@@lleah2839 shes a good character, not like a good person character but lord the way they wrote her is so well done. i despise her. and poor toby man, he deserved better
So I agree that Melissa should choose better, less creepy partners and she should be pissed at them. However, at 14-16 Spencer, especially given her IQ, is more than old enough to know better than to kiss her sister’s partners. It’s not unreasonable to also blame Spencer because Spencer definitely aims to attract her Melissa’s partners
@@LorieLynnnot to mention she later dates caleb. and while both are wrong spencer has a history for stealing exes & considering caleb didn’t groom her like the rest. it’s no excuse, she’s truly not a girls girl lol
my favorite thing about toby is that he spent the basically whole first season just being a nice person and the show’s framing of it was “what a suspicious weirdo”
I feel the same way about Jason. As far as I remember he actually never did anything bad. He was a normal older brother and quite helpful but the four living girl-bosses acted like he was dropping bodies left and right.
@@alias1150 He never did anything bad? The guy is not the worst on the show and he changes as a person but that doesn't excuse the fact that he founded the slimy N.A.T peedough club where his friends filmed UNDERAGE girls in their BEDROOM including his SISTER and does nothing about it except tell Spencer and then leave the club.Ian groomed Allison and Spencer,Garret was seeing Jenna,and Jason had a lil moment with Aria.He knew what kind of nasty friends he had and you'd think he'd fiercely protect his sister from being harmed by Ian He finee tho
Arghhhhdidk The writers have a habit of making it look like a particular character is A and the girls will treat them suspiciously and then they all end up looking like mugs when they aren't A 🙃😫😭💀
@@xakirax_8864 I honestly forgot about that. Was it ever mentioned more than once? I just never saw him as a "bad guy". He also admits to being on drugs for years, not that it is an excuse for creating the NAT club. Although the trauma caused by being gaslit by your parents into thinking your "brother" is your imaginary friend probably didn't help his decision-making ability. But he's the only one from the NAT club that changes and actively tries to help people. He helps at-risk youth and is rather "honest" when the liars question him. He's one of the characters I wish they invested more time in because he had the potential for so many interesting storylines with the Hastings or Cece. I would love to see him react to Alex Drake. I get that it probably came down to actor availability.
Obsessed with the way the writers apparently went “Ok Aria’s thing is English so we’re gonna surround her with people whose names are inexplicably related to the English literary canon. Her father will be Byron, her childhood friend will be Holden, her love interest will be a Fitzgerald. We will do nothing remotely similar for any of the other characters.”
Damn I never even noticed that before. I love it when movies and TV shows try to give something sophistication and authenticity by just - naming characters after famous people or saying their story is inspired by a classic. Like if you're gonna use it ya gotta earn it. 😂
the amount of times something wild is followed by "and it never comes up again" "and we never find out why" "it contradicts a previous point and is just there for no reason" is hilarious
right like i didn't realize mosst of this. i remembered and knew the ian thing because i was like oh he was totally murdered. what do you mean he KILLED HIMSELF but the body was MOVED AND THE SUICIDE NOTE WAS STAGED BY A and thats NEVER EXPLAINED? but i forgot about the motel room and i already cant remember what else was listed in this video. ive seen the show eight times and im planning on watching it again soon twice, once with my friends and once with my girlfriend.
As someone who has unfortunately read the majority of the Pretty Little Liars books, I feel it is crucial to stress that the events of the pilot episode take up almost the ENTIRE first book.
Literally lmao they flew through that first book. But also to be fair, if you read them online, the books are super short. Idk what printing magic they used to make the physical books bigger, but the free ebook version has like 35 long pages of text each and is the entire book.
“we find out jenna has a seeing eye dog named shadow, shadows really cute, we never see shadow again” this line summarized the whole show and im here for it
on september 17 2022 I started watching this video, I knew absolitely nothing about PLL. I got like half an hour in and I thought "mh, you know what? this show seems kinda cool, I could watch it" so I paused it and I asked my gf who used to be a big PLL fan when it first came out if she wanted to rewatch it together. Today, a WHOLE YEAR LATER, we watched the last episode. It took us ONE YEAR to get through the absolute madness this show is. And here I am now, 12 months and a whole lot of nonsense later, finally finishing this video.
Something I always found HILARIOUS was how the show tried to make out Aria’s parents for being villains bc they didn’t approve of their daughter being involved with her teacher 😭
oh my god imagine getting a tattoo that says "finally free" next to the date that one of your peers who was later murdered disappeared... my brother in christ you are asking to get arrested
@@mikesmic hey I really love these videos! If you wanna do one of these on a show that’s SO under appreciated imo, you should do one on House of Anubis. There’s not nearly enough appreciation for that show online and it’s super entertaining
the amount of times aria would STRUT into ezras classroom in season 1 and FLIRT with him in PUBLIC and then had to nerve to be shocked once people started finding out ???
The one time that season where she calls him Ezra while being his assistant director for the play !!! Like the other student had to be thinking why are you on a first name basis with him??
also the LENGTHS the show runners went to gaslighting us that Ezria wasn’t the creepiest predatory relationship- in the episode where they tell arias parents the fact that she’s a minor is mentioned ONCE and the fact that she’s young seems to only be important in that ezra is older so should have known better/stopped the student teacher relationship. AS IF THE CORE OF THE ISSUE IS THE STUDENT/TEACHER THING!! like when ezra gets a job at hollis him and aria are like Finally We Can Be A Couple In Public… babe. she’s 17. you are a felon.
plus Ezra literally knew how old she was when they first hooked up (if i remember the plot correctly) and had hooked up with a year younger Allison previously.
@@karasunostherapistYes, tbf he didn’t know how old Alison was when they dated and then “tried to end it” on the day she disappeared but then he went ahead and dated her friend who he knew all about, including the fact she was SIXTEEN and in HIGH SCHOOL
@@karasunostherapistyeah I tried to finish the show finally for this video but when I learned that he knew her age from the very start and still married her at the end and went on to be a successful author (they say this in the Perfectionists sequel series), I quit the show for good 😭 the writers literally rewarded a pedophilic character and for what?
@@delancywatching27 like being under 18 can be fine depending on country, but absolutely not when there is any sort of power dynamic like teacher student. That is explicitly not allowed and used as the prime example by laws of what is not valid and must be 18+
@@mattymerr701tbh just because it is legal in some places doesn’t make it fine imo. 16 year olds were legally allowed to prostitute themselves in my country in the 90s maybe even 2000s but was that fine cause it was legal? idts.
Fr he kissed Aria and he knew she was like 17 . He continued to date her when he knew she wasn't 18. He Could have went to jail and I think he tried to kill one of them,when he was A .
@@dryskinqueen fortunately I never experienced that, however this show is the reason why I got into the whole lolita tumblr thing and totally romanticized this type of relationship… I’m an adult now and realize how fucked up that was for me to think that. Edit: I mean how fucked up it was for this show to portray it as okay
That’s what I’m saying, it’s so annoying. Have you all not learned anything from the billion other times you were wrong about who A or the killer is 🙄😂
I mean, they were wrong in assuming A was one person so the first time they were wrong was at least reasonable - even if the degree of stalking made that clearly questionable. Chalk it up to nerves. As soon as they got that realization it was stupid. But tbh the only logical way A could have known everything is if one of the core group was A. Even the actresses who played them were sure one of them was A. It was changed because the fan base hit it on the nose, but Marlene got offended they guessed it and went out of her way to make an unguessable plot twist that ruined the whole show.
