TV: Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars
Drama, Mystery, Thriller

This show is one of my guilty pleasures. It's like watching a teenage version of The Bold and The Beautiful mixed with Lost. I find myself always yelling at the girls for sneaking around and pulling off these massive plans when it would have been much easier if they'd just tell people what the hell is going on. I also tend to rewrite the scenes in my head as they happen... sometimes scenes just aren't realistic and I think of how I would actually do it if I were really stuck in those situations. I just watched two seasons back to back because curiosity kills a Gee and I really just want to know who A is.

Ok, so I had an inkling that Alison (Sasha Pieterse) was alive for quite a while now and finally we get confirmation at the Season 4 mid-season finale (have I mentioned how much I hate mid-season finales? That's just slack guys, you want not one but two finales a season? Ugh!). So she's been alive and doing what exactly for the last three years? Hiding from Ezra (Ian Harding)? Really?! I've been thinking for a while too that it could be one of the boyfriends playing A. I know it's not Caleb (Tyler Blackburn) because of Ravenswood (which is why I started watching this show again, I couldn't figure out how Caleb got there... at least that's all cleared up now). There was a while after Spencer (Troian Bellisario) caught Toby (Keegan Allen) in the hoodie that I thought he was A, but now he's gone all soft... disappointing. But never did it even occur to me that Ezra might be involved!

I thought as well that maybe one of the girls might have been A. I remember my first suspicion was Aria (Lucy Hale) because, well; A and no one would suspect her, ever. Then Spencer went off the rails for a while after finding supposedly dead Toby in the woods and I thought maybe she had turned for real... but of course it was only about finding Toby then. Hanna (Ashley Benson) might be doing it to get back at everyone for calling her fat and not hanging out with her (I know, I rolled my eyes at that sentence too). I don't know why Emily (Shay Mitchell) could be considered... maybe just that is enough to put her under suspicion.

Let's not forget Jenna (Aussie Tammin Sursok) and being all tangled up with Shana (Aeriel Miranda); what is really going on there and who smacked her over the back of the head and left her to drown? Is the other Red Coat CeCe (Vanessa Ray)? Why did she run from Wilden (Bryce Johnson) and who really killed him? Where have Mona (Janel Parrish) and Jason (Drew Van Acker) gone? Speaking of Jason, that older generation actually have some idea what's happening... so next on the never ending list of suspects is Spencer's sister Mellissa (Torrey DeVitto) and her ex-fiance Wren (Julian Morris). What in the world do they know?

I am so freaking confused, dying of curiosity and a little dazed by how ridiculously good looking everyone in this show is... I'm ashamedly addicted and cannot wait 'til January when the season resumes. Meanwhile, I now understand how Caleb ended up in Ravenswood. Guess I'll continue with that...

3 out of 5 Hansels...

(He's so hot right now!)

TV: The Vampire Diaries SE4 EP1

The Vampire Diaries
Drama, Fantasy, Horror

I've read these books by LJ Smith and the show could not be any further from them. Elena (Nina Dobrev) is blonde in the books for a start, she has a little sister not brother and when I say little, I mean she's not even in double digits yet. Also, Meredith (Torrey DeVitto) is actually one of her best friends... in fact, its Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Meredith who Elena hangs out with at school. Caroline (Candice Accola) is a bit more of a bitch too and she doesn't vamp up.

I have no idea why I still watch it... oh wait, yes I do; Ian Somerhalder *swoons* Probably the best casting choice in this whole thing as well, exactly how I pictured Damon. Even though I don't think Nina Dobrev is cast right for Elena, I still like her... Same with Stefan and Paul Wesley. I'd like to see those two in something else maybe.

The books annoyed me too actually. The series just got more and more ridiculous and I think I even got so lost in the fifth book that I stopped reading. If I'm looking at where the show is in relation to which book it would be... if I absolutely had to pick... we are still in the first book. So when Klaus (Joseph Morgan) came along I got really excited, he triggers a whole bunch of things in the books... he does in the show too but not the things I was hoping for, until now that is!

Finally! Elena is dead! You guys have no idea how long I've been waiting for this! Shame it didn't go the way of the books where Elena kills Katherine (also Nina Dobrev)... that's all I'm giving away...I think! Tyler (Michael Trevino) is actually Klaus... but everyone thinks Tyler is dead because Klaus should be and killing him kills his whole line of vampires/hybrids... I don't even know why Bonnie put him there...

Alaric (Matthew Davis) has gone nuts and if he's right, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) will end up going just as bonkers... and now his sister is a vampire what does that mean? Someone put Pastor Young (Michael Reilly Burke) in charge and he seems a bit...uh, righteous? He's arrested the Mayor Lockwood (Susan Walters) and Sheriff Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) and is trying to capture everyone... but we haven't seen Alaric yet? I would have thought he'd be all out and about and taking charge of the town...

Anyway, I'm sick of talking about this...

2 out 5 drowned Elena's...

[Quote] 

Stefan to Matt (Zach Roerig): "No, no, you don't have to live with that, you get to live because Elena put your life before her own. so every morning you get out of bed, you sure as hell better earn it."