Recapping Season 7, Episode 8 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is subjected to toxic levels of Ezra man-pain when he learns that she deleted his phone call from Nicole, and is saved only by a Team Sparia away mission, Hanna is having PTSD flashbacks again and might be hallucinating The Grunwald, leading her to psych herself up again to take matters into her own hands, because that worked out so well the last time she tried it in 6x20, Emily has three love interests in this episode, and is thinking o...
Aug 19, 2016•2 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 7 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria declares all the liars her ride-or-die bridesmaids and then promptly ditches them 12 hours later when Ezra cons her into eloping to Rome or some bullshit, Hanna is back to her mystery solving ways, using her mom’s hotel access to break into rooms and arrange an Actual Bad Guy massage for Jenna Thing, Emily tries to give her mom a nice quiet birthday dinner at the Radley, but Pam finally ditches her boring ass for the Bride Pride party, a...
Aug 12, 2016•3 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 6 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is stressing about the prospect of having to share her murder cred with Ezra Fitz til death do they part, Hanna is burying the hatchet with Spencer about her sham engagement and the Caleb situation, Emily is dutifully upholding Ashley Marin’s order of keeping the booze away from Ezra at The Radley, while trying to snoop on Jenna Thing and Sour Harvey, and Spencer has been assigned to cool Ali down after they’re exposed by A.D. for droppi...
Aug 05, 2016•3 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 5 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria deletes the first lead in a missing persons case in several years, and is karmically punished by getting #PLLProposalTold by Ezra that she has to listen to his bad rollercoaster metaphor for marriage, Hanna is “working on blueprints” or something for Sugar Daddy Lucas and making copious HannaFace when Spencer keeps bringing up Caleb and it looks like Jenna Thing might deep six her murder cover-up, Emily is failing at her Pisco Sour drink...
Jul 22, 2016•3 hr 44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 4 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria acts as the sole voice of reason because Ezra isn’t around to Jedi mind-trick her, and then sneaks Ali back to Welby and straps her to her bed so she can question her about Charlotte, Hanna has glass in her hair and is nobly self-immolating to stay out of the Spaleb drama—until Mona shows up to help her properly do a murder coverup, and then give her some OTP TLC, Emily actually goes to her job twice in one day when she’s not faking Elli...
Jul 15, 2016•2 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey there! Before we find out how a “well-thought out plan” somehow ends up as “First-Degree Murder,” let’s take a moment to talk to the On-set Dresser for Pretty Little Liars, Mike Malone. Topics include: what is an On-Set Dresser? What is the current status of Pigtunia? The hardest set to shoot on, and, who disco-danced at the Season 4 wrap party? Also, for fans of David Lynch and Steven Soderbergh, we’ve got a ton of behind the scenes stories about Twin Peaks, Solaris, Schizopolis, and much m...
Jul 11, 2016•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 3 of Pretty Little Liars. Ezra is out of town, which means Aria can reclaim her role as the chief Liar operator and go Ethan Hunt on Wrick Wrollins in the DiLaurentis House, Hanna is pretending to still be engaged and doesn’t want to talk about it—or her torture experience at A’s hands—leading up to a clockwork tragedy, Emily decides to be a bartender at The Radley for two seconds after getting rejected by Sabrina, who then shows up at her work with a girl to rub it i...
Jul 08, 2016•3 hr 38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 2 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria breaks up with Liam like she’s taking off a band-aid, but he’s not going down without dropping all of the truth bombs on Ezra’s predatory ass, Hanna gets a ride home from a ghost and books it to NYC to recapture the magic with Jordan, but the magic got torn down by construction workers, Emily is so focused on protecting Ali that she lets Mary Drake into her world, much to Wrick’s consternation, and Spencer is now in a relationship with S...
Jul 01, 2016•2 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 1 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is tasked with finding a man, a British man maybe? but the fateful music of The Frey leads her back into Ezra’s arms, Hanna is locked in a barn because A punched her in the face and stole her clothes, and she’ll need to dream/hallucinate (maybe?) her BFF Spencer to get out, Emily is worried that Ali might be a murderer for some reason and takes almost no convincing at all to believe it, and Spencer is getting hangry shade from her theore...
Jun 24, 2016•3 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast PLL is back for Season 7! Just in time, we’ve got a roundtable discussion with Marco, Benji, Heather Hogan of Autostraddle, and Jacob Clifton of the Austin Telegraph (and based TWoP fame). We’re answering listener questions about Emily’s love life, what Noel Kahn and Jenna Thing are up to, who’s Charlotte’s real father, how Pretty Little Liars should end, “is that a snake?” how PLL changed social media, Mona being the greatest, and much more. Thanks to Heather and Jacob for joining us, and thank...
