It’s more than the allusions to vintage games, music, and bits of Canadiana laced throughout all eight episodes – there’s a sense that revisiting Scott Pilgrim at this stage is almost a form of therapy. Its guts, heart, and funny bone prevent the whole endeavor from disappearing up its own butt – so does creator Bryan Lee O’Malley’s unmistakable personal stake in the project. A spirit of discovery runs through the series – it’s not just a desire to find something novel in a nearly 20-year-old comic, but an investigation into why it and its characters resonated in the first place. Even with all its deviations from its source material, the new Netflix series still captures the butterflies of a really good first kiss, the rush of hearing a new favorite song, and the stomach-dropping sensation of running into an old girlfriend. There’s a running joke in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off about all the different ways (and all the different forms of media) in which Scott Pilgrim and Ramona Flowers’ story can be told and retold.
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