Pretty Little Liars is Coming to an End

Well is everyone else just as depressed as I am?! Pretty Little Liars has been a Tuesday night staple for me since it premiered June 8, 2010. I had just finished my freshman year of college and had gone from having close friends to no one I could trust. My boyfriend, whom I was convinced I was going to marry, wasn't doing great health wise, and he lived in Nevada, so I was kind of lonely. I remember seeing previews for this show, and thought I would give it a chance. After spending my first hour in Rosewood something changed- I had friends. Obviously I'm not talking about real live breathing friends as this show is fake and so are the characters in it (no matter how great they are). However, I felt like I belonged. I felt a connection to these characters and I desperately needed that.

You see ,my 2 best friends both lived in Iowa by this point (don't ask why, I don't get it either). My friend from high school that went to college with me had completely betrayed my trust and our friendship ended. My 1st college roommate ended up moving home to California after not doing so well mentally during the first semester. My 2nd college roommate basically went MIA after our last day of school (only to randomly show up on Facebook 3 years later). So between this and the fact that my only real friend lived in Canada, I was desperate to find some sort of connection- even if it was fake or pretend. I mean in reality, isn't that why we get so attached to shows? The show itself and the plot is great, but we connect with the characters and we care. I care about these girls and I care what happens to them- that is why I have continued watching and I will continue watching until it ends next year. I have always loved shows where they have strong female friendships. I mean at any point these girls could have gone their separate ways or fought or ratted each other out, but they haven't. They have been to hell and back together and they stand by one another without question. I think part of the reason I love them so much is because I want friends like that and I want to be that kind of friend.

I will miss Aria, Hanna, Spencer, Emily, and Ali when they finally leave my life. I hope these girls actually get happy endings- they really deserve it after everything they have been through. I love them and I love their screwed up crazy lives. I am so sad that there won't be a Halloween episode though, I mean those were tradition! I am glad that they have gone as long as they did and after all, all great things must come to an end.

Thanks to Marlene King and her team for this incredible show with these incredible characters.

RIP (almost) Pretty Little Liars, you will be missed Bitches.

Pretty Little Liars Recap - "Do Not Disturb" (S06E15)

The girls are now completely convinced that Sara Harvey is the new "A" and they try to come up with a plan. Aria finds out her parents are engaged again, they wanted to keep the fact that they were back together a secret until they were for sure. Aria is surprised about the news, as she was expecting her dad to confess to murdering Charlotte. She's happy for them though.

Ali goes with Emily to the hospital for her egg donation procedure. She promises to stay with Emily until she wakes up. While under the anesthesia, Emily sees Sara come in dressed as a nurse and inject something into her IV. Emily panics and is completely freaking out until Ali calms her down and insists no one has been in the room. Emily isn't so convinced. A nurse comes in and informs Emily that the couple who planned on using her eggs got pregnant so they won't be needing them. Em asks if she can donate them anyways and they start the paper work.

Hanna and Caleb meet and discuss a plan for what to do about this new "A". They have to find the security tapes first and Hanna suspects her mother had something to do with their disappearance. We see a flashback to when they were together in New York towards the end of their relationship.

Hanna goes to New York to meet with her boss who has basically replaced her. Her boss treats her terribly and threatens to fire Hanna. Hanna has had enough and quits. She tells her boss she should treat people better. Hanna ends up leaving town with Jordan, asking him to just keep driving away from New York and Rosewood.

Spencer and Aria unite at the hotel to spy on Sara. They book the room next door and climb across the balconies and break into her empty room. They look around and find a map of Radley. It turns out, Sara's room was Charlotte's room when it was a Sanitarium. That freaks the girls out. Aria disappears in the closet and Spencer goes to look for her but discovers an enormous hole in the wall and a ladder leading down into darkness.

On the bright side, Caleb manages to send new "A" a computer virus which pisses him/her off.



Original air date 2/9/16

Pretty Little Liars Recap - "New Guys, New Lies" (S06E14)

Spencer and Caleb slept together....

Spencer slips out of bed and finally sees the text from new A. She rushes to Radley where the others have been waiting. They talk about possible suspects and they all seem to agree that Sara Harvey is this new A. After all, she did spend 2 years helping Charlotte torture them and she could have learned a lot about cyber stalking. Ali is supposedly out of town with Dr. Rollins (Charlotte's former doctor), which seems a little suspicious. Hanna actually does something they have never done before, and she replies to A! Shocking, I know. She asks if they know them, and A replies "yes".

