--- title: "Crew Girl" year: 2026 kind: "series" canonical: "https://film.one/tv/crew-girl" fi1m_id: "crew-girl" imdb_id: "tt38218082" tmdb_id: 300507 wikidata_id: "Q141155312" fi1m_score: 56 critics_score: 59 critics_reviews: 5 published: "2026-09-22T22:00:27.872811+00:00" updated: "2026-09-22T22:01:34.742347+00:00" region: "DE" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Crew Girl (2026) Created by Vivian Lin · 6h 08m · Drama ## Identity Crew Girl - **Canonical:** https://film.one/tv/crew-girl - **Type:** Series - **Fi1m ID:** crew-girl - **IMDb ID:** tt38218082 - **TMDB ID:** 300507 - **Wikidata ID:** Q141155312 - **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38218082/, https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/300507, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141155312 **Fi1m score: 56** · Critics 59 (early) from 5 reviews *In a sentence:* A prep-school soap where the only people pulling their weight are in the boat > Vivian Lin’s rowing drama is at its best on the water, where Bradley S. Creasser’s photography gives the sport real weight. On dry land it is a stiff private-school soap, rescued now and then by Jessica Paré as the mother. ## Synopsis Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau) is a teenager starting over. Her mother, Ella Emerson-Tao (Jessica Paré), has moved the two of them somewhere new, and the somewhere new comes with an expensive private school and a rowing programme run by Coach Matt Hayden (Thomas Cadrot). Teagan ends up in a boat, on a crew that includes Juliet Morny (Olga Petsa) and Baloo Garner (Jude Wilson), and on the bank there are two boys, Josh Regis (Samuel Braun) and Cam Dillinger (Kyle Clark), who notice her in different ways. There is a rich family whose name carries weight at the school, and there is something in the Tao household that Ella would rather not discuss. Eight episodes, most of them ending on the water or just after leaving it. ## Review Vivian Lin’s eight-episode series takes the oldest shape in the young-adult drawer, a teenage girl, a new town, a rich school and two boys, and puts an oar in her hands. Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau) arrives, is noticed, joins the crew, and spends a little over six hours deciding what she wants and who she wants it with. *Crew Girl* is decent company in its best stretches and dull in its worst, and the worst outnumber the best. If you already like this genre it will fill an evening or two. If you do not, the rowing is the only reason to stay. Rowing is a good choice for this kind of story, and it is the one properly fresh thing here. It is a team sport in which nobody speaks, so the drama has to live in shoulders and breathing and the small adjustments of eight people trying to become one. Bradley S. Creasser photographs the boats with more care than the series gives to anything else: the water is allowed to be cold and grey rather than postcard blue, and the effort looks like effort. We enjoyed these passages without reservation, and more than once we felt the pull of wanting a race to go well for people we did not otherwise much care about. That is the sport doing the work the script should be doing, but it is work all the same. Jessica Paré, as Ella Emerson-Tao, is the other reason. The mother-and-daughter scenes are the only relationship in the series that behaves like one, with two people who know each other’s tricks and are tired of them. Paré plays Ella as a woman who has made a large decision and is not sure it was the right one, and she gets most of the laughs the series has, because she underplays where everyone around her leans in. When she is in a scene the dialogue sounds like speech. When she leaves, it goes back to sounding like lines. That is the central problem. The boys, Josh Regis (Samuel Braun) and Cam Dillinger (Kyle Clark), are types before they are people, and the writing does not do much to promote them. Conversations are built so that each character states a feeling, the other states a competing feeling, and the scene ends; almost nobody interrupts, changes their mind or says something they did not intend. Martineau has to carry a great deal of screen time on very little, and she is likeable and steady, which is about what the material allows. The triangle the series is built around never gets sharp enough to cut anyone. Then there is the family scandal, which starts as a hum in the early episodes and becomes the main plot in the later ones. It moves slowly and it explains itself often, and it has the same fault as a lot of streaming drama built to be watched in a single sitting: it stretches a few revelations across six hours because six hours were ordered. Around the fifth episode we noticed we were checking how many remained, and were a little cross with ourselves for it, because the series had done nothing to deserve resentment. It had simply stopped moving. The school does not help. It is a very handsome place in which very handsome young people have almost no lessons, no money worries and no adults beyond a coach and one parent. *Heartbreak High* (2022) shows how much energy a teen series gets from letting its school be messy and crowded and specific; *Gossip Girl* (2007) got away with the gloss by being wicked about it. *Crew Girl* is neither messy nor wicked. It is polite, and polite is a hard thing to sustain for eight episodes. Against its own genre, then, this sits in the middle: better made than most, and less alive than the ones people remember. Watch it with a teenager who rows, or when you want six hours of nothing that will upset you. On the water, let it run. On land, you will not miss much if you reach for the remote. *Fi1m score 56, published 22 September 2026.