Scream for Me

As Michael mentioned he is on hiatus while participating in Unicon17. Please see his other blog http://17unicon.blogspot.co.il/ to see what a unicycle conference is all about (if that interests you). In the mean time, I (Traci, sister of Michael), will be writing in his place.

Obviously the best part of this episode was once again a mention of Harrisburg. This time it came up when Toby decided to go to the Police Academy which apparently only happens in the state capitol. Who knew? For some reason Spencer was upset about his decision but did not really explain why (shouldn't she be excited for her man in uniform?) and then warmed up to the idea after she got attacked by a horse. 

The episode starts off in choir class. Who knew they were in choir class. Alli is being questioned and Hannah has trouble focusing on her singing. Aria continues volunteering/snooping at Radley where she learns that Eddy Lamb is no longer employed there (probably dead). Doesn't matter though because she gets all the information she needs from Big Rhonda all for the small price of a root beer. Apparently Bethany and Mrs. Dilaurentis had a close relationship and went horseback riding together and even adopted a horse. This definitely leaves the twin theory from the books open. Especially after we learn that Mrs. D wanted Bethany to call her Aunt Jessie. Spencer and Emily head to the stables to pick up some information and find Melissa's riding helmet (put there by A/there because Melissa is A/or there because Melissa rides there). While they are snooping around in an all too obvious ominous thunderstorm A locks them in the stable to be attacked by the horse who is spooked by the storm (or maybe by A, or maybe is A). 

But onto some real drama- Ella's younger man is into even younger women! Zack hits on Hannah when she is wasted and makes an even clearer attempt when she's sober. Hannah tries telling Aria, but already angry at her for her previous drunken slip-up, Aria doesn't trust her and tells her she's an alcoholic mess (which seems pretty accurate). Emily tries to fix Hannah's blabber mouth by telling Sydney that they were never in NY and Hannah is so silly when she's drunk. Sydney plays dumb and then brings up later when she is giving Emily her assistant coach (!) uniform almost seemingly on purpose to let her know they know the truth. But the liars have not caught on yet to what team Sydney is really playing for. Later on while making some sort of wedding decorations, Aria's expressions seem to indicate her lack of trust in Zack. Something tells me destroying Ella's marriage will somehow end up curing the rift between Aria and Hannah. 

Meanwhile, Alison pushes her way in to sleeping at Hannah's and Hannah decides to avoid her and drink her sorrows away with Caleb. Caleb offers for them to run away together and Hannah gives really dumb excuses for why she can't go - no to Japan because she doesn't like sushi and no to Myanmar because she can't pronounce it. Oddly Caleb gives up on the idea and doesn't mention any normal vacation spots. Alison develops a plan to get Mrs. Marin to believe her by getting Noel Kahn to break into their house. But the detective does not trust her at all - not about her disappearance, not about Shawna, and not about this break in. It's not hard to see why. Alison says she did it to get someone credible to believe her story so she chooses someone who slept with a police officer to get her daughter's shoplifting charges dropped. 

Maybe now that Zack turned out to be a creeper he will somehow get involved in the A stuff. Maybe not. You really never know. 

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silence of E. Lamb

First some housekeeping: the next couple weeks I’ll be on vacation so I’m not sure if I will be able to get these posts out on time or even be able to watch PLL. But rest assured they will be posted eventually.

Spencer helps Ezra move all his stuff to a shed since Aria had to volunteer, plus out of the liars Spencer or Emily would my choice to help me move, Aria seems too small to carry heavy things. I think that Ezra stuff will be stolen, that lock will not keep A out. Spencer borrows a camera to spy on Melissa but puts it outside the barn, instead of inside, where you could see what she’s up to not just her comings and goings. (She could have borrowed more than one and set up a real surveillance)  Spencer gets no dirt on Melissa but does catch Ali sneaking around in different cloths. We do see that Melissa has a rat, could she be the one that left one in Paige’s locker? She also won’t share her secrete with Spencer.

