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 1988, the day after Halloween and a date known to the locals of Stony Stream – a fictional suburb of Cleveland – as Hell Day.Paper Girls Season 1 Download
At half four in the morning, when our protagonists are getting up for their paper rounds, they are less worried about the spirits who have only just fled back from whence they came than the masked and drunken louts who have not yet gone home.It is 12-year-old Chinese-American Erin’s (Riley Lai Nelet) first time out. When she is confronted with an enraged and racist customer, belligerent tomboy Mac (Sofia Rosinsky, giving off a huge Edward-Furlong-in-Terminator-2 vibe) comes to her rescue and quickly introduces her to the rest of the delivery gang: KJ Brandman (Fina Strazza), whose family name is on most of the public buildings in town, and Tiffany Quilkin (Camryn Jones), who is very into gadgets.It is Tiffany who supplies the walkie-talkies that enable them to split up and stay in touch – until one is stolen by a mysterious disfigured man.
As they give chase, the sky turns purple, lights go on the fritz, voices speaking in a strange language start coming through the remaining radio –and Mac grabs her dad’s gun for self-defence and accidentally shoots Erin in the stomach. Then they are grabbed by more mysterious strangers and taken into a steampunky craft that deposits them in a forest … in 2019.People in metallic costumes wielding laser guns stalk the wood (bad) and a swarm of robotic hornets heal Erin’s wound (good). One of the steampunky craft’s crew hands Tiff a battered device to protect before he is killed, and the girls escape to Erin’s house.