PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: ORIGINAL SIN
Okay everyone, listen up! The icon, the legend, and the nosiest villain you've ever met, A, is back. Yes, you heard that right. PRETTY LITTLE LIARS has gotten (another) spin off, and I think we're all hoping this one will be the one that works. PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: ORIGINAL SIN (trailer here) has just landed on HBO Max and I'm dying for it to give all the thrills, twists, snarky one-liners, outrageous moments, and of course, murder that the OG series did a decade ago (can you believe it's been 12 years since the original premiered?!). And who doesn't love a good horror romp? So many iconic teenage shows—like DEGRASSI and PLL—made young me think high school was about to be so scandalous and dramatic. My cute little suburban high school never lived up to any of that drama, but boy did I eat it up watching it on the screen week to week. In ORIGINAL SIN, five teenage girls band together after receiving incriminating and threatening texts from an anonymous number. As they grow closer, they start to dig up the secrets of each of their mothers' pasts—and of course, it turns out all of them were connected to a single fateful night 20 years prior. Honestly, PRETTY LITTLE LIARS is just very nostalgic to me. I think of every Tuesday night, plopping down on the couch with my dad, (yes, my dad was tuned in week to week with me), devouring the liars' messy, messy lives. It's bloody, it's funny, and yes, it's cringey; but overall, it's a good time. Oh how I've missed that silly little opening song. Stay safe liArs.
—Erin Harris, Development Assistant
