For those who don't know what PLL is, imagine the drama of Red John in the Mentalist, mixed with the cattiness of how girls behave in a show like The vampire Diaries or 90210.
Also, imagine those 'girls' being played by early 20 somethings, except for the main protagonist, who is indeed played by her age.
This show has been on the air for like the last five years or so, and the whole premise is based on a 13 year old girl - who happens to be a bully, and a bit of a manipulative bitch to those around her - goes missing. Fast forward to a year later, and a body is dug up and assumed to be this girl (Alison). This causes her four bffs, Hannah (a girl who used to be fat, and bullied by Alison), Aria (a quirky girl who used to put streaks in her hair, is still quirky but more 'mature' with it), Spencer (a girl who suffers from some form of anxiety pill addiction, is very scholastic), and Emily (a sporty girl who was bullied by Alison for having a lesbian crush on her, had her head screwed about with by Alison by having her feelings for her manipulated) to band together for this girl's funeral.
Over the next couple of seasons we see these four friends get constant texts from a mysterious 'A', who happens to know a lot on them, and uses it to get them to do their bidding. They end up in lethal situations and this is at the same time as trying to find out who killed their 'friend'. During this time, as viewers we get to see flashbacks that reveal more of the girls personalities. It turns out that, under Alison's supposed influence, these girls had caused a firework to explode in someone's bedroom, blinding a girl who was having sex with her step brother. The step brother was blackmailed into taking the fall for it. This step brother comes out of jail, and is avoided by everyone. He gets close to Emily, and they all start to think he's the mysterious 'A'. They all then realise he isn't, then Spencer develops a crush and falls in love. Aria has an affair with her English teacher who apparently didn't realise she was a minor but truly fell in love with her so continued to see her. We find out that Alison blackmailed Aria's Dad over an affair he was having with a University student. Aria's parents separate. Aria's Dad's fling/new partner tries to poison Aria, is mentally unstable. Emily's almost drowned by a in the closet lesbian who was is played my Mosely from Ned's Declassified School survival, her girlfriend is then murdered by her ex who came down to Rosewood to find her. She grieves for like six weeks, then hooks up with the girl who tried to drown her. Hannah is desperate to lose her virginity and tries to do so with her pastor son boyfriend, who rejects her. She then falls for 'bad lad' Caleb, who is actually a sweetheart. After all of this, we discover that the person giving the girls hell is no other than Mona, a girl who was bullied for being a 'nerd' by Alison, and after her disappearance became best friends with Hannah. She's jealous and angry, and turns out to be mentally ill.
Then season three, and Hannah is visiting Mona, trying to get closure on why her ex bff tried to kill them at different times. Mona is high on meds, and is convinced she's talking to Alison in the hospital. The texts then begin again, other creepy weird shit happens. Turns out Mona is escaping the hospital and is working for an 'Uber A', with Spencer's boyfriend in tow. More weird shit, and then Spencer has a break down convinced the love her life is evil. She ends up in the hospital that Mona has been released from, turns out Mona had stolen her place on the scholastic team. During this season we are introduced to a girl called CeCe who claims to have been Alison's older bff, and ex girlfriend of Jason (Alison's older brother). She becomes friends with these girls and reveals that Alison had a boyfriend who she thought got her pregnant. Alison started hanging out with College kids, and was still being a bad ass whilst going on misadventures with CeCe. During this season we assume about three different people to be 'A'. During the end of the series, we realise that the girl buried in Alison's grave isn't her, and that Alison is still alive. The girls get saved from a burning fire at the end, and we realise that Mona was just trying to find out who this Uber A was and was addicted to playing the game.
The next season we discover that Aria's teacher boyfriend is the guy that made Alison think she was pregnant, and that he was so interested in Alison's disappearance that he had taken it upon himself to write a book on it, in order to do this he needed to befriend the girls. This breaks Aria's heart, but also shows that he's actually a paedophile of sorts - he knew their ages, he knew them, but still pursued a relationship with Aria. There's a lot of relationship issues going on, more near deaths, and near unmaskings of 'A'. A lot of relationship up and downs go on and then at the end we find out that Alison is absolutely alive and has been on the run out of fear for the fact that someone did kill her. Oh and spencer's boyfriend completed police school in like a week, and is now a cop too.
The next series goes on about Alison's bullshit of what happened during her disappearance, why she faked her death, didn't come forward as the missing person, etc. We find out that the girl in her grave is Bethany Young, a girl who had escaped from the mental hospital. But we discover that Alison had been buried alive but saved and escaped and went on the run, because she was buried by her mother, so figured her mum knew her attempted killer. Oh and Mona is 'murdered', and Alison is charged with her murder, and then the rest of the girls are too... And then the police van is hijacked, and the girls kidnapped and end up in a massive technologically advanced life size doll house with rooms identical to their real ones. Oh and now Mona is alive. They are tortured by this 'A'. As this goes on a guy they went school with is assumed to be their tormentor and is arrested. They then discover that A is no other than a mysterious sibling that Alison had, a brother who is supposedly about eight years old. Spencer feels a kinship with him. Fast forward they are rescued and a girl who went missing about the same time as Alison is rescued with them.
Everyone knows Alison has an older sibling, and it's uncovered he was sent to a mental institute for almost killing Alison as a baby. Jason was old enough to remember him, but was told it was his imaginary friend who had moved away. They find old family photos, etc. All sad stuff. A lot of more weird stuff happens, Emily, who's girlfriend moved away due to getting sick of the A shit, is now dating the girl who was saved with them. More creepy near death things happen, and the grand finale reveals that Alison's older mentally ill brother is now, her older sister. And did everything she did to get close to Alison. Also, shock - horror - this new sister turns out to be no other than Cece - yes the same girl who dated her brother. She was just playing with the girls as her 'dolls', and apparently 'loves' them all. She comes close to killing herself but then suggestively surrenders to the police. Oh and the A helper, Red Coat, is the girl who was rescued that Emily was dating, and Emily punches her.
I'm a little irked at this 'reveal'. Many people suspected the whole transgender story line, but I thought it was just a a really dramatic leap. Also, why have it be a girl who dated her brother, and was able to keep up the act of being a completely different person all this time? She was used as a red herring, and an assumed A before, it just feels redundant and a bit of a waste of the last five years to be honest. Maybe, I've just outgrown it, or maybe the show has just hit a new point of desperation. There's been so many twists, and turns, and it has been enjoyable. But the 'twist' was so obvious, yet dramatic, that it just feels like a let down. Also, it makes no sense. Why did no one ever section her since even after the sex change she was clearly mentally disturbed? oh also, she hit Alison over the head thinking she was the girl from the mental health place who had escaped. Hence why her mum tried to cover it up. Granted you see all the emotions that Cece, Charlotte, goes through now. But it's also really revolting that she made out with her brother, and caused so much mayhem all these years instead of redeeming her supposed murder of her sister, and just making amends.
SIGHHHHHH!
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