Pretty Little Liars. You can leave Rosewood but Rosewood will never leave you.

Well, well, well. Isn’t it interesting that Glovesy/A/Whomever was on a cross-country trip to run Caleb’s mom off the road (oh, don’t worry, I’m coming back to that) while a certain Hollis professor was nowhere to be seen? Sure, he could have been teaching a class in the Secret Boy Cave (it would have been full, too since Mike, Lucas, Noel Khan and Toby were all MIA this week), and having a Dead Poet’s Society-style ‘O, Captain, My Captain’ moment. But fuck that noise – Ezra was totally waiting for a flight out of Montecito, dropping way too much cash on a solo airport lunch while hacking into Mona’s patient file at the mental hospital. This is the second time the show has highlighted that A/Glovesy is a drinker, and now he or she is dropping fifties on lunch – this A is definitely an adult.

It wasn’t a terribly exciting episode (divorcees bonding over online dating, polite chitchat between people in mourning, round 17 of the never-ending Caleb and Hanna fight) – it was all pretty tame. I will say that I like the idea of Ashley and Ella becoming friends – they are the two best parental units on the show, and I’d like to see them hanging out. Maybe if they talk more they’ll realize that their daughters are still stuck in perma-victim mode. And Ella should start dating – she needs to remember what it’s like to look in a man’s eyes that aren’t in a constant state of ‘welling’.

As for the Caleb/Hanna fight…is it really bad that I don’t really care? They used to be so adorable together, but I admit that I’ve been getting tired of the whole ‘lying about A’ bullshizz and the weekly ‘visiting Mona’ melodramas. Their new couple name should be Melancholy & The Infinite Sadness. Even their big date was going to be a Bon Iver concert. In case you’re not familiar, Bon Iver music is beautiful, but also kind of makes you want to sit and stare out of a rainy window while reflecting on past regrets and possibly cutting yourself. What a great date! I think at this point, these two need a break, or at least I need a break from them. Maybe they’ll work it out, maybe they won’t. Maybe Caleb will use this time to give himself a makeover. Does the Secret Boy Cave have a salon? Even though I wasn’t moved to tears by the breakup I did appreciate Hanna’s tears. Especially the one that held on like a champ for about ten minutes – color me impressed. She might be even better at this than Dean Winchester.

Before we move on from Hanna and Caleb, I must discuss this new A tactic – a pretty serious one, considering that it involved putting Caleb’s mom’s life in danger and also it required a FLIGHT across the country. What the hell is going on? This new A seems pretty flush with financial resources and has decidedly adult taste in alcohol. Not to mention a semi-murderous streak. Can we really believe that A would do all of that just to prevent Hanna from telling her boyfriend that she’s still getting text messages? Seems like a bit of an overreact.

Hanna also snuck into the mental hospital, and she is such a super-sleuth, you guys – look what she wore for her solo mission:

Way to blend, Hanna.

She had to get past the new nurse (heretofore Nurse Ratched), who is VERY serious about her job. Ever since Mona faked a freakout on Caleb, her visitation privileges have been revoked (though not anymore – this is what A was changing from the Montecito airport food court). So, Hanna put on her brightest and shortest neon miniskirt before sneaking in. To a mental hospital. But once she was in, she saw Officer Dickface (Det. Wilden), subpoena in hand, demanding to see Mona. Hanna tried to wait him out with Wren (and don’t think we didn’t notice you doing that ‘touching his hand while talking to him’ thing, young lady) but he was taking too long so her meeting didn’t happen. Yet.

I have no idea what to do with the Emily storyline. Maya’s cousin is in town, he’s attractive in an ABC Family kind of way, he and Emily bonded, but then he turned into Slim Shady in the last ten minutes (he forgot his Aunt’s address twice in two days? Sure). First of all, what is he up to? Definitely something. Second of all, if they hook Emily up with him, that would be pretty lame. Since, you know, she’s gay and all. But here’s a crazy thought that came to me while I was watching – and let me emphasize the ‘crazy’: What if Maya had a sex change? He seemed to be feeling all kinds of feelings for Emily, and then he mysteriously had a package that had been shipped to Maya’s parents after Maya died (with a note TO EMILY FROM MAYA in the box). I don’t know you guys, I think it could be Boy Maya (sex changes can also make you ten years younger and seven inches taller, right?). Since we have nothing else to go on, for now this is the best I can come up with.

Once again, thank God for Spencer or this episode would have been 100% filler. The suspicions surrounding Melissa were building like crazy since the revelation that she was faking her pregnancy and Hanna immediately started pointing fingers at her about being the Black Swan. Spencer’s great about being a cold bitch when she needs to, so she organized an excursion to get her out of her (GEORGEOUS) house in Philly so the rest of the liars could rifle through it. Of course, they almost totally fucked it all up, but they did find a single feather that matched the BS costume.

I thought this would lead to weeks of speculation and spying, but Spencer, badass that she is, just straight up pointed her ‘J’Accuse’ finger in Melissa’s face. She told her that she knew she was lying about her pregnancy and that she suspected that M was the Black Swan. AND she did all of this while Melissa was holding a butcher knife in a dark kitchen. Spencer is such a BAMF. Love it.

