Sometimes their assignments don’t turn out as originally promised - seeing them adjust on the fly helps underline what each values out of this unusual business arrangement. The pair’s chemistry with Bowser has enough of the begrudging mentor/mentee spirit while still leaving enough room for all three to learn about each other over time. As a team, these three are efficient in all the ways that the show needs them to be. Instead, the structure of “Teenage Bounty Hunters” coalesces around a Perp of the Week approach, with Bowser, Sterling, and Blair using their combined wherewithal to track down wanted criminals. They understand how some people draw strength from faith but are also presented with the structural ways that some use those same beliefs to restrict behavior.Įven over the course of the 10-episode season, those ideas are closer to regular observations than a core pillar of the show. The two love their family, but recognize how they help uphold the not-explicitly-exclusionary nature of their social club. Like the way the show follows them through life at their religious private school or their family’s well-to-do Georgian social circle, “Teenage Bounty Hunters” doesn’t quite revel in those worlds as much as use them as chances for Blair and Sterling to see the inherent disconnect within them. When the sisters see what Bowser’s job truly entails, they’re both excited to contribute and understandably reticent on other levels.
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Despite the concise way that the title brings those ideas together (and slightly edited from its original name, no less), the show is not quite as successful at getting all of Blair and Sterling’s exploits to gel as a series. That persists whether they’re trying to navigate the tricky waters of high-school crushes or fledgling undercover detective work.
Whether it’s in the pair’s occasional twin telepathy side conversations or in the regular day-in-review chatter, having these sisters who clearly care about each other is worth recommending the show all on its own. Have them at each other’s throats all the time and it becomes repetitive.īut with Phillips and Fellini as anchors, “Teenage Bounty Hunters” avoids that problem altogether. Make the two too trusting of each other and you lose any sense of tension.
A central relationship around a close family bond needs a certain kind of calibration. Especially in the case of “ Teenage Bounty Hunters” - which finds fraternal twins Sterling (Maddie Phillips) and Blair (Anjelica Bette Fellini) juggling the demands of high school and a part-time gig apprehending criminals. "I would love to explore the question of what it means to be a sister, because Dana and Debbie, obviously, will have that to explore there, what does this relationship, if anything, mean between them and where they will be moving forward," Jordan said.Building a show around a pair of siblings has its challenges. Season 1's explosive finale certainly begs a follow-up, but Jordan seems more focused on the thematic material laid out by the finale than the major plot points opened and (seemingly) resolved.
"How will this discovery affect Blair's relationship with Sterling? How will this discovery affect Sterling's relationship with Blair and also her parents and this huge what could be characterized as a lie, it could also be characterized as an act of service for so many years? There's a lot to unpack and I hope we get the chance to do it." "Will Sterling pick Luke, April, neither? Will Blair go back to Miles?" Jordan rhetorically asked.
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