Amazon cancels Stranger Things-esque Paper Girls after one season

Amazon’s ’80s-set sci-fi show Paper Girls got excellent reviews, but it’s been canceled after just one season. Hopefully another network is interested.

They can’t all be original sci-fi series set in the ’80s that follow a group of precocious tweenagers and go on to become cultural phenomenons. According to SyFy Wire, Amazon has canceled its new series Paper Girls after only one season.

The show is based on a comic written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Cliff Chiang. It’s about a group of 12-year-old girls with paper routes in the 1980s who get thrown into the future and interact with their older selves. Also there’s a time war on.

The show got very strong reviews, but obviously the ratings weren’t there, or else Amazon would have brought it back for a follow-up season. With so many good sci-fi and fantasy shows on nowadays (The Sandman, House of the Dragon, The Rings of Power, etc.), perhaps Paper Girls just never found the foothold it needed.

That said, production company Legendary Television wants to shop the show around, so maybe another network or streaming service could be interested. Would it be too obvious for Netflix to pick the show up and market it as a double-header with Stranger Things? In any case, I hope it finds a home somewhere.

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