Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 95 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Neither Tarnished, Nor Afraid
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 19 | Aired on 02.11.2014
Toby: "Because you are on drugs? Spencer doesn't get confused, Spencer's the smart one."Toby Idea One: Spencer killed Alison and then fugued out. A perennial favorite.
Toby Idea Two: Spencer helped Alison fake her death, and this is all just a gorgeous mistake. Doesn't really hold up past the point where she got denied at U Penn, a thing no Hastings would ever allow.
Toby Idea Three: Or maybe Spencer's not that clever, and Alison's been tricking her and the Liars this whole time into being cannon fodder for a sort of Find-The-Lady shell game. That way she has them working overtime to save her, and overtime to draw A's fire. Plus, she is awful.
That is the first thing on these mean streets Spencer can take home with her, so far, but it won't be the last. Everything Alison has ever done, or emoted, or said becomes both sincere (Theorem One) and completely calculated (Theorem Two). It would also explain pretty much all of the Not-So-Good Guys: CeCe Drake, the B-Team, Mona Vanderwaal, the Black Swan and the infinite Redcoats, all be working to keep the Liars in a permanent state of crazy, so they'd run around more like chickens with their heads cut off, confusing the issue with their special brand of chaos. Filling up the whole Battleship board with total static so A could never tell which ship he's aiming for. Doesn't that sound bizarrely realistic?
FT. ZGERALD
Aria is sitting on a zebra sofa with a Bessie Smith-type voice singing, still in those great stripes but now featuring a giant bow in her hair like you might put on a child's present. She says the following shit out loud:
Aria: "I always thought champagne was the most sophisticated thing in the world! Besides zebra-print sofas, I mean."
Ezra: "Well, it isn't. You are."
Aria: "I bet you say that to all the high school girls you trick into fucking you."
Ezra: "Are you sure you want to blow up our secrets to your dumb friends?"
Aria: "I can't even remember where we left this the last time you brainwashed me."
Ezra: "Guess what Alison's alive."
There's the most amazing close-up of his lips, whispering; and cut to an amazing close-up of her giant Aria eyes going twice as wide as the music swells. Good God this episode is cool.
THE SWITCHBOARD
Hanna works it while she uses a connection within the switch boarding community -- whose name is Mabel, of course -- to get a bead on the Fitzgerald answering service. You know, for all those important Art Foundation calls that can't wait until morning.
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