Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (TV Series)

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life is an America TV series based on the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The show first premiered on August 4, 2018, and follows the adventures of Scott Pilgrim, a Canadian man who tries to learn how to be an adult.

Series Overview
The series follows twenty-one-year-old Scott Pilgrim, a man living in Toronto, Canada who plays guitar in a band named Sex Bob-Omb with his friends Stephen Stills and Kim Pine, recording at the house of their other friend Neil. He lives in a very small apartment building with his friend Wallace Wells and has a girlfriend named Knives Chau, who is in high school. Everything is quite normal for Scott until he meets a girl named Ramona Flowers, who he falls in love with. Unfortunately, Scott's love for Ramona throws his entire life out of order.

Cast and Characters

 * Tye Sheridan as Scott Pilgrim, the main hero of the series who starts off rather selfish but slowly grows as a person.
 * Ashley Benson as Ramona Flowers, the mysterious love interest of Scott who has an extremely strange past.
 * Michael Trevino as Wallace Wells, Scott's gay roommate who teaches Scott quite a bit.
 * Katie Chang as Knives Chau, Scott's former girlfriend who is a high school student.
 * William Moseley as Stephen Stills, the singer of Sex Bob-Omb who is rather level-headed.
 * Katherine McNamara as Kim Pine, the drummer of Sex Bob-Omb who is known for being overly sarcastic.
 * Colin Ford as "Young" Neil Nordegraf, the youngest friend of Scott's, hence his nickname, who is a big fan of video games.

Production
The series is very special effects heavy, having 8-bit things pop up on screen as a way of making mundane things a bit more engaging, or speeding up/slowing down a fight scene and editing it to make it appear as if it is from an anime. This anime-like aesthetic is carried over from the book, which had many throwbacks to old manga and anime series. The video game sound effects and chiptune/bitpop music is also a carryover from the book, which had quite a lot of video game references and game logic in it. Because of this, the series is rather expensive to create and it was almost not picked up for this very reason.

Reception
The series has generally favorable reviews from critics. Most say that it is an enjoyable ride which "takes you back to when you were a child", while others claim that it is the type of fever dream that you can't stop thinking about. The series has a rather high rating on most websites.