Emily donating her eggs, her eggs getting stolen, her eggs getting impregnated with Wren’s sperm, Emily’s eggs getting surgically implanted into Alison, Alison being pregnant with Wren and Emily’s babies (because, of course, twins) then her and Emily falling in love and getting married, and raising these kids together that have Emily’s genes but were birthed by Alison, SOUNDS LIKE BAD. FAN FICTION. I can’t believe the writers actually, un-ironically rolled with that.

“The way Mona saves these girls every 3 to 5 business days and they still treat her like an old vacuum cleaner” is the whole theme

the idea of Allison being allowed to be a teacher at rosewood is so deranged

Jenna had a better motive to be A than every single A

the fact that an entire generation went through this shared psychosis is truly iconic to me

So Jenna says "I can smell a bitch" and then CATCHES ALEX BECAUSE OF HER PERFUME SMELLING DIFFERENT??? Iconic. History.

"I think we all flop at age 23" You don't know how much I needed that

I choose to believe that Mike didn’t go to Aria’s wedding because he still hated Ezria. We stan tbh

People were really rushing and rushing him as if this wasn't so much effort and so time consuming and he probably wont be able to watch the show again for years. This is so iconic and amazing of him and I'm so glad that his effort grew his channel so much.

if i had a nickel for everytime ezra wrote a book about a girlfriend of his that went missing i'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but its weird that it happened twice

The funniest part of this, is like half of this could have been avoided if jason and allison knew their mothers maiden name

Big tip for anyone watching, do NOT stop in the middle and pick it back up the next day, I’m so disoriented I feel like someone is casting spells on me in a language I don’t know

I will never get over the fact a horse solved who A was after one sniff when the girls couldn’t for years

Only someone with a master’s degree can pull off such straight string lines.

emily being the only one flopping in her 20s despite having been a gay bartender in california for the past five years is the most unrealistic stunt this show has ever pulled

I think what makes this even more iconic/chaotic is the fact that the writers didn't need to make the plots as insanely complicated as they did. They were their own worst enemies in this.

toby becoming a police officer without any training and then abusing his power is literally the most realistic aspect of this whole show

It's honestly hilarious that *"Caleb was a reincarnated teenager from 1918 for a little bit in season 4"* isn't even one of the most unbelievable plot details in PLL. Like it's almost forgettable with all the other crazy shit that went down.

The Alex twist could've been SO GOOD if it had been hinted at earlier!! Like for a couple of seasons we see the girls together, but Spencer sometimes has no memory of some of those things... and maybe Spencer could've been with Caleb, but Alex wants to be with Toby and manipulates Caleb to break up with Spencer and she has NO idea what's going on! It would've been amazing .. But in all honestly ARIA SHOULD'VE BEEN A!!

applause for the 3 best characters of the series: tippi, pepe and bashful

I loved seeing Mona with her fake cop boyfriend in Paris because when the cop first showed up to arrest Alex Drake I was like "there is no way there is finally a competant cop in Rosewood" and I was RIGHT

the fact that i watched every episode of this godforsaken show and am listening to every word you're saying and i STILL don't entirely understand what happened is a testament to the true chaos of pll

"the way mona saves these girls every 3-5 business days and they still treat her like an old vacuum cleaner" this is the best sentence ive ever heard

My favorite thing is that after the dollhouse Spencer was having severe flashbacks, couldn’t fall asleep, and was afraid of her bedroom. Hanna was the same and opted to redo her whole room, and Emily was taking her anger and fear at the gun range. But Aria…took shitty pics???? I swear to god all the As/writers gave Spencer these souls crushing plots and Aria gets her hair dyed

“The more layers we scratch away, the more issues there are… so we are not gonna scratch.” Mike you’ve summed up the entire plot of PLL perfectly.

just in: hollywood has shut down in the wake of this anticipated feature length finale.

“Yes she tortured you for a couple of years. Get over it, we all go through things.” ☠️☠️☠️☠️

This is exhausting and incredible. I'm obsessed with you. My favourite things about this series: - Yeeh. Oh okay yeeh. - Oweeoooh weoh weoh weoooh... - The girlboss / slay / flop / menace / crusty character ranking system - Literally everything else Thank you for your service.

The way Tippi the bird could have been A and it still would have made more sense

"he's fully back in with the squad when he should be in a maximum security prison" "felon fitz" "ezra flops" give this man an oscar cause I cackled like a hyena

If Aria was the bad guy the whole time it would make sense that she's the one saying shhh in the intro all along-

PLL: If you don’t have a twin, you have to have a half-sibling. Sometimes both, but you will have a close relative you didn’t know existed

the fact that "unknown sibling tortures friend group" happens twice in pll makes me unreasonably angry

if you don't win a streamy for this I'll throw hands

every time you say "take a guess who did x" I would honestly try to guess, and would always be way off. this show is wild

That moment when Alison is apparently a redeemable person but Mona isn't?? Alison blackmailed people left and right, treated them like crap, and almost drove Paige to suicide but she's allowed to "get better" and have a happy-ish ending but not Mona? Mona definitely did some terrible stuff but she also had severe mental issues that Alison herself helped cause, she also genuinely tried to help the group and wanted to be their friend after everything that happened but got pushed out at every opportunity. Why couldn't they let just her get better and have a decent ending?

