In 1987, a trio of murders rocked a small town. Thirty-five years later, the killer returns to finish the job, attacking Pam Hughes (Julie Bowen). Pam's teenaged daughter, Jamie (Kiernan Shipka), uses her friend Amelia's (Kelsey Mawema) science fair time machine to go back to 1987 to hopefully stop the killer and prevent her mom's murder. Jamie is stunned to find that the Pam that would become her mom, Pam Miller (Olivia Holt), is a bitchy mean girl who runs a clique called The Mollys, and all three original victims were her best friends. Jamie must figure out how to save them while also not disrupting the future.
This is the newest Amazon Original under their recently acquired MGM heading. It wears its influences very proudly on its sleeve, and your enjoyment is entirely dependent on how much you like those influences. I mostly did, so I thought this was cute and fun. I don't find Shipka to be a particularly compelling actress and I think she's a little lackluster here, but Holt more than made up for it, as did Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, who plays the teenaged version of Amelia's mom.
So if you like Back to the Future, but wish it could have had a murder mystery sub-plot featuring the Heathers, this is for you. It's streaming on Amazon Prime.
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