18 photos in galleryHere’s my issue with this show, which the same issue I have with Pretty Little Liars (which I also really enjoy): I have seriously no idea what’s happening, exactly, ever. All the I HAVE SECRETS and WE DON’T KNOW and WE AGREED NOT TO TALK ABOUT THAT EVER and I’D SAY MORE BUT NO are really fun for a while but then you realize you have literally no idea what the hell is happening. Sometimes, Truths Must Be Revealed To the Audience or you get into WAY too much of a confusing plot — and things that are supposed to be thrilling reveals are not, simply because you forgot what means what anymore. That being said, this show is fun, even if I can’t really explain it to you. All you really need to know is that Sutton is still a TOTAL bitch who is terrible to everyone, and she and Emma are still swapping lives when it makes sense to do so; she and British Dude had some kind of awkward post-loss-of-mutual-virginity face-off back in 9th grade and she might be trying to steal him from poor Mads; Emma is a saint; ABC Family has decided to let the actress who plays Laurel sing with her actual band, on the show, which is going to be tiresome; Adrian Pasdar SEEMS evil but is basically just ruled by his junk; and Cordelia Chase IS evil, and is probably (I think) Sutton and Emma’s real mother. I do LOVE Evil Cordelia Chase. Let’s just look at their outfits and not worry so much about plot, shall we?*
*PS: I still have no idea what “a lying game” actually is, and people on this show talk about them like they’re something we’re all familiar with, like basketball. If she’s “playing a lying game,” WHAT ARE THE RULES? Or is that just a fancy way to say, “she’s just f-ing with you, dude”?
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Yes I wore opera gloves with my Jessica McClintock prom dress in 199mumble but I NEVER wore cocktail dresses or lace/sequin pencil skirts to HIGH SCHOOL! Is this Gossip Girl’s fault, or just television in general, or am I just so old and all these teen fashion plates really are normal?
There is nothing normal about the way these girls dress to go to school! I was lucky enough to go to a private school where we wore uniforms; I can’t imagine having to come up with different outfits to wear to school every single day!
I actually do love Laurel’s school cocktail dress (and the dress with the thigh-high boots, but not the boots themselves); Mads’ pencil skirt and black top; and Sutton’s sequined skirt outfit, but for school?? Look, I went to a private school in which everyday was a like a fashion competition in the 80s– yes, the 80s with its flashy clothes, big jewelry and big hair, etc. I do remember a plethora of rhinestone studded belts and a lot of satin blazers; (ugg, don’t ask!) but no one ever wore a sequined skirt or cocktail dress to class!
You mentioning your mother wouldn’t let you wear Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman boots is hilarious – when I was out shopping with my mom I found a pair of boots I loved that were over the knee and my mom physically dragged me away, and I’m 3mumble. So apparently even at my advanced age, my mother isn’t letting me wear Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman boots either! LOL.
I agree with you! There comes a point in these shows where you have to give us something. Stop hinting around “the truth” and just tell us who their real mom is or what this mystery was when Sutton’s parents and Alec were in school. I mean we found about nefarious Justin’s beef with Laurel’s dad was which was lame. Plenty of shows succeed without this constant “mystery”. And I agree, WTH is a Lying Game? I think it’s when Sutton plays tricks on people or starts rumors but they’ve never gotten into it. I just want Emma to reveal herself to the parents and they adopt her and then they can figure out all this other stuff. In other news, Mads’ socks with shoes made me want to stab my eyes out.
“SEX LIES AND VIOLIN TAPE” made me chortle audibly at work.
I love Lauren’s grey shirt & silver skirt outfit sans hooker boots! Love Mads’ black shirt & white pencil skirt outfit sans YELLOW SOCKS FROM HELL with mary-janes! And, love Emma’s white bluse & silver sparkly shiny skirt! WANT!
You’re right, Jessica, “the lying game” is something Sutton does in which she lies her ass off and f*cks up with people’s minds, like Pretty Little Liars’ “A” does! If Evil Cordelia Chase turns out to be their birth mother, I guess we know where Sutton gets being a total bitch from! And, Emma IS a saint!
The lying game aspect of it is left over from the books, which are much much darker. In the books (****SPOILER FOR BOOKS****) Sutton is dead and Emma is being forced by the unknown murderer to impersonate Sutton. The lying game was a game Sutton and her friends played that basically involved emotionally and/or physically terrorizing everyone. Emma is trying to find out who killed Sutton, but she has her work cut out for her because everyone hates Sutton so all her friends/family are suspects. The lying games had some rules involving not causing people significant physical harm, I think, but a lot of those rules were broken as Sutton and her friends were always trying to top each other.
They are highly amusing reads if you are bored at work, but they are basically about teenage sociopaths. The show is obvs much lighter, which is fine, but it loses a lot of it’s noirish tone as a result.
I looked at my copy of the first book and the rules of the lying game are:
“1. Don’t tell ANYONE. Telling will be punishable by expulsion!
2. Only three people allowed in the club at one time. (But someone had crossed out three and written four above it.)
3. Every new prank must be better than the last. Those who outdo one another earn a special badge!
4. If we’re really in trouble, if it’s not a prank, we will say the sacred code words: ‘Cross my heart, hope to die.’ This means 9-1-1!”
How come they don’t ever have backpacks?
The game is that one of the ladies is secretly a MAN, and Boy George sings a beautiful theme song…No, sorry, that’s the Crying Game.
All I can add is that the evil older woman certainly had menacing eyebrows.
How is this different than Ringer??
Because Ringer tells you flat out everything that is going on, it just doesn’t make much sense anyway.
I graduated high school in 2006, and I promise you, this is NOT what we were wearing. It was a personal point of pride for me that I wore actual pants to school every day – plenty of girls, including the most popular girls and the cheerleaders, came in sweats half the time. (And those stupid hideously unflattering messy buns that are basically folded-over ponytails.) Now, I was wearing overalls and three-sizes-too-big shirts up until 2005, so I was definitely not stylish, but I was CLOTHED and that was a victory. So these are all super weird to me.
OH MY GOD, I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME! Sorry to shout, I’m just so excited to learn that I am not just a complete idiot for ever having any idea what is going on on PLL. Also, it’s extra confusing to me because all young white men look the same to me. (Is that racist?)
I love that last outfit. Can we ship to me posthaste? My address is 2400 NWmumble.