Episodes 1.02 & 1.03: "Sometimes the Truth Is Worse"

Don't Forget the Chickpeas

In this episode, we covered episodes 1.02, “The Jenna Thing”, and 1.03, “To Kill A Mocking Girl”, featuring a whole lot of ableism, a bunch of new characters showing up (and one immediately leaving), the first of many parties at Noel Kahn’s cabin, us being forever angry about abusers and the carceral nature of this show, whether sports are about winning, and more!
Episode Transcript: Read it on Buzzsprout!
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Corrections:

• In talking about the bomb that Alison throws into the garage where Jenna is, Deepa keeps saying “smoke bomb”, but what Deepa meant (and what the show actually says) is that it’s a stink bomb. We still don’t understand how that made a fire though
• Deepa refers to a school dance they’ll go to in a future episode - where Hanna keeps dancing with Lucas - as Homecoming, but it’s actually a different dance

Fashion Analysis: Our best and worst outfits!

Things We Referenced Only Sort Of Related To PLL:

• Center Stage and Jody Sawyer's bad feet
• Rock of Ages and Diego Boneta, who plays Alex on PLL, being cute (if you haven’t seen the movie, you should at least watch this scene)

Things We Referenced Completely Unrelated to PLL:

• How to Get Away with Murder and how Annalise chose the Keating Five (we were wrong about Connor and Michaela, sigh)
• The Seattle Storm’s rebuilding season in the WNBA
• The Sound of Music and Maria’s blue dress (slide 9), which doesn’t actually look anything like Hanna’s mermaid shirt, Deepa is just bad at fashion (also Deepa says Maria danced with Friedrich, which is also incorrect)

Postscript: This is not covered in the episode, but Cameron realized that Boyfriend Ben is played by the same actor as Coach Ben in Yellowjackets and would love to hear if anyone has an unhinged theory about that: [email protected]

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