Lorenzo holds a press conference, and announces that they know what the murder weapon is that was used on Charlotte, and that they will find it. After the conference, the girls receive a picture of a 9 iron golf club from new A along with a message that says "I found what they're looking for. Tell me who it belongs too." Well this is new. This A is being helpful...in a threatening/creepy way...?

Aria goes straight to Ezra's and finds out from Sabrina in the Brew that he is gone. She said he'll probably be back in a few days. Aria tries to get Sabrina to give her the keys to his apartment but Sabrina refuses. Aria enlists Emily's help and convinces her (against Emily's will) to distract Sabrina. Aria sneaks in and gets the keys, then searches Ezra's apartment. She finds his golf clubs and his 9 iron is there. She breathes a sigh of relief, until she hears her dad's voice on the answering machine. He tells Ezra "I have to talk to you about...what you think you saw last night." Uh oh. Aria heads back downstairs and pulls Emily away from the nice conversation she was having with Sabrina and tells her what just happened.

Spencer and Caleb have a semi awkward encounter at the Hastings Campaign headquarters. Spencer is given a stack of files to go through on the opponent and their family. Caleb talks to Toby and tells him about him and Spencer. Toby clearly seems upset but says it's ok. We also find out that Toby's new girlfriend is the perfect daughter of Spencer's mother's opponent. Her name is Yvonne Phillips. Her mother also employs Mona. Weird right? While Spencer is reading the files. she finds out that Toby is planning on proposing to Yvonne and he has a ring for her. Well that sucks. As she's sitting outside, she notices a dark town car, taking pictures of her. As soon as she sees them, they take off. Well this is weird.

Hanna tells Emily about Spencer and Caleb and Emily questions if she wants to marry Jordan as they don't have a date set yet. Hanna says that she has never lied to Jordan, until the night she erased the footage at The Radley. She says she has to confess first, and if he still wants to marry her, then they'll set a date. Hanna confesses to her mom, and Ashley is really upset. She tells her that there is backup footage at the security company's "farm." She also tells Hanna it's impossible to get. Hanna then confesses to Jordan, who isn't mad at her, but loves how loyal she is. He calls in a lawyer and as Hanna is talking to her, she gets another text from new A, warning her not to tell the cops about new A.

Hanna tells Spencer what happened and she says "My brain is telling me to be honest, but my PTSD is telling me to shut the hell up."Hanna goes with Jordan and the lawyer to see Lorenzo, but it turns out she doesn't have to speak to him at all because the tape from the "farm" is gone. We find out that Ashley got a hold of it. There is nothing she wouldn't do for Hanna.

Spencer runs into Yvonne and Toby and things are actually calm and sweet. Spencer realizes that Toby hasn't proposed yet and they agree that it was easier to be friends, when she lived in D.C., and Spencer assures him that she'll be going back after the election. We find Aria and Emily at Aria's house being watched by a super creepy postman. They try to figure out what to do about Aria's dad, so she calls him and tells him "it can't wait" but he still hangs up on her. This is not looking good. Aria remembers her parents fighting a little while back because Ella had gone to visit Charlotte. She said that she wanted to understand why and now she does. Byron is furious and says "Charlotte DiLaurentis will walk around the streets of Rosewood over my dead body." Uh oh. Aria tells Emily and Emily asks where he keeps his golf clubs. Aria says in his car which is still there. She checks, and he is missing his 9 iron.

Caleb and Spencer work on tracking new A's cell phone signal which according to Caleb has been suspiciously easy to track. They wind up at a storage unit and find a garbage can where new A threw away the hoodies last week. A cell phone is on top and it gets a text saying, "I don't lurk in the shadows. I hide in plain sight."

Everyone meets at The Radley for Spencer and Yvonne's chat to encourage young voters to actually vote. While they're doing their thing, the rest of the group is trying to figure out new A.Hanna finds out that Ezra and Byron do not have rooms at the Hotel and even though Sara has been gone for days, she left a "Do Not Disturb" sign on her door. Hanna thinks she's building a lair, which I agree with.They look at the photo again and recognize the carpet from somewhere. Then Aria gets a call from Byron who says he needs to talk to her alone and he has something to tel her. Oh no.

The creepy postman walks by in a bellhop uniform and gets in a car, then takes off his/her face. Yup you read that right.

