The flood of series is now so great that nobody can keep an eye on everything – and in 2022 a few great series slipped through that we don’t want to leave unmentioned. Amazon Prime Video’s marketing department didn’t pull through this time. Apparently. Because I’m sure one of them came up with the idea of promoting “Paper Girls” as “Stranger Things” with girls.
It wouldn’t have been too far fetched either. Finally, the series tells the story of four schoolgirls who work as newspaper deliverers in the 1980s and who find themselves in a fantastic parallel world and travel through time. The series is based on a 2016 comic by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, which won the Eisner Award for Best New Comic Series, among other awards.
And instead of trying to imitate the tone of “Stranger Things”, the comic book adaptation stays true to the template, reminds – also because of the modest budget – in its rather austere, gloomy aesthetics more of “Doctor Who” and comes across as much bulkier, less nerd- in love and actually a lot darker than the Netflix hit series – the tasteful soundtrack, in which Danzig, Pavement and New Order meet, also contributes a bit to this. (Amazon)
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