Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Weak Adults & Corrupt Children
By Jacob Clifton | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 01.30.2012
And so for me, what the book's about is a couple of people who deserved to wish for better things, but didn't grow up quite fast enough to figure out that was possible.
HALLS
Everybody in school has received a photograph on their cellular mobile telephones; I know not of what.
Noel Kahn: "Thanks, Marin. You made my day!"
Well that's nice. It's nice to know you did something to brighten Noel Kahn's day. Why, by the smirk on his face you'd think it was incriminating photos of the hot new girl, or something. Before Hanna can even process this, the Liars come running up at her in a hilarious freakout shitstorm, yelling at her and pecking at her like birds, and she still can't figure out what she did:
"What the hell were you thinking? If that's taking the high road, what's the low road? Did you have a stroke? You promised you wouldn't say anything! Hanna! Why would you do this? You're gonna be in so much trouble!"
What she did is, send maybe the bug picture but definitely a naked-ass locker-room picture of her stepsister Kate to everybody in the entire world. And they are all loving it, especially the message that says something like, "Kate is a bitch" or whatever. Good thing Spencer's got all that leverage to protect Hanna, right? Yeah, like that was going to last more than five seconds.
Hanna: "Guys? I -- of course -- did not do this."
Liars: "But then who on earth would do something like that?"
Liars: "...Oh. Right."
A-TAG
A: "No big deal, just roaming around Spencer's house rooting around in drawers and whatnot, like everybody in this town does. What's in her dad's office, besides all the secrets? Let's find out what's really... No, on second thought I'm just going to take this gun I randomly found. Like I would ever shoot anybody anyway."
NEXT WEEK
There is Rosewood High a lock-in to discuss feelings, Jenna screams her feelings, and probably somebody chases Emily through the two classrooms they have at that school.
JACOB CLIFTON is a freelance writer and critic based in Austin, Texas. He currently recaps Gossip Girl, The Good Wife, Pretty Little Liars and True Blood for TWoP. Jacob can be found online at jacobclifton.com, on Twitter, and on Facebook. IRL work appears in BenBella's SmartPop series of anthologies, most recently A Friday Night Lights Companion and Fringe Science.