Space Ninja Vs Roberto is a dynamic that needs to be studied

"He doesn't have a creativity to pull off a good mystery. He doesn't have the intelligence to pull off the camp. He doesn't have the attitude to make a good story with a cohering characters and he doesn't have the balls to make his stories have stakes." 💀

about Noa, as a queer person i’m so tired of queer relationships, specially sapphic relationships, having one character cheating on their heteronormative partner as the setup. they did the same thing with atypical and it ruined the show for me as it had ruined my favorite characters
it’s the worst kind of representation and it plays into so many harmful stereotypes. i’m sick of it

I think everybody should just accept that Pretty Little Liars was a show that belonged to the time it was created, and we should let it stay there

Sean needs a revenge arc 😭 give my boy his 2k + fix his car girl

Of course they'd make Noa fall into the cheating bisexual stereotype :///

This season is the perfect example of how to NOT build tension. Characters are covered in blood & crying in public and no one reacts to it. The girls are almost killed like 5 times and don't want to go to the police. The girls go back to hanging out with their partners in happy bliss as if nothing bad is happening. They act as if their just blowing off a study group, not getting away from a masked killer. The writing doesn't believe what it's setting up.

as someone who never watched riverdale, i cannot explain the amount of whiplash i got at 'this show can't exist because the universe was destroyed by an angel'. like sure! okay!!

If they wanted people to root for Noa and Jen getting together, they maybe should've considered not portraying her boyfriend as generally a sweet and generous dude outside of one emotionally intense incident off-screen where he didn't even hurt anybody. Like, if it was clear that she wanted to break up with him but she was scared he might hurt her or something, then perhaps she'd come off as a little more sympathetic.

The shot of Bailey’s character covered in blood and dirt shaking and traumatised in a diner booth was way funnier than I think it was meant to be. Like girl! Take her to the bathroom! She needs to get cleaned up!

Pretty little liars is a franchise that refuses to die.

Imagine if Roberto, Marlene and Julie made a tv show together. Now THAT would be FSN’s worst nightmare.

At least Bailee Madison realised how controversial having Ezra and Aria adopt Imogen's baby was, by having Imogen drop a line about getting creepy vibes from Ezra. That's ONE thing I can applaud them for, and Bailee is marvellous in the role.

i feel like noa and jen could’ve worked if they

1. didn’t lean into the bisexuals are cheaters stereotype

2. if they had better chemistry. imagine if they had a peter parker felicia hardy dynamic

I entirely agree that they fundamentally changed Noa’s character this season. Her #1 trait in s1 was that she was LOYAL (she literally went to juvie for her mom), so it literally made no sense that she would cheat on her bf (who literally up until late s2 was entirely chill and supportive of her, literally giving her $2000 to post Jens BAIL). I feel like they did an even bigger character assassination of the bf in order to make Noa and Jens relationship work. When we saw Jen crying cause he had punched a hole in the wall I thought that maybe Jen had done it and that she would’ve been revealed as the s2 villain but NOPE. Also the scene where Noa came out felt very “pick me”, and like she was trying too hard to act innocent while literally cheating on her bf, meanwhile all the other girls are just… fine with it? Crazy.

they didnt even KNOW WHO the KILLER was going to be??????? 😭😭😭😭😭😭

"Turns out rock bottom was only an appetizer" lmao love that, stealing it for future use

I think it could have been interesting if it turned out that Mouse being written like she was a kid was because she was going through age regression. Like all the trauma of A’s killing spree brought back the fears from her attempted kidnapping and she regressed to a younger mindset. But nah Roberto’s just bad at his job

As a gay man myself it’s pretty sickening that they clearly dragged Shawn through the mud just to justify a same-sex relationship and thought people would be more into it BECAUSE it was a same-sex relationship. Do writers realise that just because a character’s gay doesn’t mean they can’t be flawed/the bad guy. Sigh.

i gotta say, something that really bugs me about this show is that it’s called ‘Pretty Little Liars: Summer School’ but not only are they rarely IN school, but they are also not liars? everyone in town INCLUDING their parents AND the police are very well aware of what happened to these girls. Like you said, them not telling the cops literally just doesn’t make sense. The reason the girls in the original PLL never went to the cops is because they lied about so many things and kept SO MANY secrets it gave ‘A’ something over the them. THATS WHY the original show being called “Pretty Little Liars” actually made sense.

Another MAJOR problem this show has is that there are not enough people in the town or even just around the girls to make the story interesting. Part of the reason the reveals were so obvious is because there’s is almost no one else that it even COULD be. They introduced the boyfriends/girlfriend this season but they lack too much in story and personality for us to even suspect that they could be the villain.

Finally, these girls are supposed to be innocent and morally good, they haven’t done anything to anyone to even warrant them to be attacked by anybody as a group AT ALL. The moms have much more of a reason to be targeted as a group than their daughters do.

Also, the lack of parents in the season is strange to me. Also also, how is it these villains literally kill people yet ‘A’ from the original PLL is much scarier than bloody rose AND archie 😭😭