But of course, Melissa started crying, admitted to both things, but said that she did it all under threat by some mysterious person who threatened to tell people that she lost the baby months ago. So, now both Jenna and Melissa have used this excuse for horrible behavior. Are they lying? Or are they really that terrified of Ezra (see what I did there?).

I don’t know you guys, all I DO know is that with each passing episode my Evil!Ezra theory is gaining more and more momentum, even when he’s not around. And this makes me very happy.

So, did you love Spencer’s BAMF moment? What are you thinking about Boy Maya? How much would you hate yourself if your online dating name was HotMamma? Are you buying that Jenna and Melissa were/are terrified of some unknown entity or are they lying liars who lie? And how batshit is this new A to fly across the country and almost kill Caleb’s mom? Hit the comments and talk to me!

 

 

 

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  • Sophie

    Ezra is 100% evil. This is the best compilation of reasons why Ezra is A I have found so far http://parfaitpatrice.tumblr.com/post/5494978611/why-a-might-be-ezra-fitz

  • http://twitter.com/Nicole_OCTV Nicole

    Sophie, you are awesome – I bow to your dedication of searching for Evil!Ezra evidence. I’m totally linking to this tumblr on twitter.

  • Sophie

    Oops, I didn’t mean I created this list, I’ve just been searching Tumblr for the most convincing list of evidence and this person had the best one! Although I do wish I had come up with this because it’s brilliant :)

  • http://twitter.com/hockeybychoice hockeybychoice

    Is there anyone that’s NOT being threatened or blackmailed by A? If we could narrow that down, we could figure out who this amazing omniscient being is. Seriously though, now we have to add Melissa to the list along with the 4 girls and Jenna? Or is this another Mona situation?

    This episode actually kinda sucked. With the exception of Spencer, who is awesome. But they continue to TRY and make me give a shit about Mya and I just don’t. At all. Ever.

    Ezra totally got that 50k from Jason, right? Let’s hope so. We need to start moving on this Evil!Ezra stuff, I’m getting bored with the rest of it. Also, do banks still accept checks written out to cash? Mine doesn’t.

    I also hope that Caleb gets a break-up makeover. The hair is bad and it’s making him look WAY too old to be on this show. Wren continues to be creepy in an adorable British accent way.

  • http://www.twitter.com/ReelStina Lemonade

    So before I talk about the episode, I just have to nitpick 1 thing (with the show, not your great recap!): There is no airport in Montecito! The closest one is in Santa Barbara. I get that they needed to cheat so viewers outside of SoCal would make the connection to Caleb’s mom, and PLL of all shows is not know for its realism, but still. It bugged. Anywho…

    I was suspicious of Maya’s “cousin” the whole time. I figured he was faking the whole thing for some reason or other, but I like your sex-change theory. Although, that would mean we’re stuck with Maya again :( So hopefully not!

    And no surprise here, but I’m liking the Hanna/Wren developments. I mean if Spencer’s not going there, at least my other favorite Liar is. (Sorry Caleb.) Of course, I’m still suspicious of him (especially now that we know he has a family history of mental illness!), but you know I’m gonna keep fangirling over him. And hey, random theory: Maybe his looney dad is Aria’s uncle?

  • http://twitter.com/Nicole_OCTV Nicole

    Don’t worry, you totally didn’t make it sound like that – my addled brain read it wrong. But when I linked to it on twitter I corrected myself, so you don’t have to worry about getting sued for copyright infringement. :)

  • http://twitter.com/Nicole_OCTV Nicole

    Okay, so clearly I checked out for a second or two because I have NO recollection of getting this Wren backstory. Whoa! A psycho family? Interesting! And yes, I like the Wren/Hanna development too, because Wren is very, very pretty and his accent is like a warm blanket for the soul.

    I actually thought ‘i bet Montecito doesn’t even have an airport’, but I was too lazy to look into it. Thanks for the clarificication!

  • http://twitter.com/Nicole_OCTV Nicole

    Yeah, that 50K thing was strange – does it mean that he’s found the remains? Because if he’s handing over the cash on the basis of information alone, he’s an idiot. And I totally hope that we see Ezra driving a pimped-out car or something next week to indicate a recent windfall.

  • http://www.twitter.com/ReelStina Lemonade

    I think the Wren backstory came up an episode or two ago when Hanna & him were bonding. Unless I’m the crazy one, and it was all in my head! haha

  • mayadolid

    I thought this episode was one of the worst in a long time. Hanna and Caleb’s relationship needed to be taken out back to the shed and shot so I’m glad that happened and I am eager to see Hanna and Wren.

    Is there some way to retcon Maya’s existence so she was never on the show? She’s so horrible even talking about her death, which should make me happy, is horrible. I don’t even care about what the cousin is up to. The writing is so lazily setting him up to be shady. And why are all the men so damn pretty! Well except for Toby.

    Only part of the episode I liked was the “this bitch is crazy” looks Spence and her mom traded as Melissa fessed to being the black Swan, faking a pregnancy and then got up and shrugged it off like it was nothing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/sina.kl.18 Sina Kl

    your hilarious

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