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No, the episode's title does not refer to Aria, but I see where you're coming from. Any case, this one was amazing. Not only was there a lot of quality Ella time -- and Ella/Ashley time -- but there were some "breaks" that felt more like actual breaks than they usually do. From the top:
After the Liars infiltrate Melissa's apartment in Philly, Spencer finally gets to the bottom of several slow-burn mysteries. (1) Melissa was the Black Swan, but only because A blackmailed her into attending the Masquerade Ball and distracting Jenna from [the Queen of Hearts] whatever was really going on that night. (But this might be a lie, because of Jenna's secret actions before the Dance, so maybe we still don't know why Melissa was the Black Swan.)
How this was accomplished, allegedly, is that A knew that Melissa has been faking her pregnancy (2) since the day after they found Ian's apparent suicide situation. And finally, all of this makes Melissa look even more suspicious than usual, which is why Veronica took Garrett's case (3): One of his witnesses would have put Melissa's 100 sketchy activities on blast and she would have been on the hook for like every murder. Not that any of this makes actual sense, you understand, but it's nice to have people talking to each other in that house. Even if they're talking gibberish and probably lying.
In other news, Jason DiLaurentis has lost his mind once again and goes around plastering the town with rewards offered for info about Ali's death until Spencer tells him to chill. But true to this show -- and this family in particular -- he's still doing something sketchy that we don't know about, but may have to do with the New A.
...Who had one busy kind of day! After Aria suggests that Hanna just tell Caleb about the A situation so he'll stop trying to control her Mona activities -- a sensible plan for sure -- the A-Team jumps into action, flies to Montecito, arranges a car accident* for Caleb's mother, and dicks around with Mona's visiting privileges a few times. End result: Caleb and Hanna break up, and it is very sad.
*(Of course. Like one episode could go by without Hanna causing some kind of vehicular mayhem.)
Emily gets a new job at the Talon, where she meets and maybe starts dating Maya's very male, very questionable cousin Nate. Not sure where that's headed, but she's actually the most level-headed Liar throughout the episode, which mellows the shock somewhat. She gets to talk about Maya, he gets to talk about Maya, they get to talk about Maya, and in the end she makes sure he knows that he's in the Friend Zone. We'll see how long that lasts, though. I don't mind telling you I'm nervous about where this is headed.
And the Ella and Ashley of it all! This was the best: Worried about Ella losing it once she finds out that Byron is dating Meredith, Aria and Hanna cook up a harebrained scheme to create an online dating profile for her. This leads to a lot of funny scenes of two different generations trying to understand online dating, lots of good Ella/Ashley stuff, and then a fairly riveting and lovely scene where Ella explains to Aria that she knows Meredith is going after Byron again, and she can have him, but thanks for being worried. Great, great story this week. Aria's always so funny when you let her be.
week: Is a marathon, but then in two weeks Paige comes back and Jenna lets the world in on her sightedness, which means that once again parts are moving around that we can't see yet, and once again they are centered on Jenna. Which is when the most batshit stuff tends to happen, so that's good news. Have a nice couple weeks!
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The Black Swan existed, suspiciously enough; Jenna can see, which is such a jerk move; Meredith and Byron are maybe dating; Veronica's defending Garrett and Melissa lied about her miscarriage; Mona's craziness and Hanna's unending compassion are driving a wedge between her and Caleb; Emily continues to have memories.
NOW
Liars: "So let's just say Jenna was faking her blindness for some reason other than pissing us off. Who does that leave? Lucas?"
Hanna: "No way. He can't even start a fire correctly."
Spencer: "Clearly this is all about the Black Swan."
Lairs: "Yeah, obv... Wait, what?"
Spencer: "No, I'm not Spencering you guys this time. Her dress sketches were in Mona's Lair. Which I know, because I created the Matrix in my spare time."
Liars: "So really you're saying that this episode is about the Black Swan. Well, it's about time."
Melissa: "Hey, Spencer. Don't get up. Mom and I are just here at this same restaurant having dinner without you. I drew some really mean caricatures of you on this napkin, wanna see?"
Veronica: "They cracked me the hell up. You really do have a prominent chin dimple."
Melissa: "I made it look like a butt!"
Emily: "Your sister certainly shed her fake pregnancy weight quickly."
Aria: "Even I noticed how dumb you sounded just now."
Hanna: "Maybe she's the Black Swan."
Spencer: "No way. No way could she have faked her fake pregnancy that far back."
