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This is it! Seven seasons. What a journey. Just think about how your life, and the world has changed since 2010. Nothing last forever, and it is always better to end while you are still on top and  before a show "jumps the shark". I am just glad I was able to make it the whole way. I can now die a happy man.

SPOILER . . .

So we start out with an homage to "Citizen Kane"'s beginning with the snow globe braking. Shortly after on Ali mentions Orson Wells. This was not even close though. the first hour was almost pointless.

It starts a bit after last episode. Ali had twins, Lily and Grace. Melissa is back in town, so is Toby. Spencer is working for her mom and going to law school.  Aria is marrying Ezra. And Hanna is trying to get pregnant. She is also "sponsoring" Mona to the chagrin of Caleb and her mom.

They all have a thing at the Lone Woods that Spencer turned into a nice place. Melissa is black hooded lurking but turns out to be Mona in a Melissa mask.

Addison is back and once again even worse than Ali was in high school. Starting her own click and picking on students and teachers.

Everyone goes to Aria and Ezra's rehearsal dinner. Ezra gets Aria's dad's blessing. mom's get drunk.
Then it gets interesting during the second hour.
Mona knocks out Spencer. She wakes up locked in a dungeon. Turns out she has an identical twin, Alex Drake (AD) with a British accent, just like the movie "the Parent Trap".  Alex wanted and is going to take over Spencer's life and there were sometimes in the past that she already did. She tells her story and Wren is a big part of it, he is also the father of Ali and Emily's girls. (I still think it would be better if Charles was but I'm not one of the writers) Alex also broke Mary out of Jail.
Ezra has cold feet and the wedding is off. Not really he started questioning Alex so she locked him up with Spencer. They break out of there cells but are still stuck underground.
When the hot air balloonist shows up looking for Mrs. Friz the liars figure out that Ezra did not just leave because Aria is barren. Also Caleb finds that he has not used any of his credit cards and his car is still at the Radley. Toby finally looks at the  book that "Spencer" gave him and also realizes something is up.
They find out that Spencer is under the house Toby built and head there. There is the classic scene where Spencer and Alex wrestle and Toby comes in and has to shoot one of them but they are dressed the same. He uses poetry to find out who the real Spencer is and the cops show up since Mona called them.
The liars live happily ever after. Aria and Ezra get married (she wares a different dress than earlier). Spencer and Toby get together and Hannah is pregers.
Its ends with Mona living in France, in a doll store. Under it she is holding Alex and Mary.
It also ends with Addison's click reenacting the night that started it all with Addison missing. leaving it open for a whole new series.
its been fun but that is all I have to say about that

fArewell my lovely

By now you have seen this http://www.thewrap.com/lucy-hale-calls-herself-fat-and-the-internet-is-disappointed/ about Lucy Hale making disparaging remarks about herself in a pic she posted for father's day. It is a great photo of a father and daughter having what appears to be a good time at an event, possibly a wedding. Instead of commenting on what a great day that was or what a great dad she has, she went straight to  her appearance. This is not her fault, the business she is in puts way too much emphasis on physical looks. I hope that Lucy and everyone else learns from this experience that we should focus on people's' strengths, abilities and character and not superficial things. Lucy you are an excellent actor and singer and still would be at any weight. Lesson learnt: don't judge a book by its cover.

thanks for the public service message and now to the recap.

We start off where we left off with Dunhill and the car keys locked in Aria's trunk, with a cop stopping to help her. He gets the trunk open but doesn't see the body and she drives off. She decides to turn herself in and confess to Dunhill's murder to make up to the other liars since she joined the AD team.

While she is doing that the rest of the Liars and Caleb and Ezra are planning their next move since they now believe that MonA is AD. Caleb and Hannah are sent to talk to her. MonA though is leaving to meet who ever stole the "game" from her (definitely AD) and Caleb and Hannah follow.

Spencer meets with Mary and is given the Lones wood inn, but has to share it with Ali. Ali and Emily are home and get gassed and have a nightmare. Tanner is getting the arrest warrants ready to take in all the Liars. Also Dunhill's body is missing from Aria's trunk so she does not turn herself in.

Spencer then goes to Hannah and Caleb who are still watching MonA eat pie. Caleb gets impatient and goes in to talk to Mona. After receiving a note MonA sneaks out through a secret passage in the bathroom.

Hannah then finds Mona in the church steeple dressed as she did before she was cool and talking all crazy. Mona admits to threatening ChArlett there the night of her murder and at the end of the episode admits that they got in a fight up there and she pushed ChArlotte and her neck it a metal thing sticking out of the wall which killed her. we still don't know if Mona was the one to push dead ChArlett out the window?

When they leave the church the rest of the puzzle pieces are on their car. They have won the "game" and through a pointless augmented reality find out that Dunhill's body is  buried in ChArles' grave. They go there but decided they have had enough and don't dig him up. Just then Tanner shows up with a bunch of cops and a bulldozer.

They are all arrest and are about to confess and finally tell the truth. However before they can Mary confesses to both the murder of her sister and Dunhill. Tanner only believes that she did one of the murders but the DA is happy with being able to tie everything up nicely. They are all free to leave.
AD drives off into the sunset with the game pieces of the Liars
Only one more episode left!

choose or lose

They are just setting up for the series finale at this point. next week will be the same.

We start out with another returning character Tanner. She has taken over for Furry and collects evidence from all the Liars. She seem like she is on to them and has the evidence to prove it.

AD give the Liars 3 days to turn one of them in or threatens to have them all go to jail.

MonA outs Aria for working with AD. Then they realize they have all  do bad things playing this "game".

They all open up and let their loved ones in on AD. Hannah and more so Caleb to her mom, Aria to Ezra, and Spencer to Toby (he's back with a beard). they all have sex and Hannah and Caleb get married at the justice of the peace, not only because they are meant to be together  but so they cannot testify against each other.

