Pretty Little Liars: Summer School season finale

[silverstarry]

every time someone said "spooky spaghetti" this season:

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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

Comments

[alienjive]

It was nonsense but this whole season has been camp gold and I love it.

[Spoiler (click to open)]The Wes/Chip’s mom reveal was a bit of a letdown tbh, I feel like Dr. Sullivan would have been a thematically more interesting choice. Sucks that she died though. I’m sad that Imogen ruined things with her gorgeous dreamy boyfriend but I hope they work it out in season 3. SO happy Kelly lived 😍

[tinkerbellpixee]

...Everyone was so sus the whole season!! I can usually figure out who the killer is right away, but I was totally wrong on this one. I was ready to make a French scene chart, because it was driving me crazy 🤪😭

[waxandstrings]

it was really anti climatic, but that's par for the course with this show. reveal was lackluster and predictable and the ~big deal was whatever. chandler kinny did really well, though.

disappointed that ras seems committed to continuing the jen/noa stuff into next season despite how much they're hated, but not surprised. hopefully they find a way to make her more likable and the actresses discover chemistry

also praying he finally lets the girls development individual relationships with each other instead of just getting group scenes.

[alienjive]

I feel like Faran/Tabby, Noa/Imogen, and Mouse/Kelly would be interesting friendship pairings to explore in season 3.

[lamppost1911]

Lol @ the video. I was so annoyed with it to the point that I got over the hump and now I want Spooky Spaghetti merch.

I want to give some thoughts but lately spoiler cuts don’t seem to work for me.

The reveal was…obv, but also gave me some Scream feels. I won’t say which Scream(s) because I can’t cut! 😂

The final fight was disappointing.

But overall I love this campy mess and kinda wish they started it later so it could be a full on summer show.

[ghastly]

I'm pretty certain we got the same Scream vibes!

[lamppost1911]

Tempted to DM you 😅! Maybe I’ll revisit this post in a week or two when it’s less spoilers.

[rachem_chul]

Definitely! Especially with Tabby's Billy and Stu reference at the end.

[tinkerbellpixee]

I don't know how to spoiler cut..help!

I was completely wrong on who I thought the killer(s) were. Tabby was a smart final girl! 👏 I just didn't like the dialogue in the last scene. it felt out of character.

[crazyfreakyaj]

which part of the dialogue?

[tinkerbellpixee]

Sorry I couldn't figure out spoiler cut, so I was trying to be vague- but just the scene with Sullivan and how she called them narcissicts. It seemed out of character.

[silverstarry]

Well, no wonder the final reveal about this season's less obvious villain seemed like it got pulled out someone's ass. According to this interview with the showrunners, they didn't decide who the bad guys were until near the end of the season: [Spoiler (click to open)]

First of all, I am shocked that Christian, Johnny and Jen all made it out of this season completely innocent. I thought for sure one of them was involved with Bloody Rose. Can you talk about sowing those seeds of distrust and how you decided to keep them out of it, ultimately?ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA: It was very reflective of us in the writers room. We really didn’t know until the end that they weren’t villainous. I will say I feel, and Lindsey correct me if I’m wrong, we never thought Jen was going to be potentially super involved in being Bloody Rose or being part of Spooky Spaghetti, but, definitely, Christian and Johnny were on the table as possibly being villains

[silverstarry]

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

[tinkerbellpixee]

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.

[silverstarry]

Apparently they did learn something from Marlene et al's mistake of not explaining how the wine moms got out of the locked cellar!

[Spoiler (click to open)]Speaking of the freezer, there was a moment during the climax of the episode where I thought, ‘Wait, is Johnny still in the freezer?’ I’m glad that was addressed.

AGUIRRE-SACASA: We talked about that a lot. Once the horror of the evening of that harrowing goes on and the girls are running around, it’s like, ‘Oh, do we have to cover the fact that Johnny is in the freezer?’ And by the way, we barely got that shot of Mallory opening up the freezer and letting [him out]. It was literally one of the last the last things we got on that stage day, literally like the penultimate day of shooting. And it was like, ‘Guys, we may not get the shot.’ And I’m like, ‘We have to. We don’t have a shot. Johnny’s in the freezer, freezing here.’ But but but but it was a big point of discussion amongst everyone is like, does Johnny survive the freezer or is he like Jack at the end of The Shining? And who lets him out?