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Pretty Little Liars

WARNING!! – CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS!

By Bomi Kim and Eman Dowair

In case you didn’t know…
Pretty Little Liars is a TV series and a series of books (Author: Sara Shepard). They fall into the genres of mystery, crime fiction and teen drama. The book series were published on the 3rd of October, 2006. The book/TV show is basically about 5 girls and the mystery “A”.

Season 1 – The Beginning
In season 1, Aria Montgomery, Emily Fields, Hanna Marin, and Spencer Hastings, drift apart when Alison DiLaurentis goes missing. After a year has passed, they all begin to receive strange messages from “A” who has been haunting them and giving them death threats, just to unravel their deepest secrets. Later on, Alison’s body is found buried in her old backyard. Realizing that “A” wouldn’t be Alison, the 4 girls began searching for more clues. Their first suspect was Toby, who took the fall for an incident, “The Jenna thing” (the girls blinded Jenna with a stink bomb, they did not know Jenna was in the shed.) Toby then gets arrested for murdering Alison, but he then claims that he met Alison the night she disappeared, to thank her for what she did. The next suspect was Noel Kahn, after Hanna was hit by a car while spying outside Mona’s birthday party. But then, Ian returns to town. The 4 girls discover that Ian was the guy Alison was seeing the night she disappeared and they now suspect that he was the one who killed her. After finding out more and more clues, the 4 girls, with Garrett’s help, set up a plan to blackmail Ian, but the tables are turned when Ian sends someone to meet them instead of him. This leads to Ian’s attempt to kill Spencer at the Rosewood local church in which he ends up dead.

Season 2 – Getting to know “A” better

 

In season 2, The girls are arrested for the possible murder of Ian and their parents forbid them from seeing each other, but the girls resist and meet secretly in the school bathrooms to plan ways of ending “A” . “A” has always called Emily the weakest link, so their plan was to make Emily meet up with A and they would capture “A” once and for all, But don’t be surprised when I tell you that A is ALWAYS one step ahead.

The girls figure out that Alison may not be dead, and the first suspect was Melissa; spencer’s sister, she seemed mysterious and she had many reasons for hating Spencer since she caused her (Melissa’s) fiance to back out of the relationship. The parents suggest that the 4 of them go and see a therapist; Dr.Anne Sullivan, it took some time for them to warm up to her and when they finally told her the truth of being harassed by a mysterious psycho, Dr. Sullivan gets on the case but as soon as she found out who A really is she mysteriously disappeared
They gathered their thoughts and decided to let Mona into their tight-knit group; when an unexpected message from A gets to her. Little did they know that their enemy was closer than ever . At the season finale A is unmasked…

Season 3 – Horrible News
In season 3, a summer has passed since A has been finally revealed but a shocking event shakes Rosewood, After a horrible reminder that A is still out there and playing the same game the girls decide to come up with a plan to take “A” down. Garrett’s character grows more and more suspicious as he starts to date Jenna; the girls’ arch nemesis. Their next suspect is on Noel Kahn. His cabin had something to do with Maya’s (Emily’s girlfriend) shocking disappearance. It is halloween and the girls decide to have some fun on the ghost train but not everything was a treat for them that night. Mona finally gets out of Radley with a clean health sheet and the girls think that she is back to her old schemes. Aria finds out that Ezra has a son. Meredith (Aria’s father’s girlfriend) takes care of Aria when she gets sick but that isn’t her only reason why she is staying with her. Spencer spirals out of control when she sees a dead body in the forest. She is then sent to Radley for treatment, but she has other plans. In the season finale the girls don’t have time to worry about Spencer as surprising truths are brought up.

Season 4 – Middle of solving the “Mystery of A”

In season 4, a surprising fire at a lodge caused by “A” has happened which makes the girls ask Mona questions, while Aria learns self-defense and starts to trust and make friends with her instructor. Detective Holbrook and his partner Tanner come to town to take over detective Wilden’s case after his death. Then out of nowhere, a figure of a blond, wearing a red coat shows up and it didn’t take long for the girls to find out that ‘red coat’ isn’t good news. At Emily’s birthday party, blind Jenna is drowned at a nearby lake and might be dead. It is finally revealed that Alison is alive which leads to the question of “If Alison is alive, then who is the girl buried in her grave?”. Then Hanna finds interest in crime novels which helps her with finding the mystery of “A”. In the dramatic season finale Alison tells her friends what really happened the night she went missing and now they could finally find out who the new “A” is.

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