Aria try to end it all and stop AD by taking the blame and going to turn herself in but was told it was too late. while she drives she discovers a body, most likely Dunhill's in her trunk. Just at that moment the cops come by and the episode ends.

only two episodes left!

driving miss crAzy

the title of this episode is a reference to the film "Driving Miss Daisy". The true story of of Morgan Freeman working as a driver for an old Jewess in Atlanta and the unlikely friendship they develop. Its based off a play of the same name and was sweded in the movie "Be kind Rewind"

Fury is on to Hannah and Caleb but Caleb is sticking to his guns. Hannah tries to get the shovels but it's to late they are gone. Mrs. Marin is back (I didn't know she was gone) and Caleb figures out that he wants to spend the rest of his life with Hannah. The two of them go camping, a throwback to when they lost their virginity together.

Aria is working for AD and taking dancing lessons for her wedding. Ezra seems to be much more involved in the planning and conflict control of the wedding. Aria's AD job is to drop a recording at the Hastings. It is a recording of Mr. Hastings and Mary disgusting the murder of Mrs DeLaurentis. Aria's reward is the Police report she filled out but never submitted. She also has a weird "jailhouse rock" dream sequence not sure why they did that, the episode works fine without it.

So the recording breaks the Hastings up. Mrs. Hastings is no longer taking her dream job in Harrisburg (they would of loved Harrisburg it is great!, their lost) and Spencer's dad is pissed but I think he is always pissed. Spencer meets up with Mary and hears her side of the story. Spencer leaves her Parents but does not run away with Mary because her friends need her.

Ali is in NYC. MonA tracked down the doctor who did Ali's fertility treatments and schedules an appointment for her and Emily. He kicks them out but MonA gets his address and they find a statement that show someone paying off his medical school loans. They use this to get him to tell them who the sperm donor is but he only has an ID number. I am still guessing that it is ChArles. In the end we find out that Mona is AD, or at least part of AD.

well only 3 episodes left!

the glove thAt rocks the crAdle

It's late so this is the intro

Aria is working for AD and Ezra is promoting his book without her. She destroys Emily and Ali's nursery as instructed by AD and in the end is upset about her role.

Hanna has to deliver a hard drive and also steal a receipt that would link Spencer to Archer. She has no problem with the hard drive since it was just a diversion so Aria could destroy the nursery. She has trouble finding the receipt so Caleb just floods the room. Hannah keeps telling the other liars that Lucas is not AD. He is caught rummaging through his own loft.   He explains that he is not AD but was friends with ChArles and emailed ChArles about how the liars made his life miserable in high school. He also said there was a 2nd graphic novel where the plot was that they turned revenge into a game but it was never complete and AD now has it and the episode ends with AD finishing it.

Fury is on Spencer's tail. that is why Hannah had to get the receipt. she also steals a flash drive from him. it looks like their relationship is over.

Emily and Ali are now a couple, I guess. Which is good since they are going to be raising a child together.

only four episodes left!

in the eyes Abides the heArt

Our thoughts and prayers are with Manchester.

Spencer is trying to connect with Mary. they keep leaving each other messages in a bottle. Mary leaves a key for Spencer and she waits for her but Mary does not come because Fury followed her. It seems like they will never meet now. Fury is also linking the liars to Archer's murder. In the end they bring back Wren (haven't seen him in a while) and Spencer sees if she can get any info out of him and tells Ezra to keep it a secret from Fury.

Emily and Ali find out for sure that the baby is Emily's. In the end with the help from Paige they decide to keep it, Paige then leaves town. I want the father to be ChArles like his froze some sperm before he became ChArlotte and AD used that, I mean we know it could be anyone but Archer's.

Hannah does not want to believe that Lucas could be AD, but then her puts her workspace up for rent and they find a comic book that he wrote with ChArles. She also lets MonA in on the "game". Mona figures out more about it than Caleb could and is obsessed with it.

Aria is starting to help out AD. She steals the Lucas & ChArles Comic book and gives it to AD. In return she gets a black hooded sweatshirt. She also had enough with Ezra still helping with Nicole. they have a fight his flight is delayed and he comes back to Aria.

only 5 episodes left

power plAy

Interesting episode, we learn a lot and there were a number of twists. but the major questions were still not answered.
Let's get right to it.

The big story line this week is Ali. After not being in last week's episode she is the focus. The game board is moved to her house and it's her turn to play. She is sent to a baby store and forced to set up a registry even though or maybe because she is planning to terminate her pregnancy. In the end she finds out that it is Emily's baby too since AD used Emily's stolen eggs to impregnate Ali. They decide to keep the pregnancy.

Emily was getting closer to Paige, who decides to stay in Rosewood instead of coaching at the collegiate level. They hook up but know that Emily knows that Ali is carrying her child that relationship will be strained.

Spencer's dad is home and has been searching for Mary. He tells her to stay away from Mary so she and Hannah go looking for her. Dect. Fury also lets them know that they were sent a finger that proves that Archer is dead so it is now a homicide instead of a missing person case.

While searching for Mary Hannah bumps into another blast from the past Tim. (we still have no idea what happened between him and Hannah's mom?) He shows up at the loft and explains that Mary has been staying with him. they knew each other in College and Charles/ Charlotte was his child. He shows her a picture of him and Charles at a camp he ran with another kid, Charles' only friend, Lucas da da da.

Aria is dealing with Nicole being back in the picture. She also wants out of the game and AD seems to be willing to let her out if she switches to the other team. She is sent to meet a limo and Sydney is inside giving her the offer. At first it seems like Sydney is AD but she is just a Pawn with an earpiece.

only six episodes left