And also everything Melissa! I can't believe they're finally adressing her role in this A mess and it seems she's as deep in it as we've all suspected. At this point it looks like she's the Hasting who tried to kill Ali but that last scene with her father is starting to make me wonder if it isn't something else.
This is the part of the episode that I found most intriguing. The scenes in New York were laughably un-scary for all the grit and gloom that they were going for in the staging. But the tension between Melissa and her father--I half expected Mrs. Hastings to pop out from behind a wall during that final, menacing conversation between the two since it was so clear that something unspoken lies between them in the scene where the cops show up to report that oops, they lost CeCe and Spencer is in even more danger (this took away something from the moment, the cop seeming not at all contrite as if it were a snafu and no one's fault except for maybe Spencer's). Obvious, maybe, but still well played.
I still want to know what exactly happened the night Ali disappeared, and I think that's at least one impressive achievement on the show's part despite all of the ridiculous subplots and misdirection that have sprung up in the intervening seasons. Though I understand that not everyone is as easily drawn in as I may be!
S05.E01: EscApe from New York
in Pretty Little Liars [V]
· Edited by BrainCellSup
This is the part of the episode that I found most intriguing. The scenes in New York were laughably un-scary for all the grit and gloom that they were going for in the staging. But the tension between Melissa and her father--I half expected Mrs. Hastings to pop out from behind a wall during that final, menacing conversation between the two since it was so clear that something unspoken lies between them in the scene where the cops show up to report that oops, they lost CeCe and Spencer is in even more danger (this took away something from the moment, the cop seeming not at all contrite as if it were a snafu and no one's fault except for maybe Spencer's). Obvious, maybe, but still well played.
I still want to know what exactly happened the night Ali disappeared, and I think that's at least one impressive achievement on the show's part despite all of the ridiculous subplots and misdirection that have sprung up in the intervening seasons. Though I understand that not everyone is as easily drawn in as I may be!