Netflix's 'Crew Girl' Isn't the 'Summer I Turned Pretty' Replacement You're Looking For | Review

Netflix’s Crew Girl arrives as a teen drama built around rowing, borrowing the high-gloss style of recent streaming hits but centering the competition on water. The series follows Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau), a 16-year-old rowing prodigy whose life unravels immediately after she wins a singles’ sculls race, with her parents—Ella (Jessica Paré) and David (Byron Lawson)—and an FBI news alert about her father’s impending headline. Teagan relocates to Eagle’s Cove and joins Easton Prep, where there is no girls’ team; she steers the boys’ varsity eight as coxswain. The review says the rowing action is the season’s main strength despite a weaker love triangle and uneven performances.