I love this show sm

I'm so sad it's almost over.

It’s September 1st and it’s Tuesday so I’m bringing back the Pretty Little Liars Tuesday that ABC Family was doing to relive my childhood but I go on Disney Plus and I’m reminded of this weird description for the pilot they have up lol

Trying to remember if the show creators actually wanted to do something along these lines

Arias sasquatch notebook transported me back to highschool

@spoiledbat222

The theory is aria never going to Iceland but radley instead

jeez i know they’re looking at it objectively but could they have been any meaner 😭 the way most of these reviews went on to be completely flipped is insane. no wonder troian talked about the imposter syndrome and insecurity she had when she first got cast as spencer, because imagine getting cast on a brand new show and then seeing reviews like this ,,, the fact that they judged her the harshest when she went on to be considered one of the best actresses on the show is so ironic. i also think they did a little too much with shay 😭 i get on her sometimes too, but people really failed to realize this was one of her first acting jobs. what do you guys think about the reviews though? do you agree or disagree with any of them?

My ranking :

6-Allison

5-Aria

4-Emilly

3-Monna

2-Hannah

1-Spencer

Who’s with me?

I always re-start PLL on the 1st September every year with cosy socks, big mug of coffee, fairy lights. Candles lit. Perfect show to welcome Fall 🍂

How long does it take you to get through the whole series?

I’m an OG watcher, and have seen s1 - s6 (first half) many times. I never watched s7. It just never caught on for me.

I finally finished it, and I gotta say…not bad! I mean, “bad”, yes, but in like a fun way lol.

Anyways, here are just a few of the many moments from the time jump onwards that cracked me up I rewound them to experience again. Enjoy!

1) This line from Jenna
2) Headless Noel (I love how falling on that old axe sliced right through his bone
3) Not funny, just caught a typo in the last sentence (“here” instead of “her”)
4) Hanna going full Dexter on a lifelike doll of herself
5) I caught a crew member’s reflection in the iPad screen behind aria
6) The cursed fake Aria
7) Dream-sequence Ezra absolutely beat to sh*t
8) Beard Toby
9) British Evil Twin Spencer (“eLLo SiStAh!”)
10) This horrid wig on Ali

just want to share how obsessed i am with this show and i watched the whole thing in a month

my boyfriend broke up with me in july so i was like “might as find a new show to watch”…. i did NOT expect to be so obsessed with it. i think i left my house 7 times within the last month. 1 because i am depressed from my breakup and 2 because i LOVE THIS SHOW. i finished it in literally a month. i need to reintegrate into society now!!

I’ll start!

1. I’d give Alison a mentally ill twin like in the books.
   Peter would be their father, having had an affair with Jessica, making Melissa and Spencer their half sisters. Jason would be Kenneth’s son.

2. The N.A.T club would be an integral storyline to the plot, with Jason, Ian and Garrett being predators.

3. Ezra would be Alison’s yes-man (because she’d be the 2nd A in my version) and would be in love with her; he would eventually be caught and sent to prison, taking the fall for Ali while she gets away.

4. CeCe would also be Alison’s helper but Alison and her would actually be a duo and like each other like true sisters. CeCe would have mental health issues and would die the a house fire (like the Liars believed Alison did in the 8th PLL book)

5. Mona’s death would be the driving cause for the last two seasons of my show, the timeline being 8 years in the future. She would be sucked back into the game, killed by Ali to lure the others back home.

What did Mona do oh god!

Either on rewatch or your first watch.

I’m currently on Season 1, Episode 9 “The Perfect Storm”

I love Hanna and Lucas’ friendship, Emily and Maya, the memorial.

I HATE Alison and Emily as a couple…

I feel like people always find Emily the ‘boring’ one or the one who has no character growth throughout the show. I’m on my MILLIONTH rewatch (i genuinely have lost count at this point) and am on the episode with the father daughter dance. She is genuinely so sweet and genuine. I don’t see how people find that boring. She just doesn’t do any wrong really, i think that’s why people find her boring.
The whole narrative that she went through nothing and that A was easy on her is stupid too.
Did everyone forget she literally got drugged with a steroid by A and got stomach ulcers?? Maya??? Being IMPREGNATED unwillingly?? like wow. imo she was put through the most by far.
Maybe i’m wrong and this isn’t as big of a narrative as I thought- but i’ve seen too many comments made about Emily’s character being pointless!

So Spencer’s Adderall addiction is something I can never shake from the show. Does anyone feel it was immensely over dramatic? I am definitely open to being wrong but would want to understand why it wasn’t or was overly dramatic from other perspectives.