* ## What the critics say With only 5 reviews in so far, the early word is mixed and leaning lukewarm. Most critics agree the rowing is the freshest thing here, with the crew scenes well shot and the sport treated with some affection, and Jessica Paré’s turn as the mother earns a mention or two. The reservations cluster around the writing: stiff, choppy dialogue, thinly drawn characters and a love triangle that follows the YA formula too closely. The spread is fairly wide, from those who find it soothing binge material to Collider, which dismisses it as a cheesy prep-school soap that trails its competition. ## Straight answers **Is Crew Girl worth watching?** *Crew Girl* is worth watching only if you already like prep-school teen soaps, and we scored it 56. The rowing scenes, photographed by Bradley S. Creasser, and Jessica Paré as the mother are the reasons to stay; the love triangle and the slow family scandal are the reasons to leave. Eight episodes is more than the story has in it. **How long is Crew Girl, and what is it rated?** *Crew Girl* has episodes of about 6h 08m. It is a drama series. **Where can I watch Crew Girl in Germany?** *Crew Girl* is streaming on Netflix in Germany. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service. **How violent or frightening is Crew Girl, and is it suitable for children?** *Crew Girl* carries no UK certificate and a US TV-14, and there is nothing violent or frightening in it that our review noticed. It is a polite private-school drama built around a teenage girl, two boys and a family secret, with rowing races supplying the tension. Suitable for teenagers; younger children are more likely to be bored than upset. **How does Crew Girl compare to Skins?** *Crew Girl* is the calmer, better-behaved series, and [*Skins*](https://film.one/tv/skins) is the one with life in it. *Skins* is funny, abrasive and lets its teenagers say things they mean; *Crew Girl* is handsomely shot but its characters state feelings and leave. Choose *Crew Girl* for the rowing and for something that will not upset anyone; choose *Skins* for company worth keeping. ### Reviews we read (5) - **Radio Times**, Jack Seale (6.6/10): This variation on the teen girl relocating and choosing between suitors adds rowing and a posh prep school setting. A cheeky sense of humour makes it worth a binge. [Read](https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-y9vym1/crew-girl/) - **The Hollywood Reporter**, Angie Han (65/100, inferred): As bingeable YA drama it hits all expected marks breezily with affection for the sport and some endearing flashes, but underdeveloped characters and world leave it short of memorable or elite. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/crew-girl-review-netflix-1236696105/) - **Variety**, Aramide Tinubu (51/100, inferred): The series is pretty to look at but sinks due to its lack of realism, choppy dialogue and monotonous themes. It offers some redeeming qualities in representation and the mother-daughter bond but relies on corny, cookie-cutter YA narratives. [Read](https://variety.com/2026/tv/reviews/crew-girl-review-netflix-1236848333/) - **Consequence** (70/100, inferred): The critic finds the young adult series soothing and enjoyable for its highly predictable plot developments and dialogue, which are offset by just enough clever tweaks to the familiar formula. They single out the focus on rowing/crew as one of the engaging unfamiliar elements, along with the presence of Jessica Paré as the mom. [Read](https://consequence.net/2026/09/stream-on-taskmaster-history-of-sound/) - **Collider**, Jessica Toomer (4/10): The critic finds Crew Girl a cheesy prep-school soap that falls short of its competition due to a weak love triangle, stiff dialogue, and a dragging family scandal plot. The well-shot rowing scenes stand out as the main element worth watching. [Read](https://collider.com/crew-girl-netflix-review/) ## Details - **Created by:** Vivian Lin - **Creator:** Vivian Lin - **Cinematography:** Bradley S. Creasser - **Cast:** Miku Martineau as Teagan Tao; Jessica Paré as Ella Emerson-Tao; Samuel Braun as Josh Regis; Kyle Clark as Cam Dillinger; Thomas Cadrot as Coach Matt Hayden; Connor Paton as Ryder Regis; Olga Petsa as Juliet Morny; Jude Wilson as Baloo Garner - **Runtime:** 6h 08m - **Release (Germany):** 10 September 2026 - **Genres:** Drama - **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs5qsfqp-tA ## Where to watch in Germany - Netflix: streaming *Checked 2026-09-22.* Also available in: AE, AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BG, BR, CA, CH, CL, CO, CZ, DE, DK, EC, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HK, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IS, IT, JP, KR, LT, MX, MY, NL, NO, NZ, PA, PE, PH, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SG, SI, SK, TH, TR, UA, US, VN, ZA. Add `?region=XX` to this URL for another country. ## If you liked this - *The Boys in the Boat* (2023): Rowing again, this time with Depression-era stakes and a boat that has to win - *Heartbreak High* (2022): An Australian school that is loud, cramped and specific; everything Teagan’s is not - *True Blue* (1996): The Oxford Boat Race mutiny, dramatised; oars, egos and cold English water - *Never Have I Ever* (2020): A love triangle that is funny about itself, and a mother worth arguing with - *Skins* (2007), Fi1m 72: British teenagers with no rowing, no manners and a great deal more to say — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/tv/crew-girl