Recapping Season 7, Episode 19 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria talks to herself/a dead body/Pigtunia until Ezra lectures everyone about being mean to his girl and then tackles her into a tree—which he can because he has an American Literature MFA. Hanna is super-chill because she’s married now, and mostly acts as a stand-in for Charlotte fugues. Emily has a nonsense flash-forward dream sequence about that we’re all writing off as a gas leak boner. And Spencer happily loses an ex-boyfriend to wedded...
Jun 23, 2017•3 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 18 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is outed as an A.D. collaborator by Mona, but is rewarded with an alibi for the Wrick murder for her troubles. Hanna has relocated her chill and comes clean with her mom, with a little help from Caleb who she then marries in a lo-fi Justice of the Peace ceremony. Emily is robbed of morning sex when the cops raid all the liar haunts, but Ali gets her back later with a special romantic night by the Kissing Rock. And Spencer feels the heat...
Jun 16, 2017•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Surprise bonus episode. Lesley Fera aka Veronica Hastings joins us to talk Spencer’s boyfriends, Peter’s many transgressions, her character’s surprising political affiliation, favorite moments, and all the usual Hastings Family intrigue. Thanks so much to Lesley Fera for joining us!
Jun 12, 2017•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 17 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria walks further down her dark path, helping A.D. plant an audio bomb to tear apart the Hastings Family, and blowing off Ezra’s recent interest in their impending nuptials. Hanna gets a visit from Detective Marco, causing her to worry about what other evidence they might have missed, and her mom is getting suspicious too, so Caleb proposes to throw Ashley off the scent. Emily’s new girlfriend and babymama Ali has run off to NYC to see Jaso...
Jun 09, 2017•2 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 16 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria adopts the mantle of the black hoodie and destroys the Emison Baby nursery—and her soul. Hanna is angry with Spencer until she realizes that she set Spence on her dark spiral by usurping Spaleb, and takes her turn in the game. Emily is baby crazy on her day off, setting up a new nursery until Aria ruins it and Ali drops three little words to blow Em’s mind. And Spencer is running recklessly towards a murder charge, trying to leverage he...
Jun 02, 2017•3 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 15 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is getting instructions from her evil CyberSelf and also just about through with Ezra’s “poor me” act. Hanna doesn’t want to believe that Lucas could be A.D. even as the evidence mounts, so she recruits OG A Mona to analyze the Game Board. Emily is making all kinds of inappropriate requests and wrong decisions about the Emison baby. And Spencer is quickly realizing that Marco is getting wise to the Wrick cover-up, and her involvement in...
May 26, 2017•3 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 14 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria gets blackmailed by A into betraying the Liars, and is only too happy to go her own dark way. Hanna maybe doesn’t have a fashion career anymore, and the make matters worse, Pastor Ted is back in her life as the surprise Charlotte baby daddy. Emily goes all in on a rekindled romance with Paige just in time for A to reveal that Alison is preggers with her ayggs. And Spencer bangs the local detective for sport before finally confronting Pa...
May 12, 2017•2 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 13 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria unleashes her Adrenalized Hyperreality because Ezra’s not around to drag her down. Hanna has to do surgery on her doll self and then wear a Japanese Sex Dress to her investors meeting, Emily tags along with Aria to shake down Sydney since Ali isn’t around this week just waiting to suck, and Spencer beats Marco at Ping-Pong with a suspicious left-hand shot and bleeds all over the place and generally oozes sex towards Marco before learnin...
May 05, 2017•2 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 12 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria does Holden’s job for him, since she has nothing better to do, then she tries to go murder Nicole with taffy, but Holden stops her. Hanna is freaking out over a dress Katie picked to wear, but refuses to just explain the situation to Mona, and then she gets attacked by a Cobbler Shop. Emily is being horrendously unprofessional at school, and then a Mini-Ali tries to get her fired by lying about Emily Ezra-Fitzing it up at Rosewood High....
Apr 28, 2017•3 hr 44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Got a special surprise for you: the Co-writer of s07e11 Allyson Nelson joins us to discuss “Playtime,” the board game, Holden Strauss, Ian Harding’s soccer play, bad PA gigs, working on Shadow Play and much more. Also, we learn a little bit about that mysterious tuft of red hair from the last A tag…
Apr 24, 2017•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 11 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria gets terrible advice and starts trying to plan a wedding, even though Ezra is non-communicative and running off to see Nicole, Hanna has no time for A.D. business this week because her OTP Mona has decided to make her a fashion superstar overnight with her rolodex of contacts, Emily is stuck in a lame bitchy love triangle between Ali and Paige at Rosewood High and probably regretting blowing Sabrina off, and Spencer is recovering from h...
