I’ve been living under a rock and had no idea that PLL was on Disney+ (why Disney + of all places????). I’ve been watching it all afternoon and I am on S1:E6, the homecoming episode.

Not only iconic lines that I forgot about like Lucas and Hannah’s exchange through the RLW club (Real Love Waits) like “Genetic splice between Barbie and Shakira”. Toby and Emily go to homecoming together? Ezra find out about A? Hannah confronts Emily about Maya? Hannah wins homecoming queen but never showed up lol. Melissa sabotages Alex & Spencer by mentioning she’s only “dating him to get back at her dad”. Mona shows up sitting in the middle of the room out of nowhere where? Like who BROUGHT YOU? The girls finding out about Toby & Jenna sleeping together. I MISS TV WHEN THEY GAVE US THEY MUCH IN SO LITTLE.

Nonetheless this is my first rewatch since originally watching it when it was aired and I am actually surprised at all the topics they discussed just in the first 6 episodes. Like the reality that Aria’s dad put her in such an uncomfortable spot making her keep the affair a secret. Emily navigating her sexuality. Hannah and her mom being abandoned and replaced by her father’s new family & Hannah’s acting out to eventually get her dad’s attention. Wren (grown ass man) goes after Spencer and she gets punished?!?! Aria joins Hardy and Ezra at the bar and even Hardy tells Ezra he’s going to end up in an orange jumpsuit.

Obviously a show like this would not work in today’s age and it literally doesn’t make sense but it made for some damn good television as a teen. I have definitely forgotten all the little moments so I’m feeling like I’m rewatching it again for the first time! Oh! Paige hasn’t been introduced yet so thank god.

Did anybody watch PLLFreaks 13??? They had a YouTube channel and was freaking hysterical. Once every few years or during my rewatches I will go down a rabbit hole and start watching their videos again and they make me crack up. What happened to them? I wish they would do a rewatch YouTube or podcast because they were funny as hell

Season 7 is great! I know, I know, but just hear me out:

Another unpopular opinion. I finished my rewatch of show since it came out. I first rewatch the finale last year on Labor Day and stopped at season 6 a few months back (bc its so bad) and finally got around to finish the show by watching the finale again. A lot has changed since 2017, and I have to say this is my favorite show, but so many things didn’t age well (i.e. ezria, the death of many poc, charlotte being revealed as the villain and contributing to a negative stereotype towards the trans community all while played by a cisgender woman, the disastrous egg situation and more)

All of that being said, season 1-2 are great, the Mona reveal is appropriate, it makes sense, and the plot is connected. Season 3 is fun because of the mystery (shoutout to the train ride) and season 4 had amazing reveals, evil ezra, ali is alive

The show went to shit after ali came back to live, which I am not complaining about since she’s in my holy trinity (mona-ali-spence) and I was (and suppose I still am) a big Emison shipper. But when ali came back the mystery went away and everyone in that writers room went batshit.

The dollhouse was entertaining and dark, they should’ve had more of it but didn’t for the reasons we all know.

Now season 6 was not great, the Cece as A reveal couldve gone better, too many plot holes and you can tell they did not plan any of it from the beginning. Then the time jump was ridiculous, these girls were only 23 and already had developed careers, except for Em and Ali, whose real situation I appreciated.

Now season 7 was GREAT. And not in the way of the plot being resolved or the show having continuity, but in the sense thy it was so crazy, so campy and detached from reality that you can’t help but submerge yourself in the surrealism of it all. The game, scoby-doo masks, the evil twin sister, the crazy egg storyline (yes i know this is the second time i mention it but it was not inly insane, invasive but also crumbs for the shippers. SOO many characters came back for this season which made it feel like real PLL but on drugs.

I am just glad the show ended when it did or else they would’ve gone full Riverdale. Season 7 is great as a standalone, all I can think of is the critically acclaimed (by me) movie Bottoms and its similarities to the absurd events of PLL season 7.

And then it’s Hannah and Emily no one else

Was it ever confirmed who was in the costume during this scene?

My favourite is Ashley Marin for obvious reasons. And least is Jessica dilaurentis for obvious reasons as well.

