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Pretty Little Liars: Promo | Pilot [1x01]

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First Good Show About Teens and Technology

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First Good Show About Teens and Technology

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Pretty Little Liars, the teen version of Desperate Housewives but with fewer Emmys for some reason, is coming to an end after seven seasons. "After seven seasons" is being used loosely here since every season was broken up into two half-seasons that were each 10 to 12 hours long. There are also "event" episodes every year on Halloween, Christmas, and other random holidays. Pretty Little Liars doesn't have seasons, so much as it has had a dark, looming, lip-glossed presence for the better half of a decade.

Pretty Little Liars is equal parts Gossip Girl, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mean Girls, and the complete Christopher Nolan oeuvre. It has created fashion trends, reinvigorated the practice of live-tweeting, and eviscerated cable ratings records in its demographic.
'pretty little liars' is the first good tv show about teens and technology
Most importantly: it is one of the first good examples of television about teens and how they live with technology. Life happens on screens, and one of the weirdest, best things the show has done is demonstrate how the seemingly benign gadgets that are meant to make our lives better can be twisted into powerful instruments of torture. Later in the series, the Liars exhibit signs of PTSD, triggered most often by the sounds of cellphones ringing in unison or an alert from a blocked caller ID.

This isn't an after-school special on the dangers of letting your kids have a cellphone, and technology isn't a gimmick: it's the conduit for the monsters of Liars, and it's woven into the plot just like it's woven into your life. Pretty Little Liars is simply an incredibly compelling, very long horror film written by people who know what scares us now. Because what could be scarier than the little slab we rely on for everything, becoming a gateway for our worst fears.

In honor of this incredible show (RIP), I enlisted The Verge tech team, plus the exhaustive Pretty Little Liars Wiki, to identify and analyze every phone that appeared on screen in 149 episodes of Pretty Little Liars.

Season one (2010-2011)

The early episodes of Pretty Little Liars feature phones from all over the spectrum: Motorola RAZRs, which I distinctly remember being Very Cool well into 2009 (especially in pink!) were mixed in with Palm Pixis with weird fake stickers and Microsoft Kins. It's in keeping with the high school cellphone environment I was experiencing at the time, of which the theme was basically "who can have the newest and weirdest looking object in their pocket?"

The iPhone 3G is also present and accounted for, although in my recollection it would have been a fairly extreme luxury for a teen at the time. Only one kid in my class had an iPhone and his entire day was generally spent passing it around for everyone else to play with. Pretty Little Liars - very aspirational!
Aria Montgomery's Motorola KRZR K1 Aria Montgomery's Microsoft Kin One Aria Montgomery's Palm Pixi with fake stickers in the upper corner to look like speaker grilles Spencer Hastings' iPhone 3G Spencer Hastings' HTC HD2 Hanna Marin's Palm Pre Hanna Marin's second Palm Pre, with, according to Dieter "a hellaciously ugly case and slightly fake interface" Emily Fields' Motorola RAZR V3i Emily Fields' Microsoft Kin Two Emily Fields' Samsung Intercept with a fake Palm Pre webOS interface
Season two (2011-2012)

I'm really not sure where all of season two's Palm and HTC devices came from. They were difficult to identify, given their limited screentime and the fake stickers that were slapped on them. That leads me to believe that this is not product placement, even though I can't imagine what else could explain their abundance! Teenagers did not own these phones! As for the HTC HD7 that Spencer wields in season two, I dare you to find me a 2011 teen who had heard tell of Windows Phone OS.

The Samsung Intercept that Emily owns this season is on the mark for me. I have vivid memories of trying to take suitable group photos in dimly lit high school gyms with that thing. I promise you there was not a girl in the US who did not crave and cherish that satisfying "schwick" noise and the subsequent tactile thrill of texting on a full horizontal keyboard.
Aria Montgomery still has a Palm Pixi with fake stickers Spencer Hastings' HTC HD7 Hanna Marin still has a Palm Pre and still has an ugly case on it, but she throws it in a sink halfway through the season Hanna Marin's Motorola Bravo Emily Fields still has a Samsung Intercept Emily Alison DeLaurentis' Motorola V3i Mona Vanderwaal's BlackBerry Pearl A's Motorola Droid has a Samsung Intercept but now it's displaying a fake Android 1.5 interface
Season three (2012-2013)

