Riley Rewind

With piles of homework littered around my room, I set out to watch Riley Rewind, a five part web series viewable on YouTube that was published Thursday, December 12th, first on Facebook, then finally on director Ray William Johnson's channel. The series follows Riley Brown (Anna Akana), a girl in highschool who has the ability to go travel back in time. It deals with her moral struggle to choose between saving Angela Vaughn (Christina Marie Leonard), a girl who commits suicide, or saving herself from deteriorating as she uses time travel increasingly more often. At the same time, she finds a bomb at her school's prom days after Angela Vaughn's suicide. It is honestly probably one of the best YouTube series I've seen with hand drawn animation sequences, beautiful shots and extremely believable acting. I truly felt for Trevor Cunningham (Eric Braun), the nerd who asks Riley Brown to prom, and understood the bomber's reasons for putting the bomb. With its interesting twists and turns, some unexpected, the series almost had me tearing up at the end. Clocking at about an hour in length, I would suggest this to anyone who enjoys a good, quick, feel-good film, especially those who are procrastinating on homework like I was!

Aamenah Meghjee

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