Emily’s mom invites everyone over for dinner (what’s a pop-in?), only Ali and Hanna come. It was all just her mom’s plan to see if there was anything between Emily and Ali, romantically. Hanna gets drunk and Emily kicks her out before she ruins the dinner but what kind of parent takes out a bottle of vodka for a dinner with teenagers. Hanna then spills the beans to Sidney and A uses that the put a wedge between Hanna and the other liars.

Aria starts at Radley and is successful in getting some info after “borrowing” a book from Ronda (a mash-up of TasteE and crazy-eyes from OITNB). They find out that Bethany was the patient that was on the roof when Toby’s mom “fell” off and knew that Mrs. D covered it up. Aria also mentions my might-be-Cousin Marc Chagall and scares off Eddie lamb from talking with Ezra.

What is Ali up to, sneaking around, telling Hanna to break up with Caleb and a heart-felt lie to Emily’s mom. Also she must have the best concealer because I could not see any bruises and she stopped wearing the scarf.

One last thing is Eddie Lamb the only person working at Radley? At one point Wren was working there. Anyway if I remember correctly when Toby was working for A he used an Eddie Lamb ID to get in and out of Radley. So Mr. Lamb has connections to everyone, Mrs. Cavanaugh and DiLaurentis, Wren, Toby, Mona, Bethany, Spencer, A, and Ronda. He is the key to everything, so he will probably end up dead.

Well that is all I have to say about that.     

run Ali run

So since none of you commented about “Ravenswood” I checked it out for myself and it has been canceled. Therefore we will be seeing a lot more of Caleb in Rosewood. I blame myself since I never watched one episode. But in this day and age how do you have a supernatural show without at least one vampire.

A is back and on the attack. A almost killed Ali and sent her a video of her mom being buried. A seems to be leaving the other liars alone (for the time being) and focusing on Ali, just like Mona, but Mona wants Ali to leave and A won’t let her leave.

If it were not for Emily Ali might have been killed by A. she also got Paige to name names, no one we didn’t know about and the liars should have suspected. Paige if you rat on people you’ll get a dead rat in your locker, IT’S THE Rosewood way. Emily then has an awkward sleepover with Ali but does not get any sleep, but not in the good double entendre way.

Hanna was actually trying to help Ali leave town for her own selfish reasons so she could be queen bee again. She also has to focus on her love triangle with Caleb and Travis. Caleb needs to either shave or grow more facial hair cause right know Arafat has better facial hair then him.

Spencer after realizing that her dad did not kill Ali’s mom tries to get her parents back together. She gets her and her mom back into the house but her dad is going to leave. I keep wondering why no one is mentioning that Spencer’s dad and Ali’s mom had an affair that resulted in Jason.

Aria is still worried about the killing Shawna thing and it is being investigated. They suspect it has something to do with Ezra since he was shot the night before, Shawna had gun residue on her and she was killed in his mother’s theater. The Liars still won’t cooperate since they, for some reason, need to keep the lie that they were in Philly that night. The show makes the detective seem like a bad guy with her menacing looks but in reality if they were to come clean she could probably help them with A.

We still know nothing of this Bethany Young, but neither do the cops. Besides the fact that she was a patient at Radley we found out that not only did she know Mrs. D but even drew a not so flattering picture of her. I feel like Radley would need to be more cooperative with the authorities but since they are not Aria is getting an after school job with them. Remember when she worked for the photographer, whatever happened with that job?

Side note: it seems like no one in Rosewood cares if a house is destroyed. The Cavanaugh’s house, gas leak, case closed. And they never found the culprit who drove into Emily’s living room. Moral of the story, don’t buy a house in Rosewood, rent.

Well that is all I have to say about that.

miss me x 100

We made it! 100^Th episode, not only does this mean that we have spent more than four days watching PLL but they are also able to go into syndication now. It was nice that they did a real episode instead of a clip show that most shows do for their 100^Th.

The big news is that everyone is back! Well Caleb and Jenna at least (and Toby but we saw him a couple weeks ago. Is “Ravenswood” still a show? (Please let me know in the comment section, I don’t feel like researching it, thanks) what was on his face?  A milk mustache? I am all for facial hair, if you can grow it. But I digress, will Caleb stay in Rosewood? I think the answer has more to do with “Ravenswood” than anything else. I do like him better then Travis though.

