Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT It Gets Better, Then It Gets Worse
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.10.2011
At first Sean tries to figure it that she's feeling bad about her crazy friend so she's attacking his friend, and then just sort of goes, "Hanna, you're freaking me out." He asks her back inside, but she's had it. She tells him to throw everybody out, party's over, and he does, and actually that is a very good reason to date Sean. Things like that.
Aria wants Spencer to call Alex, but she's in the same bind: Can't explain the ridiculous circumstance that somebody murderous and crazy sometimes impersonates her to do sick, filthy deeds like submitting applications to overseas tennis clinics. Spencer offers to go over and tell Noel, whom she now thinks is A, to call Alex himself, and Aria immediately jumps to Noel's defense for no reason, just like always. I mean, is she secretly still crushing on him? That would be cool. It didn't occur to me before just now. Underneath the Fitz layer -- where no teens are cool -- is the Iceland layer -- where Noel can suck it because she's gone global -- and then the football v. pretentious layer. But under that, maybe she likes him liking her enough to still like him. I can totally see that, it's simplicity itself when you look at it that way. I will like Aria so much more if that's the deal.
But more interesting is Spencer and Aria realizing that they have no idea what A even wants anymore and that really they just seem to be the victims of nonstop arbitrary hell for no reason. "You know what happens when you stick four lobsters in a tank and cut off their food supply?" The Real Housewives Of New Jersey. "They start to eat each other." Only Spencer would be like, "You know what we remind me of? Crustaceans." Noel winsomely tries to get past them to the bathroom, and Aria's like, "Even if he's A, we still don't have a plan." HE IS NOT A. He is a normal kid on this show. Better than most really.
Oh hey Jenna, how come you didn't tell Toby that Emily tried to contact him in jail? "Because we hate her." Oh but Jenna, she wasn't the one that turned Toby in. "I know that, duh! I did it." Oh wow Jenna, why did you do that? "So you would stop running around like a criminal long enough to prove you didn't kill that girl. Also, mostly, so you will fuck me." Oh see Jenna, that is gross and never going to happen again. "We. Will. See. About that. (Speaking idiomatically, of course.) In the meantime, enjoy sleeping on the porch... And this bitchslap, courtesy of my weirdly excellent reflexes."