Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 66 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Piste Off, Or: The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 02.18.2014
MONTGOMERY
Mona is late to her movie date with Mikey, and not very forthcoming with details as to why, preferring to make much of the business of removing her scarf. The movie -- which he describes as a tale of a "creepy guy who makes creepy sculptures and acts creepy about it," which is a little too vague to be the next Insidious sequel but I was hoping would be a reference we could talk about, but I don't recognize it -- is almost over, but Mikey is very thirsty so he lets it slide and goes for drinks.
Aria comes home looking exactly as busted as she's gotta feel, which is pretty great -- Sulky Grumpy Aria isn't that fun, but Fuck This Aria is the best -- and Mona just stares at her from the couch wondering what is wrong with her, and Aria doesn't even flip her the bird or call her a bitch or anything. Just glares through those knit brows like Mona is the cherry on her shit sundae, and heads upstairs to completely unravel and go down in flames. It is absolutely beautiful.
HASTINGS
Toby looks nice in his little denim outfit when Spencer gets home from the zoo, but things quickly get pretty bad in that kitchen anyway. Seems Veronica called him to talk about drugs, and Toby was like, "Isn't she with you?" and they realized her game pretty quick. And again, you can't be like, "Yes I'm on drugs! But that's not why I lied to you, I was at the zoo." Not even Kim Richards could sell that one.
Veronica says two interesting things, which is that she finally brings up the Lost Year where Spencer was in and out of reality and being a meth addict, that we didn't know about for sure until today. The other interesting thing is she says, "Your father and I can't cover for you again, with Radley on your résumé," which is very interesting for reasons you probably can figure out but we don't need to talk about: Just that she did some shit right around the time Alison died that... Probably don't make her look great. And she doesn't know about.
Spencer's in a tailspin of lies while the two people whose opinions most matter to her just kind of stare like she is a bug, and then -- out of irritation, but I think also to snap her out of it -- Veronica just points out that she missed not one but two lovely evenings, and Toby drops a jewelry box on the counter and slinks away. When she's alone, Spencer pops that thing open just to make everything worse, and it's actually a wonderful gift: A necklace of a Scrabble tile for "S." Man, what a knife-twist. She cries for a million years. It is possible that I also did something along those lines. Homegirl has not caught a break since her boyfriend came back from the dead! Not that Emily or Hanna have had it easy, at all, but damn.