Season four, episode 6
The writers of Pretty Little Liars were probably sitting in the writer’s room feeling guilty about the lack of reveals in the season so far so they came up with this week’s Under the Gun to explain themselves. I imagine someone saying this:
We totes copped out for four seasons and are fast becoming worse than Lost with the unanswered questions, let’s throw the viewers a bone with this episode or at least explain to them again why we can’t give them want they want.
It’s been made clear over and over that ‘A’ knows all and sees all. We also know that ‘A’ has threatened the Liars not to let on about what they are being subjected to. So yeah we get it, don’t tell or I will mess you up. But it doesn’t stop a viewer from screaming at the screen “Do something you fool” when the girls behave in ways no real life person would.
This week despite being begged by Hanna not to say or do anything that would spur ‘A’ into framing Hanna’s mum for Wilden’s murder, Emily decides to break the rules and defy ‘A’.
Knowing that Hanna could not do anything to save Ashley, Emily decides to use the tape from Detective Wilden’s car to point the police in Melisa’s direction instead. Of course it backfires but at least she was willing to try. Instead of a tape of Melissa and friends dragging Wilden off into the woods, the police get a tape of someone in an Emily mask holding a sign that says ‘guilty’. Ouch. It makes me feel a little bit better knowing that not everyone is willing to take stuff lying down.
I gotta say, I am over the overuse of masks in this show.
Spencer and Toby arrive in Ravenswood and it’s a creepy arse town where dead birds randomly fall out of the sky onto the bonnet of cars and creepy townsfolk flock to a cemetery at the sound of weird singing.
I want to say that I am looking forward to some new supernatural shenanigans but as it’s directly related to Pretty Little Liars I am wondering if I will be setting myself up for super frustration.
As it is Toby and Spencer’s visit yielded no real fruit. Mrs Grunwald claimed not to know what Spencer was talking about. The only thing they managed to find out is that Shana is somehow linked to the town and Jenna allows Shana to drive her car. No real clues then. Oh well there’s always next week.
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