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The fact that Ezra ends up in jail in the books already makes them better 😆

Can I just say that Book Noel Kahn was the love of my life? And that I hated what they did to his character in the show? And that I'll never forgive the writers for sacrificing him and Aria's super cute relationship so that she could end up with her predator ass teacher?

At least with the books we aren’t haunted by “Ello sistAh”

I feel like Mona being kept alive in the show had a lot to do with Janel Parrish excelling at the role similar to how Troian Bellisario’s acting skills led to Spencer taking center stage in the later seasons. I can’t imagine how the series would have played out if she had been killed off in the season 2 finale.

The best part about the books is that it shows what bad people the girls really are. And how they do many more bad things for less understandable reasons than in the show. The books also highlights how the parents are very uninterested and not at all concerned with all the weird things A is putting them through. So, the books are better at the drama and the bs the girls get themselves into.

The real villain of the show was I. Marlene King. The fact that she straight up destroyed a character to keep her favorite relationship going says something. Keeping Ezra with Aria was completely inappropriate. Especially when it was revealed that Ezra knew who Aria was before they even met. Meaning he knew she was underage. How could she, as a mother, continue to root for such an inappropriate relationship?

Also Emily's parents in the book were racist and hated Maya

Imagine If the Allison that was alive and comeback on the show was actually Courtney, and that's why she was so different from the Allison we saw in flashbacks and she was actually running from the real Allison that would be revealed to be Uber A. Just imagine that...

Aria and Noel date? Hanna and Lucas also date? And Maya's not dead? I really have to read the books now.

Marlene king is an awful writer, she tricked us all in believing this was a good show, but since season 4 it all went down, the series finale was terrible.

As a blue-eyed, freckled, bisexual redhead with abusive parents...I'm really resonating with book Emily.

Alison having a twin would have made so much more sense in the show. The Alison-Courtney storyline was such a central part of the book series and I was disappointed they skipped it on the show.

I read these books in middle school and was TERRIFIED that they were an accurate depiction of high school lol

I was skeptical of the girls’ dynamic at first. I loved their show friendship so much and didn’t want to “ruin it” in my mind. But I sooo much prefer it in the books. It’s like a slow-burn friendship where they actually have to deal with their Ali trauma before trusting and loving each other. Hanna in the last book saying she wanted Aria, Emily, and Spencer as her bridesmaids BROKE ME

Bi eraser in media is much more common than you’d think. Shows often make bi characters just gay or lesbian or just straight when adapting from books. It sucks, there’s not much good examples in media of bi people.

I liked how in the books the girls aren't as close as they are in the show, which makes sense since it picks up 3 years after Ali's disappearance and Aria was gone that whole time. It makes A even scarier because the girls don't have each other to lean on and are much more isolated and vulnerable. It also just adds to Ali's power - she was the center of the group and once she was gone the group fell apart

I liked the part where Mona found Ali’s old diary and that’s the reason why she knows all of their secrets. Makes a lot more sense that way.

I feel the confusion with Mike and Hanna romantically is because it isn’t made painfully clear. Mike and Hanna are very much alike. They both have these personas they play into around their peers in order to fit in. Mike’s perverted nature is how he appears approachable to his teenage boy friends, yet it is shown in fleeting moments that Mike isn’t all that perverted, he just does it to fit in because he’s desperate. He spent years in Iceland being an outsider and was willing to do anything to be “one of the boys”. This lines up perfectly with Hanna’s obsession with popularity. The fact that they get to “unwind” or “be themselves” around each other is what makes them, them. Its just hard to tell because Mike is constantly going back and forth even in private with his pervy jokes, but i think its supposed to be seen as even more of a joke because we’re supposed to know that Mike just really loves Hanna and is a respectful dude in their relationship.

i could be entirely wrong, but my impression of why there were so many creepy predators was to help set up the liars as prey. the whole story is essentially about how these girls are constantly surrounded by people preying on them and it adds another dimension to their lack of trust and how they are always falling victim to other people’s bad intentions, not just A. i think it was much more obvious in the books, but they handled it so badly in the show. like, in the show it was as if they just threw in the creepy predators without actually making them out to be creepy predators - which was the whole point. Édit - i forgot to add that elements like this in the books (again i could be wrong i haven’t read them in forever), kind of makes the point that there are no perfect victims. the girls were awful, but they were still constantly victimized regardless

