prime video is killing it
i haven’t posted on tumblr in literal years but decided to come back to scream about two new shows on Prime Video: Paper Girls and A League of Their Own. i will try to keep it short because i could literally talk about both of these shows forever, but guys PLEASE WATCH THESE SHOWS ASAP.
Paper Girls is about 4 girls that accidentally get stuck time traveling and they’re trying to make their way back to their original timeline, while time traveling they come across their future selfs (one who is played by ALI WONG) and… dinosaurs? Yeah this show has a little bit of everything. Paper Girls consists of one season that’s 8 episodes and the runtime for the season isn’t more than about 5 hours cause the episodes are short so it’s an extremely easy binge watch especially after watching the first episode, you’ll be hooked right away.
Now that I have the plot down LET’S TALK ABOUT THE DIVERSITY IN THIS SHOW BECAUSE BOY DOES IT MAKE ME HAPPY!!! Paper Girls has a Black main character, Chinese main character, a Jewish character who’s a LESBIAN!! and ANOTHER lesbian main character. The writers do a great job at making it known that these characters don’t exist JUST for diversity points, each 4 characters are extremely fleshed out and the character development for each one of them is just so good.
Paper Girls will have you laughing, smiling, crying and surprisingly enough it will have you asking yourself many tough questions. It may seem like a show for kids, but I promise you it’s so much more than that.
Now as for A League of Their Own, I’ve never watched the movie with Tom Hanks but this series was also amazing. It’s about a group of women that decide to join a baseball team while other men and women are fighting a war. This cast is amazing and all did a great job at portraying their characters, probably one of my favorite ensemble casts this year.
A League of Their Own is very very very gay. Multiple members of the LGBT+ community were greatly represented in a way that shows how it used to be back in the day, but not making it hard to watch, yeah it got tough at times since the show takes place during a time where being gay was still a crime, but it wasn’t too heavy for viewers in my opinion. The show also highlights how it was for Black women and Black people during a time where they were legally allowed to be in spaces with white people, but just because it was legal it didn’t mean that white people wanted them there.
This is getting a little too long so let me wrap this up by saying to please tune in for both Paper Girls and A League of Their Own on Prime Video, these shows were extremely needed and the people that have watched it so far have had nothing but positive things to say about both of them. Don’t forget to also talk about these shows after watching so that more and more people get to talking about it. I know we’re still hurt by multiple recent cancellations, but let’s not lose these two very important shows too.
