#PLL twins

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

[hauntedrose555]

Me and my bestie (@whimsyfawn222) core ⋅˚₊‧ ୨୧ ‧₊˚ ⋅

[candyredterezii]

I wish we could just choose the age we wanted to be, and just... stay there. The only way to do that is to die young. Leave a beautiful corpse.Don't joke.It's not a joke. Oh, come on. Haven't you guys ever thought about how deliciously tragic it would be to die in some... incredibly mysterious way? It would be superior.Don't talk like that. It's gruesome. It's not gruesome. It's immortality, my darlings.

Laura Palmer - Twin Peaks // Allison Dilaurentis - Pretty Little Liars

[dxnyarya]

kelly beasley is just cheryl blossom if she didn’t serve cunt

[welivetodream]

TSH but after Bunny's death, the rest of the gang start receiving mysterious messages about their secrets.

Like the twins are sleeping together, they killed the farmer, Richard isn't rich, Francis and Charles have a thing, they tried to escape jail by going to South America, Richard knew about the farmer but kept quiet, Henry and Camilla are secretly involved, Henry tried to kill Bunny with poison mushrooms, Henry and Julian's little kiss, Julian knew about the bacchanal etc.

At first they got these messages, they kept it to themselves. Finding letters and notes in their bags, pockets and books. They kept it to themselves until they went to Bunny's funeral.

And there one of Bunny's nephews runs to them and gives Henry a note addressed to them in a familiar handwriting.

"Did you think you got me buried under the snow? That you got rid of me? I am not gone bitches, I am still here, and I know everything.

- Kisses, B"

[betterbesttvshowbracket]

I got so angry about the organization of the other TV show bracket that I immediately made this account 👍

This competition will be in FIVE parts- four separate brackets for four categories of TV: cult classics, "prestige" TV, sitcoms, and OTHER. Shows like OFMD and WWDITS count as sitcoms for this. Prestige is in quotes because it's not a real genre but this refers to mainly HBO/ AMC/ Showtime/ emmy-bait shows. Cult classics would include mash, twin peaks, buffy, doctor who etc.

"Other" will ultimately be drama shows that aren't "great" enough to be "prestige" but not "bad" enough or old enough to be cult classics. Supernatural and Riverdale are grandfathered into cult classic status due to extraneous circumstances. Shows like PLL and TVD will end up in the "other" category.

The winners and runners-up of these four brackets will fight to the death in the Ultimate TV Show Bracket. Prepare to be patient, I want this to be a really thorough battle for the top spot which means longer poll times to give maximum voting opportunities. I'll try my best to run the four category brackets simultaneously.

Submissions for the first four brackets will last ONE WEEK and then I will be seeding the brackets based on average viewership and average ratings with the highest facing off against the lowest in round one. Expect the first polls to open some time next week.

Let the battle begin! 🎉

[skeletonginger24]

Conspiracy?

[luminouslumity]

New favorite series!

[kurthorton]

im just saying i could do aria justice better than the show ever did and i dont even like aria

[dejwrld]

pretty little liars books were my roman empire

[twinsoftheday]

today's twins of the day are:

alex drake and spencer hastings from pretty little liars

[lostl1sbons1ster]

Fave missing blonde girls

[phantomoftheorpheum]

PLL Reboot & Twins

Okay, first of all, I know this is an opinion that a lot of people aren't going to be on board with, but I've been thinking about this a lot lately and I want to share it, even if most people disagree. I am open to thoughts/feelings, because if I wasn't, I would just keep this to myself.

I know PLL as a franchise has a long history of twin twists, so I understand why people keep anticipating it, and I even understand why including that (beyond the Karen/Kelly storyline in season 1) is something people want to see. I get it. I really do. I think they overused it in the OG, but it is pretty iconic to the show.