Apr 21, 2017•3 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our casual rewatch comes to an end with Season 7A of Pretty Little Liars. This week we’re squeezing in 704 “Hit and Run, Run, Run,” 707 “Original gAngsters” and 710 “The dArkest Knight.” Spaleb goes down in flames in one of the shows best scenes, Ezra tricks Aria into the kind of wedding he wants, Emily is a bad girlfriend to her three girlfriends, and Hanna has a real dumb plan to figure out who A.D. is. We made it. 711 “Playtime” is hours away. Toby is still dead. Let’s do this.
Apr 18, 2017•2 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast The guys are closing out Season 6 with rewatches of 611 “Of Late I Think of Rosewood,” 617 “We’ve All Got Baggage,” and 620 “Hush Hush, Sweet Little Liars.” Topics discussed: who gives a better massage, Spaleb, where the liars are at after the time jump, panties, who the heck is Amoji and A.D. and are they the same person? Drunk Melissa Hastings, Wrick Rollins, Ali being the worst, and Ayygs.
Apr 11, 2017•3 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’re getting into the home stretch of our PLL casual rewatch. This time, the Bros are moving through Season 6A, with 601 “Game On, Charles,” 607 “O Brother, Where Art Thou,” and 608 “FrAmed.” After being tortured for three weeks, the liars have escaped the Dollhouse to come home to a slowly developing “who is Charles” season arc. Fortunately, their individual character arcs are much more compelling. Spencer needs drugs to sleep now, Aria is closed off emotionally and taking photos of creepy dol...
Apr 10, 2017•3 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the casual rewatch, we find the liars with false hope after Ali’s arrest. But soon, that hope spins out of control and ends up with them all kidnapped and in the dollhouse. We’re covering 513 “How the ‘A’ Stole Christmas, 514 “Through a Glass, Darkly,” 518 “Oh, What Hard Luck Stories They All Hand Me,” and 525 “Welcome to the Dollhouse.” How does Ken DiLaurentis afford this massive Christmas Ball? What was the deal with Holbrook? Why Egg? What if Caleb was Obi-Wan? Why isn’t Nolan N...
Apr 04, 2017•3 hr•Transcript available on Metacast The Bros are back from PaleyFest, exhausted but in good spirits. We briefly discuss Paley before getting into 505, “Miss Me x 100,” 509 “March of Crimes,” 511 “No One Here Can Love or Understand Me,” and 512 “Taking This One to the Grave.” Classic A return text, #Haunted Caleb, everyone being mean to Hanna, the Liars all turning on Ali, and Mona seemingly being murdered, to die for all us sinners out there as the Vanderjesus.
Mar 29, 2017•3 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we’re taking a trip through the Dark Spencer Saga, part II, as we move through season 4B of PLL. We did a casual rewatch on 417 “Bite Your Tongue,” 419 “Shadow Play,” 420 “Free Fall,” and 424 “A is for Answers.” We get a top five all time PLL scene with the Spencer/Aria dual intervention, the fabulous noir episode, Aria cry-face, Detective Hanna, the ultimate Paily romance scene, and much more.
Mar 21, 2017•3 hr 53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sup fam, we’re checking in with a bonus episode this weekend, talking to Jaymie from the popular twitter account @AllThingsPLL. We answer fan questions on topics like our favorite flashback, how we would kill off the Liars, and who we think is AD.
Mar 19, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the pod, we’re rewatching “A is for A-L-I-V-E,” “FaceTime,” “The Mirror Has Three Faces,” and “Bring Down the Hoe.” It’s the dreaded Toby’s Mom plot line season. But don’t let that deter you, because there’s still plenty of good stuff here in Season 4A of PLL. Like the first appearances of Tanner and Holbrook. Tons and tons of clues about CeCe being A to the point that it’s almost comical. Ezra at his most pathetic and unlikeable. Mona and Hanna at their most romantic. #OTP
Mar 15, 2017•3 hr 46 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Bros are running down 3B, which is PLL at the absolute height of its powers, and possibly our favorite run of the show. This week we break down “Mona-Mania,” “Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Inferno,” “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted,” and “I’m Your Puppet.” Also, we’re recording in the same space for the first time, so brace yourself accordingly. This is a long podcast.
