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
She dumps out her purse like a crazy drug addict would do at this point in the conversation, and out comes... A whole Dr. Wren Kingston Rx pad. Oh, shit.
Liars: "Wren? He's your hookup?"
Spencer: "Not for a long time now, fml. Oh, you mean for drugs. No."
Liars: "So you just swiped his pad? That's... Super drug junkie of you."
Spencer: "I have never seen this in my life. But yeah, I realize I have no leg to stand on now."
So brilliant. I loved this whole scene just about as much as I've ever loved a scene, on this show or any other show. It's like the ultimate expression of what this show is about: Your paranoia and persecution insecurity aren't incorrect, but getting stuck inside them is a thing you must think harder than. Whether you're Spencer, putting your literal body and mind on the line to save the world, or Mona Vanderwaal, who stopped caring if people thought she sucked and magically stopped sucking in that moment.
Frozen is obviously the best movie of all time, but the thing nobody ever mentions is how at the end, Elsa becomes God, or at least a Goddess: If she can bring winter and summer, then she's covered the whole board. She's the Black Swan. But the only way that can happen for sure in the real world is if you understand that you are not the Anna to anybody else's Elsa: That movie works like a dream, where you are all the characters at the same time.
Your unconditional love for yourself is what powers the change, but you can't change until you accept what already is, which is the paradox that fuels any successful therapeutic or spiritual change. You can't change What Is until you accept What Is; the paradox is that by that time, you'll be so much higher for having transcended it that all that poison and garbage just turns into fuel for the furthering of your awesomeness.
Which is why Frozen is the best movie of all time: Holding both parts of yourself in alignment, for the rest of your life; being at peace with the part of yourself that will never be at peace. Understanding that the thing that makes you awesome is the thing that makes you suck, always; that being ashamed of that part of yourself leaves it without any way to be effective except at hurting you from the inside. So do you want to fight your demons until you're both bleeding, or do you want to love them into serving you?