we've All got bAggAge

It must be sweeps week, with all the wedding in this week's show. FYI we still don't know if Hanna's mom ever got married. Well enough small talk let's get to the recap.

The big wedding was Aria's parents remarrying each other. We knew that it was going to happen but I did not think it would be this quick. They ask Aria to officiate and Hanna helps with the wedding dress. Mike doesn't come, they say it's because he thinks his dad will hurt his mom again but it's more likely the actor had a scheduling conflict or wanted too much money.  The wedding goes off without a hitch and A doesn't do anything. Liam even comes after he finds out about Ezria and they rekindle their love. Aria also comes clean to Ezra that while he was gone she wrote six chapters of his book. At the end of the episode Ali and the Dr. come wanting for her to marry them. They worked things out after A made Ali admit that it was their relationship that may have made Charlotte leave the house the night she was murdered.

As mentioned earlier Hanna helped with the wedding. She kept ignoring Jordan's calls but in the end she calls him back and leaves a voicemail that she has picked a date, May 17th, so everyone save the date (STD as my sister tells me she stole from HIMYM).

Spencer finally confronts her mom about her health after Caleb made sure that her rival no longer had the medical documents. Her mom is so impressed with her she goes public about in and her poll numbers go up! Melissa is also back and lied about the broken bag. She also worked on something that would clinch her mom's victory (probably the leaked story I will mention later) and Hanna had a flashback about her flipping out in London because Charlotte called Ren and told him about Bethany. So a story that Yvonne had an abortion is leaked and since her mom is the pro life candidate it make them look like a hypocrite. You would think this would help the Hasting campaign but the leak is traced back to Spencer's IP address and it make them lose all the good will they got from her coming clean about her health (personally I would still think the fact that the daughter of a pro-life candidate had an abortion would make her lose a lot of vote no matter who leaked the story). Caleb takes the fall and leaves but will work on finding who actually leaked it.

Emily and Hanna take Ali  to Sara's room at the Radley since she has left it to show her the tunnel. The room is a mess and the hole to the tunnel is gone As the maid is in the other room they sneak out (the maid is A). Emily then registers at Hollis  and and make friends with the reporter from a couple weeks ago. A sends her some books about babies to threaten her since A has her eggs. Hanna informs Emily that he is a reporter and not a student, she plays along with it and he gets no information. Emily goes to check out the diner the call to Charlotte came from. It looked closed but a dark SUV tries to run her over. while dodging the SUV her phone gets crushed, she finds the missing luggage handle (likely the murder weapon) and drops it, the driver of the SUV takes it. She is now convinced that there are at least two people after them.

that is all I have to say about that

where somebody waits for me

There is another network, AMC where after every show, they have another show that discusses the show you just watched. i.e the "walking dead" followed by the "talking dead". I think they are all even hosted by the same guy. The reason I bring this up is because they should have one for PLL and I wouldn't care if it is on freeform or AMC.

Now to the recap

We start where we left off with Spencer and Aria in the walls of Radley. They find a device like the one that was used on them in the dollhouse and that this is a tunnel used by Sara to get in and out undetected, Charlotte probably used it as well.

Caleb has cracked into the files on the phone and finds a document that Spencer's mom is sick. The Campaign is going to leak it and  Spencer didn't even know that her mom was ill. She confronts Mona and confirms that Mona had Yvonne leave the phone on purpose to test Spencer but really wanted her to leave the phone so she could see that they were going to leak the story of her mom hiding her sickness. Unfortunately, Spencer was not able to be as up front with her mom and never gets the chance to tell her that she knows she's sick and that the story will be leaked. Caleb Confronts Mona and tries to convince her they should not leak it, we also find out that he hooked up with Mona. At the end of the episode Spencer finally gets the tag off Melissa's luggage like she was asked to do the entire episode. When she does a pole from the handle is missing, she believes this to be the murder weapon!

Aria's coworker/boyfriend Liam comes to Rosewood to get more of Ezra's book. After reading more he knows that Aria wrote it and tells her to finish the chapter till they can get more from Ezra and that she will need to explain to him why she is writing his book for him. Ezra does return at the of the episode and explains that after he was with Aria he saw her parents together and promised not to tell and then he went to some diner or something. Anyway he was so upset that she would even think that he would kill someone, he ended up in Albany and wrote three chapters of the book.

Hanna and Jordan go to some cheesy romantic motel with cupids and a heart shaped bed. They are having a great time till she gets all these text to get back to Rosewood and Jordan is missing. He comes back with a tray that was left in the hall, it's from A "the honeymoon is over". They return to Rosewood where they get in a fight and he tries to convince her to go back to NY. Instead she gets a drink with Caleb and then has a flashback to why they broke up.

When Emily goes for her consult, the office is closed. One of the fridges with the eggs malfunctioned, even though there are like 10 precautions that would make sure this would not happen. Her eggs are gone, she is super bummed. She also has a talk with Detective Tanner who implied that she is going to keep the Liars in Rosewood till they find out who murdered Charlotte. Cause until she does I still don't know why they are all staying there.

After Ali talks to Spencer about her secret romance, she decides that it should no longer be a secret.  I believe that covered everything.

side notes

• Mona could have given the info to Spencer in a much easier less convoluted way
• was the end of the virus that Caleb gave to A just messing up the computer, he didn't get any other info or even a location?
• if Aria is as good a writer as Liam says she should get write her own book
• if Toby and Caleb set up a microbrewery what do you think they would call it?  

well that is all I have to say about that

do not disturb

Here we are five episodes in and none of the liars have a good reason for staying in Rosewood. But it is always better not to think too much about these little details. Lets get to the recap.

