REVIEW: The Amazon series ‘Paper Girls,’ based on Brian K. Vaughan’s 2015 comic, is set in the Eighties and has kids on bikes. But there’s plenty that sets it apart from that other show about kids on bikes in the Eighties.
. 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. Less than a year later, Netflix launched its own homage to the Eighties’ “kids on bikes” subgenre, andnow risks appearing like a rip-off. gets going. It’s not just that its central quartet is female, when the bike-riding Eighties heroes tended to be boys.
And the new show is quite good at what it sets out to do. It just won’t necessarily scratch the itch forviewers preparing for another long hiatus, and looking to embrace a show that could be sold as, “What if kids on bikes, but this time they’reFrom left: Riley Lai Nelet as Erin Tieng, Sofia Rosinsky as Mac Coyle, Camryn Jones as Tiffany Quilkin, Fina Strazza as KJ Brandman.The story begins in the wee hours of November 1, 1988.
Tiffany is immediately all about finding a way back, while the other girls can’t help being curious about how their individual futures have turned out., primarily adapted by Stephany Folsom, largely sides against poor Tiffany in this dichotomy. There’s periodic discussion of the time war — including Nate Corddry playing a corn farmer named Larry who is wrapped up in the conflict — and even occasional glimpses of ray guns, robots, dinosaurs, and other signposts of such an era-spanning adventure.
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