Who run the world? Girls!
Prime Video’s Paper Girls is sure to bring out the badass woman inside of you.
At the surface, the series is a coming of age show that follows four young girls in 1988 — Erin, Mac, Tiffany, and KJ — who are caught in the crossfire of a war between time-travelers. Transported into the future, the girls come face to face with their “future” selves, and have to find a way back to the past, before they get hunted by a militant faction of time-travelers.
“In order to survive, the girls will need to overcome their differences and learn to trust each other, and themselves,” Amazon Studios describes the show.
But at its core, it represents so much more than that.
For starters, Paper Girls has four female leads, Fina Strazza as KJ, Camryn Jones as Tiffany, Riley Lai Nelet as Erin and Sofia Rosinsky as Mac Coyle. If you look at the entire cast, it’s made up of mostly women.
“Paper girls is definitely a show that highlights women in a way that we feel like haven’t been highlighted before,” Strazza, 15, told Celeb Secrets reporter Blakely McHugh at Entertainment Weekly’s Comic-Con Bash in San Diego last Saturday.
“I think my favorite part was [the] female empowerment,” Riley Lai Nelet, 14, added. “We had a lot of women on set and it was just very empowering and inspiring to be a part of.”
It also highlights women doing a job that was typically done by men. If you paid attention at all in history class, the word “Paperboy” probably rings a bell. Dating back to the Great Depression, young boys, known as “Paperboys,” would deliver newspapers to each home in their neighborhood rain or shine.
Writer Brian K. Vaughan previously told Entertainment Weekly the inspiration for Paper Girls came from a real life experience.
“Growing up in the suburbs of Cleveland, there was one year when I was around 12, where all of the paper boys in our neighborhood were suddenly replaced by paper girls,” Vaughan told EW. “I just thought it was so badass that these 12-year-old children were going out at 4 a.m. to deliver bad news to adults… I thought, ‘this is such an interesting group of young women. They would make a great heart of a story.’”
And so the story blossomed.
Originally a 30-issue comic series published in back in 2005, Paper Girls now has TV adaptation airing on Prime Video beginning today (July 29).
“I really love that we have the potential to be role models for girls and inspire them to take agency in their own lives,” Camryn Jones, 15, said.
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