Mar 08, 2017•3 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the pod we’re moving through the first half of Season 3 of Pretty Little Liars, and wondering at just what got changed, and what the original plan was, when the writers shifted to the eventual CeCe storyline. Spencer has a virtual mind palace. Aria discovers that Ken Cosgrove’s wife had a baby with Ezra. Hanna breaks up and makes up with Caleb over her true love: Mona Vanderwaal. Emily is a sullen drunk, and then gets saddled with a bunch of Nate St. Germain scenes, and then the lia...
Mar 01, 2017•2 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join us for a bonus episode where we talk with PLL Production Supervisor Jackie Ryan and find out a little more about how the sausage is made. Find out whether or not the liars have trailers, what a Line Producer does, and what to expect from Famous in Love.
Feb 27, 2017•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the casual rewatch, we’re covering season 2B of Pretty Little Liars. Specifically: s02e16: “Let the Water Hold Me Down,” s02e19 “The Naked Truth,” s02e23 “Eye of the Beholder,” and s02e24 “If These Dolls Could Talk.” This might be peak PLL. A run of legendary episodes running up to the big A reveal. So many classic scenes, so many great moments. Also, theorizing on future Lucas’s hit app.
Feb 21, 2017•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join us for a rewatch of some choice 2A episodes, featuring s02e03 “My Name is Trouble,” (heh-heh) s02e04 “Blind Dates,” s02e07 “Surface Tension,” and s02e12 “Over My Dead Body.” Spencer is at her best when she’s asking for support and getting nothing from her family, Emily is letting A help her lie about Danby with an assist from the excellent Samara, Hanna is concerned about Caleb’s business with Actual Bad Guys, and self-actualizing with Therapy Anne’s assistance to move beyond her toxic Ali ...
Feb 15, 2017•2 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast As we move through early PLL, we’re rewatching s01e13 “Know Your Frenemies, s01e16 “Je Suis Une Amie,” s01e19 “A Person of Interest,” and s01e21 “Monsters in the End.” This is where the Hastings clan takes over the show and it is glorious. Also, proto-Paily, Haleb and Spoby. The paper bag selfies, Garrett Reynolds, kids crossing the street when they see Toby coming, Maya goes to “juvie camp” for smoking pot… we love this show.
Feb 08, 2017•2 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s a long hiatus, so Marco and Benji are gonna kill the time by turning back the clock to rewatch some choice cuts from each half-season of Pretty Little Liars. We start with 1A, of course, and do a casual pod on episodes 3, 4, 8, 10. This show was so much fun right out of the gate. Toby’s hair! Queen Bee Alison when Sasha was like 13! Ezra’s B-26 poem aka the worst poem ever written by anyone ever! Old Jason before the head transplant! It’s all here, folks.
Feb 01, 2017•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’re still here, bitches! Marco and Benji return in the midst of this interminable hiatus to talk about recent previews and sneak peeks for s07e11 Playtime, and then answer a bunch of fan questions from you, our wonderful listeners. There is drinking involved.
Jan 25, 2017•2 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Surprise! We’re back for a special episode where we interview Pretty Little Liars writer Kyle Bown and Brendan Robinson, AKA Lucas Gottesman. Join us as we learn about the origin of “Merry Ho Ho,” Lucas’s interior decorating strategy, and how Brendan Robinson would kill Lucas off if given the choice. Also, be sure to check out the Seed & Spark funding page for “Twentyfiveish,” a web series Kyle and Brendan are producing together. One month of the hiatus down, only six more to go!
Oct 04, 2016•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 10 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria makes a nice Welcome Home dinner for Ezra, and then watches as he reunites and makes out with suddenly-alive Nicole on national TV, Hanna has gone rogue with an awful plan that involves violently holding Noel Kahn hostage for a simple DNA test, Emily has Paige and Ali all up on her jock in the middle of the usual season finale A crises, and after Paige accuses Ali of manipulating Emily’s emotions, Ali uses a surprise pregnancy to manipu...
Sep 02, 2016•4 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recapping Season 7, Episode 9 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria gets an assist from Jason (#Arson) when tracking down Mary Drake’s adoption records before learning the results of Ezra’s trip to Columbia, Hanna has gone off the grid to spy on Noel Kahn, but he sees through her beer ruse, so she has to just whack him in the head with a lead pipe instead, Emily is being a terrible terrible girlfriend to Sabrina while leaving the door open for a shady to Paige to come back in, and Spencer is getting Marc...
Aug 26, 2016•2 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
