Wednesday, February 25, 2015

bloody hell


On Monday PLL was mentioned on a respected show! PLL was an answer/question on Jeopardy! Technically it was about the book series not the show but this just shows what a cultural phenomenon PLL is.  For some reason none of the contestants got it right. Well let’s get to the recap.

We start with the Liars (sans Hanna) finally visiting Ali. After last week’s reveal they feel guilty and offer her an apology. Ali lets Aria know that if they can’t find A by the time of the trial she will need to get Mike in the mix since she see him as her only other option. Hanna does visit Ali later and it seems like Ali has learned her lesson from being in jail and that the two of them may have a chance of being friends again. Also visiting Ali is Spencer’s mom; she wanted to know what they talked about but ends up coaching Ali for when she plans on taking the stand. We also find out that Ali is working in laundry and it seems like she is the only prisoner in the whole place.

With Ali’s threat of turning in Mike, Aria is going full tilt to catch A. She tracks down Cyrus and with Hanna visits him in the hospital. He is in the burn ward and after putting all the protective gear except a face mask (he is highly susceptible to infection so they take all precautions with the exception of coughs and sneezes) they find out this was no accident. They also get a lead; Varjak. On the home front Aria sets off a booby-trapped bench press hurting her ankle but probably saving Mike’s life. Also after weeks of Andrew being there and Ezra not, Andrew and Aria share a kiss. FYI Andrew’s description of Deep Throat from “All the President’s Men”, making him seem like A is way off, the dude was just a shady whistleblower helping Woodward and Bernstein.

Pretty much all the stuff Hanna did we already went over. The visiting Ali in jail and Cyrus in the hospital. The only other thing is that her mom’s engagement to rev. Tim is back on. Finally, I have been asking about that for weeks. Let’s just hope they find A before the wedding cause if they don’t, A will ruin it.

Emily is still preparing for the “Glass Slipper” beauty pageant. I just realized this is nothing more than a cross promotion for the new “Cinderella” movie. That said, when she finds out how much a time commitment it is she talks to Talia about changing some shift that’s when she finds out that Talia is leaving, later she finds out that Talia and her husband split. While practicing her dancing with Talia, the head of the pageant informs them that they “strongly encourage” her to quit the pageant because of her friendship with Ali. Talia then “strongly encourages” the woman to buy Emily off, we will see if it worked.

Spencer if off across the pond to jolly old London for an Oxford interview. The interview is going swimmingly until blood starts leaking out of her purse. She totally freaks out since A put the blood there and threatens more for her return trip. After her flat mate calms her down a bit she still wants to go home right away, personally I would want to stay there; I feel that A could not do as much in London when the majority of her victims are in Rosewood. While her mom is reviewing Ali’s file she finds something that makes her want spencer to stay in London, she is only able to leave a message, hopefully Spencer gets the message before it’s too late.

·        We still don’t know what’s in the barrel

·        Ali’s file that Spencer’s mom has is labeled with an A when it should be a D, unless it’s a hint that Ali is A

·        Where’s Ezra? Harrisburg?

·        Where are the rest of the boyfriends? Caleb? Toby?

·        Can’t wait for the PLL OITNB crossover

 

Well that is all I have to say about that

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

pretty isn't the point


It feels good to be right. I was right about Mike and Jonny. Not that it’s that hard with this show. Well let’s get to the recap.

The Liars are super worried about Mike’s connection to A and go through his room. They find a Morse code necklace but not their vials of blood. After a few other awkward situations and having Andrew follow him, Aria confronts him. Turns out he had Mona’s blood not the liars’; It was used to stage her murder, a plan Mona worked with A on to get Ali in jail to gains A trust, to take A down (a bit confusing but it made sense when Mike explained it). It is believed that it backfired and Mona is dead now. Mike is quite sad and at the end of the episode A plants a wrench in his room.

Emily meets Eric, Talia’s husband. After a quick chat with him she realizes that Talia is playing both of them. She asks Hanna’s mom for advice (I always ask a divorced, cheats on her boyfriend, slept with a cop to get her kid out of jail woman for relationship advice) and breaks it off with Talia. She also helps Hanna dance for the talent part of the beauty pageant.

Hanna need to win the beauty pageant to pay for college, here is a link about beauty pageants helping paying for college https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDPCmmZifE8 . She even gets a coach, but instead of helping and coaching her she just tells Hanna she doesn’t have what it will take to win (but Emily does). Hanna wants to win the pageant even more when she finds out her evil stepsister Kate is in it. Turns out that was just an A trick Kate is out of town. End of story Hanna dropped out of the Pageant, but on the bright side with her dance moves she could probably strip her way through college; it’s not quite as demeaning as a beauty pageant but she will make a lot more money.

 While walking around with Jonny, Spencer sees in a gallery window the Graffiti or street art that the two of them painted last week. Upset that their work was cut up and is being sold without their permission and not getting a cut they decide to steal it. They break in thanks to Spencer’s lock picking skills and get all their paintings but while taking down the last one the alarm goes off, it’s amazing it did not go off earlier. They drive away and stop at a gas station, that when officer Toby shows up (being that there are only two cops in all of Rosewood we had a 50/50 chance it would be Toby or Tanner). He does his job and arrest Jonny, he lets Spencer go and tells her he is distancing himself from her cause Tanner is still suspicious of Spencer. She not buying it and is super upset with Toby. Her mom bails out Jonny but kicks him out of the barn (if she would have just kicked him out of the barn but not bailed him out at least he would have a warm place to sleep and three meals a day, now he’s totally homeless). However before he leaves Spencer and him share the kiss that we all new was coming from the first time we saw Jonny, but will this be the last time we see him? Doubt it.