I liked the characters in the book a lot more. They have flaws like real people and their actions have weight and consequences. I also like details that they put in with the girls. Like how Hannah is a closet theatre nerd and how Emily is bisexual. The girls’ home lives also seem to have impact on their personalities, like how Spencer is constantly being the best at everything, but she never feels that she’s good enough because her parents compare everything she does to Melissa and how much better Melissa is. Emily has a lot of anxiety (which I related to a lot as a closet bisexual) and her parents were so strict that she was afraid to do anything. Hanna looks for approval in other people who are toxic to her with Allison, Mona, Mike, Kate a little in the beginning because her parents feel so distant in her life. Aria seems to have a messed up sense of relationships and trust, since her dad made her keep this secret affair from her mom for 4 years, her mom kicking her out because of it, and her brother treating her like garbage after she’d been kicked out.

I totally relate to the whole being thrown off by the show character images, I'd REFUSE to believe Spencer had blonde hair and Hanna had brunette hair.

These books had high school me in a CHOKEHOLD. I wish the show would have followed them more closely.

the girls in the books making so many bad choices with so many CONSEQUENCES and people whose lives have been irreparably damaged was one of my favourite aspects of the books and why the premise works so much better there than in the series. because it's like. the girls in the show never really do anything WRONG. ofc the treatment from A is gonna be unwarranted either way, the fact that so much of the motive driving each A in the show is so weak and paper-thin because the girls never did /shit/ makes it all soooo less compelling. we still root for these girls. we understand them, they're also just .... kind of vapid and mean and disgustingly rich and never own up to their actions, so we also understand A too. and that is so LOST in the show, and I'll forever be mad about it.

Aria and Noel were my favourite thing about the PLL books! They had such an unproblematic, healthy relationship that was so well developed. Noel was so kind and loving towards Aria in the books, so it was hard to watch him as a villain in the show. Also Ezra’s arc in the books is exactly what should have happened to him. He was a predator who preyed on Aria’s naivety and him going to jail was the perfect resolve. It’s such a shame they tried to romanticise their relationship in the show when it’s just creepy lmao

I love Ali's pretty little lies. It also brings light to Alison's and Aria's relationship and shows that Alison wanted Aria to be her friend and was pissed that Aria didn't pay this much attention to her. In the show they really erased that in order to show that Spencer was the one who stood up. But the tv adaptation is actually the Spencer Show, so. Btw great hair.

I feel really bad for Mona in the books. The flashbacks of her getting humiliated and bullied by "Alison" are so heartbreaking, and she literally got burned in the Jenna Thing but nobody believed her when she said "Ali" did it :( Doesn't justify her actions as A, but I can see how she got to that point more than in the series

Haven’t watched the video yet, but Sara Shepard just announced she’s working on more PLL books, where the girls are grown up ☺️

One thing about the books I will never forget : HORRIBLE, TERRIFIC PARENTS. They are even worst than the parents in the show. You are so lovely with this hairstyle 🧡.

I live for bisexual Emily in the books tbh. The bi erasure POPPED out in the tv show. Also it sucks Emily ended up with Alison her literal BULLY in the show

I also thought the girls were a little clueless. Like, they really thought Billy the construction worker was A? Seriously? And they jumped to strange conclusions too much. Aria even ratted out Spencer at some point.

I don't understand why they make so many changes in adaptations. They must have liked enough about a book to want to turn it into a show, yet they get rid of many of the elements, so it almost feels like a completely different story. It's also a massive risk, considering the first people who would be interested will be fans of the book, who might not like the changes.

i actually really liked the recurring A giggle! after a while i kinda figured it was mostly in the girls heads and kind of a literary symbol for their connection since no one else but them can hear it. it’s not the most nuanced or artsy thing but i think it fit the books

Please make sure u read the Alison book called Ali’s pretty little lie. It perfectly explains the whole mental hospital situation between Allison and Courtney

Why does it seem like the creators read the spark notes version of the series and then went " okay I forgot about 80% of what that was so let's write the script! "