Smiley Riley She openly admitted that she rewrote the ending of the show to one of the other fan theories just because people had guessed who A was. Really upsetting it threw off the whole show
The slow fade to the photo of Alison wearing the iconic Lady Gaga wig immediately followed by "Mona has escaped Radley by literally walking out the front door" has me screaming and in tears. This entire video is art.
"This will become a plot hole later, feel free to remember that." The way some shows have little plot holes or continuity errors but PLL hit the GAS honestly is just more iconic.
I'm here again for atleast the third time😂 I've never actually watched the show but my best friend was obsessed as teens and this is such a fun way to kind of understand it.
Liberty 0:58 1:01 1:01 1:02 1:02 1:02 1:03 1:03 1:04 1:04 1:04 1:04 1:05 1:05 the other side effects on the response after Dodge the rest of the things how can I watch UA-cam video and video games
When I was in grade 6, a girl didn't do her maths homework and claimed that her maths book had been "stolen". The next day she found it on her desk and there was a note from "A" in it. Everyone lost their shit. Her book went "missing" and she found it on her bed that afternoon with another note from A. She claimed no one had been home all day and the house had been locked. Everyone in the class was eating this up and I can't even imagine the cringe my teacher must have felt.
can we talk about how emily went through the worst shit like she almost died 20 times she could not catch a break and none of the other girls went through half of it 😭😭
fr and her house literally got crashed into and she injured her shoulder and lost her entire future college and career 😭 AND A literally gives her a hole in her stomach from giving her steroid cream!!!
i meeean, hanna did kinda go through it too she almost died in s1, got her ed intentionally triggered, was even tortured in the last season etc the one who had it the easiest was aria for sure
@@confusedbutgotthespirit no ur so right i wrote this when i was still on s1 lmao. hanna is my fav i felt so bad for her she didn't deserve that and lowk aria got on my nerves
Incredible that Allison somehow managed to interact with literally everyone she knows within a 20 mile radius on the day she “died”. Like I’d need to disappear for a few years just to recover from all that too ngl
I can not explain how unhinged this feels. Like I feel like I met you at a party and you were like “hey wanna hear about my pretty little liars theories?” And I was like ok and then you dragged me in this room and locked me in for 2 hours to give me the most frantic explanation I I’ve ever heard. I’m very invested though
I have never seen of video of Mike's before and I'm not more than 5 minutes into the video and am living for this man's personality. And gurl, I have a feeling you are right on the money and am sooooo excited!!! ;alskdfoquwrhg/lknsdvoiq update: That was some of the absolute best chaos I've sat thru. I scrolled down to like the video so many times, just to see that I'd already liked it lol
I'm late on this one but ''the implied threat level of this blind girl is extremely high... like this girl is blind but she's also a thanos-level threat'' is possibly the funniest thing ever said. jenna marshall was truly such a serve of a character
I'm rewatching right now and his line is SO accurate. Jenna continues to be an Avengers-level threat even in s7. Melissa was the same in early seasons too
Fr it’s so crazy how the late 2000s was so 😭😭😭dramatic about weed ?? Even in Breaking Bad when Skyler thinks Walter is smoking weed she’s like ‘how could fucking do this😭😭to us😭to our family😭😭😭’
@@celiner9920literally and then skyler, whose husband has cancer and she thinks he’s using weed for CANCER PAIN, she tells jesse to stop selling him weed. ITS BC HES DYING and needs it to smooth his passage between this mortal plane and the next. (bc of the cancer) girl
The funniest thing about all of this is that this info skates right off my brain, so I can watch these videos on loop back-to-back-to-back and *still* could not tell you a damn thing that happens on this show.
They were 100% writing as they went. Like they didn’t know who A was as they were writing it and kept changing who it was as people guessed who it was. They wanted it to be a surprise but did it terribly. You can’t make a “ooh let’s guess who the baddie is” show and then get mad when people guess who the baddie is
@@Megasaurusify and it makes it even more exciting when they reveal and your right cause then it’s kinda like a “NO WAY OMG I WAS RIGHT” Or an “I KNEW IT :D” moment
couldn't agree more; i think shows like PLL or GG need to be planned and figured out by the writers from the beginning, deciding who A/Gossip Girl is and then creating a storyline around it. by only choosing them in the final, they have created soooo many plotholes that simply do not make any sense
i was also in the trenches re: Aria is A. There was SOOO much that pointed to her. Tweets from Marlene, hints in her outfits, the "Big A" thing. The way she wrote the A in Aria on the halloween train! And i think they thought they were being sly but everyone figured it out so they had to change it hence some of the plot holes. thats my humble opinion.
I agree but they didn’t *have* to change it, changing an ending because you need the shock factor is a sign of weakness. If your story is strong it doesn’t matter if people have guessed it
As a straight man who knew nothing about this series (except the name), this feels like a being apart of the popular girls table i was never allowed at, and i'm loving every second of it.
The way blondes loved crusty yellow tops and dresses in the early 2010s is unmatchable. You’re blonde? Prom dress? Yellow. Going to the beach? Yellow tank top. Going to a house party? Here’s a yellow baby doll top from hollister. Match your hair to your shirt because we didn’t have the knowledge of toner shampoos and the concept of being a dimensional blonde. You were weather chestnut brunette, or yellow blonde. No other options.
No bc I always think of Kate Hudson in How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, that yellow dress was iconic (and she actually pulled it off), but matched her hair for sure
“Maybe people are ready for multiple hour deep dives in to 2010s tv shows” like bro you don’t even know I watched a 5 hour video about victorious the other day I would love to hear you talk about pll for two hours
@@ijeuna12 First one is free, get five obituaries and I’ll arrange for a glitter cannon to the tune of your choice (I recommend lipgloss by charli xcx feat. Cupcakke) ❤️
it shows me that they never had any idea what they were doing plot wise (beyond maybe season 2 finale) bc if they knew ali was coming back as a main character they probably would’ve hired someone the same age as the rest of the cast
@@Ellieeeeeee124 it was my understanding that they initially wanted someone older but when they found Sasha they said she was absolutely perfect for the role, and they fully intended to keep her around but in a way that didn’t overly sexualize her in the same ways the older cast members were. Plus they legally just couldn’t
2 years after this video changed UA-cam, and there have been a lot of good iterations on the idea, but the warmth and sincere affection for the show still just shines through this video. It was beautiful back then to see someone being genuinely passionate about a piece of media, and it still is now.
@@saiquatabassum6321 tbh i’ve watched this show three times through and i just look away and go on my phone during ezria. you’re not missing anything. after season 2 that relationship is literally like aria’s only storyline and personality trait. it’s a hot mess of a show
The fact that Mike didn’t utter Aria’s most iconic line: “Bitch can see!” disappoints only mildly, further proving his point that this is, slightly unhinged.
