Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists TV-Show Review 2019 Cast Crew
Creator: I. Marlene King
Stars: Sasha Pieterse, Janel Parrish, Sofia Carson
Almost all the scenes of "Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists" tell a specific story: this is a series that wants to be "Pretty Little Liars: All Grown Up". It's an interesting option for a split, considering the fact that the final and middle season of "Pretty Little Liars" included a five-year time gap to be exactly that, a more mature version of the series. But that transition was relatively easy to swallow, because after all the abuse and trauma that the liars (as well as everyone in their general orbit) suffered at the hands of all possible versions of the omniscient "A" cybernorman, those characters seemed to have Already Mentally aged long, long ago.
This series does not have those years of torment plaguing its new characters. But he really wants his audience to know how mature they are and their characters.
Like "Pretty Little Liars", "Marlene King" adapts for television a novel ("The Perfectionists") by Sara Shepard. The book was not a spin-off of "Pretty Little Liars," but in doing so for television, King provided a hook for the devoted audience of the original series to follow and invest in these new characters. The hook are the two tracks of the series, the antiheroes who steal the scene (and, sometimes, cheeky villains) from "Pretty Little Liars", Alison DiLaurentis (Sasha Pieterse) and Mona Vanderwaal (Janel Parrish).
The end of "Pretty Little Liars" saw Alison's redeeming arc, which continues here with its de facto protagonist role. Mona, on the other hand, finished that series in France with two Big Bads of the series imprisoned in her basement "Dollhouse", an important end point of the series that this spin-off refers to as part of Mona's official presentation. (That's the patented folly of "Pretty Little Liars" at work.) While Alison has lost the edge she once had, anyone familiar with "Pretty Little Liars" will be happy to see that Mona is still so shaded, astute, and devouring landscapes as it always was. Only now, it is in a more sophisticated and adult way. This show is set in a university, after all.
And in an important victory of the series, he films in Portland, Oregon, which means that the obvious backlot sets and green screens with which he had to work "Pretty Little Liars" throughout his career have been around for a long time.
The college look of the series is a key component of why "PLL: perfectionists" feels like it's trying to look mature. Shepard's novels are actually focused on teenagers, set at Beacon Heights High, which becomes the University of Beacon Heights for the show. But after six seasons of spectators who questioned romantic relationships between teenagers and teenage men in "Pretty Little Liars," it makes sense that King just wants to avoid all that drama and make sure these characters are at least 18 years old. But just as most sets of high school ensembles are so different from the experience of a high school, "PLL: The Perfectionists" is essentially a series of college ensembles for a young audience that has not yet had any experience. real university
The student body of Beacon Heights is the best of the best, perfectionists holders, who know nothing but exceptionalism and pressure. The series focuses on another clique: the aspiring designer / hacker Ava (Sofia Carson); the daughter of the next potential president of the United States, Caitlin (Sydney Park, the standout of the young cast); The prodigy of the gay cello Dylan (Eli Brown). The three are technically friends, all connected by Nolan (Chris Mason), an important man on campus, a possible sociopath and someone who has no problem blackmailing these people to realize they are his friends. Nolan is untouchable, like the son of the founder of the university, Claire Hotchkiss (Kelly Rutherford, who challenges Janel Parrish for the most entertaining performance of the series). In fact, the name of Hotchkiss is very important in this series, since Hotchkiss Technologies feeds the Big Brother-esque security system that keeps Beacon Heights University as "the safest campus in Oregon".
That is, until one of them ends up murdered, the first murder in the history of the small university city. Each character has a motive, so the mystery begins. And just like "Pretty Little Liars," "PLL: The Perfectionists" is far from being subtle with its pop culture and its literary references and inspirations, much less in depth than in "Riverdale," a show that demonstrates the success that there's still room for more than any program like "Pretty Little Liars," it's in The Perfectionists "is far from subtle with its pop culture and its literary references and inspirations, let alone in depth that" Riverdale ", a show that is a success shows that there is still room for more than any program like" Pretty Little Liars " "On that same front, so it's not surprising that the novel that Alison teaches from the beginning (in a university class) is Agatha Christie's classic," And then there was none. "However, in one touch of self-consciousness, one of the series The characters say: "The author was not subtle".
As easy as it may be to forget, "PLL: The Perfectionists" is not the first spin-off of "Pretty Little Liars". During the fourth season of the original series in 2013, "Ravenswood" appeared, a series that brought the supernatural and direct elements of horror (instead of just references) to the universe. Canceled after a season of 10 episodes, "Ravenswood" just confuses things with "Pretty Little Liars". "PLL: The Perfectionists", at least, manages to be a spin-off to take place after "Pretty Little Liars" The story is officially over, while the initial flaw of "Ravenswood" was the split of a character that was in a serious relationship with one of the main liars, and then he hoped that the 'rabid' audience of the series would be reversed in their strange will to win 'T-They relationship with a ghost girl.
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