It seemed like right away she was regularly taking extra which I don’t buy in to that much because after just starting up the medication I would think she’d already be plenty wired and not adjusted to the medication at all so unless she had a particularly low response I think it would already be pretty strong for her not something she’d so suddenly be taking extra doses of. (I know some people may be more prone to do that though and Spencer does show some addictive traits for sure.

But would she really be waking up at places she didn’t go to bed at? That’s gotta be pretty rare.

Her dream in that black and white episode was also pretty bizarre.

They wrote her to be so intense during that time which I also find hard to believe.

How long was she even taking them for when she went back on them also? (since we know she had been on them that summer Allison went missing) I could be wrong but it seems she wasn’t on them long at all for her to have gone to rehab and had what seemed like such strong withdrawal after like she seemed exhausted, but your brain and natural baseline from my understanding would not change that quickly in the short span she was even taking the medication? I could be wrong.

& since she wasn’t on them very long at all as far as I can tell wouldn’t her not getting enough sleep not be such a huge factor making her act so intense and erratic as she wouldn’t have been sleep deprived for that long? She was sleeping some.

Can anyone offer their opinion on the whole thing and how realistic or unrealistic they think it was? I just think it was really overdramatic for the plot but I’ve always wondered how realistic it could have actually been or if that’s also still extremely unlikely.

The season finale was something for sure. Spencer is undoubtedly my fav so it was pretty cool to see two of her in the final episodes. I do wish there was more with Alex though, as we only get a few scenes of her pretending to be Spencer. At the time I clocked the british accent when she asked to kiss Toby, but didn't think that AD would turn out to be an evil twin.

I feel that Alex getting Wren to shoot her in the same place where Spencer got shot was wildly dangerous and unnecessary - he could have easily missed and shot her in the heart, plus there must be a better way of faking the bullet wound, especially given Wren's medical background.

On the point of Wren, in an earlier season we saw a theory board in the police department where he was suspected to be an imposter ("doctor Kingston"). Did this ever go anywhere?

Also don't really understand Mary Drake's motivations. She helped Spencer by confessing to murder and gifting her the Lost Woods but then doesn't do anything to help Spencer escape. She claims to be trapped by Alex in the same place, and is just kinda chill with it?

Why did Alex kidnap Ezra ? Was she trying to punish him for grooming a minor? Ezra mentions a strange interaction with Alex, but there's no way he could have known that she was a secret twin sister.

It didn't feel realistic that Toby figured out that Alex wasn't Spencer and they were twins - sure the horse's reaction might be sus, but how would Toby even think of the possibility of twins, and then checking the book. And why would Alex have given Toby the book in the first place.

Mona's ending - she appears to have Mary and Alex captive. I thought they got arrested by Rosewood PD, so how did Mona get them out.

Hanna telling Aria to get the Peking duck - Why is this even included in the episode? Thought Aria was vegetarian, so why would she order duck.

What happens with the Addison plotline? It looks like they are setting up the next generation of liars with the doll, but afaik there are no further seasons which expand on this.

Why do Em and Ali have twins?? They don't look like Emily at all, and twins don't run in her family. Why bother making them twins if it's not relevant to the story...

Been absolutely loving this show since I started watching in April, very sad that I have no more new episodes to watch :(

I might try reading the books because i highkey am gonna miss the liars. If you have answers to my questions please respond !

I saw a comment earlier today that said they gave spencer an adderal addiction and not a coke one bc it’s abc family. And it got me thinking. They toned down a lot of the early seasons bc it’s on a family friendly network. Now I started to wonder what kind of storylines would they have done had it been on a more adult network.? Like OC or gossip girl (same network I think not sure) or OTh. Would there have been a teen pregnancy storyline , a car crash? A SEVERE drug addiction like Coke instead of adderal, maybe A could be more Gory. Idk. What kind of storylines do you think would have been created had this show not been on a family friendly network ?

Je regarde de nouveau la série pour la 100000 ème fois , et je ne peux m’empêcher de tiquer sur un détail lors de la rencontre entre Cece et les filles au Brew , lorsque Cece fait allusion a du « shopping gratuit » en parlant a Aria .

On est d’accord qu’Hanna a commencé a voler quand elle traînais avec Mona donc après la disparition d’Alison , comment Cece pouvais donc être au courant ? Ce passage me fait tiquer depuis des années , il fallait que j’en parle tellement c’est évident 😂

Je sais c’est légitime comme réflexion mais je me dis comment un INDICE aussi gros a pu me passer sous le nez a l’époque de la sortie de l’épisode de la saison 3 😂 Bon depuis des années je m’en suis rendu compte mais est ce qu’il y a des moments comme ça où vous vous êtes dit : mais c’était devant nos yeux quoi !