Like the quickly forgotten Panic, Motorheads, Amazon's latest attempt at a 10-episode teen soap opera, starts with an unlikely premise: in this case, a group of American teenagers in Ironwood, Pennsylvania, a fictional town an hour's drive from Pittsburgh, aren't primarily concerned with the internet, football, or partying, but with building and racing cars. Cars are, of course, a fundamental part of many Americans' coming-of-age; drag racing, less so. The idea of Fast & Furious as a quirky local tradition, rather than a group of teenagers raised on the Fast & Furious movies, is the most charming, if implausible and inexplicable, aspect of Motorheads, which can easily be imagined as Dom Toretto and company, but turned into a series about Gen Z youth in a dead-end Rust Belt town. Creator: John A. Norris Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Michael Cimino, Melissa Collazo Created by John A. Norris, Motorheads bears the hallmark of the megacorporation's streaming industry...
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