Last November, the long-awaited “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off” TV series was released, succeeding its previous movie release, “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World,” which was released in 2010. The original graphic novel series and the movie were based on “Scott Pilgrim,” which started in 2004 and ended in 2010. All of these releases were for the most part well received by audiences, until the newest release, which caused some controversy.

The new release “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off” takes a very different direction than the movie and graphic novel series. I had learned of this and was intrigued for I had watched the movie already and thought it was great. I watched the show with no spoilers for context.

The show has a pretty good start with the first episode staying true to the original graphic novel. Scott goes throughout his daily life reciting with his band S#x Bob-omb and has another dream of a girl. He meets the girl from his dream Ramona Flowers. They get into a relationship. Later, to Scott’s surprise, his show at the Rockit was interrupted by Ramona’s first evil ex in the League of seven evil exes, Matthew Patel. To everyone’s surprise, Scott is defeated.

Continuing from the story of the last episode, Scott was defeated and Ramona couldn’t believe it. She started on her journey to investigate anyone who might have kidnapped Scott. She starts with the person who knew the most about Scott, his former ex and drummer Kim Pine. She ends up getting interrupted by her fourth ex Roxie Richter. She handles the situation and even repairs her friendship, then goes off to investigate the five evil exes left. She goes and questions all of her exes about Scott.

Though I won’t spoil the surprise twist, if you want to know you should watch the show yourself. I personally do recommend it for I enjoyed it wholeheartedly. However, I do have some critiques about the show personally. For example, the show completely changes the story majorly, and it focuses more on the stories of the exes and Ramona fixing her past relationships and improving herself than Scott. The exes are given less supervillain qualities and are given more depth to their characters. It makes you realize that they aren’t evil for no reason like how the other media portrayed them as. They are real people that were hurt by Ramona’s actions. It humanizes them a lot which made me love the show so much more than I already did. In the end, if you had to take something away from this, I would say if you like the Scott Pilgrim characters, you’ll most likely enjoy the show.