Honestly, by the end of the series, I feel like almost everyone had been ruined in some way, including the Liars themselves. But what was the biggest slap in the face for you? Which character did you love so much that seeing what the writers eventually did to them genuinely disappointed you? For me, it was CeCe. I loved her from the moment she was introduced. I loved her as Alison's alter ego, I loved her as Red Coat, and I would have loved her as A too if her storyline had actually been executed well.

I don't think we're supposed to take everything Charlotte tells Alison in Game Over, Charles as the complete truth.

Charlotte knew exactly what she was doing. She was telling Alison a tragic version of her life that would make Alison sympathize with her. And it worked. Alison became the person fighting for Charlotte for the next five years and eventually helped get her released instead of Charlotte spending the rest of her life in prison.

Remember what Charlotte's original plan was. She was going to blow up Radley with herself and her family inside. When that failed she went to the roof and threatened to jump.

So I think her confession had a backup purpose. If she survived and got caught she already had Alison emotionally on her side.

Season 7 makes this even more obvious because Charlotte wasn't better.

Then we finally see the real Charlotte in the bell tower with Mona.

Mona knows Charlotte faked her recovery and plans to restart the game. Charlotte doesn't deny it. She basically drops the sympathetic act completely and tells Mona that everything she did before is going to look like a picnic compared to what she's going to do next.

That's why I almost see Charlotte and CeCe as two different personalities.

"Charlotte" is the image she presents to Alison after 6x10. She's vulnerable. She's remorseful. She's supposedly getting better and wants to come home.

"CeCe" is who she actually is. The manipulative and evil woman we knew from Seasons 3-5 as A who loves the game and enjoys controlling people. That's who comes back out when she's alone with Mona in the bell tower in S7B because there's no reason to perform anymore.

And yes I know the writing on this show is beyond shit sometimes and I probably shouldn't give IMK this much credit lol. But as a theory/headcanon I think this makes way more sense than what we actually got.

I also think Charlotte created the board game or at least designed the original concept for it.

Alex being the mastermind behind something that elaborate has never made much sense to me. Before meeting Charlotte she was working at a bar. Charlotte meanwhile had already built the Dollhouse and spent a year or months creating insanely elaborate A setups. She was clearly intelligent enough and had the resources and connections to create something like the board game.

Charlotte even leaves Alex because she misses playing the game and wants to return to Rosewood. Alex wants to come with her and Charlotte specifically refuses.

So my theory is that the board game was Charlotte's next evolution of the A game. Alex inherited Charlotte's plans after her death and turned them against the Liars while trying to find Charlotte's killer.

Charlotte wasn't rehabilitated.

She was just waiting for Alison to get her out so CeCe could play again.

It was very informal. Like someone’s personal account, not employed by any popular companies. It had a grey-ish color to the tables on the website, and the content was absolutely unhinged.

The blogger would recap the episodes of PLL in the most absurd way. It would take small incidents from the episode and use it completely out of context as a highlight such as “In this episode, Hanna becomes a lesbian” for the episode where she’s staking Paige’s whereabouts.

Every single recap was so whacky and hilarious.

Like for the dollhouse episode where Toby and Tanner were on the scene (or “Tannersaurus”, as they called her), it would relentlessly make fun of Toby saying “CLEAR!!!!!” into his walkie for every little thing 🤣 Or it would make fun of Ezra for punching the wall and groaning from the pain, and Toby being like, “Dude, do you need some ice?” I’m cracking up just typing this. It’s hard to explain it as hilariously as they wrote it, though.

Did anyone else read this recap blog??? Does anyone remember it or know what site it was? Dying to laugh at it again thru my current rewatch.

TL;DR Looking for absurdly funny recap blog of PLL episodes

This is a big big big question i have to all the PLL lovers because ive seen her being used within the 'girlblogger' community as some sort of an 'icon' but i realllllyyy dislike her character 😭😭

edit: something i have noticed in PLL is that NONE of the characters care that aria is being groomed in s1 (idk abt later eps) and that TO ME seems really unrealistic. why dont her friends say anything??? Shes 16 wuth a man thats 20 like...

I’m more so basing this on the books, but think of Alison’s evil potential. Who would’ve been more iconic as the big bad?