Jun 21, 2016•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s summer break in PLL-land, but the Bros are back to talk about an old classic episode. Aria uses Jason as a power play to get Ezra’s attention, Hanna goes horseback riding with Mona, hoping to get on evil step-sister Kate’s good side, Emily’s life is in the dumps, and then she gets an evil porn massage from creepy Lucas, and Spencer discovers the NAT Club, elevating her paranoia to an even more intense level.
May 31, 2016•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 20 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria finishes her novel with Ezra and then hitches a ride on the Z-train, Hanna’s scheme to get some alone time with Caleb succeeds when she uses a flashback to seduce him into kissing her, Emily has to babysit the onetime true love of her life, who is losing her mind seeing dead people after getting gaslit by her evil husband Wrick, and Spencer feels Spaleb slipping away, with not even an “I Love You” bomb halting the implosion, so she spen...
Mar 18, 2016•3 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 19 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria gets dumped by Liam via her boss, and finds out that Ezra was a terrible boyfriend to Nicole, too, Hanna gets super-passive-aggressive with Spencer about Caleb and concocts a plan to steal him back, set up A with herself as the bait, Emily interrogates Mona, fails to hook up with her, and then spies on Sara Harvey’s comfort bro, and Spencer is losing her mind because Caleb and Hanna are doing #HandStuff and playing mind games with her a...
Mar 11, 2016•2 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 18 of Pretty Little Liars. Ezra hypnotizes Aria into having two boyfriends by making her an author she can’t recuse, Hanna is shitty to everyone, especially her OTP Mona, because no one is #Janna, so A blows up her bachelorette party, Emily traces down the source of that Airwolf monster truck engine noise, but her investigation hits a wall until she finds a new clue by staring at Mona’s ass, and Spencer defends Spaleb to her father Nolan North, and brutish Toby, and f...
Mar 04, 2016•3 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast PLL Day Surprise! We’ve got Pretty Little Liars Script Supervisor and now Director Paula Hunziker back on the podcast to talk to us about the episode she directed that just aired: “We’ve All Got Baggage.” Join us as we discuss Hanna and Melissa’s epic flashback, filming the monster truck scene, Pigtunia, twins, and much more. Thanks for listening!
Mar 01, 2016•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 17 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is enlisted to marry her parents, and then Liam finds out about Ezria. Hanna assigns herself as Ella’s wedding planner and avoids thinking about her own nuptials. Emily is almost fooled by reporter Damian’s underhanded offer of friendship, and then gets chased around in the woods by a FutureTruck. And Spencer finally confronts her mom about her health issues, but then another mysterious leak occurs and Caleb has to take the blame for he...
Feb 26, 2016•3 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 16 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria gets a visit from her boyfriend, who sniffs out her handiwork in Ezra’s new chapters. Hanna takes a tumble in the heart-shaped bed with Jordan, but comes running back to Rosewood after a message from A. Emily discovers that all the eggs in Rosewood were destroyed and blames herself for it. And Spencer learns a secret about her mother’s health via the tricksy machinations of Mona, but can’t bring herself to tell her mom about it.
Feb 19, 2016•2 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 15 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is saddened to learn that her mom is taking her awful dad back, so she fully engages her Girl Detective mode and tries to expense it. Hanna is lying to Jordan, planting hard drives, feeling Haleb pangs and getting fired by her awful boss. Emily is making some time with Ali and failing at medical stuffs again. And Spencer is getting distracted by Caleb sex, being routed to phony meetings by her rogue Apple Watch calendar, and teaming up ...
Feb 12, 2016•2 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 14 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria takes it up to a Level 2 freakout over Ezra maybe being a murderer, Hanna calls in the boyfriend and his big wallet to fix her problems, but it’s her mom who saves her ass as usual, Emily seduces and destroys Sabrina for Aria’s benefit, souring a possible relationship, and Spencer feels out the new situation with Caleb, Toby, and Hanna, while meeting Toblerone’s new main squeeze and trying her best not to hate her on principle for binge...
Feb 04, 2016•3 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 13 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria’s last vestiges of faith in Ezra crumble away, so she takes matters into her own hands, with Pigtunia’s help. Hanna is lying like crazy and getting her mom in trouble at work and coming up with bigger lies to fix things, this time with Lucas’s help. Emily comes clean about her big secrets to her mom and Hanna, sort of. At least she’s not dying. And Spencer is messing up a college interview for her mom’s campaign and then getting Hanna’s...
