Paper Girls is not Stranger Things, it is more Stand by Me and Pacific Rim

Someone already calls it the new one Stranger Thingsbut if Paper Girls, from 29 June on Prime Video, if not, would that be bad? The sci-fi series centered on four young girls involved against their will in the war between two factions of time travelers is the transposition of a comic which saw the light in 2015, a year before the Duffer brothers’ horror debut. The author of comics Brian Vaughanformer co-creator of Y – The last man on Earth (adapted in a Disney + series) he writes trying to satisfy the needs of comic fiction as much as that of cinema or serial, perfectly aware that the potential of each of his creatures to become transmedia is inherent from the subject.

Twelve-year-old Erin is an introverted and complex girl from the town of Stony Stream, where three other peers deliver newspapers in the morning before going to school. And it is precisely at the dawn of November 1, 1988 that the rebellious Mac, the enterprising Tiffany and the wise Kj venture on their respective bicycles through the deserted streets. Before running into a group of bulliesjust before finding yourself catapulted into the heart of a bloody war between humans of the future capable of time travel. Two factions, one eager to change the worst events of the past and another, persuaded that the story of remaining unchanged, involves the girls of the newspaper, the beginning of an odyssey that will allow them to travel along the timeline and actively participate in the struggle.