Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Pretty Little Liars season premiere recap: "Tick Tock b*****s"


Pretty Little Liars | TONIGHT (Teaser) #SaveHanna

Aaaaaand were back!

Pretty Little Liars has teased season 7 as the deadliest yet, but there was one death that was never going to happen, no matter how many hashtags the Freeform social media team created: Hanna. Last years season 6 premiere showed us a flash-forward in which the Liars, including Hanna, warn Alison of a mysterious him.

And yet the tension was still on in season 7s first outing, which began with another flash-forward of the Liars burying someone as they cried and talked about first-degree murder. The episode quickly shifted back to the present, where the PLL team (plus Mona!) get their first glimpse of the real, live Mary Drake, whom the team is sure had something to do with Hannas disappearance.

Mary heads to the police station to report a break-in at the Lost Woods Resort, which she now owns, and Toby is the first person on Team Liars to meet Jessicas twin. The rest of the team gets a text from A.D., revealing that the big bad knows Charlottes killer is not Hanna. The message ends with The bell tolls for Hanna, and the team immediately runs over to the bell tower, where it looks as though a dead Hanna has been strung up from the rafters.

After getting the body down from the ropes because misdirection is the name of the game on PLL Caleb realizes Hannas face is just a mask; underneath, the team finds a dolls head. The group then receives another text: If they dont deliver Charlottes true killer in 24 hours, Hanna will die, and for real this time. As extra motivation, A.D. sends a picture of Hanna imprisoned and looking more frightened than ever before.

The countdown clock begins and the team makes its way back to Spencers to formulate a plan. Now that everyone is working together, its likely all of their pieces will connect to find the answer they need. Their plan to figure out who killed Charlotte? Voting on pieces of paper and pulling them out of a hat. Funnily enough, they actually reach a quorum: Almost everyone thinks Ali killed her sister, with the biggest piece of potential evidence being a red jacket Ali may have worn when she killed Charlotte.

The team splits up, with Caleb, Mona, Spencer, and Toby making their way to Lost Woods, but Caleb quickly ditches his girlfriend to spy on Mary Drake with Mona. Spencer and Toby check out the decrepit motel and find a book on cyberbullying that proves Mary has all kinds of tricks up her sleeve (while simultaneously showing how perfect they are together).

Meanwhile, Emily volunteers to visit Ali and get her potential confession, but she runs into Elliott instead. He reveals Ali had a psychotic break, potentially caused by the fact that she may or may not have killed Charlotteor maybe it was caused by some evil c**p Elliott might be doing to her.

Aria and Ezra go to Alis home to look for clues and hints of Alis possibly murderous activities. And yet, they end up getting even closer while trying to escape the recently returned Elliott. (Funny how two former couples were paired up together for this detective work!) The team gets its first hint of Elliotts shady life when Aria and Ezra spot him secretly taking a bag out of a locked chest in his room. Later, the team almost catches him in his true identity when Mona overhears Mary talking to a man in a British accent at Ezras favorite pub, Snookers. But theres still plenty of time before our beloved characters discover what Ali quickly experiences at the end of the premiere: Elliott is a bad, bad man.

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While tailing Mary, Mona and Caleb spot her heading to the Hastings house, where she runs into Spencer and reveals that not only did she know the Hastings family, she and Jessica didnt feel the twin/family bond. In fact, Jessica turned everyone against Mary, forcing her to leave Rosewood. (When she says leave Rosewood, does she mean forced to enter a mental institution? This show is confusing, guys!)

NEXT: Alison for Hanna fair trade?

Source: http://www.ew.com/recap/pretty-little-liars-season-7-episode-1

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