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. 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.