Hanna: "Maybe Mona can give me some answers."
Liars: "How... How so?"
Hanna: "I don't know, I just thought we were expositing so I crammed it in there."
Jason: "Hey, everybody! I just stopped by this one restaurant where the entire show is eating dinner so I could yell at Veronica some more."
Everybody: "About what? To what end? Your whole Jon Snow deal?"
Jason: "No! It's about Garrett!"
Veronica: "I am being totally cool right now, okay? I can't tell you why, but just trust me okay?"
Jason: "Whatever. I have to put up signs with a reward for information about Ali's murder. You know, like a crazy person."
A: "Hey, I could really use that money to finance my apparently global organization. Omnipotence and hoodies ain't free!"
HASTINGS
Veronica: "Man, defending a murderer is hard work!"
Spencer: "Have you seen these crazy-people signs everywhere?"
Veronica: "Yeah, I think he's going to get super scammed. I worry about that little bastard, I really do."
Spencer: "Listen, what if somebody accidentally found a shovel one time?"
Veronica: "Probably they would go to jail for murdering everybody, and Garrett would go free. You know what a serious offense finding a shovel is. You of all people should know that. You idiot."
SCHOOL
Aria: "Byron got a new haircut and he's started bathing, so I guess the whole Meredith thing is on."
Hanna: "Well, don't tell your mom."
Aria: "Okay, I'm going to go tell my mom."
Ella: "Hey, daughter! Anything grody to tell me?"
Aria: "Maybe over dinner?"
Ella: "I can't ever go to dinner ever again. I have to work hard, as a divorcée."
Aria: "I wish you had friends."
Ella: "I don't need friends, I have my endlessly fascinating daughter."
Aria: "That's convincing. Never mind."
RADLEY
Nurse: "You can't visit Mona anymore! That bitch is crazy!"
Hanna: "Okay, I'm just going to go visit Mona now."
Orderly: "Seriously, she can't have visitors. She tried to climb a werewolf's face. I would tell you more, causing an abrupt breakdown in communication between you and your boyfriend, but I wasn't there that day."
Hanna: "Then I shall have to investigate."
TALON
Cute Hipster Boss: "As part of your barrista job, you'll be making various Americanos. Do you know what an Americano is?"
Emily: "Yeah, but apparently you don't. How can you do variations on espresso with water in it? Or is this like how Starbucks thinks a macchiato is some made-up other thing?"
CHB: "I look like Jean-Ralphio! It keeps you on your toes!"
Nate St. Germain: "Are you Emily Fields? I heard you suddenly worked at this coffee shop."
Emily: "I just started working here five seconds ago, but yes, that's me. Are you A or something?"
Nate: "No, I'm Maya's cousin. I am problematic in terms of lesbian representation."
Emily: "You can be a lesbian and still date guys. There's not like a checklist, or official membership. Although I have paid my dues."
Nate: "Cool, well I go to your high school now, and we both miss Maya. So give me a call."
Emily: "Couldn't possibly be weirder than that five seconds I thought I was dating Toby Cavanaugh."
CHB: "Toes!"
MARIN
Caleb: "I can't wait to go see Bon Iver with you!"
Hanna: "I am ungrateful for these tickets, because some dude freaked Mona out. They said he was like a young werewolf that was a very good actor. And now I can't go visit her anymore."
Caleb: "Sounds like that hot werewolf kid did you a favor."
Hanna: "Presumably it's Lucas who did this, so not really."
Caleb: "No, it was just actually me. I went to ask her about running game on you, and she started flipping tables like a Jersey Housewife. Sorry about that, but seriously. You need to stay out of that place."
Hanna: "Your paternalism is coming real close to unacceptable."
Caleb: "I guess so, but I feel more like I'm trying to do an intervention. The rules are iffy."
Hanna: "Nope, they're not. This isn't an intervention, it's you making decisions for me."
Caleb: "Like you're always doing to me?"
Hanna: "That's different."
Caleb: "Okay, how? Because I'm always honest with you, and I really feel like this Mona thing is a rabbit hole."
Hanna: "I cannot be honest with you about this, sorry. Ironically for the same reason, except mine actually counts."
Caleb: "So then have some Bon Iver tickets in your face. Caleb out!"
MONTGOMERY
Aria: "...Or you could just tell him about A."
Hanna: "What? Just tell him about the whole thing?"
