Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 4 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Mama Dramarama
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on 06.25.2013
Emily: "PRISM is nothing compared to A, lady. Don't stress out."
Pam: "I'm going to be weirdly cool about this, okay? Later."
COFFEE SHOP
Jake: "Your decaf nonfat iced mocha, milady. Is that not just chocolate milk?"
Aria: "Here is the entire key to everything about me, Tiger, so you listen up. This drink isn't about coffee, it's about making me feel more grownup. Take that and apply it to everything about me and my entire life, and you will never go wrong. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go briefly make decisions for my mother."
Aria, without prelude: "So you have to go to Vienna with Zack. I order you to follow your bliss."
Ella: "You do realize I'm the best thing going, right?"
Aria: "You are, and you deserve adventure! Mike and I, whoever that is, we're gonna be just fine with Dad. I have scared him out of having girlfriends for at least a year."
Ella: "You're sweet, kid. But this isn't really about you."
Aria: "Then follow your bliss! Your passion! Look at that barista's ass!"
Ella: "...Deal."
Jake: "That seemed intense."
Aria: "I have given my mother permission to run away and join the circus."
Jake: "That was grand of you, and hilariously stated."
Aria: "Thank you and I know."
Jake: "But hey, aren't you going to miss her? She's kinda the best thing going."
Aria: "...Oh shit."
It's really sad, like she was so into the theoreticals of it and the Safety Zone of getting Ella away from A -- now that everybody's moms are in danger -- that she didn't even think about how her mommy would go away for a year. You can see it fall on her, like bricks: Not all at once, just a deafening series of thuds that slowly bury her. Oh girl.
MARIN
Hanna drops off the Melissa mask with Spencer -- "Did Melissa follow Ali there, or did Ali follow Melissa? Or did they go together?" -- and then knocks on the upstairs bathroom door at her house, where Ashley is running a bath she is not interested in taking. She's just straight-up hiding at this point, and it's so sad! In your own house. Hanna's like, "I love you okay and I am sorry okay and I am home and safe and so are you okay" and Ashley's just like, "Go to bed, honey."
HASTINGS
But lest ye think everything is all touching moving yearning love for family this week, between Pam's parenting under the microscope, and Hanna desperately trying to simultaneously look her mother in the eye and not look her in the eye, and Aria doing her whole amazing deal...