The way it took 6 YEARS for us to find out what happened in ONE NIGHT. Absolutely messy and iconic. (Plot ditches and all)

Regarding Ezria, Mike was the only one with a braincell, he decked him and dipped, didn't show up to the wedding, good for him

"block. the. bell. tower. off." made me spit out my tea

It’s refreshing to have someone validate how absolutely outrageous and iconic this show was just to have the last season suck ass…. Dare I suggest a completely unhinged recap of teen wolf???

I am convinced that Mike has done more thinking about this show than its writers

ELLO SPENCAH The fact that you went from dancing to the PLL theme song in your apartment to a million-views three part series…a truly Spencer-like level of iconicness

THE WAY MIKE SAID "AND EMILY DANCED TO BANG BANG" TRULY A PIVITAL MOMENT INDEED AND RANKS UP TO SARA BEING KIDNAPPED SINCE FOREVER

“I wanna know if there was a continuity expert involved in this show” no absolutely no there was not. Honestly needed a board like this one

Dear GOD this took three months. Mike is truly out here being the hero we need and the hero we deserve.

The fact that Mona and Caleb are drinking tea at The Radley whilst the others are running around a blind school and Noel Kahn is literally getting DECAPITATED really sums up s7.

"She had high goals and she achieved none of them." Same.

“Some towns have nice toxic dumps, this town has you.” 😂☠️ I cannot handle this, the most grounded line of the series yet.

so this has officially become my new comfort show… not pretty little liars, this short series recapping it

Core childhood memory is my friends and I getting freaked tf out at sleep-away camp because we heard a branch tapping the cabin and it reminded us of Jenna. We then took turns singing the theme to try and ward off Jenna’s evil spirit. What a time to be alive.

Ezra was already bad but then the writers made it SO MUCH WORSE when they wrote in the plot line of him dating ALISON AND KNOWING ARIA WAS UNDERAGE BEFORE EVER MEETING HER?????? The only “justification” for the relationship was that he didn’t know she was underage/ his student when they met, why did they make the choice to write that out and then still have them get married please god make it make sense

Alison did a lot of things on the night she disappeared that you'd think she'd die of exhaustion first.

I'm fascinated by how many secret twins there are in this show and I'm so impressed that none of them were the same secret twin from the books.

The funniest thing is there’s actually a way that they could’ve fixed the plot holes of CeCe being A that would’ve pretty closely resembled the book if they had revealed that Charles/Charlotte was the one that was killed and her body was discovered and would explain why they got accidentally identified as Alison because she could have looked like Alison and the DNA could’ve been close enough and they revealed that the CeCe Drake that has been running around since we first met her was actually Bethany Young and they took her identity? It would honestly solve everything.

fun fact: jason and spencer are technically full siblings not half siblings bc twins share the same dna and they share a father! i tried to chart the dilaurentis-hastings family as best i could jason & spencer: biological full siblings, cousins (twin moms, same dad) alison & spencer: biological half siblings, cousins (twin moms, different dads) jason & alison: biological half siblings, raised full siblings, cousins (twin moms, different dads) alison & charlotte: biological half siblings, cousins (twin moms, different dads) spencer & charlotte: half siblings (same mom, different dad) spencer & melissa: half siblings, raised full siblings (different mom, same dad) the family tree was already confusing enough but then you add in the twin bullshit and it gets even more insane

“Yes she tortured you for a couple years get over it we all go through things” I’m quoting this anytime someone says Mona was not in the best character

I swear everytime PLL is mentioned, Noel Kahn's beheading and blind Jenna in a caberet outfit riding a horse are always at the forefront of my mind

I can't believe that it took me until part 3 to realize he wasn't called Pasta Ted 😭. PASTOR Ted! I feel very silly now 😭.

I'm glad I never finished this show in middle school. ''Emilys eggs were stolen'' was fresh for me, incredible content

This series was the most entertaining 6 hours of my life

The fact that Spencer and Jason are both half siblings AND cousins is just so funny to me. The show was such an iconic mess! I just love it!

i can accept most of this, but it's absolutely wild cece or jessica never thought to check alison's pulse. if you thought you killed someone, wouldn't you want to be one thousand percent sure? wild, absolutely wild.

I spent all weekend watching this series and now I have to stop myself from saying things like “tomaurto” and “flop era” in meetings at work

the fact that this man made 3 feature-length movies in 3 months????? award-worthy

"why are the Amish involved?" perfectly encapsulates pll's random plot points

Honestly, the baby twins did slay their roles. They barely did anything and are still my favorite characters.

the fact that you said "let me mind my own business" in front of this wall has me rolling on the floor

out of everything that happened in this shitshow of a finale, wren being turned into a necklace is what really kept me up for weeks

Wren (an empath) sensing bad vibes when Alex says she wants to absorb Spencer’s life

if the writers had made a wall like this maybe the show wouldn't have been such a mess. Thank you Mike for this extremely entertaining and triggering series!