Aria: "Yeah. I mean, from what I've heard this A thing can get pretty hairy. If A ever did anything to me, once ever, I would probably tell Ezra. I just hope I never find out."
Hanna: "Look honey, I'm wearing coffee filters as a shirt. I clearly don't have time for this right now. Now, why are you on a singles site for gross old men?"
Aria: "I have a ridiculous idea that I can hook my mom up with a new boyfriend and then I won't have to deal with all the awkwardness of telling her about Meredith."
Hanna: "But why this specific site? They all look like sex offenders."
Aria: "First of all, we both know my mom's type. And second of all, we live in Rosewood, Pennsylvania. The Sex Offender Registry is like our Match.com."
Hanna: "This still seems like taking the wrong way around just so you don't have to suffer through telling your mom about Meredith. You know what would solve that problem a lot more elegantly? Simply not telling your mom about Meredith."
Ashley: "Ew, why are you looking at gross old guys? Aria, are you upping your game?"
Aria: "No, I'm just worried about my mom."
Ashley: "Forget this shit. Go to another dating site. It's the one I use."
Hanna: "Gross, Mom!"
Ashley: "Oh, get real."
SCHOOL
Spencer: "Jason, I'm not even going to ask why you're at my high school again because I'm too worried. Don't you think those signs are going to cause major scamming?"
Jason: "Unlike you, I can tell when somebody's lying."
Spencer: "First of all, I think everybody is lying all the time, which is not quite the same thing. And second of all, you must be talking about Melissa. Somehow."
Jason: "I have to take a phone call. Feel free to unspool on the complete lack of information I just shared with you."
Spencer: "You know me too well, Brother."
DATING
I don't even want to talk about it, it's like this whole thing where Hanna and Aria make up a dating profile for Ella and whatever. It's silly and dated; Hanna dubs her "HOTMAMA." Which: Truth in advertising, at least. Bam!
ST GERMAIN CRYING SOCIETY
Nate: "The picture you sent Maya at lesbian Jesus camp, she forwarded it to me. And I still have it. Creepy, huh?"
Emily: "I didn't get to go to the funeral. Her parents are wildly inconsistent."
Nate: "Yeah, here's a fake Tiffany box with the last thing she ever bought you. A t-shirt with the poster for I Walked With A Zombie."
Emily: "That was our first date. We made out the whole time."
Nate: "And now she is dead."
Emily: "You are like the coolest guy. You really get me."
RADLEY
Hanna sneaks in just in time to see -- is it? Yes! Officer Josh bullying Wren into letting him in to question Mona. Wren looks at Hanna and sighs with a beautiful yearning to protect everybody in the whole world, which is why he became a doctor. Oh, Wren. I get you.
COUSIN DATE
Emily and Nate talk about Maya felt left out of the family swim, so she took up canoeing, and she would canoe rather than being left out of the Boys Club of swimming. It's a neat story but I don't know that on paper I could really do it. A lot of it has to do with their secret smiles, like they're sort of cheating death by remembering a wonderful thing about the person they lost.
Nate: "She always said you were her only true love. Anyway, nice hang."
Emily: "I will totally fall for this nonsense. Let's get together later so you can give me her parents' address."
Nate: "Cool, I also left a book on accident so you'll have even more reason to accidentally find yourself dating me."
Emily: "Grief can do some odd things to a lady."
RADLEY
Wren: "That Officer Josh, I don't trust him."
Hanna: "Mona's been in here for five months, how's she supposed to know about gravediggers?"
Wren: "I don't know, but a judge is not going to just give him a warrant like that for nothing. It's called due process."
Hanna: "Bitch, please. How long have you lived in this town?"
Wren: "Listen, I am so fine it's hard to even keep track of what we're talking about in this scene."
Hanna: "Something about visiting hours or... Nope, lost it."
HASTINGS
Emily: "So what then do we think Mona said to Officer Josh?"
Aria: "And does it implicate us?"
Hanna: "And who is the Black Swan?"
Aria: "And when did Melissa lose her baby for real?"
Spencer: "I can't imagine Melissa coming after us, apparently."
Emily: Amazing WTF face. At least somebody's paying attention.
Aria: "She knows about the NAT Club murder video?"
Hanna: "You seduced her fiancée, ruined her engagement and got her one killed? I just got back from some Wren time so I know what I'm talking about."