·        Where was Ezra? Harrisburg again?

·        We still don’t know who or what is in the barrel

·        Did Rev. Tim ever get back to Hanna’s mom? Are they broken up or getting married?

·        There are only 4 episodes left!

 

Well that is all I have to say about that

Thursday, February 12, 2015

out dAmned spot


Sorry for the lateness of this post I missed the show driving my mom to the airport, no biggie. This episode is just filler, a place holder, nothing important happens; I could have just skipped it. At least I got the title reference, thanks Lady Macbeth. Well let’s get to the recap.

We start out at a blood drive where three out of the four Liars give blood. They don’t let Emily because of her summer in Haiti, I’m probably reading too much into this but I connected it to the fact that they don’t let gay men donate blood. Anyway Mike is messing around in the back and after he meets with Silas A text them a pick of the vials of their blood. We then see A use some of Hanna’s blood on a piece of evidence. That is the backbone of this episode.

All the Liars are worried about Mike’s connection to A but Aria is still defending him. She is also cheating on her math test, Andrew catches her and basically black mails her into him tutoring her. With her hiatus from Ezra will Andrew be her new love interest? He is useful when they need a car to follow Mike after he withdrew $400 and also protects them from Silas. We haven’t seen Andrew since Spencer was hooked on drugs; will this be his return to the show?

While Spencer and Toby are working things out, Spencer is spending more time with Jonny. He tricks her into helping him paint some graffiti on the pretense that he was hired to do a mural.  She has a good time and they almost kiss but once she finds out the truth she is pissed. Personally I think she should have been smart enough to see through his ruse. Anyway they don’t get caught; they talk it out and make up. Spencer is also working on getting into more colleges and even contacts Melissa about helping her get in.

While the other liars are still trying to get into the schools of their choice, Hanna is finding out that she will have trouble paying for it now that she has been accepted to all her schools. The problem is her dad; even though he is out of her life he makes too much money for her to get financial aid. She goes to his office and he tells her that (evil stepsister) Kate got into Dartmouth and since he’s paying for that he can’t pay for Hanna’s college; what a jerk. Worst dad ever, but a pretty cool step dad. Hanna’s mom on the other hand has told Rev. Tim that she wants to marry him but also about Jason, she is waiting to hear back if he still wants to marry her. Hanna takes matter into her own hands and is entering a Beauty pageant for the scholarship money. We do not see Caleb at all this episode.

It seems like Emily is over Paige and having a great time with Talia. Until she finds out that Talia is married. But all is forgiven when it is explained that, they hooked up in 9th grade, were married right after high school, he knows she’s into girls, and they are still best friends. We never meet him so we will have to take Talia’s word on all of that.

·        Hanna is the only one without a new love interest

·        Student loans are available

·        I bet Rosewood High cost close to $40k a year

·        I’ve said it before, if they’re in the barn Spencer will hook up with them

·        What happened to Mona’s friend from last week? Will we see her again?

·        We still don’t know what’s in the barrel

 

Well that is all I have to say about that

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

oh what hard luck stories they All hand me


I believe this is the longest title of an episode yet, and I’m not sure what it references, probably the old movie Mike watches. We also get a new character, yay. So let’s break it down.

Not much going on with Emily. After a couple cold and hot encounters with Talia she uses Jonny’s “machine” to tell her how she feels and then they kiss. I did like that she told Caleb that it makes no sense that with all the A stuff she is focusing on her love life, I guess I’m not the only one to notice it.

On the other hand Hannah had a lot going on. She forgave Spencer, got called down to the police station, hung out with the new girl Lesley, found a hidden tape of one of Bethany’s counselling sessions and had a confrontation with former detective Holbrooke. What a day. We still don’t know anything about Lesley, it’s weird that Mona never spoke of her; personally I think she is up to no good. I know that they want you to think that Mike is A and is the one looking for the tape in the spine of the book, but I think that it is Lesley. Also after weeks of blaming Holbrooke for everything, a quick explanation of where he was and the liars are ready to blame the next person. That’s what I love about this show, things, people change on a dime.

Speaking of Mike, they seem to be setting him up as A. He visited Ali in Jail and returned even after Aria told him not to. He freaked out over the book that we later learn had a tape hidden in it. He also made Mona end a call with Lesley the night she was murdered and worst of all, he left a bag of candy on the pier. With so much against him there is no way he is A, so Aria keep defending him. You have the time since Ezra is in Harrisburg (probably because it’s the coolest, and the people there are the best!).

Spencer’s Mom is consulting for Ali’s defense team so that she gets inside info, like who visited Ali in jail and that the blood in the storage unit belongs to Ali. We still don’t know what’s in the barrel. Spencer’s mom also tells her that she is going to go to college so she better pick one soon. Spencer on the other hand is hanging out with Jonny, and with Toby nowhere to be seen this episode, it’s just a matter of time before they hook up.

·        It seems like there can be only one parent per episode

·        I guess that’s why there is no update on the pending nuptials of Hannah’s mom

·        Will we ever find out what’s in the barrel?

·        I love when they introduce new characters I find it so awkward

·        Speaking of characters what happened to Sidney?

·        I liked how Jonny pointed out that Ali went from missing girl everyone was searching for to murderer suspect overnight, only in Rosewood

·        The best part of the episode was Ezra being in Harrisburg

 

Well that is all I have to say about that