I haven’t watched the show in years and it’s so creepy to look back now and see how I was manipulated to think that Aria’s relationship with Ezra was cute and mature and that they were such a hopeless romantic couple… I’m 17 now and realizing how the whole thing is creepy and just wrong…. Especially when I remember how old she was when they met 🤢🤢 scary how I watched it and loved their relationship when I was so young …

The mystery was hands down handled better in the books, plus they left out the time capsule and the main reason Ali hated the girls entirely. I wish they would have kept the book plot as far as the mystery. It was so well thought out regardless of the questionable writing skill lol

Spencer’s relationship with her gay stepbrother was SO BAD LMAO I FORGOT ABOUT THAT

It's so disturbing that they had the source material telling them Ezra is a creep and criminal, yet they choose to promote that ILLEGAL activity as romantic. yikes

I liked the way Hanna's self-esteem issues are handled in the book. In her chapters you can see how badly she tears herself down, but in everyone else's chapters, you can see how beautiful she is to them. Also, I liked how there were clues in the earliest few books about the twists much later in the book series. I had to go back and re-read the opening of one of the books just to double check the details that I had missed.

I’m curious to know if you’ve seen all those Tik Toks created by the girl who played Alisons stunt double on the show. She says she was Alison’s double and also played red coat and the black window and confirmed that they were all supposed to be Alison and she was originally A!

Also I think the books constant need to have men be predatory is just its dramatic way of saying “stay away from older men! Them wanting you is gross!”(but also not really because Spencer and Wren). I can’t count how many older men have made passes at me and then seemingly didnt care when I told them I was a minor. Reading these books as a tween/teen helped me see that grown men wanting me wasn’t flattering. I never had that type of conversation with my parents and I think without the books, I probably would have been a victim, so I appreciate it

One of my favorite things about the book series is that the girls actually GO TO THE POLICE!!!! Even if they’re threatened they always try to talk to law enforcement first, which makes so much more sense than the girls in the show refusing to at all (or only talking to Garrett 🙄). I also like that they showed why they had to be secretive/careful with A - like when Emily told Wilden about the texts & then A outed emily at her swim meet! It showed that they tried to get help but couldn’t rely on the police all the time due to the consequences. Also, am I the only one who really liked the Aria & Sean side plots? Lol 😭 I loved how gentle he was with her when she was dealing with her dad leaving, & it was nice how open their conversations were with each other (her sharing when she lost her virginity, Sean talking to her about how he’s unsure if he wants to wait, talking about their parents).

Marlene King really dropped the ball with the show. No wonder everyone abandoned her when she did the Perfectionists.

Not only did they have her marry her teacher but they gave Noel the craziest and wildest death in the entire show.

I don't know anything about Pretty Little Liars, but I'm so invested in this series of videos LOL

Honestly, Emily was my favourite character in the books because I genuinely felt as though she had the most development out of all the girls and you could see that especially towards the end of the series.

my favorite thing about the books is the aura of distrust it creates about pretty much every single character ever except the girls. it's way more interesting to me than the show in that sense and I think everything about twins was handled 10000x better than in the show. so glad you're talking about the books! they were the popular books of the year when i was in sixth grade

I personally get grossed out with the predator relationships in the show which is one of the reasons I love cruel summer so much they make the relationship something that is supposed to be disturbing not “cute” and call out the fact that it is grooming and not to be romanticized unlike pretty little liars where they are contributing to the problem.

oh god the giggle. I seem to remember the scent of vanilla soap also being an A-radar lmao

I read the first arc of the book series (the first four) and I got kinda disappointed because Mona’s reasons actually make sense in the book (her friendship with Jenna) and I wish they kept that in the show, especially because on season 2 Halloween episode, Mona and Jenna kinda befriend, so they could’ve kept the book’s storyline and it would make much more sense than Mona doing it because of Hanna “betraying” her by being friends with the girls again when this happened after (and because of) Mona started threatening them.

Ezra a creep that is the right way it should be portrayed

I absolutely hate the treatment of Andrew Campbell in the show because he was in the A team for no reason, and his relationship with spencer is so underdeveloped. In the books he has much more development with Spencer and it was better because they have always been competing with each other academically and it would seem fit that they end up together.

