- Title: Pretty Little Liars (Original Sin) – Chapter One: Spirit Week
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Starting out with two suicides in the first 5 minutes and closing the episode with a grizzly murder, the first thing you notice about Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin is how strongly it leans into the freedoms offered on HBO attempting to be a bit more bloody and bold than the original. However, I find the set up for the episode a bit confusing. We get a young girl, ignored at a school dance by a group of popular girls, committing suicide in 1999. Flash-forward 22 years at that appears to be the catalyst for the mayhem that will occur, although our new “A” targets only one of the women from that party (our second suicide) and instead targets the rest of their daughters for reasons yet to be revealed.
We see lots of the same trappings from the original Pretty Little Liars series with A sending text messages, leaving notes, and screwing with the lives of the young girls getting each blamed for something they didn’t do leading the group to band together in the final scene and target who they believe is responsible for all of their troubles in rich bitch Karen Beasley (Mallory Bechtel). Our core characters are the pregnant Imogen (Bailee Madison) whose mother commits suicide early in the episode, her friend Tabby (Chandler Kinney) who is being lusted after by her manager at work, the dancer Faran (Zaria), the quiet Mouse (Malia Pyles), and our bad girl Noa (Maia Reficco) on probation for some yet-to-be-described behavior leading to daily drug tests and community service.