@@songbird6414 Apparently when they first hired her they didn't realise that especially compared to the rest of the cast she was an actual baby but she did such a good job! (Although seeing her and Spencer or Emily especially in the same scene just drives home how actual teenagers might look vs how film and tv lead you to think they look lmao)
when I first watched this show (i was 11/12ish) i was OBSESSED. words cannot describe how badly i wanted to be threatened by an anonymous cyber bully. So, for 3 months I wrote hate letters signed -A to myself and hid them in my school bag to look mysterious and peculiar to my other fellow classmates. my true girlboss moment
on my like 7th watch through i made a quotebook- inspired by a comment i saw - 17:19 “this may as well be called ‘the day alison wore a yellow top’. the amount of scenes that sasha-the actress- has to wear a yellow top, i know she was screaming and crying. ‘let me wear one other item of clothing marlene’. *wheeze* - 20:16 “that level of threat of menace…menecicity…menecicinization-“ - 23:00 “there’s a blind girl who’s THANOS” - 25:07 “ezra fitz is not seeing heaven-and i’ll make sure of it” - 35:15 “season one, pam fields actually invented homophobia” - 41:29 “jenna and that fucking flute-jenna actually invented the flute.” - 44:29 “caleb skips town to get on the homeless bus” - 50:15 “pll costume department-not seeing heaven” - 57:26 “also in season 2 jason is shirtless like 80% of the time. someone please buy jason a shirt he has run out” - 1:08:15 “mike punches ezra. very fun, maybe i’m a mike stan now” - 1:10:14 “holden goes to do fucking martial arts…this show has too many episodes” - 1:11:46 “‘call off your techno-boy-toy or i tell the cops what your mom keeps in the lasagna box’…best moment of my life” - 1:40:59 “we meet ezra’s mother diane who hates aria because she’s underage and poor. get her ass diane!” - 1:43:47 “mona has escaped radley by literally walking out the front door” - 1:46:42 “emily demolishes the runway in this barbarella slay…actually hannah really did too…and let’s be real, spencer ate too…and aria-was there”
i think one of the funniest parts about this show is that they literally could’ve chosen ANY pre existing character to be A in the series finale and it would’ve been better than what it was💀
I was an impressionable young teen girl who loved Ezria (because they were hot and cute and the actors are in the same age range). I put myself in dangerous situations because I aspired to also be with my teacher. I will never forgive PLL for their predatory relationships, even though I loved the show.
Well said. I saw a similar situation play out with a friend freshman year of high school. The show did real harm unfortunately. I’m glad to hear the books put him in jail
@@frostyskeletons8950 absolutely! I study psychology and child psychology, and I immediately related one of the first things I was taught to PLL: media can impact what children do or think IF they promote the behavior. It's by Bandura, if you want to read about it (there's also a video of the experiment). Kids will imitate what they see, except when the media or their parents tell them that this is wrong behavior. E.g. villains being punished. That's why it's important to show you don't condone the behavior. The books put him in jail. The show makes them end up together. On top of that, EVERYONE in the show who tells them this relationship is wrong, is demonized. Aria's parents, Ezra's ex... The show wants us to believe these people are standing in the way of true love, when they were in the right!
I was watching this while having dinner, accidentally spilled my drink and scrolled from you describing the pilot to you suddenly wandering around in a blonde wig wearing a pink hoodie and honestly I’ve never been more hooked
I think the thing about the Ezria 'ship' was that so many of us were in our teens and that it was 'exciting' to think that a cool older person would be interested in us...NOW we're IN our twenties are like 'holy shit who in their right mind would go after a highschooler?! gross!"
Yeah :( But there are people in their twenties who exploit the teenage mindset that dating a "cool older person" makes them superior than other teens. Some people are so sick they abuse the innocence and naivety of highschoolers to take advantage of them :(
it irks me that the teacher x student relationship got a 'happy ending' but the one gay couple got divorced. also the fact that emily (the one lesbian main character) only had one SOMEWHAT healthy relationship that ended with her partner dying. her other relationships (especially with alison, which i'm seeing now that i'm older) were horribly toxic.
Kinda really wanted Ezra to be A because it would be like he manipulated aria the whole time into a relationship and it would have been super juicy because he was close to the girls and knows what’s going on
Agree! I was just thinking of this the other day. It would demonstrate how creepy and crusty he is, which would be better messaging than the teacher loves a child, wOw TrUe LoVe!
also gotta love that season 4 starts off with "episode 0" which is an ENTIRE EPISODE of mona narrating a "previously on...". that is how convoluted this show is. BOLD. VISIONARY. truly DOES NOT CARE about the audience satisfaction, just about keeping you on the edge of your seat. its the journey babe not the destination. white lotus who
The way I never even registered the amount of grown men underage girls relationships on this show. I just remember loving all the drama. Crazy how we all just overlooked it.
Yeah I remember watching the show and not thinking it was weird at all and now I'm like shuddering thinking about it. When you're younger, it doesn't really seem weird to you, and doesn't help if media normalises it like this!
I’m so happy I watched the show as an adult because 16 yo me would have used this show as inspiration tbh 😭😭 i started PLL with my mom and she’s been floored that they put so many statutory situations in it
It would have been so simple and fixed so much if they had just made them college students. If they needed to be students they could at least not be minors, Ezra could be a TA and that whole storyline could still work.
Oh thank god I won't have to watch Pretty Little Liars
Your impact!!!!!!
WAAH YOU'RE HERE??
*fan girl squeal*
the crossover of the century!!! legends only
omg Jenny Nicholson and mike's mic,,,,, my worlds are colliding
My favourite Hanna quote: "Jenna can't hear us, she's blind."
One of my favorite scenes is when Hanna slaps Jenna, picks up her glasses and says "Its Hanna." Jenna was getting on my nerves.
@@Gabriellaella23 are we gonna talk about how Jenna literally r4p3d Toby…
@@lleah2839 shes a good character, not like a good person character but lord the way they wrote her is so well done. i despise her. and poor toby man, he deserved better
@@lleah2839 which is weirdly the opposite of what happened in the books. I do like they basically validated male victims.
I misread that as Jesus not Jenna. WELP
this is a masters degree thesis and you passed
Now he has two master's degrees
Definitely understood the assignment
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Literally tho wtf this must have required absolute HOURS of work
Levi!!
Allison was so busy the day she died that I'm surprised that she didn't really die by exhaustion.
IM SAYIN😭
literally.... like i dont know if i get that much done in a week let alone a single day/night 💀
Literally 😭😭😭 why tf was she doing so much
It's also funny half those people didn't see each other crossing in and out of her backyard. Parking there must have been a nightmare that night.
Omg yes, is there anyone in that town who didn't see her on her last day
Melissa have terrible taste in men. They all try to hook up with her 14-16 sister. And Melissa always blames Spencer for it.
exactly ‼️‼️ like babe instead of blaming ur sister who is a CHILD, maybe blame the men that are willing to KISS HER ‼️‼️
So I agree that Melissa should choose better, less creepy partners and she should be pissed at them. However, at 14-16 Spencer, especially given her IQ, is more than old enough to know better than to kiss her sister’s partners. It’s not unreasonable to also blame Spencer because Spencer definitely aims to attract her Melissa’s partners
@@LorieLynnno absolutely not, they keep grooming her. She's smart but she's still a child and connote give consent
@@LorieLynnnot to mention she later dates caleb. and while both are wrong spencer has a history for stealing exes & considering caleb didn’t groom her like the rest. it’s no excuse, she’s truly not a girls girl lol
Not the victim blaming @@LorieLynn
my favorite thing about toby is that he spent the basically whole first season just being a nice person and the show’s framing of it was “what a suspicious weirdo”
They instilled trust issues in a generation.
I feel the same way about Jason. As far as I remember he actually never did anything bad. He was a normal older brother and quite helpful but the four living girl-bosses acted like he was dropping bodies left and right.
