future and the revelations of their fates. Even if the finale leaves something to be desired, this is a series that deserves at least a second season, if only to try and course-correct some of the shortcomings present in its premiere. Where Paper Girls really shines is how it explores the theme of time, particularly in how drastically things and people can change over the course of years. While Riley Lai Nelet works well with what she is given, Erin's journey often feels like an afterthought, even though she is the first character introduced in the premiere episode, and serves as the audience surrogate into the world of paper delivery. The set-up for Paper Girls is intriguing enough. 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.

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Review: Amazon's time-traveling 'Paper Girls' is a show that takes ... (USA TODAY)

That's because the Amazon drama, based on the comic books by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, is set in the 1980s, has a science-fiction premise and preteen ...

It takes place in a world where young girls are the heroes of their own stories, which might as well be science fiction. While on the run and stranded in time, one of the girls gets her first period. The new series (now streaming, ★★★ out of four), follows four 12-year-old girls who are swept up in a time-traveling war that leads to adventure, timey-wimey (to quote "Doctor Who") science fiction and, most importantly, deep conversations with their future selves. The series begins in the wee hours of the morning of Nov. 1, 1988, when four newspaper delivery girls run headfirst into a battle of a legendary time-traveling war. "Girls" is ambitious, sometimes to a fault. That's because the Amazon drama, based on the comic books by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, is set in the 1980s, has a science-fiction premise and preteen protagonists on vintage bicycles.

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Amazon's 'Paper Girls' Adaptation Deserves Better Than the ... (Variety)

'Paper Girls,' Amazon's adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan's popular comics, is more than its superficial similarities to 'Stranger Things.'

Those who are tuning in to “Paper Girls” for the sci-fi mystery of it all might find themselves frustrated toward the middle of the season. After all, there’s no use traveling through time if you don’t care about who you’re traveling with, and so “Paper Girls” does everything it can to make sure you do. Yes, “Paper Girls” also opens in the 1980s with four 12-year-olds on bikes who end up tackling otherworldly forces way bigger than themselves. With the four leads barely knowing each other at the start of their journey, the show forces them to build their friendships from scratch. When the series kicks off on November 1, 1988 with the quartet taking on the dreaded post-Halloween paper route, Erin (Riley Lai Nelet) is simply “new girl” to the others, who in turn have only occasionally crossed each other’s paths. As written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Cliff Chiang (both executive producers on this show), the original “Paper Girls” comics developed a devoted fanbase thanks to its sharp characterization, unsparing twists, and Chiang’s angular imagery rendered in fluorescent pinks and blues by colorist Matt Wilson. The Amazon adaptation, which premiered its first eight-episode season on July 29, picks and chooses its moments to follow suit.

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Prime Video's Paper Girls is a Thrilling, Surprising Time Travel ... (Roger Ebert)

A review of the new Prime Video series, Paper Girls.

It's more about getting to know these girls and the surprise paths they take, decades away from their paper delivery gigs or the people that they thought they would become. “Paper Girls” is a story that constantly shifts in an exciting fashion, but maintains its gravity while moving through different eras and developments thanks to its great young cast. Throughout the episodes, the show is also careful to give its characters real dreams and trajectories; it provides them a certain edge. This meeting of the two Erins brings up a lot of feelings between the two, but also launches a journey to look into a certain piece of time travel hardware that confuses them all. Based on the graphic novels by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Cliff Chiang, “Paper Girls” takes a wild route to become a time travel adventure, starting off initially as watching four girls work their paper route on Hell Day, the morning after Halloween in 1998. Premiering today in full, “Paper Girls” only looks on the cover like Prime Video’s answer to “Stranger Things,” though that image could help it get the viewers it deserves.

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The <em>Paper Girls</em> Season 1 Soundtrack Is Full of Time ... (menshealth.com)

Like Stranger Things, Amazon Prime Video's new sci-fi series Paper Girls—based on the acclaimed comic series by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Cliff Chiang— ...

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PAPER GIRLS' Tiffany Quilkin Is Still the Real MVP in Live-Action (Nerdist)

Tiffany Quilkin from Paper Girls is an incredible comic character. And she makes her mark on TV as leader teaching valuable lessons.

