Crew Girl Hits Netflix Today: Miku Martineau Leads the YA Rowing Drama Everyone Will Be Bingeing

Netflix Just Dropped Its Next Teen Obsession -- And It Involves Oars, Scandal, and a Love Triangle

If your watchlist has been feeling empty since The Summer I Turned Pretty wrapped and Wednesday Season 2 left you hanging, Netflix has perfect timing. Crew Girl, the brand-new YA drama, premieres today, September 10, 2026 -- and early buzz calls it Off Campus meets Gossip Girl, but on water.

Created by showrunner Vivian Lin, the series follows 16-year-old rowing prodigy Teagan, played by breakout star Miku Martineau, whose perfect life implodes after a family scandal forces her to switch schools and start over at an elite East Coast prep school.

What Is Crew Girl Actually About?

Teagan has one plan: join the competitive rowing team and rebuild her reputation stroke by stroke. One problem -- there is no girls team. So she joins the boys crew.

What follows is equal parts sports drama and soapy teen romance. The boys team is dysfunctional and cliquey, led by golden-boy captain Josh (Sam Braun). Then there is Cam (Kyle Clark), the underdog with heartthrob energy. Teagan finds herself caught between the two, giving fans flashbacks to Conrad vs Jeremiah debates.

• Teagan (Miku Martineau) -- disgraced rowing star starting over
• Josh (Sam Braun) -- team captain with everything to lose
• Cam (Kyle Clark) -- the underdog who steals every scene
• Showrunner Vivian Lin -- creator of this original story

Why Millennials Should Care (Yes, Really)

Unlike recycled reboots, Crew Girl is an entirely original story. Vivian Lin penned the scripts from scratch, though author Sheila McClure releases a tie-in novel this November 2026.

The cast won people over off-screen too. Miku Martineau, Kyle Clark, and Sam Braun bonded over karaoke during filming and endured brutal early-morning rowing training in freezing water to make race scenes look real. The rowing sequences look genuinely cinematic rather than green-screen fake.

Timing could not be better. Crew Girl lands in a stacked September slate alongside Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story (September 17), Wonklexs The Golden Ticket (September 23), and A Different World (September 24). As the only YA romance-sports hybrid, it owns its lane completely.

Bottom line: if you binged The Gentlemen Season 2 with Theo James and Kaya Scodelario and need something lighter and swoonier -- Crew Girl is your weekend binge. All episodes stream on Netflix now. Pick your team (Josh or Cam?) and try not to finish it in one sitting.