

Overview
After a family scandal, teen rower Teagan Tao moves to a small town and joins an elite prep school's all-boys crew, sparking rivalry and attraction.
Seasons
1 listed- Status
- Returning Series
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 8 episodes
- First aired
- Sep 10, 2026
- Last aired
- Sep 10, 2026
- Episode length
- 368m
- Network
- Netflix
Latest episode: S1 E8 O Coxswain, My Coxswain (Sep 10, 2026)
8 episodes Sep 10, 2026
Cast
Reviews
2 min readCrew Girl is high-gloss prep school nonsense, executed with enough shameless energy to make its absurdities entertaining. The eight-episode series from Vivian Lin never pretends to study the true discipline of competitive crew [1], [5]. Instead, it uses the sport as an excuse to parade privileged adolescents through coastal estates and fabricated crises.
The setup runs on classic daytime television logic. Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau) is a promising 16-year-old sculler whose world collapses when her hotelier father is accused of stealing from clients and vanishes into thin air [1], [4]. Uprooted to the fictional town of Eagle's Cove by her mother Ella, played with weary restraint by Jessica Paré, Teagan discovers that Easton Prep lacks a girls' rowing team [1], [4], [5].
Barred from pulling an oar, she takes over the coxswain seat for the elite boys' eight [1].
The series quickly establishes its detached relationship to reality. Easton Prep is filmed at Victoria's Hatley Castle, the 1908 stone fortress familiar from comic-book movies [5], [6]. Wealth here is presented with cartoonish detachment: Juliet Morny (Olga Petsa) learns bad family news through a FaceTime Cameo from Kesha, booked by an absentee mother who cannot bother to dial directly [2], [3].
Lin admitted the pop star was secured through a Netflix executive's personal connection, and the scene sets the house style [2]. Parents do not communicate with their children when an expensive proxy can do it for them.

Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsKesha got the FaceTime. Juliet's mother stayed off camera.
Netflix dropped all eight episodes of Crew Girl on September 10, 2026, a Canadian YA rowing soap set in a Massachusetts town the cameras never visited . The first episode's best gag is not the oar. Juliet Morny, played by Olga Petsa, gets family news from a celebrity Cameo. Kesha appears on FaceTime because Juliet's absentee mother hired a pop star to say what she would not say herself
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. Showrunner Vivian Lin told TV Guide the celebrity bit was already in the script. They did not know who would play it. "An executive at Netflix actually had a connection and made their ask and Kesha, who is hilarious and awesome, magically said yes" . latestnetflix.com's take is that Lead Miku Martineau said she did not know Kesha was in the show until she watched the screener .
Easton Prep is that kind of school. Tudum's cast guide puts kids on helicopters, names campus buildings after teenagers, and lets Zendaya and Kesha deliver the messages so the parents do not have to show up . Martineau, coming off Netflix's Bet, plays Teagan Tao, a 16-year-old sculler whose hotelier father is accused of stealing from clients and then vanishes. She and her mother Ella, Jessica Pare of Mad Men, leave Los Angeles for Ella's hometown. Easton has no girls' crew. Teagan coxes the boys instead , .
Hatley Castle stood in. The eight was new.
The town is fictional Eagle's Cove. The shoot was Victoria and Sidney on Vancouver Island. Hatley Castle, a 40-room mansion from 1908 already used in X-Men films, is Easton Prep . Hollywood North Buzz logged the working title Easton Prep and a Victoria window from September 8 to November 21, 2025
. CHEK News said Sidney warned residents about a bicycle accident and a car-crash night with fire and propane on Beacon Wharf while that code name was still on the call sheets
. Lin told Tudum this is the first Canadian production to film eight-person rowing sequences. The shells are 67 feet. "Your set is on water" . Variety had the greenlight and Martineau's casting in September 2025, with Samuel Braun as captain Josh Regis, Kyle Clark as townie Cam Dillinger, and Thomas Cadrot as Coach Matt Hayden . Simon Barry directed the pilot. Jacquie Gould took episode 2 .
Harper called in the kiss. Britney bought the girls' boat.
Lin walked Deadline through the finale the day the season landed. Britney Garner, Sage Linder, puts Garner Foundation money behind a girls' team and tells Teagan, "Looks like you row for me now" . Lin called coxing "a bit of a demotion" for a rower who still wants an oar, and called Britney "a pretty good foe" . Josh is hiding hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. He crashes a car in episode 7, then hands stroke seat to Cam , . Teagan and Cam kiss because writer Jennica Harper phoned Lin and demanded the scene . Lin told TV Guide the writers' room is split into Team Josh and Team Cam, "so they just fight all the time," and that she has an endgame in mind she will not name . Martineau told Tudum she is "Team Teagan" and asked whether a love square is even possible . Netflix has not picked up a second season . The official trailer is the two-minute pitch for abs, oars, and a family scandal .
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