“Percy Jackson and the Olympians” follows the story line of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson book series and the actors clearly represent the characters introduced throughout those books. 

I grew up reading the books and the movies released in 2010 and 2013. I enjoy the books I reread them all the time, the actors in the movies were older when filming the movies which defeats the purpose of the characters being children. 

In the books, Percy, Annabeth and Grover were 12-13 years old. The new series does a great job of showing the characters at their actual age, Percy Jackson played by Walker Scobell was 14-years-old while shooting the show. The actors that played Grover and Annabeth were 14-15 years old as well.

One of my favorite scenes was when Percy Jackson’s mother, Sally lit a match and dropped it in a cup. That signals Poseidon and he came, but she could only see him. The actor that played Sally, Virgina Kull had an amazing performance capturing the true emotion and struggle of being the mother of a demigod. 

Overall, I think the series is perfectly aligned with the book. Even though the episodes are particularly short, around 20 minutes. The cliffhangers on every episode made me so excited to watch the next episode. Every Tuesday I look forward to watching the new episode.

The characters, props, setting it all looked like how I imagined it would while reading the book. The chemistry between Percy and Annabeth was grown throughout each episode. I’m usually a person who sticks to watching the same show over and over again. But this show has definitely been added to my favorites list.