Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Don't Get Too Comfortable
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 06.12.2012
Hanna: "I am going to do so much more than slap her this time..."
Spencer: "Wait."
Aria: "No, I'm down. Bitch can see! We gotta tell everybody! So they'll finally hate her as much as we do."
Spencer, spookily: "She doesn't know that we know. We don't let her know that we know. Not yet. We can use this. And we will."
Oh, Spencer. How can you say something so utterly devoid of meaning, and yet make it sound like you're going to see her choke on those damned eyeballs if it's the last thing you do? Like who could forget, "My sister and I used to play hide and seek, and you know who always won? It was me." Means nothing, means everything.
A-TAG
A buys a variety of sports gear, in different sizes, including black hoodies aplenty, and the guy is like, "What are you, buying these for a whole team?" Because yes, that is what's happening. And that is, in turn, excellent.
NEXT WEEK
Noel Kahn asks Aria to be his accompanist. Conflict! But just as she realizes she's got to make a serious choice, Meredith enters the talent show too! In the end, Aria selflessly relinquishes her global hold on photography and takes up the gentle art of accompanying, for the good of all. It is the art world's loss, but accompaniment's gain. Emily and Ezra accidentally get arrested robbing a bank to pay for Ezra's sex change surgery, but it's really just an elaborate A setup and they were there for the free donuts. Oh, that mischievous A. Alison visits Mona in the hospital and Mona pokes her with tweezers, but she's really just a ghost. Lucas, not to be outdone, joins Caleb and Wren at the door whenever Hanna's in there giving Crazy makeup tips. And in a thrilling return to form, Paige appears with a third haircut, still wearing her Montague getup, and whisks Emily away on a white horse for a night of fine dining, light canoodling, and the nap Emily has desperately needed since Labor Day two years ago.
JACOB CLIFTON is a freelance writer and critic based in Austin, Texas. He currently recaps The Killing -- at least, until Monday -- Bunheads, Pretty Little Liars and True Blood for TWoP. Jacob can be found online at jacobclifton.com, on Twitter, and on Facebook. IRL work appears in BenBella's SmartPop series of anthologies, and novelette "The Commonplace Book" will appear on Tor.com in October 2012.