Spencer: "I mean, I kind of think her constant low-level bitchiness is the end result of all that. Not this Black Swan crap. Or faking a pregnancy. Even for us Hastingses that's pretty over the top. In any case, I'm ... going to Philadelphia now and bother her."
Aria: "Great, can you just drop me off at Ez..."
Liars: "SHUT UP, ARIA."
TALON
Ella: "Whoa, coffee?"
Ashley: "Yeah, what do you mean?"
Ella: "I've just never seen you drink a beverage before. Hey, how about these posters?"
Ashley: "Man, if they don't stop killing little girls soon, there won't be any little girls left."
Ella: "Then maybe we could get some action."
Ashley: "I heard you there, sister. Speaking of... Any online dating successes to share since an hour ago?"
Ella: "I bet there's more to that question than meets the eye."
PHILLY
Everybody but Spencer stakes out Melissa's house; Spencer is staked out at some other location. And Melissa is on the move!
TALON
Ella: "Oh my God, I can't believe I'm online dating. That Aria is the worst!"
Ashley: "Did you know that dating online is a totally normal thing that people do in 2012?"
Ella: "I did not."
Ashley: "Let's chat about it. But back to how every guy in this town is a pedophile."
Ella: "I got divorced less than six months ago. I am helpless in certain ways I didn't know about, like with plumbing or barbecues or whatever. I realize that I can do these things -- I am fucking Ella Montgomery, I can do anything -- but the learning curve is freaking me out. One of the toilets ran for so long my neighbor showed up demanding to fix it because it was keeping him up."
Ashley: "Listen, sometimes the better part of feminism is shutting up and letting these idiots do the work for you. Whether it's outsourced or DIY, TCB is still TCB. You know?"
Ella: "I do know. I can't believe how long I tried to get those kids off Wikipedia before I figured out that being able to use and think about information is a more effective and worthwhile skill than just crudely cramming it into your head by rote."
Ashley: "And if mainstream culture ever figured that out, we'd have a fucking riot on our hands, which is why the white guys at the top are so desperate to keep information prisoner."
Ella sort of half-assedly mashes random buttons, as though she can startle the computer into deleting her profile, and then just gives up and slurps her drink. #shitmomsdo
Ella: "...I miss having somebody in bed, though."
Ashley: "Pretty soon you'll find yourself sleeping in the middle like he was never there. Now if you'll excuse me, I have an online date. Oh, look at him! You want a piece of this?"
Ella: "Mostly I'm just enjoying being wonderful actresses together."
Ashley: "Even without wine, we are freakin' fantastic."
OPERATION PHILLY SWAN
Got it: The Liars are going through Melissa's shit, while she's off at a movie with her archenemy Spencer. That makes sense. But what's this? She forgot her wallet. Do the Liars receive Spencer's text about this? No. They are too busy looking for her fake baby bump among her creepily OCD closets. (Hanna, duh.)
Emily spots Melissa coming home -- again, girlfriend has it on lock this week -- and they rush around, making a huge fucking mess and spilling crap everywhere (Hanna again, duh again) until the last second.
Hip to the stalkery ways of being a Mystic Falls Founding Family, Melissa notes a book awry, and immediately heads to her closet to investigate something or another. Does she catch the pile of Liars? No, she's just grabbing her wallet. That was so scary!
Once she's gone, they find a zippered dress bag! But it is empty! But it has blue and black feathers! BLACK SWAN! I am legitimately surprised by this development!
AFTERS
Aria: "See, Hanna found a matching feather at the place."
Hanna: "If the feather fits..."
Aria: "I can't believe an entire episode about feathers has nothing to do with me. That is some motherfucking bait and switch right there. Well-played."
Hanna: "So anyway, your sister is after all of us. You know how she's totally scary even if she's uninvolved in all of this? Monumentally so. And now add the A-Team thing to that."
Spencer: "Then we'll get Emily after work and go bother Melissa some more. If only to prove you guys wrong, because at the end of the day I truly do love my bitch sister."
HASTINGS
Melissa: "Hey, wanna stand there while I wave this giant knife in your face?"
Spencer: "Yeah, that sounds about right. Why aren't you in Philadelphia?"
Melissa: "Mom and I have a meeting about how we're teamed up against you and Jason."
Spencer: "As long as you're going to engage that knife in cryptically julienning vegetables -- nice nod to your babydaddy, there -- I have something to ask you. How come you were dressed as the Black Swan at that Masquerade Ball?"
