Fraternal twins Blair and Sterling are lifelong best friends who always have each other's backs, whether the situation is clique politics at their Christian high school, or concealing the fact that one of them is sexually active with her boyfriend - ironically, it is 'good girl' Sterling, not 'rebel' Blair - or accidentally stumbling into a career as bounty hunters after they have a traffic accident with a bail jumper.
One of these things is not the like other things, and it is of course the central hook of the show. After subduing the bail jumper when he tries to run, Blair and Sterling need cash to repair their dad's beloved truck - hopefully before he notices the damage - and they cajole legitimate bounty hunter Bowser Simmons into letting them work as his 'interns'. Which doesn't mean they're going to be able to ignore high school politics and romantic drama while they do so, mind you. Sometimes both at the same time.
Teenage Bounty Hunters is a fun comedy-drama with engaging leads and snappy dialogue. Sure, the premise is deeply implausible, but the writing embraces that absurdity by smartly contrasting it with the more plausible but also more absurd antics of their lives outside of bounty hunting.
Alas, despite being a smartly-written show with a great cast and some real emotional heart to go with its oddball antics, Teenage Bounty Hunters doesn't seem to have found an audience and was cancelled after this single season. Which is a shame, though at least this one season we got has a satisfying conclusion. Not every issue in Blair and Sterling's life gets resolved in it, of course, and I would definitely have watched a season two if it happened, but it's definitely still possible to watch and enjoy these ten episodes on their own basis.
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