She also knows that the lion/lamb messaging with the sheet music means “A” she and Toby should visit Dr.
Spencer knows what creepy stuff parents of dead children used to do in the nineteenth century. As usual, Spencer crash lands in Aria’s fantasy with a little dose of reality: “News flash, honey: none of us are graduating.” Then again, Wren is a medical doctor who misspelled “diagnosis.” Does he know there’s a perfectly mediocre English class at Rosewood High in which he could enroll?Īria begins this episode by expressing her desire to graduate. He even bested Veronica - that is, for now. Shocking, I know, but someone has to do it. Maybe it’s that syncopated British speech, maybe it’s the way he looks after pulling that three-day shift at the hospital - with the loosened tie and disheveled hair, it’s all very “I’m Phineas from A Separate Peace and I just pulled an all-nighter climbing trees and frolicking on my idyllic boarding school campus” - or maybe it’s just that, unlike the guys on this show who exist so far outside the universe of the central PLL plot they may as well be orbiting a different sun (see: MAJ, Ezra, the boyfriend who took Aria’s mom such a great distance from the main story line they wound up in Austria), Wren actually participates in and contributes to the primary mystery of the show. “Take those trollop-y lips of yours back across the Atlantic this instant!”Īnd yet, I cheered when I saw Wren make his return to Rosewood. “Begone, sluttiest tramp in Harlotville!” we could have cried at our television screens. If we were reasonable people (clearly, given our astonishing attention to the details of this drama, we are not), we might have written Wren off then and there. Wren’s meet-not-so-cute with the viewers of PLL, way back when in the pilot, set him up to be one of the douchiest men alive: He made the moves on his fiancée’s kid sister. Wren sees to it that our rock star is accused of “obstruction of justice.” All I can say is that if I were justice, I would not want to be obstructed by Veronica. This is her “ I am the one who knocks” moment, and it is everything I dreamed it would be. “I have ways to see to it that you rot in a cell until your hair turns gray. Mona tries to keep her cool but pulsing through the veins of Veronica Hastings is liquid freaking nitrogen. The building would explode behind her as she departed like the action hero she is destined to become. She could drop the mike right then and walk out. Am I right? You know what? So do I.” Amazing. “I get the feeling that you make a lot of people nervous. (Listen closely to this scene and you can hear the sound of a man yelling: “ That’s what the money is for!”) Liston level sparring, so much so that I believe somewhere, while this tête-à-tête is taking place, a lady whippersnapper and her sociopathic boss are having an epic argument of their own. This right here is the kind of battle that a power ranker such as I could wait my entire recapping career to witness and never catch.
Veronica tells him to GTFO of her kitchen. “Not going to debate that,” snaps Veronica.
“I know my history with the Hastings has been a bit rocky,” says Wren, Grand Utterer of Understatements. Hastings is so powerful this week she’s graduated from the title of someone-else’s-something (namely, “Spencer’s mom”) and earned her rightful place, by her one true moniker, atop the PLPR. Veronica Hastings (last week: not ranked) Last week might have been Emily’s surprise party, but it was last night’s episode that delivered the real surprises: Wren is getting his villaining on, Emily is playing house in Ali’s shrine, and while you may have expected even the slightest mention of the whole “Jenna got clubbed in the back of the head by an as-yet-unnamed attacker and nearly drowned in a lake” incident, it somehow slipped every Liars’ mind! But why dwell on pesky things like plot continuity when we have our Pretty Little Power Rankings to discuss?ġ. Photo: Ron Tom/? 2013 Disney Enterprises, Inc.