@@alias1150 He never did anything bad? The guy is not the worst on the show and he changes as a person but that doesn't excuse the fact that he founded the slimy N.A.T peedough club where his friends filmed UNDERAGE girls in their BEDROOM including his SISTER and does nothing about it except tell Spencer and then leave the club.Ian groomed Allison and Spencer,Garret was seeing Jenna,and Jason had a lil moment with Aria.He knew what kind of nasty friends he had and you'd think he'd fiercely protect his sister from being harmed by Ian
He finee tho
Arghhhhdidk The writers have a habit of making it look like a particular character is A and the girls will treat them suspiciously and then they all end up looking like mugs when they aren't A 🙃😫😭💀
@@xakirax_8864 I honestly forgot about that. Was it ever mentioned more than once? I just never saw him as a "bad guy". He also admits to being on drugs for years, not that it is an excuse for creating the NAT club. Although the trauma caused by being gaslit by your parents into thinking your "brother" is your imaginary friend probably didn't help his decision-making ability. But he's the only one from the NAT club that changes and actively tries to help people. He helps at-risk youth and is rather "honest" when the liars question him. He's one of the characters I wish they invested more time in because he had the potential for so many interesting storylines with the Hastings or Cece. I would love to see him react to Alex Drake. I get that it probably came down to actor availability.
The way Mike has done more thinking on this show than the show runners 😭
I need a Jenny x Mike crossover NOW
I was waiting for your comment
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Tf aren’t you the show runners
@@OfficialPrettyLittleLiars retweet
"jenna can't hear us, she's blind" must be the BEST line on the show
That still shatters my collarbones
we need more quotes in the next video!!!!!!
i took a moment to go look up the clip of kim kardashian asking a deaf person for directions ... same energies
And after the slap “ this is Hannah” 🤣
IK totally is
gotta respect allison for just never doing the right thing, even when it's easy
alison was such a menace 😭😭
She’s such a menace and I love her for it
She helped me become not boring
very girlboss of her
Never doing the right thing? Don’t go that far
"Pam invented homophobia. Jenna invented the flute." wheezing
I dieddddd😂😂
I mean it ain’t wrong 😭
I haven’t even watched the video yet but I can’t wait to hear this line
@@xoliviahsxsorry to ask but what's the timestamp for that quote ?
@@-chenlanying581841:32
Obsessed with the way the writers apparently went “Ok Aria’s thing is English so we’re gonna surround her with people whose names are inexplicably related to the English literary canon. Her father will be Byron, her childhood friend will be Holden, her love interest will be a Fitzgerald. We will do nothing remotely similar for any of the other characters.”
Damn I never even noticed that before. I love it when movies and TV shows try to give something sophistication and authenticity by just - naming characters after famous people or saying their story is inspired by a classic. Like if you're gonna use it ya gotta earn it. 😂
Yo that’s so true wtf 💀
Just imagine Hannahs friends called Theft, Stealing, Five finger discount and Fashionista. Or Emily's friends Freestyle and Backstroke 😅
oh right her last name is Montgomery as in the author of Anne of Green Gables lmao
@@j.yang7 and they're Canadian..
the amount of times something wild is followed by "and it never comes up again" "and we never find out why" "it contradicts a previous point and is just there for no reason" is hilarious
right like i didn't realize mosst of this. i remembered and knew the ian thing because i was like oh he was totally murdered.
what do you mean he KILLED HIMSELF but the body was MOVED AND THE SUICIDE NOTE WAS STAGED BY A and thats NEVER EXPLAINED?
but i forgot about the motel room and i already cant remember what else was listed in this video.
ive seen the show eight times and im planning on watching it again soon twice, once with my friends and once with my girlfriend.
The fact that the writers didn’t have this kind of wall going is why the show didn’t wrap up all the plots.
It is mandatory now that every writers room has this!
If your writer's room doesn't look even half like a conspiracy detective's, are you even trying?
the fact that there are walls like this IN THE SHOW at points and they still mess things up
As someone who has unfortunately read the majority of the Pretty Little Liars books, I feel it is crucial to stress that the events of the pilot episode take up almost the ENTIRE first book.
ABSOLUTELY. After he said "and that's just the pilot episode" i was like "tha-thats the first book". AND THERES SEVEN SEASONS
Bea TM my god I just found out that there's 7 seasons. I thought there were only 6
Literally lmao they flew through that first book. But also to be fair, if you read them online, the books are super short. Idk what printing magic they used to make the physical books bigger, but the free ebook version has like 35 long pages of text each and is the entire book.
@@nmoomoo i guarantee you’ll regret watching it lol seems like they really had nothing else to invent at that point
YUP
“we find out jenna has a seeing eye dog named shadow, shadows really cute, we never see shadow again”
this line summarized the whole show and im here for it
😂
LMAO
Haha
No because why did shadow just disappear
@@Susumiyahhguess his name was a bit on the nose, hey? 😂
on september 17 2022 I started watching this video, I knew absolitely nothing about PLL. I got like half an hour in and I thought "mh, you know what? this show seems kinda cool, I could watch it" so I paused it and I asked my gf who used to be a big PLL fan when it first came out if she wanted to rewatch it together. Today, a WHOLE YEAR LATER, we watched the last episode. It took us ONE YEAR to get through the absolute madness this show is. And here I am now, 12 months and a whole lot of nonsense later, finally finishing this video.
loved it btw
it took u a year but i started my rewatch on september 10th and i’m already on s7 😭😭
This is so iconic, love this for you!! I’m watching lost now because of Mike’s lost video. He’s truly inspiring a generation
oof im saur sorry babez it wasnt worff it xx
@@katie-allenliterally me right now as well
i love that the phrase “minimizes her slay” could mean anything from a breakup to literal murder and it would track either way
I would like this but it's at 420 and I refuse to ruin it ak heres my like 👍
Something I always found HILARIOUS was how the show tried to make out Aria’s parents for being villains bc they didn’t approve of their daughter being involved with her teacher 😭
Ikrrrrrr it was WILD..
I'm sorry WHAT!
And we all AGREED that they were villains. It's like a fever dream
When I was younger I was convinced they were in love now I'm like that's a full catch a predator
@@liudmylaberezovska1574 EXACTLY HOW DID THEY ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN
Allison was literally a tween who had an entire town under her thumb, actually adults were hating on this baby I love her.
yeah but then she flopped after season 5
@@taylorswiftmidnight she only flopped cause she got fat
in the books, she was literally 12/13 years old when she went missing. her impact
@@karman8229 ah yes because the actress having polycystic ovary syndrome is a flop...don't blame sasha for the writers screwing up the character
@@karman8229 wow you really are just the worst
oh my god imagine getting a tattoo that says "finally free" next to the date that one of your peers who was later murdered disappeared... my brother in christ you are asking to get arrested
it’s even worse tho cuz he actually got that tattoo cuz it was the day he was finally free from jenna’s abuse 😭😭😭😭 like please help my boy toby
@@bojomoonlightOMFG no honestly free toby 😭
losing my mind over this comment hahahahahaha
Aww noooo 😭 that’s sad
@@bojomoonlight REALLY??
“Mona escapes Radley by literally walking out the front door”
ua-cam.com/video/yltGdZWVyOI/v-deo.html Christmas vlog :)
i can’t believe that this video is nearly two hours and it’s labelled “part 1”
the way they made EVERYTHING important in this show it's like impossible to recap 😭😭
i feel so lucky
@@mikesmic i’m so excited for pt’s 2&3!!
Part 1 of 16
@@mikesmic hey I really love these videos! If you wanna do one of these on a show that’s SO under appreciated imo, you should do one on House of Anubis. There’s not nearly enough appreciation for that show online and it’s super entertaining
The fact that Allison is dead for so long and is still the main character is honestly a slay
So true, bestie!
