Things get very Se7en in the Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin teaser
HBO’s Pretty Little Liars spin-off has a pretty little creep at the center
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Since Pretty Little Liars’ premiere in 2010, networks have attempted to create a whole universe where everyone is nice-looking, short, and incapable of telling the truth. Thus far, though, the Pretty Little Liars extended universe has been a bust. There was the supernatural spin-off Ravenswood (axed after one season) in 2014. And who could forget Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (axed after three months) in 2019.
Hellbent on turning this cult TV series into a full-on, real-deal franchise, HBO Max released the teaser trailer for the extra dark and gritty spin-off that looks like something out of a David Fincher movie.
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin is a soft reboot from the original series, featuring new Liars and a new town but in the same universe. Here’s the synopsis:
Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart. Now, in present day, a disparate group of teen girls— brand-new set of Little Liars—find themselves tormented by an unknown Assailant and made to pay for the secret sin committed by their parents two decades ago…as well as their own. In the dark, coming-of-age, horror-tinged drama Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, we find ourselves miles away from Rosewood, but within the existing Pretty Little Liars universe — in a brand-new town, with a new generation of Little Liars.
It seems like HBO is also hoping to engage the fan community before the show premieres. The teaser also features a call for the Millwood tipline, which fans can call to sign up for text updates regarding the “mysterious events happening around town.”
Thankfully, HBO isn’t getting weird with its release dates. Oh, wait, they are! Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin premieres with three episodes on July 28. Two new episodes will air on August 4 and August 11, with the final three coming on August 28.
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omg the return of “board shorts” and “red coat” I hope!I think the original worked so well because it was truly campy in the sense it had no idea it was camp (at least the first few seasons).
but also every time the Liars got a text from A and read it out loud in perfect sync with each other.
I’m a bit more willing to give this a chance due to King not being the showrunner as I think that original show was a really intriguing example of how to fail at being that in a mystery. Like it was clear that her constant ambition was to beat the audience, even I think admitting that they changed logical solutions to mysteries because some fans had guessed where they were going. Which is one hell of a way to write a mystery.Although it does still kill me that even Lucy Hale thought that Aria was A.
The original PLL was highly ridiculous for many reasons (y’all remember that Aria had a Microsoft Kin as her phone for awhile?) but the one thing it had going for it was a hell of a main cast. I don’t at all understand how Lucy Hale was the big breakout star from that show and not Troian Bellisario, and if you haven’t seen Shay Mitchell in Dollface you are missing out. So these young women have big shoes to fill. The writers should just get all new shoes though.
Ravenswood was hot garbage (who thought Caleb was interesting enough to carry a show?) and I didn’t bother with the other one, but I’ll probably give this a shot, if only because the A taunts/kills should be more grim on HBO Max.
really some great actresses(I’ll admit, Mitchell didn’t earn those chops till after the show th0), they seemed to know how to teeter on the edge of the drama/ridiculous of it all. Sasha Pieterse is one of the funnest “mean popular girl archetype” performances out there.
The thing that cracked me up about Sasha Pieterse was that she was WAY younger than the rest of the cast but they seriously looked like they were actually intimidated by her. She was mean girl perfection.