And then when you promised to take us home, you left us trapped here in 1999 and a woman died… But, no matter what, Tiffany Quilkin will be a hero in my book in all her iterations. You are children and it is totally okay to freak out and be upset.) She realizes that they didn’t ask to be there, but they have to do something to save themselves. I didn’t want to be a lawyer. I couldn’t wait to see Tiffany in live-action with her walkie-talkies and her determination to get s**t done. But, like her older self says, be flexible, take time to blast Whitney Houston, and just be. Because just seeing you again, let alone having to ask you for help, makes me sick to my stomach.” Tiffany continues to be one of my favorite comic characters of all-time. And, as you evolve as a person, you discover new depths of your love for certain characters and storylines. After seeing Cliff Chiang’s brilliant artwork, I naturally gravitated towards Tiffany. She was the kind of character I always sought as a kid: a bold Black girl who wasn’t afraid to get into the action. There’s the thrill of reading it the first time as you escape into a new world, allowing its magic to overtake you. She wasn’t just a placeholder character or someone who only existed to further the story of her white counterparts.

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'Paper Girls' comics creators break down what TV show changes (Los Angeles Times)

Erin Tieng (Riley Lai Nelet), left, Tiffany Quilkin (Camryn Jones) and Mac Coyle (Sofia Rosinsky) in “Paper Girls.” (Anjali Pinto / Prime Video).

It’s such a great scene because it really encapsulates all the discovery you make at that age, being 12, and finding things out about yourself and what you want to become.” Her work involves trying to maintain the sanctity of the timeline, which in the comics includes the occasional giant mecha robot fight. In the comics, Mac learns her future self has already died when she heads to what should be her family home and encounters a stranger. But both comics creators agree that “what [the show] preserves is the emotional road map of the story,” and they welcomed the “expansion of the original idea” as long as it remained true to the heart of their story. Because the series doesn’t exactly follow the time-travel itinerary set in the comics, KJ learns about her future in a completely different way. Prioress (Adina Porter) and her allies are from the future, but not as far in the future as the teenagers of the STF who don’t believe in restrictions to time travel. It felt so organic to everything we were trying to pull off in the comics.” As a viewer of this show, I want to be surprised even though I wrote this thing.” They want the freedom to change history, and Larry believes in their cause. “One of the great things about having 12-year-old protagonists is that at 12, you’re really feeling things so intensely, and you’re starting to ask yourself, who do I want to become?” said Chiang in a recent video call. “We didn’t want to do something that was about looking back at the ’80s with rose-colored glasses,” said Vaughan. The book takes “a hard look at this difficult place we came from. Vaughan and Chiang, who served as executive producers on the adaptation, explained that they shared notes detailing extensive backstories, as well as the art and visual inspirations, early on in the adaptation process but encouraged the team to make changes to make the show’s story their own.

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How Does the Paper Girls TV Series Compare to the Comics? (ELLE.com)

The original comic book series by Vaughn and Cliff Chiang follows four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls from 1988: Erin Tieng, Tiffany Quilkin, MacKenzie “ ...

In the comics, a device shows her a future version of herself kissing Mac, and that is how she comes to terms with her sexuality. Even with these differences, the spirit and feeling of the original Paper Girls series are still captured in the show. Mac in both the comics and the show is supposed to die by age 16 of cancer. In the show, the truth of her adoption is revealed by her adult self. In the comics, we get kid Erin, adult Erin, and clone Erin. The clones play an important role in the story because they help explain why the paper girls are special: When the girls first encountered Heck and Naldo’s spaceship, it encrypted their DNAs, making them—and anyone sharing their DNA—invisible to the Old-Timers. The adaptation does feature a time war, but the names of the sides have changed. What makes Paper Girls special is that in a sea of comic books that primarily focus on the male experience, it focuses on what it’s like to be a teenage girl going through changes—all while surviving and stopping a time war. Both the show and the comic begin the same exact way. The story explores girls’ sexuality in a way that is not exploitative, as well as friendship and first periods. The Old-Timers prove to be formidable antagonists with outrageous methods: They kill people with dinosaurs, time travel on a zeppelin, and send some of the scariest and fiercest warrior cops after the girls to send them back home and lobotomize their brains so they don’t remember time traveling. However, after speaking to the creators of the book, and ultimately watching the show, skeptics like me might be interested in giving the show a fair shot. The Old-Timers seek to strictly follow the rules of time travel and keep history as it was.

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