True! She needed 3 seasons to get out of the flashbacks and out of that yellow top.
It's immortality my darlingsss
@@berenice2710 I was just gonna say that lmao
yet when she comes back she gets sidelined for a while
"absolute galactic threat menace of a sister, Melissa Hastings" is the most accurate description of early seasons Melissa I've ever heard
this is my new favorite video to ever exist
omg wait i love your channel
I was gonna say the same😳
Already rewatching lol. Might be in the monthly comfort rotation from now on
i love that basicgorl,plumbella, mikes mic, casey asono(?), and stephosims all watch each other best crossover ever
Ooh legends watching legends 🥂
“pam invented homophobia, jenna invented the flute”
please timestamp so i can come back to this regularly
@@pau4899 41:30
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does he say pam invented homophobia in another part because i swr this was a whole thing i was dying at and this part just doesn’t seem to compare
"Ezra Fitz is not seeing Heaven, _and I'll make sure of it."_
mike is god confirmed 🤪🤞
I was looking for this comment the second after Mike said it. It's an iconic moment for sure.
1:43:48 “Mona escapes radley by literally walking out the front door” that got me 😭😂
I mean she was dressed as a old school nurse so how would they recognize her? 😂
LOL AND THE WAY SHE DIDNT EVEN COVER HER FACE LIKE IT WAS EVEN HER HAIR TIED BACK OUT OF HER FACE PURPOSEFULLY HOW COULD NO ONE TELL.
the way the nurses didn't even dress like that in some of the other radley episodes is so funny to me @@amberdeterman5815
this was better than the show
Not a high bar
honestly anything is better than the show
@@faiyrien the show is a MASTERPIECE how dare you to say that
@@mariakaufmann8024 you must be 12 or haven’t rewatched the show at an older age
@@amirahhmukhtarxx7129 no
Honestly these girl bosses just need to stop having sleepovers in Spencer’s barn
so true
Why tf do the Hastings even have a barn?
@@sftbagels2816 HELP
the amount of times aria would STRUT into ezras classroom in season 1 and FLIRT with him in PUBLIC and then had to nerve to be shocked once people started finding out ???
The one time that season where she calls him Ezra while being his assistant director for the play !!! Like the other student had to be thinking why are you on a first name basis with him??
My crazy ass would have been GAGGED hearing that. Back in hs my friends and i would write PAGES of emails abt the most inocuous things.
@@rebeccanaterb
i hate aria with a BURNING passion it isnt even funny
@@ot5rihannaShe is so much better and worse in the books it's honestly insane.
also the LENGTHS the show runners went to gaslighting us that Ezria wasn’t the creepiest predatory relationship- in the episode where they tell arias parents the fact that she’s a minor is mentioned ONCE and the fact that she’s young seems to only be important in that ezra is older so should have known better/stopped the student teacher relationship. AS IF THE CORE OF THE ISSUE IS THE STUDENT/TEACHER THING!! like when ezra gets a job at hollis him and aria are like Finally We Can Be A Couple In Public… babe. she’s 17. you are a felon.
plus Ezra literally knew how old she was when they first hooked up (if i remember the plot correctly) and had hooked up with a year younger Allison previously.
@@karasunostherapistYes, tbf he didn’t know how old Alison was when they dated and then “tried to end it” on the day she disappeared but then he went ahead and dated her friend who he knew all about, including the fact she was SIXTEEN and in HIGH SCHOOL
@@karasunostherapistyeah I tried to finish the show finally for this video but when I learned that he knew her age from the very start and still married her at the end and went on to be a successful author (they say this in the Perfectionists sequel series), I quit the show for good 😭 the writers literally rewarded a pedophilic character and for what?
@@delancywatching27 like being under 18 can be fine depending on country, but absolutely not when there is any sort of power dynamic like teacher student. That is explicitly not allowed and used as the prime example by laws of what is not valid and must be 18+
@@mattymerr701tbh just because it is legal in some places doesn’t make it fine imo. 16 year olds were legally allowed to prostitute themselves in my country in the 90s maybe even 2000s but was that fine cause it was legal? idts.
“Pam invented homophobia, Jenna invented the flute.” I’m dead lmao 💀
The string management is honestly under appreciated
It's really really pretty😩 the lines are so neat
He’s an engineer after all!!
I'm kind of excited to see just how messy and complex it's gonna get tbh
Just found this channel, his Master’s is in engineering?! 😩
“ezra fitz is not seeing heaven and i’ll make sure of it” took me out , thank u for that amazing line
He was a literal walking red flag
Fr he kissed Aria and he knew she was like 17 . He continued to date her when he knew she wasn't 18. He Could have went to jail and I think he tried to kill one of them,when he was A .
he’s the reason i dated an absolute piece of human shit that was 22 when i was 15. i thought it was ok
@@dryskinqueen fortunately I never experienced that, however this show is the reason why I got into the whole lolita tumblr thing and totally romanticized this type of relationship… I’m an adult now and realize how fucked up that was for me to think that. Edit: I mean how fucked up it was for this show to portray it as okay
@@dryskinqueen so sorry you went through that... that 22 yr old is a pos 🤮
I will always give props and respect to Sasha for running around Rosewood being a menace at 12 years old
what kills me about this is just how confident the girls were everytime they thought someone was A and they were always wrong.😭💀😂
That’s what I’m saying, it’s so annoying. Have you all not learned anything from the billion other times you were wrong about who A or the killer is 🙄😂
I cant even blame them considering marlene herself probably didnt even decide who A was until maybe the last season 😭😭
@@cal0ri321 (spoiler) Exactly, though it is funny to imagine her going in wanting it to be Spencer's evil twin
I mean, they were wrong in assuming A was one person so the first time they were wrong was at least reasonable - even if the degree of stalking made that clearly questionable. Chalk it up to nerves. As soon as they got that realization it was stupid. But tbh the only logical way A could have known everything is if one of the core group was A. Even the actresses who played them were sure one of them was A. It was changed because the fan base hit it on the nose, but Marlene got offended they guessed it and went out of her way to make an unguessable plot twist that ruined the whole show.
Smiley Riley She openly admitted that she rewrote the ending of the show to one of the other fan theories just because people had guessed who A was. Really upsetting it threw off the whole show
The slow fade to the photo of Alison wearing the iconic Lady Gaga wig immediately followed by "Mona has escaped Radley by literally walking out the front door" has me screaming and in tears. This entire video is art.
I thought my screen was fogging up 😭😭😭
truly
Me too! I was crying!😂😭😂😭
"this entire video is art (pop)"
1:43:37
"This will become a plot hole later, feel free to remember that." The way some shows have little plot holes or continuity errors but PLL hit the GAS honestly is just more iconic.
I'm 30 - is it too late for me to become a continuity editor and make sure other shows don't do this?
It's literally a feature of PLL. It wouldn't be the same without all the holes.
Literally cause we still ate it up and were breaking our backs trying to make it make sense 😂😂
THIS WAS 2 YEARS AGO???? I'VE BEEN REWATCHING THIS.... FOR TWO YEARS?!?!
Literlly😭 these videos own me
I CAME HERE TO SAY THIS.
Just found it for the first time. So I’ll be rewatching it in 2 years and you’ll be on your 4th :)
I'm here again for atleast the third time😂 I've never actually watched the show but my best friend was obsessed as teens and this is such a fun way to kind of understand it.
One of my go-to playlists to fall asleep to. Maybe I'll finally understand it all via osmosis...