I also think twin twists are done terribly more often than they're done well, and the lack of patience and runtime with this show really concerns me in this regard. The thing that makes a twin twist really good or not is all the groundwork building up to it. It's all the clues woven into the story that make it inevitable, that if you didn't realize what was happening before the reveal, it makes you think, "I should have known," and not just because the franchise has a history of pulling twin twists. If it wouldn't work without the audience being familiar with the OG, then it doesn't really work at all, imo.

Considering the structure of this reboot so far (with the main mystery of the show being solved each season), and the limited runtime, I just really struggle to see them being able to pull off all the set up needed for this storyline, unless it's not part of the main mystery (and therefore allowed multiple seasons to develop). The times I've seen this pulled off with extremely limited time also had much smaller casts, and the need to spread the story out between so many characters in this show makes me very wary of them attempting this trope.

When I think about the instances that I've seen a twin twist really work (I won't name any here because that would be inherently a massive spoiler to anyone who hasn't seen any of the works I'm referring to, but I assume you are familiar with the OG and its successes and failures in this regard), it's done in a way where it immediately makes all of the pieces finally fall into place, and when you rewatch, you have a completely new perspective on the material that you didn't the first time around. It doesn't matter if you guessed it partway through or not, because the establishing character and narrative work is so solid that you feel satisfied with that last puzzle piece slotting into place and proving you correct.

It also inherently concerns me that this franchise actually does have a history of using the "secret twin" trope, because I know that they know the audience is on the lookout for it. Based on how they've handled some of the other twists, I worry this would lead to them trying so hard to hide this twist that they know people are looking for, it would come out of absolutely nowhere, with no establishing information. And that's when the twin twist is terrible.

Honestly, I think incorporating this trope into the show in a genuinely satisfying way is a tall task, and while I have seen people have some cool/original ideas about who could have a secret twin and why & what their motive might be for being an antagonist, I haven't seen anyone really get into the details of how they would actually incorporate that twist into the story in a way that provides necessary foreshadowing, without being completely obvious to all viewers. (I understand this is difficult to do without knowing the general direction of where the plot is going, but it seems to me there are a lot of twin twist ideas that are great in theory, but a lot harder to pull off in reality).

I would certainly be intimidated to try to pull that off for a fandom expecting it. Personally, I do think they could accomplish their desired shock factor without it just coming out of left field if this was a fraternal twin twist (particularly if those twins aren't the same gender), where the characters aren't identical and they both get a lot of screen time, we just don't realize they are twins working together until the big reveal (and obviously, as previously stated, in order for any of these versions of the trope to work, you still need really good build up, foreshadowing, recontextualizing of scenes, etc.) where we realize their various backstories/statements/relationships with the family etc. are all about the same family. I actually think that could be really fun (I even think the show has characters inadvertently set up for this version of the twist right now, even though I don't think it's even a little bit on purpose). But it does utilize the twist in a way that is pretty different from how PLL has in the past (where the identical nature of twins is very important). Like I said, personally this is a direction I think could be cool and subversive to what the audience expects from a twin twist, but in many ways it's a different twist in its function entirely, so I don't know if it would satisfy the general audience desire for this trope.

Anyway, under different circumstances, I might be really down for this storyline, but... considering the runtime, format, and size of the cast, I'm just not convinced this trope is right for this version of this show. I'd love to be wrong, though.

[vikingpoteto]

Faran. Faran why are you with this guy and not Kelly. Why would Noa do any of that. Why do these girls keep making worse and worse decisions every episode. It's like they always let the intrusive thoughts win.

[comradecowplant]

Love how the new PLL writers were like okay FINE fans were right to point out that A was never really a slasher villain and continuing to use that moniker for these new villains is a slap in the face to the original evil girlbosses-- Mona, Cece, and Ello Spensah-- who worked 👏 hard 👏 scheming and stooging (sometimes YEARS of preparation!) in order to torture the original liars...... so for these new girls we will call the villains B instead :)

[karihighman]

Sasha Pieterse playing twins in The Image of You is too good! Love the dedication they put into differentiating their looks too! 😇❤️💄😈