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Is Sterling Point Based on a Book? Show’s Location Explained
Sterling Point is Prime Video’s newest YA show that feels like a story straight off BookTok — but is it actually a book adaptation?
The show, which is streaming now, follows Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin), whose life takes a turn when she inherits her mysterious grandfather’s island in Canada. This leads to new friends, a love triangle and shocking family secrets being exposed — including a secret sister (played by Amélie Hoeferle).
Sterling Point isn’t based on any prior source material. Instead, it hails from creator Megan Park, who had her own coming-of-age journey after getting her start as an actress on then-ABC Family’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager.
“I just didn’t always feel when I was in many different projects — not specifically The Secret Life of the American Teenager — it didn’t feel authentic to how I was actually experiencing my young adulthood or seeing my peers experience theirs or talking about things or in a way that felt really natural,” Park, 40, exclusively told Us.
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Making the move to writing and directing with 2021’s school shooting survivor drama The Fallout and 2024’s genre-bending comedy My Old Ass allowed Park to tell a different kind of story.
“I definitely did not know this was going to be the path for me,” she added. “I definitely feel like I am trying to create a more authentic experience for the YA [young adult] space and genre — and also just for the actors.”
Ella Rubin, Bo Bragason in Sterling Point season 1. Sabrina Lantos / ©Amazon/MGM Studios / Courtesy Everett Collection
While a portion of the show was produced in Toronto, most of the show involved filming in the Muskoka Lakes region.
In addition to Rubin and Hoeferle, Sterling Point hinges on an ensemble cast of Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie, Keen Ruffalo, Bo Bragason, Daniel Quinn-Toye and more. There are also the adults — played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jay Duplass, Missi Pyle and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers.
For Park, the goal is to expand the universe with more seasons.
“It would be so thrilling and such a gift if we got to do more. It was so shocking how different it was to film a show,” she shared. “A movie is an hour and a half and it’s a much shorter period of time that you have to make it and put it out into the world. It’s eight hours of something. So it was a lot of work and it’s been a long process.”
Park continued: “I wouldn’t say it almost killed me but it definitely aged me 10 to 20 years. It was also really rewarding though because within an hour and a half, you can only go so deep and you can only explore so much and talk about so much. When you have eight hours, you have a much bigger world and so many more characters. So it was really creatively rewarding in that sense. But I’m not going to lie, it’s a lot of work making a TV show.”
Sterling Point is streaming now on Prime Video.
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