The fact that Allison was collecting enemies like pokemon, she really was a MENACE
It would have been iconic if she remained this mythical villain. Instead they gave her a forced redemption arc
Rosewood's Ricky Spanish
fdr
Liberty 0:58 1:01 1:01 1:02 1:02 1:02 1:03 1:03 1:04 1:04 1:04 1:04 1:05 1:05 the other side effects on the response after Dodge the rest of the things how can I watch UA-cam video and video games
1:35
When I was in grade 6, a girl didn't do her maths homework and claimed that her maths book had been "stolen". The next day she found it on her desk and there was a note from "A" in it. Everyone lost their shit. Her book went "missing" and she found it on her bed that afternoon with another note from A. She claimed no one had been home all day and the house had been locked. Everyone in the class was eating this up and I can't even imagine the cringe my teacher must have felt.
honestly that's so girlboss of her
That’s so funny
oh but that is so iconic
Oh your poor teacher
i mean. i would eat that shit up too. sounds fun.
The way I burst into laughter at “spencer has a flashback of Alison calling Hannah, let me check my notes… a fat loser.”
PLS I DIE EVERYTIME 😭
time stamp ?? 😭😭
@@mariaantoniaaaa 30:10
That and mentioning that Jenna has an seeing eye dog named shadow whose adorable…. and we never see shadow again 😂😂
can we talk about how emily went through the worst shit like she almost died 20 times she could not catch a break and none of the other girls went through half of it 😭😭
fr and her house literally got crashed into and she injured her shoulder and lost her entire future college and career 😭 AND A literally gives her a hole in her stomach from giving her steroid cream!!!
@@Boyagony and her first girlfriend was murdered😭 she really went thru it
i meeean, hanna did kinda go through it too
she almost died in s1, got her ed intentionally triggered, was even tortured in the last season etc
the one who had it the easiest was aria for sure
@@confusedbutgotthespirit no ur so right i wrote this when i was still on s1 lmao. hanna is my fav i felt so bad for her she didn't deserve that and lowk aria got on my nerves
She was so miserable and depressed and stressed the whole show, it used to stress me out every time she had screen time
Incredible that Allison somehow managed to interact with literally everyone she knows within a 20 mile radius on the day she “died”. Like I’d need to disappear for a few years just to recover from all that too ngl
And she did disappeared for a few years.
She was out in the trenches that day
I love how the one thing everyone notes is how much social interaction she had
I’m late but like sammme that’s to many people
My introverted ass could never.
I need a week to recover from ONE social interaction.😮💨
You should honestly submit this for a Pulitzer, what an impeccable piece of work
Omg we love a king supporting another king
Omg
you're so handsome i want to learn spanish just so i can enjoy your videos
*oh my god your eyes*
ua-cam.com/video/yltGdZWVyOI/v-deo.html Christmas vlog :D
I mean, Jenny Nicholson’s “The Last Bronycon” was nominated for a Hugo
"Jenna has a seeing eye dog named Shadow. You'll never see Shadow again." The highlight of the video for me
Dogs have a habit of disappearing in this show
Dogs are plot bandaids in this show lol
"you'll never see shadow again"
Well at least I got to see him once, unlike Jenna.
I was looking for a comment about shadow. Did not disappoint.
@@francescapatti2934 underrated comment
"and we never find out" the thesis to this show
“pam invented homophobia, jenna invented the flute” I SHOULD NOT BE LAUGHING AS MUCH AS I AM AT THAT
I feel like I'm tied to a chair and you're forcibly explaining Pretty Little Liars to me. Great energy
Accurate
Accurate and excellent
LMAO
It’s the stick
Lmaooo
I will always applaud PLL for making 14 year-old me feel in danger everytime I watched a episode
😭😭😭😭
Even watching this video is making me paranoid LOL. I was always on edge while watching it, no matter the age
Fr I was 13 scared to death at 2am but couldn’t stop watching 😂
I was always sooo paranoid when watching and had to have all of my lights on and my closet lit up. This show scared me more than AHS 💀
14? I was in my mid twenties and I was shivering through every episode :D
Every time I rewatch this trilogy of videos, it’s a jump scare when I see how empty the PLL wall was at the very beginning
It's staggering to see how filled it is later, especially since I can't remember anyone beyond the main circle of characters.
watching this feels like sitting on your best friend's bed at a sleepover at 2am while they explain the entire plot of yaasified war and peace
and they’re going super into detail cause the test is the next day and they want u to at least pass
yes except their explaining the industrial revolutions cause your gonna fail the text tomorrow if you don't listen to them
Has yassification gone too far? No
omg i read sitting as shiting I was SO confused for a second😭
evolution of “stupid yellow blouse” to “crusty yellow top” is unmatched
that crusty yellow top hunts my nightmares the “ik you wanna kiss me” like stop 😭😫
this feels like when you havent seen a friend in a long time and they have to speedrun their gossip. i love this so much
OMG Accurate
babe it's time for the annual MMCU (Mike's Mic Cinematic Universe) rewatch
I can not explain how unhinged this feels. Like I feel like I met you at a party and you were like “hey wanna hear about my pretty little liars theories?” And I was like ok and then you dragged me in this room and locked me in for 2 hours to give me the most frantic explanation I I’ve ever heard. I’m very invested though
THATS EXACTLY IT
This is the VIBE!!!!
he just released part 3 so be ready to be locked in for another 2 hours😩✌️
I have never seen of video of Mike's before and I'm not more than 5 minutes into the video and am living for this man's personality. And gurl, I have a feeling you are right on the money and am sooooo excited!!! ;alskdfoquwrhg/lknsdvoiq
update: That was some of the absolute best chaos I've sat thru. I scrolled down to like the video so many times, just to see that I'd already liked it lol
why is this so accurate
I'm late on this one but ''the implied threat level of this blind girl is extremely high... like this girl is blind but she's also a thanos-level threat'' is possibly the funniest thing ever said. jenna marshall was truly such a serve of a character
I'm rewatching right now and his line is SO accurate. Jenna continues to be an Avengers-level threat even in s7. Melissa was the same in early seasons too
"Emily demolished the runway. Actually, Hannah really did too. Let's be real, Spencer ate too. And Aria.........was there."
I think the most baffling part of the whole show is that mayas parents sent her to rehab for a joint 😂
The real question is why did the rehab even accept her
free my girl maya she didn’t do anything wrong
but also rip maya
Fr it’s so crazy how the late 2000s was so 😭😭😭dramatic about weed ?? Even in Breaking Bad when Skyler thinks Walter is smoking weed she’s like ‘how could fucking do this😭😭to us😭to our family😭😭😭’
@@celiner9920literally and then skyler, whose husband has cancer and she thinks he’s using weed for CANCER PAIN, she tells jesse to stop selling him weed. ITS BC HES DYING and needs it to smooth his passage between this mortal plane and the next. (bc of the cancer) girl
STOP THIS IS KILLING ME RIGHT NOW HAHAHAH
I love how this swings between "True Crime Documentary" and "heated live-tweet vent about a reality show" with no warning or transition.
“The way Sasha was in the trenches with these crusty wigs.” I cackled!!!
The funniest thing about all of this is that this info skates right off my brain, so I can watch these videos on loop back-to-back-to-back and *still* could not tell you a damn thing that happens on this show.
