Amazon's 'Paper Girls' is the perfect antidote to the bloated fourth season of 'Stranger Things'
) and illustrated by veteran artist Cliff Chiang, tells a more focused, character-driven story that is particularly refreshing on the heels of the Netflix epic’s bloated fourth season.Prime Videointroduces its central foursome on the precipice of adolescence. Erin is wrapped up in family obligations, as the designated translator for her Chinese-immigrant mother. Tough-talking, secretly tenderhearted Mac comes from a troubled home and aspires to be just like her delinquent older brother.
The girls all harbor visions of a future that is better than the present, whether that means becoming President or just escaping the expectations of parents who don’t understand who their daughters really are. But when their cataclysmic post-Halloween morning leads to a journey through time, into 2019 and beyond, each gets a glimpse at a future that forces her to reevaluate the present.
and Nate Corddry, the show’s highlight is its young, mostly unknown leads. Along with sensitive depictions of pubescent rites of passage, a soundtrack that moves gracefully between different decades and styles of pop music, and evocative production design that resembles Chiang’s artwork more than Disney’s latest CGI simulacrum, these emotional performances ground the sci-fi epic in the recognizable details of growing up.
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