Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 37 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT What We Pretend To Be
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 11 | Aired on 08.20.2013
Ezra: "Is Jake waiting outside to beat me up?"
Aria: "No, he dropped me off at home and I came here myself. Explain Malcolm."
Ezra: "I mean, it is a fucking mess. It helped ruin your life and it turned out to be a fucking joke the entire time and I feel so dumb."
Aria: "Well, hold my hand and whine to me. I'm not leaving. We can even pretend this is me being a good friend and not, you know, a total asshole."
Ezra: "I mean, we're never total assholes, are we? This is actually a pretty mature thing you're doing. Especially if you follow through."
Aria: "We'll see about that."
And CeCe -- sporting the black hood, now that she's Coatless -- stands outside, listening carefully to them chat about his dumb imaginary baby and all the drama it's allowed him to cause. Honey, did you not just say you weren't coming back to Rosewood? And now this? The most boringest unnecessary possible errand you could be running? And what does it all mean? I believe... Hmm, no. Deleting that just in case. It started to make too much sense, and I remember with Mona it was kind of a letdown that we'd collectively walked ourselves too far down the road. I like it better when you don't see it coming at all.
A-TAG
A knits tiny sweaters for ragdolls of all the Liars and then stabs one of them -- Mona makes a little too much sense now, but of course I hope it's not her, or just a suggestion -- straight through with that same knitting needle.
NEXT WEEK
In any case, we are soon to find out several answers. Maybe all of them. A strange carnival, a magic show, somebody gets abducted and the crew returns -- YES! -- to Ravenswood. The Grunwald! Sorcery! Bus stations! Screaming! Birds! Kisses! #WorldWarA!
JACOB CLIFTON is a freelance writer and critic based in Austin, Texas. He currently recaps Pretty Little Liars, Ray Donovan, Mistresses, and True Blood for TWoP. Jacob can be found online at jacobclifton.com, Twitter, and Facebook, as well as a regular column for Tor.com, Geek Love.