
It held no weight, as it was dropped and almost completely forgotten when Season 4 began. Likewise, the reveal that Toby is on the A team seemingly changed everything and had fans in an uproar for months before essentially being undone. In the end, it was nobody important that killed Maya, and it still feels terrible that Emily’s best love interest was killed off for nothing but shock value. Germain ( Bianca Lawson) shook things up for Rosewood again, especially as it was teased that Maya's death was connected to Alison’s. This is when, midway through, they decided to extend the life of the show from five seasons to seven, so everything feels like filler by season’s end. The season is dragged down by a number of things, the worst being that it doesn’t hold up well in the grand scheme of the series. Looking back, it doesn’t really stand the test of time. as Alex Drake, Spencer’s long-lost twin sister (also played by Bellisario), is practically a joke, as there are no real emotional stakes and, as with the other villains, Alex’s motivation is laughable and felt so pathetic.Īt the time it aired, the third season of Pretty Little Liars was (mostly) great.

As for the last half of the season, too much time falls on messily starting and wrapping up storylines, like the reappearance of Nicole Gordon ( Rebecca Breeds) that complicates Aria and Ezra’s rekindled romance and Toby ( Keegan Allen) marrying Yvonne ( Kara Royster) moments before she dies. After this, the season quickly fell apart, like when Jenna’s vendetta against the girls randomly reappears, and she attempts to shoot them (while blind!) in an abandoned school. It was hardly the first time one of the girls had killed someone, but this time we really saw how far down the rabbit hole they had come after being tormented. And, the girls accidentally killing Archer Dunhill ( Huw Collins), then scrambling to cover it up remains one of the most thrilling storylines the show ever tackled. The search for Hanna brings out an interesting side of these characters, one we hadn’t seen much of before.

However, the 20-episode season started off strong with Hanna’s kidnapping, after she falsely confessed to murdering Charlotte. The seventh season of Pretty Little Liars was, for the most part, a letdown.
