frAmed

This was just a set up episode. Nothing really happened, it was just preparing us for next week. All this episode did was remind us of prom coming up, make us suspect Clark, and was the return of Redcoat. However that is still nothing cause we knew prom was coming, they have been in high school for ever it had to come eventually; Clark is obviously not involved with ChArles, too much evidence pointing his way; and who care about Redcoat.

Was Emily even in this episode? How about Spencer? Neither had their own story lines they just help other Liars. Spencer help Hanna with returning the scholarship and finding out more about the charity it came from. And Emily helped Aria pick out a dress. She also talked about taking Sara to the Prom. Sara was not in this episode.

Ali had a bigger role. Her dad is spilling the beans to Tanner. She is getting Cozy with Lorenzo and even made him soup. When he drugs himself she takes his key card and sneaks into the police station to see what they know about ChArles since her dad won't tell her anything. Tanner catches her there and tells her the same thing that Hanna has been saying, the dude is dangerous and she should stay away. However Ali wants to get to know him better since he is her brother. I feel right know Ali likes ChArles better than her other brother Jason, who never tried to kill anyone, did not kidnap her friends and is not the number one suspect for the murder of her mother.

Hanna as we mentioned returns her scholarship, 1) because she believes it is from ChArles so she does not want it and 2) she wants more info on the mysterious company that gave it to her. She goes with Spencer and meets with a guy Rhys Mathis who looks like a DeLaurentis. He does not give much info and will not let them find anything out about his boss. 

The main story was Aria. Her Photos made it to the finales and were going to be displayed in a gallery where they would announce who won the prestigious internship. Her mother did not want her going but after a talk with Ezra, and Tanner supplying cops and assurance that nothing would happen she is allowed to go. While picking out what to wear Aria and Emily talk about prom, they are both really excited, even though the school board does not want to let them go.  This was just set up for next week especially since this is a totally different Aria from the one who after the art show would tells Ezra that she always feels cold ever since she woke up on that steel table. Anyway the art show is going great, everyone is there, Aria even asks Ezra to prom, he says no. Clark has no friends or family there. When they display the Photos, Aria's have been replaced with ChArles photos of the Liars from his Dollhouse. The show is shut down as it is now a crime scene. We never do find out who won the internship.

The other liars follow Rhys to the abandoned doll factory and then see Clark go in. That is too much for them and they leave and tell Aria about it. also Aria's mom has had enough and talks to Hanna's mom about what to do since the cops are not doing enough.

Side Notes

• where was Toby? still trippin? you think he'll get fired?
• is Hanna's mom still getting Married?
• Ezra doing habitat for humanity? no way he has the "brew" to run
• that whole room of dedicated to Charles that was at the police station had nothing we or anyone did not already know
• with prom coming up they will be out of high school in no time

well that is all i have to say about that

o brother where Art thou

So they finally named an episode after a coen brothers film. I may be reading too much into this but that film is a retelling of the Odyssey, a story about a man presumed dead trying to get back home. Just like ChArles.

Hanna's mom has great news, no she is not getting married, hanna got a scholarship! She can now go to college! To bad she has to research where the money is from, turns out it is linked to the DiLaurentis.

Emily bumps into Clair, Sara's old friend, remember her, me neither. Anyway she is trying to get back in touch with Sara . Emily sets up a play date for all three of them. Sara then decides to leave Emily's and stay with Clair. She says now they can go on real dates and kiss again.

Aria has a heart to heart with Mike (haven't seen him in a while) and finds out that Mona is not talking to him,. She assures him that she had nothing to do with that. Talking about Mona she set up meeting with Lesli but Lesli is a no show, but Mona is positive that if Lesli knew anything about ChArles she would of told her. Aria gets rid of all the dolls she has been photographing. Mike give them to Mona. in the end Aria gets into that art thing she applied for.

Toby is back from so police convention or something, they didn't even mention if it was in harrisburg or somewhere else. Spencer is happy he is back and decides to come clean about ChArles to him. after watching a couple youtube.com videos she convices the Liars that they should remove their tracking chips and they do. She also does not see the barista at the brew slip some pot candy in her bag. Toby takes them not realizing that they have pot in them.

The big story  is what I mentioned earlier that ChArles is coming home, for his birthday. Ali's dad is scared and takes ALi with him out of town. Jason on the other hand wants to see his long lost Brother. The Liars set a tracking device on Jason's car, Toby follows him to an arcade. When the Liars have not heard from Toby they go as well. ChArles does show up but since Toby is high as kite he gets away. Jason explains to Ali that he wants to see ChArles since all the memories he had he was convinced by his parents that they were made up. they then go to the attic where a home movie is playing. It shows them as kids at the arcade celebrating a birthday. They both remember it and being told it was some cousin or something but both realize it was ChArles.
well that is all i have to say about that

no stone unturned

So you probably heard that someone leaked all these spoilers on Reddit. As I see it they are all just rumors for now  and they all seem crazy and plausible since the writer have done some crazy twists in the past and will in the future. More importantly PLL was referenced in in the newest issue of MAD magazine, it is in my favorite column "Planet Tad". "Planet Tad" is a blog by the most hilarious kid Tad (there are also two books). His post about PLL was not that funny but I wanted to share it with you anyway

well here is the recap

Last episode convinced everyone that that Lesli was A/Charles, this episode undid all of that. After Hanna “borrows” Lesli’s car and Spencer and her find cages and make a copy of her key card found in the car. The Liars sans Emily look in Lesli’s lab for evidence. Mona shows up gets the animals back in the cage and explains that Lesli can’t be A/Charles and that Charles is still alive, the organ donation is made up. They also discover that they have been chipped, they should probably take the chips as  evidence to the police.

