Pretty Little Liars S06xEp12 : Charlotte’s Web

On the 12th episode, Aria had to get the girls to lie for her in order to stay well out of the frame for Charlotte’s murder, but if the girls can’t stop lying for each other, they’re never really going to have a drama-free life.

Although meeting in the dead of night won’t do her any favors, if she genuinely was innocent, she’d have learned from her mistakes by now. Nothing good ever comes from lying and they’re leaving the door very much open for a new A to rise and start exposing their ever-growing list of secrets.

As well as being realistic, it also serves the narrative. In the old days, watching Emily keep secrets about her health or seeing Spencer and Caleb grow ever closer right under Hanna’s nose would have felt false and frustrating. Now, though, why would they confide in each other before, say, their significant others? I’m sure the new villain will bring them back together sooner or later but, right now, there’s a chasm of distance between our main characters.

It should be fun to see Aria questioned about it anyway, now that Alison has turned her over to Lorenzo. If not, then Spencer’s next on the list, having written a paper on an almost-identical murder case for a criminology class in college and shown it to Ezra over a dinner for which I really would have liked to be a fly on the wall. The same mystery-fiction logic applies to Sara Harvey, who is acting so damn evil and suspicious that it’s probably going to turn out that she really did have Stockholm Syndrome. Something happened to her the night of Charlotte’s arrest, and it was the Liars’ fault, but she’s more of a Jenna figure and probably nothing more. I just want see what’s under those gloves.

Let’s discuss Liam and his hipster glasses. He seems very sweet, but also a little bit naive as to what is going on in Rosewood, and also the lengthy history between Aria and Ezra. If he realized the extent of their feelings we can’t imagine he’d be so okay with her traveling down and spending so much time pressuring him to get back into the writing. Work is work, but this stretches to a far deeper place.

Also, tonight we met Hanna’s fiance Jordan, who has a cool accent … and that may be the coolest thing about him.