There’s only three weeks left
until the big reveal. That’s right. Five and a half seasons, and the moment is
upon us where the infamous “A” will finally be unmasked. With the Liars having escaped
the tortures of the Dollhouse and the police clued in on “A”, the proclaimed
#SummerOfAnswers should be the crescendo of the series. All Hell should be
breaking loose as all the loose ends get tied up and secrets are revealed.
What we get instead is…sweet
conversations over milk and cookies, relationship woes, and what feels like the
billionth failed attempt to capture “A”. Sara decides to move out of Emily’s
house to be with an old friend, Aria gets into the finals of the photography
competition she entered, and Hanna receives a suspicious scholarship to pay for
her college tuition. Yeah, not exactly the most climatic of events. Asides from
the melodrama, Alison’s father practically kidnaps his daughter and holds her
up in a hotel outside of town to protect her from Charles, but Jason refuses to
heed their dad’s warning to leave home. Charles leaves another birthday
invitation at the DeLaurentis house, and Jason decides to meet at the disclosed
location written on the card.
The Liars know what Jason is up
to, so they do some amateur surgery and remove the tracking chips from their
own necks. Can you say ouch? Hanna
puts a tracker of her own on Jason’s car as the girls plan to follow him to the
meeting. Since Charles is obviously listening in on the police frequencies,
they can’t risk going to the cops. Spencer tells Toby about everything, hoping
he’ll accompany them to the rendezvous point as protection. He refuses to put
the girls at risk and decides to go…alone.
Alison drugs her father with
sleeping pills to escape the hotel and calls 911, telling the police about
Charles. Meanwhile, Jason confronts the infamous hooded figure before Toby and
his partner crash the reunion. What should be a clean-cut takedown goes
horribly awry though when Toby accidently winds up stoned out of his mind after
eating a bagful of Spencer’s marijuana-laced candies. “A” takes out Lorenzo,
leaving higher-than-a-kite Toby to trip out at the Technicolor lights of the
abandoned arcade. With both men down for
the count and the Liars unable to stay away, the girls walk in on the ambush
just before Rosewood P.D. raids the scene. Of course, “A” manages to get away.
Insert eye roll.
What has happened to this show?
When Pretty Little Liars premiered
back in 2010, audiences were introduced to a teen drama whose sinister
storylines left them on their toes and eager to join in on the fandom. All the
theories, the intrigue, the gorgeous guys. Sure, the guys are still here, but
the intrigue seems to have died…and with it, the theories. PLL started as a Desperate
Housewives for a younger era mixed with the riveting cloak-and-dagger
aspect in horror films like Wes Craven’s Scream.
Scandalous secrets, shocking reveals, and subtle clues made fans go crazy as we
all theorized over who “A” was. Everybody was a suspect. Was it Jenna, Mona,
the supposedly dead Alison, Wren, Ian, one of the Liars? The list went on and
on.
But now there’s Charles. Is he
even someone we’ve already been introduced to? Or is he just someone the
writers invented last minute? These questions terrify fans the most. Did we sit
through five years of an intricately woven web only for the creators to pull a
2012’s Gone on us? Were all those red
herrings pointless? Did we spend all that time theorizing over a person we never
even knew? This once promising #SummerOfAnswers has turned into a summer of
frustration. Who came up with that hashtag anyway? Absolutely none of our questions have been answered.
If things don’t improve by the midseason finale, this series might be looking
at some dismal ratings when the show returns in January.
Pretty
Little Liars - “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou” Rating: D +
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