![]() Determined but nervous, she assures her Chinese mother that she’ll be fine as she sets out by bike. Set in Stony Stream, a suburb outside of Cleveland, Ohio, Erin Tieng (Riley Lai Nelet) wakes at 4:30 am for her first day as a carrier for the The Cleveland Preserver newspaper. 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. Unfortunately, they often have to overcome some very slow pacing and a time-travel arc that feels vague and less than propulsive. 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. While it’s been compared to Stranger Things, the tone of the series actually aligns more with Rob Reiner’s 1986 classic Stand By Me, just with a primarily female cast of characters. ![]() The Prime Video series faithfully carries over the core story about four paper delivery girls from the suburbs of Cleveland who stumble into a time-traveling opus that hurdles them through several years, starting in 1988 with detours to 19. ![]() ![]() Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s recent Image Comics hit of the same name. Paper Girls is the streaming series adaptation of Brian K. ![]()
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