Why hello there and welcome to a wholesome hour of lying and revenge. Let’s get to it, shall we?
We start off in some kind of book fair at Rosewood High, where dead students donate all of their books to creep out the alive students still around.
These are called books, Aria. You open them and they have words and stuff.
Just kidding. Maybe? Aria and Hanna are discussing Hanna’s new hair, which looks amazing, btw.
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They’re also looking through some books and they find The Scarlet Letter. I was waiting for a more obviously Scarlet Letter reference this entire show and this is how we get it? For real real? Hanna opens the book and finds that it once belonged to Shana.
OH COME ON
She tries to hide it from Aria, but Aria’s got the wide-eyed crazed look she’s been practicing for the last few episodes, and she searches through the book for clues.
Well, aren’t we a picker and a chooser of quotations?
Basically that entire book is one big morality tale about judging others, so. Mona approaches them and jokes that Shana won’t need the book anymore — because she transfered schools to Georgia, right? — so one of them should take it. Once again Mona has an evil smile and I can’t trust her and I’m annoyed about this. Why are they making her an evil person again?
I’ve made a huge mistake.
At the DiLaurentis residence, Ali’s trying to do good deeds and donate her old clothes to Goodwill, but her dad is kind of weirded out about the sudden change in demeanor. Since when has Ali ever done anything charitable/good/right? She says she’ll need some notebooks to go back to school. Her dad tries to convince her that maaaaybe she shouldn’t go back to school and that they should move. That’s a solid idea, Mr. DiLaurentis, but it is never going to happen. Ali panics about moving and begs him not to take her away from her friends.
Did you know the neighbors never put on pants before 2pm? Are they freelance writers or what?
Next door, in Murderville, Spencer and Mrs. Hastings are having a sweet little chat over tea. I kid, I kid. Mrs. Hastings is freaking out about the crime scene in their yard and Spencer is begging her mom to figure out what secret Melissa and Mr. Hastings are hiding.
Maybe if we don’t make eye contact Mr. Hastings will just fuck off.
Speak of the devil, Mr. Hastings walks on in and assures everyone the police will be out of their yard by that afternoon.
The show is being too obvious about Mr. Hastings being the murderer, so we know it’s not him. But why is he so sketchy and weird?
Sorry, Rosewood is fresh out of lightbulbs.
In a dark room somewhere, because of course, Lucas and Mona are scheming. Lucas wants OUT because Ali was locked in a dungeon and tortured and all that, and he’s feeling a little guilty about further torture plans. Mona begins to convince him that Alison made up the whole story, but we’ll just have to see whether Lucas is Good Guy Lucas or Scum Bag Lucas this season.
Maybe if we don’t make eye contact, Spencer will stop telling these pun jokes she still thinks are funny and original.
Spencer, Aria, Emily and Hanna eat lunch outside to hide from prying eyes. Aria is still panicking about everything, but I’m just in love with her hat. Someone find me that hat stat. Aria’s convinced Mona knows, and to add to the strangeness, Mona just stands ten feet away from them, smirking in their general direction.
WISDOM
Stay cool, Mona. Also on the panic train, Spencer keeps discussing the murder of Mrs. DiLaurentis, and right on cue, Ali sends them all a text about how the police still don’t know her mom’s cause of death.
Bad form, bad form.
Alison is really trying to get in touch with the Liars, who are definitely avoiding her. She tries to sign a text “-A” and realizes maybe that isn’t in good taste at the moment.
Oh what a tangled web, Al.
Her dad comes in and says she has to go to the doctor to get checked out after being kidnapped for so long. This makes her panic, and almost act like a real human being for a moment!
Hi, I’m Andrew, and I’m heading the committee to make these bathrooms behind me gender neutral for a more inclusive high school.
Out of nowhere but seemingly out of somewhere, Andrew shows up. Remember him? Smart? Strip study? Bearer of pills? Turns out under them sweater vests, Andrew has been hiding some muscles.
But who the fuck is Kyla? Why is she the best?
I say a silent prayer that Spencer will ditch Toby for this dude as Spencer invites Andrew over to do some yardwork around Mrs. D’s scene of death because naturally. Hmmm, so “yardwork” is what the kids are calling it these days. Gotta stay up on my lingo.
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Mr. Hastings put Mrs. Hastings in the SHU. I also think maybe Melissa Murder, Duhed Mrs. D? Or Ezra, because he’s still a skeezball? Why are they hinting that Aria and him are definitely getting back together? UGH.
Melissa or Ezra? Those both totally make sense in a strange and creeptastic way.
The dynamic between Sydney/Paige/Emily is a bit fascinating. I felt like this was a good episode for Emily. And that line about the monsters under the bed, oof. Oh, Spencer.
Sydney’s a bit of a wet blanket at the moment. I hope they develop her a little more if she does become an actual love interest/person we need to care about, you know?
Yeah, it’s hard to tell exactly where they’re going with her. I fear she’s going to be one of those characters that we get to know juuuust enough so that it means something if she dies in mysterious circumstances (incidentally that’s one thing I love about Buffy, like, “xyz got killed in the woods! This character that we’ve never seen before but is someone that we all know well!”)
I’m pretty sure she’s evil. Sydney I mean.
This was a great episode for Paige! She’s so strong now. She finally brought up how Ali hurt her to Emily. And the line to Mona about becoming what you feared. Awesome! And also I just have to say, she is looking HOT! <3
Those scenes with emily, sydney, paige was so weirdly normal for a town like rosewood. I was waiting for a time bomb or some kind of an explosion while they were laughing.
Uh Gee, i forgot to mention…..
Damn Paige! You’re killing me with your button down shirts and androgynous swagger!
I’m assuming Sydney is straight? Otherwise they may as well go ahead and classify the swim team as a team exclusively for obscenely attractive femme teen lesbians.
This is not how I remember high school. When I was a young queer it was a clusterfuck of awkwardness and confusion and bad wardrobe choices and trying to wear my hair in that pretty way all the other girls could.