It's so sad because she's on the verge of tears, first because what if her worst nightmare that she always backs away from turns out to be true, but also because she did not rehearse doing this without her Pretty Little Backup, and Melissa is legitimately terrifying even when she's just hanging around being glamorous, or drinking your milk, or ganking your yogurt.
Melissa: Chop chop chop.
Spencer: "And while we're on the subject of your total lies all the time, how come you didn't have a miscarriage when you said you did?"
Melissa: Cry cry cry.
Spencer: "What are you, chopping onions? What's this mess?"
Nope, she's legitimately heartbroken: Throws the knife down, runs across the room, and melts into a puddle of well-acted hysteria.
Facts: She lost the baby like right around the time they found Ian's fake suicide tableau. Which either does or really does not explain why Garrett started carrying her everywhere at that time, or why Wren was bringing her secret medications.
Melissa: "I tried to tell you about this the night of Ian's funeral, but then I found that phone in your bag and I thought you were the one sending me texts from Pretend Ian that whole time."
Spencer: "Fuck you! Why fake a baby?"
Yeah, lest you think that anything is getting to Spencer at this point. I mean, she's playing it with a fair amount of love -- if not sympathy -- but this shit is trainwreck central, so mostly she's just like, Are you effin' kidding me with these details?
Melissa: "I was confused! I was in a state of confusion! Ian's dead, I miscarried, it was a lot!"
Spencer: "You pretended that you were pregnant that whole time?"
Melissa: "At first it was just because I didn't want people to know my business. And then it just kind of spiraled into..."
Spencer: "Fuck all of this, crazy. Why were you at the Ball?"
Veronica: "-- I'm curious about that too. Hello, Melissa. Hello, Melissa's sister."
MARIN
Hanna: "Fine, I'm going to tell Caleb like you said."
Aria: "Good. I know how hard this whole 'A' thing has been on you."
A: "I wouldn't."
Attached to the text? No big deal, just a picture of a car accident in Montecito, on the other side of the country. WHAT? This episode is fuller of things happening than the usual amount of things happening! Everything seems like it counts more, or something. Changes and craziness! So not only does A have spies in California, but also sets up car accidents? Or worse, what if Hanna's car accident powers are growing in scope? What if she can now cause car accidents all across North America? When will her mutant reign of terror end?
HASTINGS
Melissa: "It starts with a package left at my house. The Black Swan dress was there with a note -- just like the one you Liars got, PS -- that said if I didn't attend some high school Masquerade Ball, my secret fake pregnancy would be revealed."
Spencer: "What? That's ridiculous."
Melissa: "Garrett had just been arrested, I'm getting blackmailed, I just went through with it."
Spencer: "And talking to Jenna?"
Melissa: "My invite just said to distract her."
Spencer: "I feel like they just make this show up as they go along sometimes, and then other times it's like the most meticulous thing. It's so weird."
Melissa: "Isn't it to be presumed that Mona was the one blackmailing me? A left me alone after that, so... Can we just be bros again? I'm going to take a nap upstairs and/or be super creepy, you guys."
Veronica: "The only other person that knows she was faking it is... Garrett. And your dad, he's on our team against you too."
Spencer: "So you're being blackmailed too."
Veronica: "No, it's a whole other thing."
Spencer: "I will go live above the Talon with Toby so fuckin' fast..."
Veronica: "Fine. One of the witnesses on Garrett's old attorney's list was the PI your father and I hired to follow Melissa."
Spencer: "So?"
Veronica: "So in Rosewood, the only crime more heinous than finding a shovel is faking a pregnancy. They would have thrown her ass in jail so fast..."
Spencer: "Just for being sketchy?"
Veronica: "No, all us Hastingses are sketch as hell. More like she has more dead bodies piled up around her than you do."
Spencer: "That's actually kind of valid."
MARIN
Caleb: "What's up, Buttercup?"
Hanna: "Well, I was going to tell you what's been going on this whole time, but now I'm pretty sure it will get your entire family murdered. And since you were an orphan until a year ago, that seems like a selfish kind of move."
Caleb: "Yeah, my mom was just in a horrible car accident. As it turns out."
Hanna: "Man, I really thought A was done with pulling this on me. Trust, if it were up to me I'd just get run over again."
Caleb: "And there's no way I can blame Mona for this?"
Hanna: "You can try."
Caleb: "Cool, I will. Meantime, consider us broken up. At least when I'm being 'protective' I tell you about it. This is just you dangling the disclosure carrot and then dicking me around."
