2x8: Final Exam The PLLs take a final stab at their list of suspects and through a harrowing night will discover the identity of Bloody Rose Waters once and for all.
body count for this week: [Spoiler (click to open)] Wes Dr. Sullivan all of the clips from this week's episode are under the cut because they are
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Another excerpt from the interview about how they didn't decide about the second villain until almost the very end of the season:
[Spoiler (click to open)]So, you say you went back and forth about who Bloody Rose would be, and what their motive would be. How and when did you land on this Mrs. Langsberry and Wes team up?
AGUIRRE-SACASA: Very early on, we knew that our slasher villain was going to be Bloody Rose. We landed on that way before we landed on who exactly was going to be under the bandages. Obviously there’s a recurring theme of mothers throughout the season. We have Mrs. Langsberry. We have Dr. Sullivan. We have Mrs. Beasley. So we knew that there was a wide array of suspects. I felt like once we knew that Tabby was this season’s final final girl, it felt like both Mrs. Langsberry - and knowing that probably Mrs. Langsberry wasn’t super up to speed on websites and recruiting teams - and Wes were the characters with the deepest, most direct connection to Tabby. Obviously, Tabby was really good friends with Chip. Tabby and Mrs. Langsberry cross swords in our premiere episodes. She confronts Tabby, Tabby writes ‘rapist’ on Chip’s gravestone in the first episode. Wes has been Tabby’s antagonist since Season 1. So, it just started slotting into place, but it was about easily halfway through the writing of the season before we started firming up those guys as the villains.
CALHOON BRING: I think, even as late as Episode 6, as we were writing, Wes was someone who we thought would be an amazing body drop, who was on the chopping block. We even went so far as to write a pretty cool kill sequence for him at the Orpheum of Bloody Rose showing up and killing him. Then as we were doing it and going through it, we thought, ‘Oh, this doesn’t feel right. There may be a better a better fit for Wes in this story. He might be more important here.’ And knowing, too, that he’s so connected to the Orpheum, as was Chip. That would make sense. They had a relationship as well. [He’s] so connected to Tabby and such a disgruntled filmmaker, then the idea that Spooky Spaghetti served this bigger purpose - Spooky Spaghetti sort of became its own streaming platform. Ultimately, we’re trying to build an audience to release this movie that Wes is making. It just all kind of came together and collided for us.
Ok that makes sense. It felt like the movie "Clue" in the way it could have been literally anyone. I even went back and watched the season during the final girl tests to see who was on screen and see who was missing to figure it out that way lol.
[Spoiler (click to open)]So, you say you went back and forth about who Bloody Rose would be, and what their motive would be. How and when did you land on this Mrs. Langsberry and Wes team up?
AGUIRRE-SACASA: Very early on, we knew that our slasher villain was going to be Bloody Rose. We landed on that way before we landed on who exactly was going to be under the bandages. Obviously there’s a recurring theme of mothers throughout the season. We have Mrs. Langsberry. We have Dr. Sullivan. We have Mrs. Beasley. So we knew that there was a wide array of suspects. I felt like once we knew that Tabby was this season’s final final girl, it felt like both Mrs. Langsberry - and knowing that probably Mrs. Langsberry wasn’t super up to speed on websites and recruiting teams - and Wes were the characters with the deepest, most direct connection to Tabby. Obviously, Tabby was really good friends with Chip. Tabby and Mrs. Langsberry cross swords in our premiere episodes. She confronts Tabby, Tabby writes ‘rapist’ on Chip’s gravestone in the first episode. Wes has been Tabby’s antagonist since Season 1. So, it just started slotting into place, but it was about easily halfway through the writing of the season before we started firming up those guys as the villains.
CALHOON BRING: I think, even as late as Episode 6, as we were writing, Wes was someone who we thought would be an amazing body drop, who was on the chopping block. We even went so far as to write a pretty cool kill sequence for him at the Orpheum of Bloody Rose showing up and killing him. Then as we were doing it and going through it, we thought, ‘Oh, this doesn’t feel right. There may be a better a better fit for Wes in this story. He might be more important here.’ And knowing, too, that he’s so connected to the Orpheum, as was Chip. That would make sense. They had a relationship as well. [He’s] so connected to Tabby and such a disgruntled filmmaker, then the idea that Spooky Spaghetti served this bigger purpose - Spooky Spaghetti sort of became its own streaming platform. Ultimately, we’re trying to build an audience to release this movie that Wes is making. It just all kind of came together and collided for us.
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