Pretty Little Liars Recap - "Charlotte's Web" (S06E12)

After the funeral, Aria decides to head back to Boston, claiming that her boss is making her go back. Before she leaves the hotel, Hanna asks her why she left the night Charlotte was murdered and Aria plays dumb. Hanna says she saw her leave around 3 AM and tried to wait up but Aria didn't come back. Aria lied and said she was getting something from her car. The girls are a little suspicious.
Before Aria leaves, she stops to see Ezra and tells him that they didn't see each other the night Charlotte died then she leaves.

Hanna is surprised by her fiance Jordan (who is really hot and has an accent) and she seems genuinely happy. Spencer feels like she is going to ruin her mother's senatorial campaign when someone online tries to connect Spencer to Charlotte's murder. Ali sees Sara Harvey leave the police station and Lorenzo tells her that she isn't a suspect because her hands are so severely burned that she couldn't have killed Charlotte. He reveals her neck was broken before she was thrown from the tower. He asks Ali if she thinks any of her friends have anything to do with Charlotte's death and she says no. They find out that Charlotte's finger nails where cleaned and she was given the flowers to make it look like a suicide.

Spencer freaks out to Caleb because in college she wrote about a criminal case in which the bride was killed in the same way. She's afraid this will come out and someone will try to frame her for Charlotte's death. Caleb insists that won't happen. Emily's mom tries to get her to go to the cemetery with her to see her dad's grave, but she refuses to go and says Ali really needs her.

Aria is back at work and we finally meet Liam. After a meeting, her boss wants to know why Aria didn't get through to Ezra and why he is thinking about giving their advance back. She's not happy and assigns Liam to be in charge. Aria and Liam try to fight it, but they can't.

Ali invites the girls to her house for dinner and they agree to come. Emily is at Hollis Medical Center getting blood work done and we find out she has some kind of medical issue, possibly cancer. She finds out she is supposed to do treatment in one place, and that she should stay in Rosewood for a month. She agrees and then tries to leave, but her credit card is denied. The woman who runs the Brew recognizes her and covers her fee. She asks her not to mention that she saw her to anyone, especially not her mom.

Later Emily and her mom are at the Brew and her mom sees an alert pop up for Hollis Medical Center, she questions Emily who says she is applying for a job. Emily sees Aria sneaking up the stairs. Aria tries to talk to Ezra about the book and he says he has a draft of it. She asks if he went home after she went to the hotel and he says yes, but she thinks he's lying.

Jordan and Caleb finally meet and everything is calm. Ali says grace and asks God to bring the person responsible for her sister's death forward and stares Hanna down while they eat. Hanna tells the girls about Aria and they end up watching the security footage. The know Charlotte was killed around 4 AM and they see Aria meet Ezra at the hotel lobby. They leave and Aria returns alone around 4:30 AM. They decide they need to talk to Aria. They find her at her house and confront her. Aria tells them that Ezra came to see her because she couldn't sleep that night so they went for a walk to find an open pizza place. When they were about to head back, they saw Charlotte and Aria was scared but Ezra seemed angry. He sent her back to the hotel and claimed he returned home but Aria thinks he is lying. Now the girls think Ezra did it, and Spencer tells them about her paper that she had Ezra look over. No one knows what to do.

Hanna erases the security footage for Aria. Spencer helps Caleb settle into the barn and tells him she's glad he's staying to help with her mom's campaign. Emily is crying/confessing to her father's headstone when she looks over and sees Sara Harvey. Emily takes off running.

Pretty Little Liars Recap - "Of Late I Think of Rosewood" (S06E11)

Wow a lot can happen in 5 years. I almost don't know where to start.

Ali is teaching English at Rosewood High.
Aria is working for a publishing company, dating a coworker (Liam), and her company is Ezra's publisher.
Hanna travels around the world for her work in the fashion industry and she is engaged to, wait for it, NOT Caleb but a guy named Jordan.
Spencer works in Washington D.C., she basically works for a lobbyist and no she and Toby are not together.
Emily is...working at a bar. Apparently she lost her father in the 5 year time span.

Ali has sent out the distress signal to all of the girls, who are already being court mandated to return to Rosewood, because Charlotte/CeCe/A is up for release from the mental institution she's in. Ali thinks she can live a happy life and she begs the girls to lie to the Judge and say they would still feel safe if Charlotte was released. They all agree that none of them would feel safe, but they aren't sure what to do.

