Elsewhere in Rosewood after dark, Ali is wandering around town like no one’s out to kill her at any given moment.
nope I’m not high on vengeance don’t even worry about it, lil lady
Speaking of, here comes Peter Hastings out of the woodwork! He’s like, “Oh, didn’t know you were wandering ’round these here parts” even though you know that dude is following her. He offers to drive her home. She’s hesitant but of course she accepts. DON’T DO IT ALI NOOOOOO.
Emily arrives at her own home to find Paige hanging out on the porch, waiting for her. Now, full disclosure: I love Paige. I love Paige’s hair in this episode, too. And I love Paige and Emily together. Or, well, let me clarify. I loved Paige and Emily together before Paige got super jealous and ruined everything beautiful in the world. But isn’t that the way it always goes? In reality, Paige was trying to protect Emily from Alison, a girl with a questionable moral compass. Paige gives Emily a kind of heartbreaking speech about how she practiced what she was going to say and she imagined Emily would just forgive her and they’d be happy together again and ugh ugh ugh. Of course this doesn’t work, but Emily tells her, “You deserve to be happy” or a variation on the theme and that’s THE WORST. But it’s a very realistic lez moment, don’t you agree? Do they have queer writers yet?
Damn, Dad, this centerfold shows you used to be a babe but now you’ve kinda let yourself go all revenge-y and it’s not a good look.
Spencer waits up for Mr. Hastings to come on home, and he has some excuse about pretzels or whatever, and she shows him the email from Mrs. D. You know, the one that says I can’t protect you anymore? Maybe it was about Mr. Hastings. Mr. Hastings gets upset that Spencer is still digging (why does he expect anything different?!) and tells her to stop looking for answers. Melissa tries to tell Spencer THE SECRET OMG but Peter stops her, telling them both that Spencer doesn’t have to lie about what she doesn’t know.
All of that fake cane standing must have worn poor Ezra right out.
Aria shows back up at Ezra’s place, where she tells him that she killed Shana. Instead of panicking, he immediately asks what he can do to help. I’m not sure trusting the weird dude who committed statutory rape to get a scoop on a story he is investigating with surveillance all over town is the best idea, but oh, what do I know of the heart?
Not the same shade of blonde. Like one step darker. Just one, though. Like half a step. Like pretty much the same but take my extensions out so I look like it’s totally different, k?
We end the episode with Hanna at the salon. Looks like bye bye blonde. Watching her there is Mona.
This Ladies Only sauna is about to get real hot up in here – get it get it
Someone else shows up behind the curtain with Mona, but who? Ali? My first guess was Paige, tbh. Thoughts?
And thus ends the carnival ride through this magical realism portion of our evening. Here’s the promo for next week (Hanna totally had black streaks under her hair which is super cute):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhmuBy4q7J8
Aria’s hat, though. Perfection.
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Use of Teen Girl Squad = amazing. I identified hardcore with Whats-Her-Face as a youth.
I feel that. I identified pretty hard with The Ugly One. And not in some kind of self-deprecating way? Just in the “I have a crush on eeeeeevery boy!” kind of way.
Overcompensating much, baby Hansen?
Yep . I am 95% sure that the behind – the – curtain lady with Mona is Paige ..
Emily – You deserve the best of everything.
Paige – That’s what I had.
Me – CRYING SO HARD RN GUYS ;______; can they just be happy pls? I really don’t want Emily/Ali to happen!
I didn’t think Hannah was going to come out, but I did think she was going to say that Mona should come out. She def knows that Mona is in love with her, right??
Do you think so? I kind of thought Mona was in love with Ali. Then, once again all the trouble in Rosewood can be boiled down to lesbians!
I think she’s in love with Ali too. Also I think Hannah and Mona walking down the hall holding hands is Emily’s root. Did you see her gay little face??
That scene in the car was making me squeal in anticipation then disappointment. I was convinced either Hanna was going to come out or be like “I think Mona’s been in love with me this whole time.”
However, dressing Hanna up as Ali is a good reflection of Mona being obsessed with Ali, too. Both work.
Exactly. It’s like Ali role play, or something. No matter what, Mona is definitely queer, bisexual, sexually fluid, label-less, not hetero. Like, I refuse to accept otherwise.
And I do think all trouble in Rosewood will continue to revolve around dyke drama, and I’m mostly okay with it.
Everything about the flashbacks with Mona converting Hanna and then having Hanna bring it up with Emily around “coming out” (plus all the other “Mona is uncomfortably obsessed with Hanna/Ali” moments from past episodes) – it’s way too deliberate to be an accident, so I’m convinced that Mona’s sapphism is canon.
Paige didn’t really get super jealous in my opinion. Just protective of her girl, just like Toby and Caleb have been. I mean Ali is the bully who drove her to self harm and thoughts of suicide and the fact that her GIRLFRIEND is more concerned with Ali’s feelings would be a awful blow to anyone. That said, I still have a lot of hope for their relationship down the road, but Emily needs to take the blinders off for real.
Oh and about this line Hansen, “Do they have queer writers yet?” They have the showrunner Marlene King who is gay, but more relevant to this episode, they have Joseph Dougherty who is an executive producer, writer and director on the show and he wrote this episode. He’s an amazing ally and one of the biggest supporters of Paige and Emily’s relationship. He even writes AU fanfiction for them in his spare time on Kindle Worlds! How many other shows can say the same of their writers? LOL
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_lbr_one_browse-bin_0?rh=n%3A133140011%2Cn%3A%21133141011%2Cn%3A6118587011%2Cp_lbr_fan_fiction_universes_browse-bin%3APretty+Little+Liars%2Cp_lbr_one_browse-bin%3AJoseph+Dougherty&bbn=6118587011&ie=UTF8&qid=1403896761&rnid=2272759011&lo=digital-text
First, I had no idea I. Marlene King was queer!
Second, whoa that dude loves some Paily.
Yeah, Marlene doesn’t get nearly as much credit for being a succesful lesbian in hollywood as some people do. And I am pretty sure that her being gay is a big reason why this show has avoided so many of the tropes and cliches other TV shows with queer women routinely have. Marlene has no patience for that crap. LOL Also why it has had more queer women over the past five years than any other show on US TV in that time.
hand-holding Hanna and Mona/cut to Hanna asking Emily about coming out/I had to pause the show to die for a bit.
I know right I was hyperventilating and freaking out when she said that and I may have gotten my hopes up a bit lol.
Loved this recap. I have hope for Emily&Paige as I have liked them from the start . I know it’s crazy but I also like Emison so I would also be stoked if they went a bit down that route. And Hanna and Mona this episode had me freaking out because they sure made it sound a certain way lol. I wonder what they have in store for next week?
oh my god i had to pause and rewind to fully process and then when i realized it was not actually headed in that direction i may have yelled at my laptop for a bit. if hanna doesn’t come back with an alternative lifestyle haircut I’m going to be so disappointed though.
Hansen, your recap this week was super good. I loved the captions!
Watching PLL stoned is such a delight: that slo-mo hand holding in the hallway was so fucking crazy I had to rewind to make sure I wasn’t imagining it.
It is unfair in some sense because paige broke ONE promise to emily and it turned out to be the most unforgivable criminal offense while every other love interest has done much worse like toby being A and ezra’s flirtatious background with alison.
“she practiced what she was going to say” You’re not a human being if you have never done and felt this before.
Love the recap. Love this especially: “welcome to the hour a week we suspend disbelief”
Because people take this show way to seriously instead of acknowledging it’s awesomeness.