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Pretty Little Liars is a TV show based on the most selling novels by Sarah Shepard, “Pretty Little Liars”. The TV series, which ran for 7 years total, first aired on ABC Family, which is now called Freeform. It took 160 episodes, one day a week, 45 minutes of my life. To some it caused frustration while others excitement, both leaving us with the desire to see more, a week of waiting was tedious. Pretty Little Liars brought drama, mystery and romance to its viewers.
The show was about four friends, Hannah (Ashley Benson), Emily (Shay Mitchell), Aria (Lucy Hale) and Spencer (Troian Belissario). Their main focus is to find who’s behind threatening messages they receive signed with the letter “A” after the disappearance of Alison (Sasha Pieterse), the manipulative queen bee of the group. The messages say everything only one friend knows, Alison. She is believed to be dead after found buried alive, after having been missing for over a year since the night of labor day.
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The finale for many was frustrating because we felt like the director stopped being interested towards the finale and just put up anything together. I felt like the finale wasn't worth watching the series for years. It turned out one of the main character, Spencer, always had a twin and that was “A”. It was frustrating as not every piece was put together, it didn't make sense why someone's twin would want to hurt her sister’s friends. The twin had no knowledge on the girls, as all she had was a Alison’s journal. The journal which contained everyone's secret. The twin came out of nowhere and it frustrated many of its viewers, like me. Pretty Little Liars is a show that drags you in and won't let you go until you find out what's next. The characters are great actors and the director does a good job on hiding clues, as it is hard to tell who was A and the motives that person has in wanting to hurt each

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