If there is one thing Paper Girls excels at, it is the core theme that children rarely grow up to become the best version of themselves. Tiffany (Camryn Jones), our resident genius, knows she will est…
‘Paper Girls’ 1×05 review: “A New Period” hits most of its marks
Time travel is one of the most challenging science fiction concepts to capture in a television series. For every Quantum Leap and Doctor Who, there is a Timecop waiting to screw it all up. The subgenr…
‘Paper Girls’ 1×04 review: “It Was Never About the Corn” blossoms into a solid exploration of girlhood
A couple of weeks ago, I would not have recommended Paper Girls. Episode 1 was so terrible that I wanted to stop watching the show and chuck my laptop into the Fraser River. Yet after watching the fir…
Paper Girls’ 1×03 review: “Blue Tongues Don’t Lie” takes the sci-fi series out of academic probation
I agreed with veteran writer and showrunner of The Boys Eric Kripke when he said in an interview with Vulture that television shows need to stop portraying themselves as a “ten-hour movie.” Gran…
‘Paper Girls’ 1×02 review: “Weird Al Is Dead,” but the YA drama is alive and kicking
Okay, Paper Girls. I see you. Thanks to writers Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers’s well-grounded script, the science fiction drama vastly improves in Episode 2. Instead of focusing on sh…
‘Paper Girls’ 1×01 review: “Growing Pains” has some growing to do
Paper Girls has a lot to overcome as it separates itself from Stranger Things. Like the hit Netflix series, the science fiction drama follows four preteens as they entangle themselves with supernatura…
Get Ready For ‘Dune’: Best Recent Science Fiction YA Books
Science fiction allows us to explore different worlds, galaxies, and other wonderfully strange things. In anticipation of the big screen adaptation of the sci fi classic, Dune, here are some of our re…