I'll admit, I was very disappointed that the show didn't feature the Alison/Courtney plot. Like when they revealed that Alison wasn't dead and that she just skipped town, I was sure that she was Courtney and that real Alison was A and I was excited because I thought they were doing that plotline but with a twist of Courtney being alive and being the 5th liar. Charlotte attacking Mona made me believe it even more because of the blonde hair. Then Cece is revealed to be Charlotte and that theory died and my hope along with it. Then after Alex kidnaps Hanna, the girls receive a text from an A.D. and it revives my hope that it's Alison once again. Then we get Alex's reveal and I am once again disappointed. The books handle Alison soooo much better than the show. She's a much better A than both Charlotte and Alex combined.

I absolutely adore the books, they're amazing in so many ways. I'm completely obsessed with the prequel Ali's Pretty Little Lies.

I was literally so confused when I watched the show then read the books then realized the show was completely not the same and didn't even follow the books.

Serena's commentary about Pretty Little Liars is WAY better than the books or series.

When I first started reading the books, I wasn’t sure if I’d read them all, just cause there were so many and I had a lot going on. But there was a moment in one of the early books where I knew I had to read all of them. It’s when Emily and Maya win best couple for the yearbook, and they have to go in and get their picture taken. They see the full-page spread for Ali, with a picture of her as a little girl and Maya asks Emily who it is. Emily’s a little taken aback, and she kinda goes “it’s Ali, obviously” and Maya says she didn’t recognize her. That’s when I knew Sara Shepherd had it PLANNED OUT. She knew how to drop FORESHADOWING. Also ps: Maya being the only of Emily’s exes to cry at her “funeral” killed me😪

Okay idk if I've seen anyone talk about this yet, but it was incredibly messed up that Maya was caught and sent to rehab for smoking weed when she was the only BIPOC representation on the show...the fact that is was specifically weed seemed very implicitly racist to me. Maya was basically the only POC besides Emily for the first few seasons, and she dies so early into the show (I don't know if this is apart of the book or not?). I loved the show growing up but is definitely a reflection of how representation was severely lacking in the 2010s, and unfortunately still is now with film and tv. The show is extremely white, even with the POC characters they are almost ALWAYS mixed or very lightskinned. There were literally no characters that I can think of that did not have any white in them... P.S. also the scene where Allison visits Toby in juvy is RIDICULOUS! It actually made me laugh out loud because Toby was wearing a durag and was talking in slang I think? it was just a very weird scene and they were so clearly trying to make him look like he was in prison with things stereotypically associated with black people. So bad.

I had the total opposite reaction about the girl’s appearances since I read the books before I watched the show. Mona not being blonde irked me especially since there was a bunch of foreshadowing in the books where the girls kept thinking they saw Alison right after getting a note from A but later found out it was actually Mona. They even kept in some of those scenes in the show but never explained it

i’ve only read the first book (i’m waiting to get the others from the library) but i really liked the focus on the girls and what their lives are like after alison, rather than the show which very quickly became about A and the secrets and solving the mystery. Not that i don’t like the focus on A in the show, i just wish that we got to see more of the girls lives outside of A and the other girls to really feel how A changed their lives for the worse.

Serena you are giving us premium PLL CONTENT! 👏🏽 i read all the books, yes some of it was far fetched like Emily hiding a pregnancy 🤰🏽 but the courtney villain was much better. Also Sara Shepard’s other books are amazing especially influence & the amateurs

I feel like they should've sent Ezra to jail in the show in season one lol, I bet if Ezra didn't have a "attractive" actor they wouldn't keep him.

that hair is EVERYTHING

Also the Pretty little lie’s book written from Alison!!! Oh my god, amazing to read a book in this perspective & learn more about why she is such an evil and manipulative liar!

The original ending was the eight book and I feel like that was the best ending. The girls had finally become better people and solved the mystery. IMO having another 8 books was unnecessary and retconned their development

I want to know so bad why Mona got so close with Hanna but then betrayed her, but had a few scenes with Spencer and wanted to team up! In the books they have more scenes but also not that many! Another good detail is that Mona also has some fire damage on her belly/ripcage area. That's why she's even angrier about the whole Jenna thing. AND Ali and Jenna set up the firework plan! Jenna wanted to get rit of Toby. Their parents would send him somewhere if he'd use fireworks again. BUT that all backfired of course. Still, Jenna didn't blame Alison! But that bish still used the event to control the liars.