They were 100% writing as they went. Like they didn’t know who A was as they were writing it and kept changing who it was as people guessed who it was. They wanted it to be a surprise but did it terribly. You can’t make a “ooh let’s guess who the baddie is” show and then get mad when people guess who the baddie is
They did the same thing with Gossip Girl
if mona was hanna's friend before Alison it would have made more sense
@@Megasaurusify and it makes it even more exciting when they reveal and your right cause then it’s kinda like a “NO WAY OMG I WAS RIGHT”
Or an “I KNEW IT :D” moment
couldn't agree more; i think shows like PLL or GG need to be planned and figured out by the writers from the beginning, deciding who A/Gossip Girl is and then creating a storyline around it. by only choosing them in the final, they have created soooo many plotholes that simply do not make any sense
Just like Dan being GG, so dumb!!!
what did I do to deserve this gift?
Sup Tara
RIGHT
Omg it's you!
Post a new video Tara I AM STARVING
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"There's a blind girl who's Thanos" just gets me every time I come back
Especially since Thanos wasn't even a thing until a half way through the PLL showrun.
@@alannahhurley386so she was like the original 😂
Iconic how this is 2,5 years old and people still watch and leave comments almost every day...
Just shows how hurt we all still are by Marlene.
“and aria was there…” that literally sums up her entire character lmaoooo that took me out 😭😂
Plsss the violence 😭
@@nikemaraje5 aria is useless. I hate her character
Yes lmao I had to rewatch that part again
1:46:42
I’m pretty sure she was always meant to be A.
The fact i got to watch this masterpiece for FREE isnt sitting right with me, this was just utterly fantastic
We did have to watch the ads so he got paid at least.
@@missserenity1090 Y-yeah hahahaha
The fact that the pilot is the plot of the WHOLE first book is still baffling to me
Wait seriously 😭
the book sounds better to me where do i find it
@@karinadoshi3950 the book is so much better imo just look up pretty little liars sara shepherd, most online stores sell it
@@karinadoshi3950 The books are better but there are still a lot of plot holes
Wait WHAT?
i was also in the trenches re: Aria is A. There was SOOO much that pointed to her. Tweets from Marlene, hints in her outfits, the "Big A" thing. The way she wrote the A in Aria on the halloween train! And i think they thought they were being sly but everyone figured it out so they had to change it hence some of the plot holes. thats my humble opinion.
I agree but they didn’t *have* to change it, changing an ending because you need the shock factor is a sign of weakness. If your story is strong it doesn’t matter if people have guessed it
Everytime he says "we never find out x" with growing frustration really makes my 11-18 year old self feel seen.
Marlene King might just be my worst enemy
@@ab52609 maybe marlene was the pretty little liar after all
@@hannie0809 maybe the real pretty little liar was the marlene king we made along the way
“What did Maya know? Maya knew that I’ve got a big fat ass…….sorry”
I cry EVERY TIME
Thank you 😂 This is the first comment that I’ve found talking about it
As a straight man who knew nothing about this series (except the name), this feels like a being apart of the popular girls table i was never allowed at, and i'm loving every second of it.
Yasss come through diversity
@@CIEMniak911 😭😭😭
Bruh me too, I’m watching this while playing elden ring
@@CIEMniak911 HELP FJAJJVJA
Protect this man at all cost
The way blondes loved crusty yellow tops and dresses in the early 2010s is unmatchable. You’re blonde? Prom dress? Yellow. Going to the beach? Yellow tank top. Going to a house party? Here’s a yellow baby doll top from hollister. Match your hair to your shirt because we didn’t have the knowledge of toner shampoos and the concept of being a dimensional blonde. You were weather chestnut brunette, or yellow blonde. No other options.
That was my older sister when she was in high school, she had bleach blonde hair and wore a bright yellow dress to prom!
Ahhh the 2010's it was such a different time
No bc I always think of Kate Hudson in How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, that yellow dress was iconic (and she actually pulled it off), but matched her hair for sure
The fact that this started from a sticky note called " the barn " and became more complicated then the Mcu universe is iconic
“Maybe people are ready for multiple hour deep dives in to 2010s tv shows” like bro you don’t even know I watched a 5 hour video about victorious the other day I would love to hear you talk about pll for two hours
Quinton is KING of multi-hour analysis videos on shows I never cared about
We do be consuming content
don't be shy bestie drop a link
@@chel.......................... Quinton Reviews! He did an entire series on ICarly and is now doing Victorious
Omg long Quinton, I watched the 3 hour Icarly and the 5 hour victorious videos in the same day 😳
the way "menace of the century" has seamlessly integrated itself into my vocabulary
“Ezra Fitz is not seeing heaven and I’ll make sure of it” this is the moment I went from a fan to an air conditioner, I’m in bestie we ride at dawn
This comment took me on a whole ass glorious rollercoaster.
👏👏👏
10/10 would cackle again
💀💀💀
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am deceased 💀. Hiring you to write by obituary
@@ijeuna12 First one is free, get five obituaries and I’ll arrange for a glitter cannon to the tune of your choice (I recommend lipgloss by charli xcx feat. Cupcakke) ❤️
“in episode nine Aria sings randomly” i CACKLED thank you
i don’t even remember too like 😂😂
i cringed so hard like she just busted a note out of nowhere IN FRONT of noel no less 🥴
I think Mike finds Aria odd, at the Halloween Train, he is saying how everyone slays their outfits. Then, he said: "Aria... was there"😅😅
@@Lilly_Mughe means that her outfit is boring/ugly lmao
Facts!!! Why is she singing…..what was the reason 😅
Someone needs to do this with Riverdale I WOULD GIVE OUT MY SOUL FOR THAT BC I JUST KNOW IT WOULD BE SO RIDICULOUS AND FUNNY
Super Eyepatch Wolf kinda did this with Riverdale. Highly recommend his video.
Mike has a video where he draws the plot of a Riverside season it’s quite funny!
Space Friendly Ninja did one on Riverdale. He also did one on PLL actually, and its two spin-offs.
YES I started doing it on tumblr (not a plug) but it gets so intense so quickly I got overwhelmed.
Omg please yes. My birthday is in July and THAT is my birthday wish. Make it happen 🎉
2 years later and I still watch these UA-cam videos from start to finish like they’ve just been uploaded for the first time🥹
This is what happens when geniuses are let loose on their passion projects and we love to see it
i will never forget that Sasha is literally 13 at the beginning of the show and everyone else was like in their 20's
it shows me that they never had any idea what they were doing plot wise (beyond maybe season 2 finale) bc if they knew ali was coming back as a main character they probably would’ve hired someone the same age as the rest of the cast
@@Ellieeeeeee124 it was my understanding that they initially wanted someone older but when they found Sasha they said she was absolutely perfect for the role, and they fully intended to keep her around but in a way that didn’t overly sexualize her in the same ways the older cast members were. Plus they legally just couldn’t
she really just did THAT
She was acc 12
2 years after this video changed UA-cam, and there have been a lot of good iterations on the idea, but the warmth and sincere affection for the show still just shines through this video. It was beautiful back then to see someone being genuinely passionate about a piece of media, and it still is now.
Nothing can replace the original. No shade just an observation to all of the YT essayists who are still trying their hand at this.
Sometimes I forget how unhinged PLL really was. That show pissed me off so many times but also had 14 year old me in a chokehold.
