PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS Season One

Myth-taken identities

Jayne Nelson

UK/US Disney+, streaming now Showrunners Jonathan E Steinberg, Dan Shotz Cast Walker Scobell, Leah Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Virginia Kull EPISODES 1.01-1.08 When there’s a children’s book series as popular as Rick Riordan’s, you don’t give up on it after two middling movies. The Percy Jackson franchise’s two cinematic adaptations in 2010 and 2013 were fairly entertaining and did modest business, but they didn’t break through into the popular culture consciousness in the same way as, say, the Harry Potter movie saga. Which is clearly why Riordan has teamed up with Disney+ to develop this eight-part show – pleasing fans by staying as faithful to the original texts as possible (something the films weren’t great at), and casting a much younger team as Percy and his teenage pals. If you’ve been…

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