Ah, this is the era of the iPhone 4S - the first iPhone iteration in my memory that was truly ubiquitous. This is the iPhone of Siri's birth, and its release in the fall of 2011 coincided with my freshman year of college. Of course the trendsetters of Pretty Little Liars had them - every kid on campus had one. The Liars were perpetually in high school, but also perpetually ahead of the curve. This is the same season in which the stylist who did Lucy Hale's nails more or less invented the trend of painting your ring finger nail a different color than the rest of your nails. PLL was at its peak influence, and everyone wanted Hanna's hair:
Aria Montgomery's Nokia E6 Spencer Hastings' Nokia of some kind Spencer Hastings' HTC Titan Hanna Marin's iPhone 4S Emily Fields' iPhone 4S Paige McCullers' Nokia of some kind A's iPhone 4S
It's around season three that we can note a turning point in Pretty Little Liars cellphone choices. They go from odd and unpredictable to, I have to say it, pretty basic. Season three aired during the twilight years of weird and interesting smartphones - right when everything started standardizing into a handful of Android and iPhone options that look and behave roughly identically.

Season four (2013-2014)

I'm very happy to see Aria and Toby's characters clinging to their Nokias in season four, even as more and more of the cast traded their wacky early smartphones in for iPhones. Aria's Nokia E6 was released in the US in May of 2011 and Toby's N8 was Nokia's flagship phone in 2010. That's loyalty, you guys.

Alison has an iPhone 3GS, which was released in 2009, but it almost makes sense because she faked her own death and is living in hiding. Timely phone upgrades are probably hard to come by!
Aria Montgomery's Nokia E6 (a holdover from season three) Spencer went back to the HTC Titan Hanna's iPhone 4S, a holdover from season three Emily Fields' iPhone 4S, carried over from season three Alison DiLaurentis' iPhone 3GS Toby Cavanaugh's Nokia N8
Meanwhile, Hanna's hair is only getting better and more influential.

Season five (2014-2015)
Aria Montgomery's black iPhone 5S Aria Montgomery's white iPhone 5S Spencer Hastings' HTC HD2 Spencer Hastings' iPhone 5 Hanna Marin's iPhone 4S from season three Emily Fields' iPhone 4S, which she has now had for three seasons! Alison DiLaurentis' iPhone 4S Shana Fring's iPhone 4 A's iPhone 5
Aria finally changes teams and upgrades to an iPhone 5S in season five. The Pretty Little Liars Wiki points out that this phone is shown running iOS 6. The 5S came preloaded with iOS 7, so, whoops! Even as the PLL team gets better and better at hair, it gets worse and worse at authentic portrayals of phone operating systems.

Season six (2015-2016)

Everyone has iPhones by season six. Alison is no longer in hiding / pretending to be dead so I don't totally understand why everyone else got the iPhone 6 or 6S and she was stuck with the 4S. It was five years old by the time she swapped it out for a 6S Plus at the end of the season.
Aria Montgomery's iPhone 6 Spencer Hastings' iPhone 6 Hanna Marin's iPhone 6 Hanna Marin's iPhone 6S Hanna Marin's decoy iPhone 6S, which she gets after accruing a stalker Emily Fields' Samsung Galaxy 6S Edge, which gets run over by a car Emily Fields' iPhone 6 Plus Alison DiLaurentis' iPhone 4S Alison DiLaurentis' iPhone 6S Plus A's iPhone 6
In what is perhaps an odd Android vs. iPhone wars statement on the part of the prop director, Emily briefly converts back to the Samsung / Android life before her Galaxy S6 Edge gets run over by a car and she has to get another iPhone.

Season seven (2016-2017)
Emily Fields' Apple Watch Spencer Hastings' Apple Watch
Everyone keeps their iPhones, but two of the girls add Apple Watches to their tech ensembles! I'm not sure that wearing a second screen on my wrist is a choice I would make had I been terrorized by mysterious, violent text messages for most of my life. But it is certainly a choice that was on-trend when the seventh season was filmed in early 2016.
Additional eagle-eyed phone ID reporting by Dan Seifert, Vlad Savov, Paul Miller, and Dieter Bohn.
It seems almost unfair that we won't get the opportunity to watch the Liars grapple with iPhone 7 headphone dongles, but there are only 10 episodes of Pretty Little Liars remaining and it does not make fiscal sense for them to upgrade their phones just before their demise. I will miss them, their hairstyles, and their phones.