TOO TRUE
i don’t even watch PLL but i have been so invested in the journey of this video and will now thoroughly enjoy
goal is that you can watch without knowing anything!!! hope you like it xxx
Bitch we are in the same boat, popcorn ready
I stopped after the first season lmao. The whole ezria thing was such a turn off for me
@@mikesmic to be fair even knowing the show i’m lost
@@saiquatabassum6321 tbh i’ve watched this show three times through and i just look away and go on my phone during ezria. you’re not missing anything. after season 2 that relationship is literally like aria’s only storyline and personality trait. it’s a hot mess of a show
The fact that Mike didn’t utter Aria’s most iconic line: “Bitch can see!” disappoints only mildly, further proving his point that this is, slightly unhinged.
Will never come close to Hannah’s most iconic line “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool my best friend, you’re dead freakin meat.”
I haven't watched this show, but these quotes are iconic.
Can we talk about the fact that Sasha was 13/14 years old playing Allison in season 2 and she did absolutely incredible
I’m kind of just amazed they hired someone who had to have been so much younger than everyone else to PLAY THE MAIN VILLAIN WHAT
@@songbird6414 Apparently when they first hired her they didn't realise that especially compared to the rest of the cast she was an actual baby but she did such a good job! (Although seeing her and Spencer or Emily especially in the same scene just drives home how actual teenagers might look vs how film and tv lead you to think they look lmao)
She was 13 for season 1 not season 2.
@@amberbernay I said 13/14. Season 2 was filmed In 2011, Sasha was born in 1996 meaning she would have just turned 14 when they were filming season 2
when I first watched this show (i was 11/12ish) i was OBSESSED. words cannot describe how badly i wanted to be threatened by an anonymous cyber bully. So, for 3 months I wrote hate letters signed -A to myself and hid them in my school bag to look mysterious and peculiar to my other fellow classmates. my true girlboss moment
good for you
i’m able to imagine this so clearly as if it’s a true memory from my own delusional brain
This is so unhinged I love it. I would have ate that shit up if someone did that in my school
waterboarding wouldn't have gotten this outta me
did anyone find it???
on my like 7th watch through i made a quotebook- inspired by a comment i saw
- 17:19 “this may as well be called ‘the day alison wore a yellow top’. the amount of scenes that sasha-the actress- has to wear a yellow top, i know she was screaming and crying. ‘let me wear one other item of clothing marlene’. *wheeze*
- 20:16 “that level of threat of menace…menecicity…menecicinization-“
- 23:00 “there’s a blind girl who’s THANOS”
- 25:07 “ezra fitz is not seeing heaven-and i’ll make sure of it”
- 35:15 “season one, pam fields actually invented homophobia”
- 41:29 “jenna and that fucking flute-jenna actually invented the flute.”
- 44:29 “caleb skips town to get on the homeless bus”
- 50:15 “pll costume department-not seeing heaven”
- 57:26 “also in season 2 jason is shirtless like 80% of the time. someone please buy jason a shirt he has run out”
- 1:08:15 “mike punches ezra. very fun, maybe i’m a mike stan now”
- 1:10:14 “holden goes to do fucking martial arts…this show has too many episodes”
- 1:11:46 “‘call off your techno-boy-toy or i tell the cops what your mom keeps in the lasagna box’…best moment of my life”
- 1:40:59 “we meet ezra’s mother diane who hates aria because she’s underage and poor. get her ass diane!”
- 1:43:47 “mona has escaped radley by literally walking out the front door”
- 1:46:42 “emily demolishes the runway in this barbarella slay…actually hannah really did too…and let’s be real, spencer ate too…and aria-was there”
i think one of the funniest parts about this show is that they literally could’ve chosen ANY pre existing character to be A in the series finale and it would’ve been better than what it was💀
"YOU AWIGHT THARE?!?" Please I couldn't breathe the entire time 😭😭
this is painfully true
Yes it's a lot better than ello Spencer 😂
Personally think it suited aria
It was meant to be her but to many ppl guessed it so they changed it i will stay salty abt that
I was an impressionable young teen girl who loved Ezria (because they were hot and cute and the actors are in the same age range). I put myself in dangerous situations because I aspired to also be with my teacher. I will never forgive PLL for their predatory relationships, even though I loved the show.
Well said. I saw a similar situation play out with a friend freshman year of high school. The show did real harm unfortunately. I’m glad to hear the books put him in jail
second this
@@frostyskeletons8950 absolutely! I study psychology and child psychology, and I immediately related one of the first things I was taught to PLL: media can impact what children do or think IF they promote the behavior. It's by Bandura, if you want to read about it (there's also a video of the experiment). Kids will imitate what they see, except when the media or their parents tell them that this is wrong behavior. E.g. villains being punished. That's why it's important to show you don't condone the behavior. The books put him in jail. The show makes them end up together. On top of that, EVERYONE in the show who tells them this relationship is wrong, is demonized. Aria's parents, Ezra's ex... The show wants us to believe these people are standing in the way of true love, when they were in the right!
“Jenna invented the flute and Pam invented homophobia”
I actually died. This is a work of art.
I was watching this while having dinner, accidentally spilled my drink and scrolled from you describing the pilot to you suddenly wandering around in a blonde wig wearing a pink hoodie and honestly I’ve never been more hooked
I think the thing about the Ezria 'ship' was that so many of us were in our teens and that it was 'exciting' to think that a cool older person would be interested in us...NOW we're IN our twenties are like 'holy shit who in their right mind would go after a highschooler?! gross!"
exactly this!
Yeah :( But there are people in their twenties who exploit the teenage mindset that dating a "cool older person" makes them superior than other teens. Some people are so sick they abuse the innocence and naivety of highschoolers to take advantage of them :(
it irks me that the teacher x student relationship got a 'happy ending' but the one gay couple got divorced. also the fact that emily (the one lesbian main character) only had one SOMEWHAT healthy relationship that ended with her partner dying. her other relationships (especially with alison, which i'm seeing now that i'm older) were horribly toxic.
@@pia1945 right.. it’s sad
Kinda really wanted Ezra to be A because it would be like he manipulated aria the whole time into a relationship and it would have been super juicy because he was close to the girls and knows what’s going on
Agree! I was just thinking of this the other day. It would demonstrate how creepy and crusty he is, which would be better messaging than the teacher loves a child, wOw TrUe LoVe!
Yes! And it would explain why Aria wasn't getting in trouble with A as much as the other girls
i mean he was literally her teacher so he kind of did manipulate her into a relationship
YESSSSSSSSSS this is such a good theory i’m mad i didn’t think of it 😭
That would’ve been epic
This show was 90% plot holes and still had us all in a chokehold
also gotta love that season 4 starts off with "episode 0" which is an ENTIRE EPISODE of mona narrating a "previously on...". that is how convoluted this show is. BOLD. VISIONARY. truly DOES NOT CARE about the audience satisfaction, just about keeping you on the edge of your seat. its the journey babe not the destination. white lotus who
I'm crying over this comment
The way I never even registered the amount of grown men underage girls relationships on this show. I just remember loving all the drama. Crazy how we all just overlooked it.
Yeah I remember watching the show and not thinking it was weird at all and now I'm like shuddering thinking about it. When you're younger, it doesn't really seem weird to you, and doesn't help if media normalises it like this!
I’m so happy I watched the show as an adult because 16 yo me would have used this show as inspiration tbh 😭😭 i started PLL with my mom and she’s been floored that they put so many statutory situations in it
@Anjali GOOD. Watching it as an adult I kept screaming “felon”
I was quite young when the showed aired but all the commercials that showed the teachers relationship with the students grossed me out
It would have been so simple and fixed so much if they had just made them college students. If they needed to be students they could at least not be minors, Ezra could be a TA and that whole storyline could still work.