Move over,Stranger Things! There’s a new series coming to Amazon Prime that features four girls traveling from 1988 to 2019. They meet their adult selves and try to figure out how to save the world and go back in time simultaneously.Paper Girls, based on the comic book series, may be the show forStranger Thingsfans to watchwhile they wait for the final season of the popular Netflix show.
Deadlineannounced Amazon Prime had made a series commitment to the adaptation in 2019, confirming the series order the following year. Quite a bit has happened in the time it’s taken to get the series out, including Stephany Folsom stepping down as one of the showrunners and executive producers last year during filming. While her name will remain on the series, she hasn’t been involved with the project directly since last July.
Despite the process,Paper Girlsis finally making its way to screens. Buckle up, just in case a time war starts waging near you, as we venture into the purple sky and tell you everything you need to know about the new series.
Paper Girls: The Plot
The synopsis provided by Amazon at this time gives the setting and the situation but doesn’t really give potential viewers much to go on. If anything, it asks more questions than answers.
It’s the day after Halloween in 1988 when four young friends accidentally stumble into an intense time war and find themselves inexplicably transported to the year 2019. When they come face-to-face with their adult selves, each girl discovers her own strengths as together they try to find a way back to the past while saving the world of the future.
Who or what is in the time war? Is this some type of multiverse-level situation? Why is there a time war? Allthe teaser trailer showsis something brewing in a purple-pink sky, but it isn’t clear what is happening. There are some darker clouds present, and all the clouds seem to be moving rapidly, but what’s causing them to move like that remains a mystery to the viewers and the four girls. The initial press release from Amazon says that what they’re seeing is “a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers” but doesn’t give any additional information on whom those time-travelers might be.
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What the synopsis doesn’t say is that these girls are just on their morning paper route, delivering the news to their neighbors when everything goes south. Is it something about the news story they’re sharing that causes the time war? Will the news they’re delivering change as they go from the future back to their present? Only the time they travel to may tell.
Paper Girls: The Cast
The new time travelers are Riley Lai Nelet as Erin Tieng, Fina Strazza as KJ Brandman, Sofia Rosinsky as Mac Coyle, and Camryn Jones as Tiffany Quilkin. Nelet is known for her role in Netflix’sAltered Carbon, while Jones voices a character in Amazon Prime’sPete the Cat. Strazza has had bit parts inMadam SecretaryandLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit. She’s also the youngest actress to ever play Matilda inMatilda the Musicalon Broadway. Rosinsky has won awards for her role in the filmThe Other Side of the Doorbut may be more recognizable from Disney Channel’sFast Layne. Ali Wong (American Housewife,Big Mouth,Always Be My Maybe) plays adult Erin.
Other cast members, based on IMDb, include Adina Porter (The 100,True Blood) as Prioress, Nate Corddry (The Circle,Mindhunter) as Larry, Kellee Stewart (Hot Tub Time Machine,All American) as Dr. Carol Quilkin, Daniel Rashid (The Rich & the Ruthless) as Heck, Maren Lord (Fear the Walking Dead) as Lauren, Marika Engelhardt (Chicago Med) as Jennifer Coyle, Meg Thalken (ER) as Meemaw, Quetta Carpenter (American Crime) as Nora Brandman, Rebecca Spence (Contagion) as Alice, Joshua L. Green (Chicago Fire) as Marcus, and Christopher Shyer (V) as Ozzie Brandman.
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Release Date
Paper Girlswill be available on Amazon Prime starting July 20, 2025. The series will consist of eight episodes.
Paper Girls Comics
The streaming show is based onthe comic book seriesof the same name consisting of 30 issues. The general plot of the series gives a better idea of where the adaptation may go. Erin is the new girl in town, starting the paper delivery job and meeting KJ, Mac, and Tiffany while on her route. As fellow paper girls, they invite her to join their group. Things get odd from there, as a chance encounter with a group of teenagers causes the middle schoolers to find a time machine. Energy from the machine causes them to move both forward and backward in time, and it all spirals from there.
Want to get a sneak peek of what could be included in Amazon Prime’s series? The first edition ofPaper Girlsisfree to read online, just in time for the show’s release.
