I was planning to do a Fast Book Review
today but earlier I was thinking about this and I
thought why not writing it down. So here are my reasons for being madly obsessed
with this TV show.
First of all, a bit about how I learned
about PLL. A friend of mine told me probably a hundred times I should watch it,
so one day I was alone at home and with nothing to do (good old days) so I
decided I would give it a try. At that time there was only a season complete
and it was probably airing episode 3 or 4 of the second season. And that was
it. I swear I watched the first episode and it was like I needed to learn
everything about it. So, in probably three or four days I finished up season one
and started watching episodes as they aired.
I’m diving right into the reasons why I
love the show. The first one and I think this not only applies for this show
but mostly for every show I watch and every book I read. I want to be entertained
and forget about my life, about my problems. I don’t want to watch a show that
resembles my life, because I have enough of it already, and sometimes life can
be overwhelming and you need to chill for a bit and forget about everything. So
I love a good show that can take my mind off of things, a show that can make me
forget for at least an hour a day. And Pretty
Little Liars does that. Its twists and turns keep my mind busy trying to work
things out, and mystery makes me hungry for more. The romance on the show makes
me wish I could experience some of that myself (on the dark side it also makes
me have high expectation on boys ouch!).
The second thing I love is the opportunity
to communicate directly with the writers and producers of the show. As a lot of
you know, PLL is the most tweeted show on tv, among other things, and almost,
if not every writer and producer of the show has a personal twitter account and
answers fan questions (although sometimes they answer to the same people over
and over again) . I love the possibility that we, as fans of the show, have to
talk directly to the people in charge of creating this world, and the fact that
we can discuss everything about it, every clue, every revelation, in real time makes
it all the more exciting.
And of course, number three are the
actors. Maybe you don’t love them all, but you have to agree with me that this
is probably the hottest cast on TV. Like really, how is it even possible to
hire so many good looking people? The girls are all stunning, and I swear I
would be happy having like 2% of their beautifulness. The boys are like too
much to handle. And the thing I love the most is that there is one for every
girl. You like the kinda hipster guy, you have Tyler. You like the sweet,
caring guy who loves animals, you have Ian. And so on.
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| Like really?! They are all so perfect it hurts. |
I’m not going to comment
on acting capacity just because I believe that that is something totally
subjective. But what I will admit, and I would love to have you admit too, is that
even if they are not the greatest actor/actress of all times, they are there,
meaning that someone chose them to portray that particular role, and that, like
it or not, means something.
The style of the show, not only the
clothing which is amazing btw, but the style of the buildings and the design of
the sets. You can tell that everything is thought about carefully. One thing
though, how are they even allowed to go to school dressed like that? I know
that I live in a different country, and at my school we had to wear uniforms,
but how is that even possible? I mean really stylish, but not so much school-ish…
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| Yeah, they go to school this well dressed... |
On a more serious note, another thing I
not only love, but admire about the show is the good use they give to the
massive impact on teenagers and young adults everywhere. I love how they deal
with topics such as homosexuality, loss and addiction. Knowing that they matter
to a lot of us, and that probably everyone that is watching has suffer or know
someone who has suffer at least one of them. The show feels real to us, and we
can relate to it in a positive way. The fact that ABC Family is letting, not
only this show, but others on the network too, address some of these topics
that were for so long considered “taboo” makes me really happy. Good for them
and for us as a society.
And finally I wanted to talk about the
storyline. I’ve read a lot of people commenting that they are getting tired of not
knowing who is A and honestly I love where they are taking the story. Yes, it’s
true that it’s a bit tiring that every time we discover someone is -A, then we
found out that they are not. But the whole point of the show is creating mystery
and resolving it or half resolving it and leaving open doors to then
potentially open them wider or close them as necessary. The whole Alison twist
that happened on season 4 was amazing, and you can’t deny that. Ok, I guess you
could, but you should not.