Hanna: "Well, I hope your mom turns out okay. And I promise not to get you murdered. And I guess that means we're broken up. I guess okay."
So sad! But props for making the stakes such that this still works as a plotpoint, considering the show does the same thing over and over like this, but always makes it work in context. There's something delirious and smart about that.
MONTGOMERY
Spencer: "Dear Liars, please do not come to my house. The world has gone bugfuck.*"
Aria: "Cool. More time for me to create outrageous fashions!"
*"(No mention in this text about how I solved the Black Swan thing, because frankly nobody else ever seems to give a shit about my psycho obsessions, but if I did, it would be a doozy. More later.)"
Ella: "Hey, can we talk? Specifically about you pimping me out on the world wide web?"
Aria: "I can explain..."
Ella: "I'm sort of pissed that you're in Mommy's business? But I also know, like, how you are."
Aria: "Look, I was stressing because of how..."
Ella: "-- Byron's seeing Meredith again? Honey, he can do whatever he wants. I'm over that shit. Have you met your father? She can have him."
Aria: "I just worry."
Ella gives her a wonderful, strong, calm and lovely speech about how she's gonna take a minute. Aria -- who has never gone more than five minutes without mentioning Ezra -- cannot imagine the untold mental trauma that divorce must cause in order to make you be okay with being single, but gives her wonderful mother the benefit of the doubt.
Ella: "Um, HOTMAMA though?"
Aria: "That would be Hanna."
Ella: "Gotcha."
Aria: "So I'll delete the..."
Ella: "Nope. No ma'am. No, let's leave it up for a minute. Just for grins."
So much Ella! So much Ashley and Ella. This whole episode feels like a love letter.
TALON
Nate: "Nothing, just creepily hanging around."
Emily: "Were you a stalker before you arrived in Rosewood? Or is my theory right and there's literally something in the water?"
Nate: "Thanks for my book. You want to accompany me to my car to retrieve Maya's parents' address?"
Emily: "No, but I do want to mail this letter."
Nate: "Want me to mail it for you?"
Emily: "Dude, chill. Or else do you want to have a date right now?"
Nate: "Only if we can talk about dead Maya, dead Maya, dead Maya."
Emily: "Done. Now, don't let notoriety chase you away from Rosewood. Trust me, you get used to it."
Nate: "You know what else you get used to? Kissin' dudes."
Emily: "Okay, well. Friend Zone. Like stat."
Nate: "Maya was a lucky girl. Lucky, lucky dead girl."
MONTAGE
Hanna is a mess. Emily is a mess, but one with secret bicuriosity. Caleb is a mess. Spencer is a mess.
Jason: "So you're just walking around town in the middle of the night?"
Spencer: "Yeah, I'm freaked."
Jason: "Rough day?"
Spencer: "Have you been paying attention at all? Rough everything."
Jason: "You were right about the scammers. They were saying you did it, Obama did it, that girl at NPR that downloads music illegally did it..."
Spencer: "I really like being your sister. I like our talks."
Jason: "I like you too. I took down all those dumb posters. The truth will come out eventually, whether or not my stupid ass messes with things or not."
Spencer: "No, it won't. It barely ever does."
Jason writes ... himself? ... a check, and then tells somebody to meet him somewhere. Man, I thought Jason was safe, but apparently he's doing dirt too.
Spencer heads out, and Officer Josh rolls up on her to ask how far away the lakehouse is. You know, whether it's far enough that a person could find a shovel and then still make it back there in time.
Wait, but what about Jenna giving that person that outfit for the dance? Maybe the Black Swan is totally still in play? I don't know, but it's delicious. I do love me some Melissa Hastings.
A-TAG
Even for this show, this is amazing: A's in the Montecito airport with a guidebook and another vodka drink, operating some kind of magical laptop that can not only cause car accidents and film them, but change visiting privileges at Radley Sanitarium via a simple web application. A finishes up her drink, drops a fifty on the bar, and heads for Philadelphia.
WEEK
Is an all-day marathon. But in two weeks, Paige is back and Jenna comes out of the blind people closet -- which I guess means she's out of danger for now, and ready to finally earn some of that enmity she's always having to deal with.
JACOB CLIFTON is a freelance writer and critic based in Austin, Texas. He currently recaps Bunheads, 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, and novelette "The Commonplace Book" will appear on Tor.com in October 2012.