Spencer goes to visit Toby and Spencer's mom is running for government so Spencer joins her at a rally where she runs into Mona who asks her if she still has nightmares because she does. Spencer tries to shrug it off. Emily spends some time with her mom. Aria finds out from her dad that Ezra is back in town and living above The Brew. Apparently he went with Nicole to work with Habitat for Humanity and while they were working in South America, Nicole was kidnapped by rebels and presumed dead. Aria visits Ezra who is clearly a mess and he insists she's alive. Hanna visits her mom at her new hotel - The Radley aka Radley Sanitarium. Yup, you read that right. Ms. Marin revamped the sanitarium into a stylish hotel.

The girls all meet before the judge and every one lies, except for Aria. Aria tells a chilling story to further her point that she would not feel safe with Charlotte free. Every Liar lied once again because Ali asked to, except Aria.

The girls all meet at the hotel for drinks and find out that Charlotte has been released. Spencer confesses that the reason she lied was because she didn't think the Judge would set her free no matter what they said. The girls get drunk and end up staying at the hotel with Hanna.

Charlotte comes home to Ali who is waiting for her with beautiful flowers. In the morning, Ali calls Hanna asking if any of them have seen Charlotte, saying that she is missing. The girls agree that they haven't seen her. Charlotte's body is found outside of the church with Ali's flowers in her hand, and it appears as though she jumped from the bell tower. Toby and Lorenzo who is now a detective find her. Ali is devastated and Charlotte's doctor, Dr. Rollins blames himself and apologizes. He asks Emily to stay with Ali. Caleb surprises Hanna at her hotel room, asking her how she is doing with everything that is happening. He mentions Spencer and Hanna is obviously surprised because she didn't know that they had become close.

The girls attend the funeral and who walks in? Sara Harvey of course, in her Black Widow veil. The girls can'y believe she is there and Spencer suspects it is because she wants to make sure Charlotte is really dead. Emily still feels a little guilty about what they did to Sara that night and the girls have to remind her it wasn't their fault. As the girls leave, Lorenzo lets them know that Charlotte was killed before she fell from the tower and her death has been ruled a murder. He asks them all to stay in town.

This is going to be crazy. I can't believe A is dead. I want to know who killed her and I really hope it wasn't one of the Liars.

PLL #5YearsForward & Shadowhunters Premiers!

Tuesday January 12th is going to be a big day, well evening. 

ABC Family will officially and forevermore be known as Freeform. 

Pretty Little Liars 5 Years Forward will premier at 8 pm EST. 

Shadowhunters will premier at 9 pm EST. 

I'm beyond excited for both of these premiers, but lets start with Pretty Little Liars. Although we know a few things about what will be going on and where the girls are at in their lives, I'm really excited to actually see it. I can't imagine the fact that Hanna is engaged to someone who is not Caleb and who is Ali married to?! I can't believe that Alison was the first one to get married! I'm curious to see what the girls have to say about Charlotte/A being set free. I wonder if Spencer's bangs will grow on me...I want to know what Aria is up to and Ezra as well. 

I'm very curious about who the new "big bad" is this season. The girls seem very scared, but I have a hard time imaging the stakes being any higher then they were/have been the last 5 1/2 years. I mean the girls have watched how many people die and have narrowly avoided their own deaths how many times? Now what's going to happen? I'm also curious to find out where the Liars parents are, because last we saw the moms, they were all trapped in the basement of the DiLaurentis' house. I can't wait to see the girls acting like girls my age or the actress' ages for that matter. 

Now on to Shadowhunters, I am so excited for this show I can hardly contain myself. The promo's for this show were so enticing that I bought the book and I am completely sucked in.Halfway through The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, I ordered the rest of the series. I'm so pumped. I know the show is going to stick to the books, but they also keep teasing surprises which I'm curious and excited about. I think the only issue I have from the promos is Isabelle Lightwood's clothing. She is a complete badass woman and I think she will be great for girls to look up too, however they have dressed her in very skimpy clothing unnecessarily. She's stunning, don't get me wrong but I would have liked them to cover her up a little more. Maybe they do in the show, I don't really know but we'll see. 

I know in the show everything starts on Clary's 18th birthday, but in the books Clary is 15 and turns 16 later in the week while she is at the Institute (her and Jace in the greenhouse is one of my favorite scenes, so I'm disappointed that it won't be included). Clary also goes off to college to be an art student, so I'm curious as to how that will fit in with her shadow hunter duties. I'm very excited for this show (have I mentioned that yet?!) and I think the cast looks amazing. 

Tune in to Freeform tomorrow night at 8 for the beginning of what is sure to be one memorable night!