To this day I will remember the pure disappointment of finding out Cece was A, and then Marlene turning on the confused fans and saying that we were all transphobic for explaining that it just didn’t make any sense????

I truly believe 99% of the girls problems would go away if Alison acknowledged Pepe the dog

I don't think people appreciate how well done this series is. I've never watched an episode of this show, not once, and I could still probably recite the entire plot because of how well it's summarised and presented. If schools taught in this format, everybody would get A grades.

Deciding to make their main hyped-up villain a trans person that was sent to a mental institution for (being assumed to be) harming her sister and who's been relentlessly torturing and stalking the protagonists throughout the show is... a Choice™

If Bethany has pushed Toby’s mother off the rooftop, than in the same year Alison were a baby as well. But in the flashbacks Alison meets Toby’s mother when she was a teenager but doesn’t make sense if his mother died years ago when they were all kids

I would argue that toby beating up a suspect for no reason is actually pretty on par with the american police system

it’s sad to see this ending, but it’s been a fun journey!!

44:16 “Where did Charlotte go? Dead. Charlotte went dead. 😐” LMAFOO

I wish I was kidding when I say I started out watching this KZfaq series purely because I was wishing, hoping and PRAYING that the vile green screen of Cece outside the cafe would get a mention. Stayed for the absolute gold star entertainment but honestly that green screen has haunted me since 2017…

Also loving the fact that Jenna believed Spencer wasn't Spencer over the possibility of Spencer changing perfumes 💀

1:13:32 "the way Mona saves these girls every 3 to 5 business days and they still treat her like an old vacuum cleaner"😂😂

My ongoing issue is if they had Charles put in radley before they moved to Rosewood, then how did Peter Hastings hook up with Jessica to create Jason?

"RIP to sarah harvey.... a flop from start to finish" always kills me

Aria as A would have been amazing but tbh I wish above all else it was Ezra. He was writing a BOOK. What if he became obsessive, or wanted to make the book more sensational so he started to craft this master plotline. Or he needed to get more reactions and drama for the book tour/movie adaption/etc. That would have been so good, and played into the fact he blatantly manipulated Aria. Sigh. What could have been.

actually screaming at a torturing aria with a bad dye job and spencer got horrific psychological torture also i shipped ezria when i was a child and i think marlene owes me financial compensation

This is my third time watching this pll series in the past week. I think that’s a good gauge of where I’m at mentally.

aria, girl, if the love of your life could go to jail if his information is given to the police maybe he is not the one!!

I feel like every time I watch one of these I'm getting full REM sleep. Like it just feels like a dream. I'm listening to every word and yet I can't remember what happened even 10 seconds ago. When it's over, I know I watched it, I can feel the vibes, but I couldn't tell you a single thing that happened. It's truly the most relaxing series I've ever found because of this.

I still cannot believe they didn't do *anything* with Allison once she came back to the show. She wasn't bad, she wasn't good, she wasn't interesting.She had so much potential, but they absolutely squandered it.

PLL was an absolutely unhinged and crazy show, but I wish it would've been more tame concerning the plot. I find that there are too many unnecessary deaths, useless characters, people being A... The show started out as Allison being an absolute terror and mysteriously disappearing and then 4 girls being tormented by an anonymous stalker, THAT'S ICONIC!! I loved the idea of Allison being a genius evil teen who has dirt on everyone and that she eventually messed with the wrong person. I loved the idea of Ezra being A because it makes sense and it's super dark and messed up. Already having an established reputation as a predator, Allison could've turned on him and threatened to go to the police and tell on him, so he decided to try and kill her, and then he gets the idea to write a book and becomes A. I also love the Aria is A theory which would work perfectly with Ezra. I absolutely hated the Alex plotline and I wasn't a fan of the Charles/Cece reveal either (although the "two Allison's" in the crusty yellow top is iconic, such a slay).

Mike going “oh ok yeah, yeah ok” plays in my head 24/7

The amount of money I would pay for someone to remake the whole of this with Aria being A the entire time and finishing the Aria being recognised by Eddie Lamb plot line is probably more money than anyone should be spending on PLL

whoever wrote PLL was not counting on anyone thinking about the plot this hard

PLL is Emily fighting for her acting career and the producers trying to convince us that Toby doesn’t look like a sucked mango

YES IM SO READY FOR THE FINALE OF THIS AWARD WINNING TRILOGY

The “oh way oh way oh” when putting an X over someone got me every time

Mona was right all along about “miss Aria, you’re a killer not Ezra’s wife” when you said that at 1:46:54 I screamed lol. Btw Mona was never crazy just.. misunderstood

Upon my 3rd (?) rewatch of this series, I am just now noticing the Ravenswood/Twilight-blue filter on Miss Grumwald's photo, and she's the only one with that filter 💀💀

“I feel like they should all be flopping. I think we ALL flop at age 23.” I felt that.

this show was ruined by the writers trying to outsmart the audience. there were some very good theories with solid evidence and they just couldn't let the audience figure it out so they changed the plot constantly. it's so stupid bc to me that the audience could put the pieces together just shows the writers made a good job of putting the foundation and storyline together