Bros Watch PLL Too - A Pretty Little Liars podcast

Surprise extra podcast! Pretty Little Liars writer, director and executive producer Joseph Dougherty joins us to provide commentary on “Farewell, My Lovely” and dish on the series as a whole. Topics include: the amazing Janel Parrish, the construction of the Five Years Forward PLL world, Paily, Charlotte’s villainy, Ezria controversy, and much more. Thanks to @Kockenlocker for tiding us over till the big finale.

Recapping Season 7, Episode 19 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria talks to herself/a dead body/Pigtunia until Ezra lectures everyone about being mean to his girl and then tackles her into a tree—which he can because he has an American Literature MFA. Hanna is super-chill because she’s married now, and mostly acts as a stand-in for Charlotte fugues. Emily has a nonsense flash-forward dream sequence about that we’re all writing off as a gas leak boner. And Spencer happily loses an ex-boyfriend to wedded bliss, but sadly loses a mother to the legal system when original Twin Theory payoff Mary Drake takes the weight for all that Liar murder.

Recapping Season 7, Episode 18 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is outed as an A.D. collaborator by Mona, but is rewarded with an alibi for the Wrick murder for her troubles. Hanna has relocated her chill and comes clean with her mom, with a little help from Caleb who she then marries in a lo-fi Justice of the Peace ceremony. Emily is robbed of morning sex when the cops raid all the liar haunts, but Ali gets her back later with a special romantic night by the Kissing Rock. And Spencer feels the heat closing in and is furious with Aria for making her parents try to divorce each other again, so she or her twin run off to bang Widower Toby.

Recapping Season 7, Episode 18 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is outed as an A.D. collaborator by Mona, but is rewarded with an alibi for the Wrick murder for her troubles. Hanna has relocated her chill and comes clean with her mom, with a little help from Caleb who she then marries in a lo-fi Justice of the Peace ceremony. Emily is robbed of morning sex when the cops raid all the liar haunts, but Ali gets her back later with a special romantic night by the Kissing Rock. And Spencer feels the heat closing in and is furious with Aria for making her parents try to divorce each other again, so she or her twin run off to bang Widower Toby.

Surprise bonus episode. Lesley Fera aka Veronica Hastings joins us to talk Spencer’s boyfriends, Peter’s many transgressions, her character’s surprising political affiliation, favorite moments, and all the usual Hastings Family intrigue. Thanks so much to Lesley Fera for joining us!

Recapping Season 7, Episode 17 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria walks further down her dark path, helping A.D. plant an audio bomb to tear apart the Hastings Family, and blowing off Ezra’s recent interest in their impending nuptials. Hanna gets a visit from Detective Marco, causing her to worry about what other evidence they might have missed, and her mom is getting suspicious too, so Caleb proposes to throw Ashley off the scent. Emily’s new girlfriend and babymama Ali has run off to NYC to see Jason, so she’s stuck helping Mona investigate, and being a total pill about it the whole time. And Spencer learns new details about her dad’s involvement in Jessica D’s murder, but refuses to believe her witch-mom Mary Drake is the one sewing discord.

Recapping Season 7, Episode 16 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria adopts the mantle of the black hoodie and destroys the Emison Baby nursery—and her soul. Hanna is angry with Spencer until she realizes that she set Spence on her dark spiral by usurping Spaleb, and takes her turn in the game. Emily is baby crazy on her day off, setting up a new nursery until Aria ruins it and Ali drops three little words to blow Em’s mind. And Spencer is running recklessly towards a murder charge, trying to leverage her relationship with Marco into dropping the murder charge, and then doing her best to compromise him when it doesn’t work.

Recapping Season 7, Episode 15 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is getting instructions from her evil CyberSelf and also just about through with Ezra’s “poor me” act. Hanna doesn’t want to believe that Lucas could be A.D. even as the evidence mounts, so she recruits OG A Mona to analyze the Game Board. Emily is making all kinds of inappropriate requests and wrong decisions about the Emison baby. And Spencer is quickly realizing that Marco is getting wise to the Wrick cover-up, and her involvement in it. And we might have met Twincer for real when Wren shows up.

Recapping Season 7, Episode 14 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria gets blackmailed by A into betraying the Liars, and is only too happy to go her own dark way. Hanna maybe doesn’t have a fashion career anymore, and the make matters worse, Pastor Ted is back in her life as the surprise Charlotte baby daddy. Emily goes all in on a rekindled romance with Paige just in time for A to reveal that Alison is preggers with her ayggs. And Spencer bangs the local detective for sport before finally confronting Papa Hastings about all these children he’s fathered.

Recapping Season 7, Episode 13 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria unleashes her Adrenalized Hyperreality because Ezra’s not around to drag her down. Hanna has to do surgery on her doll self and then wear a Japanese Sex Dress to her investors meeting, Emily tags along with Aria to shake down Sydney since Ali isn’t around this week just waiting to suck, and Spencer beats Marco at Ping-Pong with a suspicious left-hand shot and bleeds all over the place and generally oozes sex towards Marco before learning a valuable lesson about not whining about your adoptive mom when you’re a goddamn Hastings.