Jenna is broken but is well enough to plot with Mona and Sidney. I told you to watch out for Sidney. Their plan works though, not only do they get the whole school against Ali they even get the liars to turn on her. Man, she has it bad; “kidnapped”/ on the run for two years, and right when she returns her mother is murdered, and then to top it off, she is now the most hated person in high school. Someone somewhere should cut her some slack.

Aria is finally getting over killing Shawna thanks to Ezra pointing out the she shot him and was going to kill the liars. Aria should consider herself a hero and not worry about people finding out. Plus Ezria is back together!

Since ABC is owned by Disney we had some cross promotion with a “Frozen” sing-along that Emily attended (and even made an Adele Dazeem joke) but not before she got Ali and Paige to cry in front of each other. She then hooks up with Ali!

Lucas has a party for his “girlfriend” to meet his friends. We never do meet her so why couldn’t he have just had a party, why even mention the girlfriend? Anyway Hanna gets hammered on what looks like antifreeze (the “Frozen” sing-along was going on during this party, coincidence?) her mom will deal with her in the morning but I doubt that will happen since she drinks a beer with Caleb the next day.

Spencer’s parents are getting divorced and she is sticking with her mom. For those keeping track that only leaves Emily with married parents, but her dad is always in Texas or Iraq plus has a bad heart so it may not last much longer.

The ending was a shocker. As the liars and their loved ones gathered around the TV to find out the identity of the girl in Ali’s grave (Bethany Young, a girl who escaped Radley the night Ali disappeared, were they not searching for this girl before?) Toby and Jenna’s house explode and Jenna may be inside. This is exactly how she ended up blind in the first place. Last thing we see is that A is back which is great because A is the main character even though we never see   her/him/they/it.

Well that is all I have to say about that.

thrown from the ride

What happened to Ali’s dog? That woman dropped it off two episodes ago, it found her mom’s body and we have not seen it since. My guess is that the police are still questioning it. However with Ali stuck in her house it would have been nice to have the dog around. Did they even name it?

I think Emily said it best “A is gone, Ali’s back why aren’t we happy”. The problem is Ali and her lies. I know the show is called “Pretty Little Liars” not “Hot Young Truth Tellers” but even TV Guide jeered (the harshest criticism in the TV world) the show for Ali lying about being kidnapped. The lies aren’t even good, the doctor knows that the scar is not from a rock and that it is older than she is saying, and why have the others memorize her lies? Then there has always been the suspicion that Ali was/is A and two events in this episode hint at that. First when she sends a group text and the liars jump when all their phones go off at the same time just like old times with A. Second when Ali send a text and first signs it -A before changing it to -Alison (who signs a text anyway?) old habits are hard to break.

Hanna is rockin’ her new style and is back to shoplifting. In the books Hanna’s things were eating disorders and shoplifting but not at the same time. If she gets caught stealing do you think her mom will sleep her way out of the charges again?

Emily is helping Sidney (I learned her name since I think she will be around more) with her swimming and starting to hang with Paige again. Paige has not joined Mona’s army and warns Emily that it might not be safe for Ali to return. Mona also lets Lucas know that Ali was not kidnapped and he is no longer being home schooled (so that’s where he’s been).

Aria is still dealing with Shawna’s murder and watching her funeral again and again is not helping. Playing board games with Ezra on the other hand does the trick. They almost have a sleep over! Once again I would like to thank them for the Harrisburg shootout (Aria’s dad is in Harrisburg for Mike’s lacrosse match). It’s just a matter of time before Aria and Ezra are back together.

Spencer is trying to find out what her family is hiding from her. She thinks that her dad may have killed Ali’s mom and there seems to be motive and means. I doubt he did it though; he seems more like a guy who would hire a hit man than kill someone himself. Plus I think he is smart enough not to leave the pills where Spencer would find them. Her mom is sent to the “spa” if we are to believe her father. And somehow she has time to garden with Andrew.

Next week is the 100^Th episode, wow a hundred hours of PLLs I have watched (over four complete days). Ali is making her return to Rosewood High and I hear that Caleb will be back from Ravenswood, did that show get picked up another season?

Well that is all I have to say about that.