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The weird, wonderful phones of Pretty Little Liars

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Pretty Little Liars, the teen version of Desperate Housewives but with fewer Emmys for some reason, is coming to an end after seven seasons. "After seven seasons" is being used loosely here since every season was broken up into two half-seasons that were each 10 to 12 hours long.

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Over the past few years, Pretty Little Liars has provided viewers with never-ending plot lines, more cliffhangers than anyone ever thought possible and, of course, friendship goals. In between figuring out that "A" was Charlotte DiLaurentis this whole time and trying to get the details on who uber "A" is, the Liars have also been part of some pretty stellar romantic relationships.

From the first episode, we're introduced to Ezra and Aria's complicated, sometimes questionable relationship (no apologies - his book-writing motives were sketch). As the episodes ticked on, we saw Emily and Maya get together only to tragically be pulled apart. (Thankfully, Paige came onto the scene and gave us an entirely new Emily-centric couple to follow!) Hanna fell in love with bad-boy-turned-awesome-boyfriend Caleb, while Spencer and Toby stole our hearts.

Needless to say, I'm almost - almost - as excited to see who's endgame as I am to finally learn who uber "A" is and why he (or she) has a beef with the Liars. While fans are still a ways away from either of those reveals, we can debate the relationships. In particular, which Liars have the most amazing pairings, a topic frequently discussed on Bustle's PLL podcast, Taking This One To The Grave.

Without further ado, I present the definitive ranking of every Pretty Little Liars couple:

40. Emily And Ben

Waaaaay back at the start of Season 1, Emily dated Ben. Unfortunately, he turned out to be terrible. (Remember when he attacked her in the locker room?) Bye, Ben.

39. Emily And Sara Harvey

Shower Harvey is as sketchy as they come

38. Tom Marin And Isabel

Remember when Hanna's dad informed her that he was paying for her stepsister's college education instead of hers? Sorry, Mr. Marin. Zero badass points for you.

37. Ashley Marin And Jason

This relationship was just too weird. Sorry Mrs. Marin.

36. Byron Montgomery And Meredith

Besides being the same cliché as Aria's relationship (sorry, Ezria shippers), these two were just not a good pair.

35. Ella And Byron Montgomery

Remember when everyone thought Byron was A? Anyway, he snuck around behind Ella's back and that is not okay.

34. Ashley Marin And Officer Wilden

Ugh, this one is a toughie. One hand, Wilden was creeping around the girl. On the other hand, Ashley, being the best PLL mom ever, dated him to keep Hanna safe.

33. Ella Montgomery And Zack

I liked Ella in cougar mode. Too bad Zack turned out to be the absolute worst.

32. Aria And Andrew

Before Andrew maybe kidnapped the Liars, he was really into Aria. It's a shame that she was still totally in love with Ezra.

31. Ian And Melissa

These two were full of secrets.

30. Aria And Wes

Kissing Ezra's little brother? Tsk, tsk, Aria.

29. Spencer And Ian

Remember that Spencer's original lie was that she kissed Ian? Of course, he was with Melissa at the time - and we all know how that storyline ended.

28. Hanna And Wren

Hanna had a brief fling with Wren, which mostly involved a quick kiss and some medical treatment for her leg.

27. Emily And Samara

These two were cute, but let's be honest: They weren't too memorable as couple. (Although, in Rosewood, uneventful seems to be a rare treat.)

26. Aria And Noel

Can you imagine if these two would have dated long-term? Anyway, they were cute while they lasted, but as we eventually learned, Noel is very suspicious.

25. Ezra And Maggie

Even though this couple was together before the show started, Maggie's relationship-shaking appearance makes them worthy of the list. Points to Ezra for stepping up when she arrived with his alleged child. No points for her sketchiness.

24. Aria And Jake

He was definitely way more into her than she was into him, but he was a nice break from Ezra. (Sorry again, Ezria fans.)

23. Spencer And Alex

Spencer's parents were not into her Romeo and Juliet-esque affair, but these two were cute while they lasted.

22. Spencer And Caleb

I know Spaleb might be happy together in this ~brave new world~ we're calling Pretty Little Liars Season 6B, but everyone knows Hanna and Caleb belong together.

21. Aria And Liam

AND I know that Aria and Liam might be having fun, but everyone knows Ezra and Aria are totally endgame.

20. Hanna And Jordan

Hanna engaged to someone who isn't Caleb? WHY IS ANY OF THIS HAPPENING?!