I DONT understand how the writer could write HANNA AND LUCAS together, write a pretty healthy relationship where they could be themselves (with a bad ending), and let Hanna have such a character development moment, only to let her end up with MIKE, who indeed is such a objectifying ugh boy

Emily was a bisexual in the books but the show changed her to a lesbian because they wanted Emily to be "more than bi". I feel like the show missed an opportunity to include bi people and Emily could've had a lesbian girlfriend or we could've character created. It just bugs me that the show was openly biphobic and transphobic.

I used to curl up in the corner of our local library to read these books. Partly because I had a late book fee I couldn’t afford, and partly because I just loved being there reading these books. You’re totally right about it being hard to get over the difference in appearances between the books and the TV show

All the characters were much more interesting in the books than the show. Also love the outfit😍

what made the books more intriguing was A the serial killer being the narrator of the series which makes more sense since this A person is watching and stalking them and learning their dark secrets. it makes you engage on the girls while trying to figure out as a reader who A really is.

i ALWAYS found it weird that the shows just... erased half of wren's heritage (despite the fact i still dislike him).

Personally even though it is a drastic, not handled well change, I am glad they turned Jenna into a female abuser, just because I think there is a lack of awareness that it can go the other way around as well... I remember in middle school, a policeman came in to talk about his job, he talked about abusive relationships and one kid in my class asked if it could also be the other way around and if so if he had any. The way he described what happened and how the man looked like, is in hindsight pretty disgusting and sad as men as the victim in these cases are often belittled ehich he did as well... So I am glad they at least touched upon it in the show, even though it could and should have been handled a lot better...

I am happy that show actually kept Toby. He and Caleb are my favourites

Honestly something that always makes me feel weird is when shows have everyone or most people end up with their highschool sweethearts. Cause I only know one couple who is together who dated in highschool and they broke up for years before getting back together. I know two people who married their highschool sweethearts and both of those couples got a divorce within a year. Idk if this is more common or normal in the US but for me is just so bizarre since I haven't talked to anyone I dated in highschool since, well, I left highschool I do get that if you're writing a show or a book is easier to keep the characters that people are already invested rather than create new characters but it just feels weirdly unrealistic for me

There were several moments in the books where I disliked each and every one of the girls and I preferred it that way than to the show because they were liars and I expected it. In the show they had an issue each for like the whole season that they dealt with and then it wasn’t an issue anymore or they overcame it and they were relatable. But the years that they were friends with, manipulated by and complicit with Alison didn’t go away in the books. The books showed that they really were pretty little liars and they didn’t just grow out of it because their friend suddenly died and they grew apart. In the books they all had lasting issues that were patterns that got them in trouble time and time again. Overall, Emily was better in the books though I hated how insistent she was when it came to Alison and then the twin every time though Shepard wrote the ending to close that really well and made it work in Emily’s favor character wise. Show Emily was boring even when in the group I always ignored her. Maya should’ve lasted longer than she did and that relationship should’ve too. Aria I liked better in the books she isn’t as stupid (choosing Noel over Ezra), she has more of a backbone and is just better written. Show Aria was too attached to Ezra and I hated him. It also made her pretty boring. Also she didn’t go through as much in the show which was more suspicious. I liked show Hanna better as a person not as a character who would have gone through basically the worst treatment from Alison as well as one of the worst family relationships. I also liked the addition of Caleb’s character though I wasn’t crazy about it towards the end. Again, I feel like this relationship began to be too much of an attachment like Aria and Ezra’s. Spencer I liked pretty much equally. In the books she definitely has the worst family and it shows the extent of issues she has and why she continues her mess of relationships and competitiveness. In the show they touch on these things as well but they don’t go nearly as hard but Spencer rises as the leader and you get a sense of her belonging in that role there as well. She is more likable in the show too. I like her relationship with Toby, though it was unexpected, I enjoyed this relationship the most because Toby was a good guy, he treated her well but we got to see them stand alone as strong characters alone. They weren’t as dependent on each other and it took a while to get there. Mona was also equally as good. Though she doesn’t last very long in the books her motive, execution and backstory of how she came to be in the position of being A in the first place was so well thought out and well written as well as the clues. So, even though she goes pretty quickly she is memorable and has lasting effects on all the girls. In the show because this is one of the few big storylines they used from the books it is also well done. And aside from the fact Mona didn’t end up being the 5th liar I really liked the way they handled her continuing story in the show. It proved that someone in the writer’s room knew what they were doing. Though I find it interesting that they seemed to mess up nearly everyone else’s characters so badly when they had material from the books to go off of yet wrote the best for a character that they chose to extend beyond their timeline in the books and had no more material for. The books were definitely better!

