Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 58 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT I Have Hot Ice Cubes In My Head
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 18 | Aired on 02.04.2014
Ezra: (More of those.)Aria: "You're right. Lying to my friends is important."
Ezra: "I mean, it really is. If you 'think' about it. Aria, have you ever thought that maybe this feeling you have of being torn between me and your friends is maybe not such a bad thing?"
Aria: "Keep talking."
Ezra: "I know it feels like you're growing away from them, but maybe this feeling is you and me growing closer. I think we're past the point in our relationship where we have to hide. But if what we have is going to last, you have to start thinking me as the person you're closest to, the person that you want to share everything with."
Aria: "Nope, not sending up any giant flares yet. Continue."
For a second he seems like he wants to tell her he is A, and make her be A with him, like when Spencer and Toby were both A and Not A. (Heh.) But then he flips around in the same breath and says that also he is not trying to put any pressure on her. Then he flips the script again and applies tremendous pressure. Then he says it's no big deal. Then he threatens suicide. Then he tells her he'll drive her ass back to Rosewood if that's what she really wants. Then he makes her think that's her idea. Then he makes her think that it's his idea to make it her idea. Then he turns into a flock of pigeons. Then he goes to take a shower and put on another hoodie on top of the three hoodies he's wearing already. Then he turns back time to a second ago. Then he reaches out of your TV set and turns down the volume for a second so he can say more magic in her face. And they're off, smooching once again.
Damn, baby. If you had this much midichlorians up in you, why waste it on a bunny slope like Aria Montgomery?
(I mean obviously, Alison is no bunny slope, so there you go. It's still pretty fucking impressive. I feel like there were levels he was working on I couldn't even see. You know what it reminded me of was that time Megan Draper freaked out scrubbing the floor in her underwear, with her ass sticking up: "Look at me!/Don't look at me! You're a dirty little boy!/You're a limp-dicked old man! I'm getting all dirty, I'm a dirty girl!/I'm a goddess, worship me!" That was the last time I was this dazzled by such precise, all-in manipulation gymnastics.)
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