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
"Undoubtedly the stories about them had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of people, nor within so narrow a frame of logic. This was inevitable because the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand." -- The Simple Art Of Murder (1950)
Theorem Two: If anybody ever tells you they're telling the truth, trust me that they are lying. The demand is for constant action; this sentence is true.
And here's Raymond Chandler on why Pretty Little Liars fucking rules:
"There are no 'classics' of crime and detection. Not one. Within its frame of reference, which is the only way it should be judged, a classic is a piece of writing which exhausts the possibilities of its form and can never be surpassed. No story or novel of mystery has done that yet. Few have come close. Which is one of the principal reasons why otherwise reasonable people continue to assault the citadel." -- ibid.
Theorem One: In order to tell a true story, you need two things. You have to lie, and the story can never end. The reason people keep telling the mystery of the dead girl is less that it hasn't been solved yet, and more that it can never be solved, because grief is not Sudoku.
You don't ever get out, you just turn into something new; the faster you run, the less distance you cover. Even with Alison alive, their attempts to control the chaos of their world is still telling them this same lesson. A system that is literally about our futile search for meaning in the meaningless shadow of death will never, unlike a Bach fugue -- or a Spencer one -- ever resolve itself. Can't Stop won't stop. The demand is for constant action:
This sentence is false.
NEXT WEEK
Spencer continues flipping out on the Liars about how Ezra is A, and Aria starts picking up on the fact that her boyfriend is obviously evil and isn't even bothering to hide it. When Ezra makes the case that Spencer's a whack-a-doo junkie, nobody can deny he is 100% correct.
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