Aria is still pushing Clark away but ends up hanging out with him at the junkyard again, I guess it’s “their place”. She also is thinking of getting back together with Ezra till she sees him having a great time with Emily’s friend from the Costa Rica trip.

That girl is in Rosewood to get the band back together for a Thailand tour so to speak. She wants to get Emily and the rest of the Costa Rica crew to do the same stuff in Thailand this summer. First Emily says no then yes then no again. A lot of that switching had to do with Sara, Emily feels that she needs to stay with Sara and Sara can’t go to Thailand. They don’t mention it but I doubt she has a passport. Also Emily and Sara finally kiss.  Sara also go hit by a car, she’s ok, which she identified as Lesli’s car but by the end of the episode Lesli is no longer a suspect and we have no Idea who hit her, I guess A/Charles drives a similar car to Lesli.

Spencer is dealing with having to make a speech at graduation about the Liars experience in the “dollhouse”. She is still not sleeping but is no longer on drugs. Dean her drug coach gives her some brownies and a book, but when she misses a NA meeting he tells her that he can no longer see her because he just wants to kiss her or something like that that sounded romantic but made no sense. When she goes to the next meeting he is nowhere to be seen, kind of like Toby this episode. Also after talking to Sara it seems like she will do the speech at graduation. Also Melissa is still in London and petitioning to get Spencer to give the speech.

Hanna is still feeling smothered by Caleb. He wants to protect and help her and does try to give her space but she still feels smothered. After he has a talk with her mom everything is fixed. He walks in and just kisses her and they are now back to their old #Haleb.

Ali’s dad gets a birthday card left on his windshield and freaks out.  At the end of the episode he is digging up Charles’ grave because the card is from Charles and it states that he is coming back for his Birthday.

Side notes

·         Caleb is right no one should know how Kimye  is

·         Where was Ali and Lorenzo?

·         Is Hanna’s mom still engaged to be married?

·         We still have not seen Emily’s tattoo

·         What are they going to do about the chips in their necks?

Well that is all I have to say about that

she's no Angel

So I think we can all agree that the best part of the episode was when Hanna compared Lesli’s mood swings to the “captain hook ride at Hershey Park”. Now it’s just called the pirate ship ride but I’ll let it go since she did mention Hershey Park by name. If you do visit Hershey Park this summer stop by CPKM and tell them I sent you and you will get free refills on your soda! Now to business.

A lot of people returning this week. Well only three, Mona, Lesli and the drug coach guy. Mona is back from the spa and is worried about everything but top on the list is legal ramifications of faking her death. Hanna decides to help her out but Lesli is not as forgiving, we have not seen Lesli since the trial.

Emily is busy helping Sara get emancipated, even though she will be 18 in two months; they feel that is too long. They get Caleb to help since he emancipated himself and knows the ropes. We find out that he has a web design company and is doing well enough to hire Sara as a minimum wage employee. She puts in the paperwork and everything looks good so Sara and Emily get tattoos. Sara of a bird flying out of a cage to symbolize her new freedom and Emily getting an Asian character  she is told is the Japanese symbol for courage (I don’t read Japanese so I don’t know what it says or even if it is Japanese at all). Now you have to be 18 or have your parents’ permission to get a tattoo so I guess Sara’s pending emancipation was enough but how did Emily get her’s? Maybe since she is played by an actor who is almost 30 the tattoo artist thought she looked old and did not ID her.

Ali is spending all her time at home and church. That is going to change thanks to Lorenzo. The two of them are getting close and Ali’s dad is not happy about it, but he is never happy. Ali is also upset by the comments of the cops who are there to protect her, Lorenzo get that cop switched out and get a kiss from Ali. With two liars dating cops it’s only a matter of time before Emily is dating Tanner (she was a lesbian on nip/tuck).

Aria is hanging out with Clark, the photo guy from last week. They go to a junkyard, it looks more like the storage place for a funhouse, to take some pics for a contest. Clark is into Aria but she is not into him. Not because he’s black but because she has gone through a lot and we still don’t know what’s going on between her and Ezra. While there Clark gets a photo of someone in a black hoodie. It’s not that clear but Aria is convinced that it is A and that A is a girl.

Spencer has a nightmare of a scary girl doing and interpretive dance in a scary room, she thinks was in the dollhouse but it was at Radley. Thanks to the pot cookies she can sleep but it gives her nightmares. She goes to a “meeting” to get some munchies, ends up seeing her old drug coach (as mentioned earlier) and she quite cold turkey she is now drug free! You go girl! Once drug free she and Hanna break into Radley to find evidence that they were not able to get last week at place they were storing Radley’s records. They find the room from her nightmare and in there they find Charles’s file containing his organ transport convincing them he is dead. They also find Mona there, she was going to be their tour guide, but was on her own looking and found Lesli’s file. That was the big new, Lesli was not only a patient at Radley she was Bethany’s roommate and was there at the same time as Charles.

With the knowledge of Lesli’s time at Radley and Clark’s pic that A is a girl the Liars are convinced that Lesli is A. They hatch a plan to catch her in the act but we will have to wait two weeks (not sure why there is no episode airing next week) to see the plan fail; you know it won’t work, 1) Lesli can’t be A it to obvious and 2) the season has just started there are too many episodes left to find and catch A.

Side notes

·         It’s good to see Mona but I could do without Lesli and drug coach

·         What happened to Andrew?

·         So all of the records from Radley were moved except for the one’s they needed that somehow got left there

·         Radley should have digitalized there records years ago, then Caleb could just hack in whenever they needed info

·         We never see Emily’s finished tattoo, maybe she was given something different then what she asked for like a message from A, a permanent message

·         So Spencer will be valedictorian? That should upset both Mona and Andrew; and everyone else who actually attended classes

 

Well that is all I have to say about that