The books were confusing, but still less confusing than the show. And the reveal in the end is so much better. Also I like how there weren’t as many A’s in the books. Like the show every few episodes there was a new A and it got to a point where everyone was A at one point. The books were, IMO, really quite interesting

I get it aria can date who she wants but in the books before Alison went missing Hannah would always talk about Sean and how much she liked him so at the same time I can see where Hannah is coming from even if there not that close anymore it still feels like a bit off betrayal in a way

LOVE THIS ANALYSIS (team book-noel kahn & tv-mona being alive) ❤️ Another reason I love the book so much is because it gave a real elaborate backstory as to why Ali (Courtney) befriended the liars, we never saw why/how Ali & the girls first became friends in the show. ALSO Ali is so terrifying in the books!!!

And ezra was writing a book about the girls and he knew aria was a high school student when they first met and put things in his manuscript for the book that aria told him in the privacy of their relationship

If you wrote PLL, how would you have it end? Also subscribe to see pt. 2!

Imagine if they kept the whole thing with Mona up until season 2 but then from s3 the new A is the N.A.T. Club led by Ezra. How iconic would it have been to have a character who we know from day 1 is a creep but then are being manipulated into seeing as a romantic sweet guy actually ending up the big bad? Like the writers literally would have told us from day one but we let ourselves be tricked and then, plot twist. Members include Wren, Wilden and any other known creep. The whole thing escalated from being a creepy stalking club to them basically filming a fucked up reality show aired online. That would work so well with things like the dollhouse episode. Like how messed up would it have been to have that entire thing, them being tortured like that filmed for an online audience? They blackmail members all around the town to help them since they have dirt on everyone via the videos. Some of them come through in the end and help the liars e.g. Lucas, maybe Melissa. Jason did start the club but it was more about spying on his family because they have been gaslighting him for years about one of his first memories ever. He leaves the „Charles“ clue somewhere for the girls to find, giving them the hints to start asking about him and making their way to Jason who would then expose the club. They could even still have the twist with CeCe, but her story isn‘t as convoluted and she isn‘t the bad guy, she actually helps the girls. That way we‘d get rid of that awful trans representation and actually maybe get some decent rep. The person who hits Alison with a rock is a member of the club and Jessica doesn‘t witness it, Alison doesn‘t get buried alive she is left there by her almost killer. She still lives, meets Mona and runs away. Mona by this point is on the liars side. I don‘t know what I‘d do with Alison (and I do love her being A but the Ezra as A theory I have a soft spot for) I also have two possible stories for Aria. 1) either we had gotten our Aria as A plot because by this point she had been manipulated by Ezra so hard she started helping him 2) Ezra had told her about the club by s2 thinking in his own delusion she‘d be on board (not about him being A since by that point Mona would still be A, the N.A.T club being A was something that happens later being inspired by the first A and basically being an escalation because „just peeping“ on girls wasn‘t a big enough thrill anymore, so them terrorizing the girls for clicks is something that happens only from s3 on) mid s1 when Noel sees them and confronts her she still protects Ezra but around s2 after she finds out about the club she actually confides in him not only about the relationship but about the club. From that point on her and Noel work undercover to take down Ezra, in s3 they don‘t immediately connect the club to A because why should they. Around s4 they start suspecting a connection. That would explain Aria being as shady as she sometimes is and seeming like she knows more than the others because she does. In the end we have a huge fallout bc the club being exposed leads to a whole chain reaction of everyone involved getting arrested, Melissa getting in trouble for burying the body, which ofc someone caught on tape, Jenna going to jail for being a sex offender, etc. Is this a perfect theory? No. Is this still better than what the show did? Obviously. Because in my theory there is no „eLlO sIsTaHhH“

i remember i begged my grandma to buy me every book even the last one when it came out i was absolutely addicted the only problem i had with it was tobys death i hated wren and always imagined in my head he looked like keegan instead. (yes i know he’s asian in the books but my middle school self didn’t care) also i loved that the girls lives revolved around more then just A they had their own personal problems and werent a pack they were their own people with own motivations. it made me invested in all their storylines not just one in particular

