say it ain't so



I’m still in shock over the horrible, shocking, DEVASTATING revelation on last night's summer finale of Pretty Little Liars.
In typical PLL fashion the last minute of the episode left viewers with our favorite teacher trading in his signature vest for an all black ensemble bursting into A's/his classy new lair in a fit of rage.  But what was he so angry about?

This is by far the {biggest reveal yet} and since I’ve been #teamezria since the pilot, I took this one pretty hard. 

I’ve gone over it in my head and discussed with my closet PLL confidants and I think it comes down to two options.

Either Marlene King, creator/writer/producer/director, aka Queen of all things PLL, is pulling our leg once again.  Ezra can’t be A!?!?


-Or-

The world as we know it is over. Dear ol’ Mr. Fitz has been playing us (and Aria) from the beginning.

So let me break down our two possibilities:

Option 1:

If she’s done it once, what’s stopping her from doing it again?  Remember when gasps echoed across the world as Toby turned around to reveal himself as a part of the evil A Team. And then he was dead for like 4 episodes?? LIES ALL LIES! Of course Toby was just trying to protect his lover Spencer and her friends from the torturing menace that is Mona and the head honcho herself, Red Coat (aka Cece Drake)

[SIDE BAR: Is anyone else furious that once again these pretty little liars let someone else get away.  It's Rosewood ladies, let’s not assume anyone is dead just because they fall from a high place (See Ian Thomas and the Bell Tower)]

So we can hope that maybe this is the case once again. Ezra loves Aria, as we’ve seen time and time again, so it’s hard to imagine he’s been after her and her friends all along.

Option 2:

It is very curious that Ezra entered Rosewood just around the same time that our 4 ladies began getting texts from the mysterious “A.” Also, Mr. Fitz has been seemingly absent from some of the girl’s most traumatizing events, i.e. the Halloween Train, the fire, the bell tower. Plus, let's be real- it's not like he's against breaking the law (hello! slept.with.his.student) Some may also argue that Aria has gotten off easy when it comes to A.  She was locked in a box with a dead guy but the rest of the girls have endured some serious physical and psychological damage.

[SIDE BAR: I did read an interesting theory on Twitter last night that alluded to Aria and Ezra being a Bonnie and Clyde esque evil team.  It’s kind of hard to imagine but wouldn’t that be a rich twist.]

Other things/people to consider: Shauna/Jenna/Wren/Melissa/Malcom
How do all of those people fit into this new development?

Honestly when it comes to PLL you never know who to trust or what to believe so now it’s time to wait until the epic Halloween episode and winter season in January. 

I’ll leave you with this,

Nothing is ever as it seems in Rosewood.

debriefing a-day

I am changing things up in this week's blog post!  Today's blog post comes in the form of a podcast!  If you have yet to watch last week's Pretty Little Liars don't click on the podcast below because I am diving into the season two finale while I try to wait until June 5th when it returns for season three! This is my first podcast so let me know what you think!!

spoiler alert podcast

Theme music credit: I'll Be There For You by The Rembrandts
Podcast infomation: abcfamily.com, entertainmentweekly.com

guessing game

As you can probably tell I watch a variety of different television shows.  I mostly like fiction shows, specifically comedies, but I do watch some reality shows. However, there is a new genre that two of my favorite shows have really taken on.  These shows are very different but they both put a high emphasis on the mystery of the endgame.  The endgame for a television show is how everything will end up at the end of the show.  The two shows have you constantly questioning every episode, every character, even every moment. Although they are two very different shows, they both keep audiences on the edge of their seat dying to have all their questions answered and to finally be in on the big secret.

First off, there is How I Met Your Mother. The title pretty much leads right into the question that viewers are dying to know, who is the mother?  How I Met Your Mother is currently in its seventh season and you find yourself wondering how much longer this can go on!  Although I find myself plagued with intrigue at who the mother is and when we will meet her or find out who she is, the show keeps audiences interested with hilarious plot lines and random yet strategic clues in many episodes.  In seven seasons we have come to learn a lot of this so called “mother” but we are still interested in all the other characters and the part they play in this long winded story.  The basis of the whole show is the story being told by the main character, Ted Mosby, to his kids about how he met their mother.  The writers and producers use this narrator technique to slip in clues  from time to time while telling the story of the current episode.  They introduce clips of future events yet use coy phrases like, “but more on that later” to keep audiences guessing.  As I’ve said before I believe that this sitcom's ensemble cast and outstanding comedy writing puts this show at the top of my list of favorites.  I don’t think I’ll be able to stop watching until I find out who the freaking mother is…. but more on that later.

The second show that keeps me coming back each week is a bit of shock because it’s an ABC family show.  ABC family was originally most well-known for the overly dramatic and slightly weird teen soap opera, Secret Life of an American Teenager. But once the show Pretty Little Liars began it was an instant hit among audiences.  For those of you who haven’t seen this past Monday’s season 2 finale I won’t be giving away any spoilers but you definitely should go watch now!  Pretty Little Liars is centered around 4 best friends whose other friend Alison went missing and eventually was found dead.  The girls are being constantly tortured by a character that goes by “A” who is seemingly all knowing and loves to threaten, blackmail, and mess with the girls.  This is where the mystery comes in.  Over the past two seasons, theories have been running rampant among viewers who are dying to know who the elusive “A” is.  Pretty Little Liars was originally a book series but as we’ve seen with Gossip Girl, television shows don’t allows stay on the same path as the books.  Pretty Little Liars ends each show with a short clip of A sneaking around and doing something that will likely come back to bite the 4 main characters.  Even in this week's finale, when audiences found out who “A” is, there are still so many questions to be answered that it still left viewers wondering.  Pretty Little Liars does an amazing job of keeping audiences interested in the plot and making us questions every move.

If you aren’t watching these shows you should be.  They both make TV show watching an engaging and interactive activity because you can create theories and answers to the questions that confuse you.  These shows keep audiences interested by making us think and guess and hang on to every last word because it might be a clue.


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