Jan 28, 2016•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 12 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is lying about her drunken nighttime encounter with Ezra, and to her boss about sleeping with a coworker. Hanna’s fiancé comes to visit Hanna in Rosewood and pee on her to mark his turf. Emily is getting secret treatments for some unknown ailment and lying to her mom about it. And Spencer is hardcore reminiscing over her and Caleb’s Before Sunrise night in Madrid and worrying that her perfect murder research will implicate her in the la...
Jan 22, 2016•2 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 11 of Pretty Little Liars. They’re back! Aria returns from her publishing gig to check in on Ezra’s misery, Hanna is working for the Anna Wintour of fashion and engaged to NotCaleb, Emily is popping pills and probably a manic-depressive and lying about her job as a bartender, and Spencer is pretending to not be a lobbyist and helping her mother run for State Senate and maybe boinking their hacker werewolf.
Jan 15, 2016•3 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast The new season is almost here! But first, let’s celebrate Festivus by looking back at a classic PLL episode from seasons past. This time, we’re checking in on the Season 2A Premiere. The Bros can analyze the Ezria situation now with all future spoilers known, and of course, there will be some Hastings Dinner Theater. Thanks for listening, we’ll be back for 6B soon.
Dec 24, 2015•2 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Aloha! Benji and Marco have returned from the ether to discuss the 5 Years Forward Pretty Little Liars special, and then answer some questions from our wonderful listeners. If you’ve ever wondered what other shows we’ve considered podcasting about, who on PLL we want to die, what character we’d want to hang with, how the PLL moms survived, who would win the Hunger Games, etc, then this show is for you. Also, Benji is like 2 GnT’s in before the podcast even starts.
Nov 25, 2015•2 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s time for another re-watch of a classic PLL episode. This time it’s Marco’s favorite: “The Kahn Game.” Armed with the new knowledge of CeCe Drake’s true identity, the Bros revisit this delightful Team Sparia romp and find a way to keep doing Toby-voice, even though he isn’t even in the episode. Don’t sleep on the soulful crooning of Tyler Blackburn’s Find A Way on the soundtrack, available in iTunes.
Nov 02, 2015•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s hiatus time, so the Bros are revisiting some favorite episodes. Up first is this classic season one ep, which happens to be Benji’s favorite. Aria is losing her mind when Meg Manning comes to town to steal Ezra away, Hanna is being forced by A to whore out her dances and feelings for cash, Emily is missing Maya and getting angry drunk, and Spencer is living the unending terror of sharing a house with her new and probably murderous Brother-in-Law Ian Thomas. Alison is still dead.
Sep 14, 2015•2 hr 52 min•Transcript available on Metacast The half-season may be over, but we’re still talking about the finale. Marco and Benji are joined by noted PLL scholars Heather Hogan and Jacob Clifton to answer listener questions. Topics include: plot holes, the big reveal of who A is, hopes for 6B, favorite liars, Noel Kahn, how many planes were at the Thornhill Lodge that other night, and much much more. Thanks to Heather and Jacob for joining us! You can read more of Heather’s work on Autostraddle, and find out about Jacob’s recaps and fict...
Aug 18, 2015•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 10 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria gets made fun of for not noticing the bulge in Clark’s pants, Hanna Banana has a special moment with her OTP, Mona Vanderwaal, Emily is betrayed by someone she thought she could trust, and Spencer defuses a bomb. Seriously. Also, we find out who A is and get her tragic backstory.
Aug 14, 2015•3 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 9 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria discovers Clark’s true identity and orders Ezra not to follow her after high school, Hanna is worried about Caleb’s vigilantism until is turns out he was just at a job interview, Emily asks Sara to prom in the lamest way possible, and Spencer delivers a cliff notes version of her irrelevant valedictorian speech to Toby. And Charles reveals himself to Ali. And #PLLMoms get crunk and have their own adventure.
Aug 07, 2015•2 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 6, Episode 8 of Pretty Little Liars. All the guys in Aria’s life are lying to her, but she just wants to be able to attend her own Gallery Show, Hanna is all out of sympathy for Charles or Alison’s sisterly feelings, Emily turns down a prom invite because she wants to take Shower Harvey, and Spencer is now hot on the trail of the mysterious Rhys Matthews of the Carisimmi Group. And Red Coat makes a glorious return to the show.
Jul 31, 2015•2 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