I've been WAITING for this video!! I absolutely devoured these books in the 7th grade and I thought the ending and villain were so clever, and thank god Aria and Ezra never got nearly as far as they did in the books. I would get a new book every week, and I'd always finish them on the day I got them, I was obsessed!

This is becoming one of my favorite yt channels despite me never watching pretty little liars

I haven't read these books but still I did really feel sorry about Hanna and Mona having so little screen time together. It would have made their break up so much more dramatic. It's never really shown why they are best friends. And take into account that we see so much unnecessary stuff concerning other characters and relationships. I mean these girls haven't talked for weach other for a while and now they're suddenly best friends simply because there are some messages? So Hanna just forgets about Mona??? I can't see how that's possible. Btw thanks for that deep dive! Looking forward for a part 2

I’ll never get over aria ending up with Ezra and that the writers normalized it

You're totally right, I don't know why Hollywood likes to make relationships between underage people with people older than them that has power over them. For example in Teen Wolf I think it's season four, there's this sexual tension between a cop who is probably 25 or 26 in the show and one of the main characters which is like 16, but I forgot she was she was 16 in the show because she was played by an older actress (maybe the actress was like 25) so the first time I saw them I was like "wow they look really cute I hope they end up together" but then I realized, she was under-age, she was probably 10 years younger than him and it doesn't look bad because because when you see them they look cute (because she doesn't looks young) it's not that creepy because you're watching two people with the same age falling in love and it's like okay fine I don't have a problem but if we actually saw a sixteen-year-old girl or fifteen-year-old girl with her teacher, or with a cop, with someone that has power over them it would be really creepy, and nerve-racking and I think we actually need to stop giving attention and love to those kind of plots because it's really cheap, it's really cringey, it's overused and it's so wrong.

Serena, this was the video I was looking for! I wanted to know so many things (that got answered here) -how the girls phydical characteristics and personalities differ - how relationships differ from book vs show. -how the show + the book handles (or doesnt handle) serious relationships, mental health, or other issues. And so much more... Can't wait for part 2! Also I dont know if anyone else is thinking it, but I would love a video or 2 just going in depth on Alison in the show vs Alison (+ Courtney) in the books. Ps: people pls Don't @ me if I didnt spell their names right, it's leg day and im on break lmao😂😂

I love that you are going over the books one by one! I'm so excited for this video! More thoughts to come when it's over, this is literally the video I have been anticipating the most so I'm so freaking excited to watch it!!!

what they did with jenna’s character was pure misogyny. they turn a purehearted victim of bullying AND sa into a mean girl, rapist and bully? i feel like they did it because they wanted to make the liars more redeemable but i hated how the kindest character in the books was a main villain in the tv show.

why does the book emily on the cover look SO much like nicole kidman in practical magic

Yesss I’ve been so excited for this video ever since one of your polls! Thanks for doing this love you and your vids 🤩💗💓💕

Omg ive never been more excited for a video!!!! I LOVED the books. The show really took those storylines and basically ruined them. Especially the twin thing. Which is the biggest and best twist/story in the books.....

You are so great finding at finding ways to keep PLL alive . Well-done with the books too :)

I LOVED emily in the books! the writers will never be forgiven for what they did to her character in the show…

Serena!!! Great to see you 😁 Your hair is fabulous💕 I only read one of the books in the series so I can't really draw the difference between them. Luckily, we are so grateful to have you with your channel because you are brilliant in your analysis. So grateful that I found your channel Serena🙌

Thank God you read them! I was always SO frustrated because the book ending was much more satisfying and they could have just followed them.

Love this video & adore you! great job xox