The big secret that Aria's dad needed to tell her is that he is back with her mom and they are getting remarried or something. This means that her dad did not kill Charlotte but they are having trouble contacting Mike at college. Aria books (using the company credit card and they will not pay for it so it will be taken out of her pay) the room next to Sara's and finds out Sara does not want Housekeeping cleaning her room, When Aria and Spencer break in they find out that Sara is staying in that room because it was Charlotte's room. They also find a hole and ladder in the back of the closet, where it goes we will find out next week. Also no one knows where Ezra is.

Spencer is having a great time with Caleb until she gets a reminder for lunch with Gil. That is just a set up and ends up having lunch with Yvonne instead. They have a great time but when Yvonne leaves her phone Spencer "borrows" it and Caleb clones it to try to find new A. When Spencer goes back to the restaurant to return it Mona takes it from her  and reminds her we are not in High school anymore.

Today is the day Emily is having her eggs harvested. She is a bit of a mess from the hormones and nerves. Hanna was going to take her but can't and at the last minute Ali takes her. It goes well but when she wakes from the drugs she has a scary vision of Sara attacking her. Ali assures her no one was in the room. However the couple who were buying her eggs just got pregnant so they don't need them and Emily won't get paid. It sucks but she decides to donate them. Back at the loft A taunts her with a note in a carton of chicken's eggs. 

Ali is isolated, the women in her family (her mom and sister) are dead and the men (her dad and brother) aren't talking to her. The Liars aren't talking to her either. It seems like only Dr whatshisname is. When will that romance start? Anyway Sara confronts her at school (Ali is now teaching there) they have an OK talk, Sara suggests that they hang out more and talk about Charlotte since they were both close to her just at different times. I guess both of them forgot all the horrible things Charlotte did to them and the Liars. 

Hanna lies to Jordan so she can stay in Rosewood longer to get the hard drive her mom stole to give to A. She and Aria ransack her mom's house but come up empty.  So they get Caleb to make a fake drive to give to A. A falls for it and when A connects the drive to the computer a video of Caleb informing A the rules have changed plays while a virus is uploaded. Game on A. By the time Hanna gets to New York to help her boss, she has been replaced. Instead of begging for her job back she just leaves even forgetting her panda mug. Jordan is fine with it and they just keep driving. He is fine with everything, and has connections for everything; he is either the best person in the world or A, cause we know it is not Sara.

side notes

• tray, jumping between hotel balconies reminded me of your wedding
• it's a good thing that they turned Charlotte's room into a guestroom or else Sara would have to stay in the janitor's closet or something
• I'm pretty sure selling your eggs doesn't work like that, where people could just back after the procedure is done, I would hope that the donor would still get paid. Emily get a lawyer. Although it is looking more and more like A is behind the whole thing.
• I bet Yvonne left the phone on purpose
• we did not get to see A in that stupid mask this week
• they make much better prosthetics these days that can do many of the things that hands can do, instead of having 20 of the same ones just with different gloves Sara should get a set that can pick stuff up

well that is all I have to say about that

new guys,new lies

Hope everyone had a great Groundhog Day. My mom wanted to share this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n78tpae3rQY  with you. She also liked the johnny cash cover at the end of last week's episode.

now to the recap

The Liars are still in Rosewood and the writers are still setting up this season and adding reasons for them to stay. We also have A back, the Liars think it is Sara but she is obviously not since she is more Jenna circa season one.

Nothing happened with Emily. She helped Aria by distracting Sabrina but that backfired when Sabrina  found out. She could have been missing from the episode like Ali was.

Aria wanted to make sure that Ezra's 9 iron was not missing since A sent them a pic that it was the murder weapon. She breaks into his loft and it is there, so he is off the hook. However her dad left a cryptic message on Ezra's machine that seems to incriminate her dad. They also saw him sneaking into the Radley. Aria also finds that his set of clubs is missing a 9 iron. At the end of the show she gets a call that he needs to talk to her in private. She also has a flashback where her parents are arguing about Charlotte and her dad would see Charlotte free over his dead body. So they want us to think that he killed Charlotte so he therefore did not.  

Hanna comes clean about deleting the video. Jordan is fine with it and gets her a lawyer, which she does not need since her mom steals the backup drive. She is also coming to grips with Spencer and Caleb.

Talking about Spencer, She is helping with her mom's campaign and is doing an event with the oppositions daughter Yvonne. Not only was Caleb involved with her but Toby is planning on proposing to her and she is the one he is building the house for.  Caleb tells Toby that there is something between him and Spencer; Toby does not take the news as well as Hanna does. Spencer also has Caleb look into the A text they have received. He tracked it down to an unlocked storage unit but it was a setup, there was nothing the stuff A threw out including the cellphone that they tracked.

A is now walking around in an old man mask and being driven around in black sedan with tinted windows, the same car that was taking pictures of Spencer.

These Liars have not learned anything, and keep making the same mistakes they did in high school.

side notes

• How sweet is it that Hanna's mom uses Hanna's b-day as her password
• Yvonne is probably just using Toby because of his connection to Spencer
• with Hanna's wedding still on, did her mom ever get married?
• was the mention of "fargo" just a promo for "hail caesar" out this friday in a theater near you
• if you use a flash against tinted windows the pictures won't come out, it will just be the glare of the window

well that is all I have to say about that