Pretty Little Liars

[at-the-disco]

anybody else been rewatching this since it's on BBC iplayer now? (in the UK)

i have a love/hate relationship with it. it is so dumb and cringey at times but something keeps me watching it. i can't explain the frustration and disappointment i had watching it when it was actually airing i nearly gave up on it so many times.

season 1 and 2 were AMAZING. by the last season it just became utterly ridiculous.

whats everyones thoughts?

 

[Rahrah]

I love this show. They are all-bar Mona so, so stupid and annoying that I have great sympathy for the many people trying to murder them. The lack of respect they have for Mona is astounding, even after she saves them, again they STILL won’t be her friend. Ezra is such a pervert and in any other show would have been punished-but his ending was very on brand for the show.

 

[Holidaybobs]

I was 15 when it first started. I was so invested in it, I used to tell all my friends to watch it - none of them did. I used to watch it in a room in my house where all the walls are windows and it used to shit me up thinking I’d see someone outside I stuck with it even when it went stale but, I was so disappointed in the ending. My friend started watching it a few years after it started and phoned me in anger saying ‘I can’t believe we wasted years on this shit’.

 

[lira]

yes the 4 main girls were extremely dumb.

i'm so mad about how they completely destroyed alison's character. she was so interesting and although she was a massive cow she deserved better than what the writers did to her.
the aria and ezra relationship gives me the creeps now i'm a bit older

And the fact that they dressed Sasha like a middle aged woman! They should've let her choose her own wardrobe if they were so small minded that they didn't know how to dress anyone above a size 2.

 

[watermelon sugar]

I always thought it was gonna be Wren who was A!

 

[Meh]

1. I thought the last season (or two) was an unintended extension of the show because of the popularity, and that is why they needed to come up with a third A and had no plan?

2. I 100% believe they changed to the Cece reveal after the Wren reveal was leaked. That was the most non-PLL finale ever. The girls just stood in this weird futuristic 'A' room (which is weird when the dollhouse was old and the monitors were from 1980's), watching things unfold on a green screen while interjecting with useless reaction lines. It could have been filmed in an afternoon. The "action" was between only two conscious characters (Jason and Dad were conveniently out cold) in a room just talking to each other. It was obvious to me that Charles was never intended to be Cece, or even a girl. Cece would never have wanted to recreate someone else's prom where she was Prom King taking her cousin Alison. Nor would she have dated her brother. Mrs. D would never have let her children date either. The reveal ruined the dollhouse for me too, which was such a creepy amazing concept.

I agree! Cece was such a stupid reveal for Charles. One thing that always makes me laugh is when you see A walking or their shadow or even sitting typing it is SO CLEARLY a big guy. Then they reveal its cece who was pretty teeny. Wtf, made no sense.

Also, am I the only one who has always been repulsed by Ezra and Aria?! Come on, he’s her teacher; an adult in a position of power. She was a young girl. I honestly don’t see how their relationship is goals. It’s creepy and in real life when it happens the man would rightfully be done for statutory rape.

 

[kimh90]

Was there such a thing?!

Yes , I'm sure there was Toby and Spencer one too , I think it was for charity or something. This is from 5 years ago haha

 

[Spencerskates]

It’s one of my comfort shows - I regularly re-watch it even though it gets progressively worse!

 

[calmyourritas]

Also Noel Khan and Aria’s brother now SWOON

 

[Holidaybobs]

Is it just me who thought Ezra wasn't that good looking either?

He’s the perfect example on a teacher you’d have a crush on but, in the outside world you wouldn’t look twice.

 

[Blair-Waldorf]

the worst series ending ever, end of

I was addicted at the time tho, think it was like 5 years ago I binged it. I had a tooth out and was off work so watched 12 episodes in one day

 

[calmyourritas]

I always thought it was gonna be Wren who was A!

Wren deserved better

 

[calmyourritas]

I was more of a Caleb girl (when he cut his hair)

 

[whatstheteab]

It still boils my piss to this day that Marlene basically admitted that they changed the series finale last minute because people figured it out and to make it even worse she literally ripped off a satire conspiracy theory from tumblr instead. They wanted to catch the audience out so badly even if it meant going with stupid reveals that made absolutely no sense.

 

[Xjd991X]

And that accent was horrendous and the fact she watched TOWIE as reference ... I'm from Essex I definitely don't speak like that nor does anyone I know hahaha

Let's just say noone in Essex speaks like the TOWIE lot haha

Just read that final A was meant to be from Essex - I mean that accent was truly horrendous.

 

[Em28_]

I haven’t watched Original Sin yet but it looks so promising.
Throwing it back to the original series for just a hot minute though because to this day I am 200% convinced that Wren should’ve been revealed as A, it made so much sense, but I think it was changed last minute because too many people figured it out. I remember social media being full of talk about it being him, then all of a sudden the storylines changed. Willing to die on that hill but Wren was totally A.

 

[LittleLottieLoo]

I invested so much time into this to half watch the last episode

I can't go back, it's too much!

 

[at-the-disco]

yes the 4 main girls were extremely dumb.

i'm so mad about how they completely destroyed alison's character. she was so interesting and although she was a massive cow she deserved better than what the writers did to her.
the aria and ezra relationship gives me the creeps now i'm a bit older

 

[rather not stop]

I still ship Hannah & Caleb. Couldn't cope when they split!

One of those shows that's so bad its good.

Did anyone watch The Perfectionists? Binged it recently - truly awful!

 

[at-the-disco]

I'm re watching it now I'm on s6.ep13 ... I watched it when it was airing and was SO disappointed with the ending. I read somewhere if you re watch you can work the clues out but I don't see it is it just me?

no because they did not even decide on who the second A was until like a season in. so the ""clues"" that they put in aren't even real cus the writers had no idea what they were doing. it's actually pathetic for a show based around mystery and whodunnit for them to not actually plan it properly ahead, and an insult to the fans.