19. Alison & Dr. Rollins

Although I can't shake the feeling that Dr. Rollins is totally sketch, so far, he and Ali seem fine together.

18. Spencer And Wren

There's no denying that these two had chemistry. Unfortunately, Wren was with Spencer's sister first. and EW.

17. Pam And Wayne Fields

Emily's parents get major points for having to be separated due to his job and still being a model couple.

16. Veronica And Peter Hastings

A true PLL power couple, if ever there was one.

15. Jason And Aria

They couldn't make things work out, but they sure looked good together while it lasted!

14. Aria And Holden

OK, so most of their relationship was for show, but these two were genuinely cute together. Not to mention, they always had each others' backs.

13. Hanna And Sean

Things didn't work out for these two, but Sean was still a pretty decent guy. Also, Hanna found Caleb, so it's safe to say that things worked out for the best.

12. Emily And Maya

Although I'm definitely more #TeamPaige, Emily and Maya's tragic ending broke my heart a little.

11. Ashley And Pastor Ted

Only the best for Ashley Marin.

10. Hanna And Travis

We all mourned when Caleb went to Ravenswood. Hanna passed the time by dating good-guy Travis - although they ultimately parted ways.

9. Spencer And Andrew

They didn't officially couple up, but their strip study session earns them a spot in the rankings.

8. Ali And Emily

This brief, complicated coupling gets a mid-level ranking because, half the time, Alison was manipulating Emily.

7. Noel And Jenna

Rosewood's two shadiest teens are perfect for each other.

6. Aria And Ezra

Aria sticking by Ezra's side when his ex showed up with a child she claimed to be his (but wasn't, in the end) is proof that these guys are endgame.

5. Melissa And Wren

All of the bonus points to this couple for having the good sense to flee Rosewood and the United States.

4. Mona And Mike

Mona and Mike faced more tragedy and upheaval than the average high school lovebirds, but they're kind of unexpectedly perfect together.

3. Emily And Paige

Overlooking the fact that Paige once tried to drown Emily, these two are ridiculously cute. Paige, come back to us!

2. Spencer And Toby

Toby became a cop to protect Spencer. Also, he totally holds his own in a Scrabble game against her, which says a lot.

1. Hanna And Caleb

Even before Ashley Marin's seal of approval, there was no doubt in my mind that Haleb is 's ultimate OTP.

Who else wants a rewatch right about now?
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Every 'Pretty Little Liars' Relationship Ranked From Least To Most Badass

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Over the past few years, Pretty Little Liars has provided viewers with never-ending plot lines, more cliffhangers than anyone ever thought possible and, of course, friendship goals. In between figuring out that "A" was Charlotte DiLaurentis this whole time and trying to get the details on who uber "A" is, the Liars have also been part of some pretty stellar romantic relationships.

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1. Pretty Little Liars' January 2014 season debut was the most tweeted season premiere in history; more than 30,000 tweets per minute were tweeted during the show.

2. Ashley Tisdale was originally slated to star in the series, but she turned it down to star in Hellcats, a short-lived Kevin Murphy show about competitive cheerleading. Whoops.

3. Pretty Little Liars uses some parts of the same set that the Gilmore Girls used. So basically Stars Hollow = Rosewood.

4. Troian Bellisario, who plays uptight, high-achieving Spencer, was actually valedictorian of her high school class.

5. Chad Lowe, who plays Aria's dad, Byron Montgomery, was once married to Hilary Swank. She famously forgot to thank him when she was accepting her Best Actress Academy Award for Million Dollar Baby. They divorced in 2007.

6. Chad Lowe got his start in TV on the ground-breaking show Life Goes On, which chronicled a family with a kid with Down Syndrome.

7. Ashley Benson (Hanna) was the one who suggested the show's theme song "Secret" by The Pierces. "It's just so spooky and eerie, and it's perfect for the show," she said.

8. Aria's boyfriend (and sometimes English teacher) Ezra Fitz's name is likely a reference to Ezra Pound and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The character supposedly is related to F. Scott Fitzgerald and dropped the end of his name to separate himself from his mother-and the author.

9. Alison's signature lipstick shade is Nars' Jungle Red.

10. Alison's last name - DiLaurentis - is an anagram of the phrase "Liars united."

11. Sasha Pieterse, who plays Alison, originally auditioned to play Hanna. She was just 13 at the time.

12. Bianca Lawson, who played Emily's girlfriend Maya in the first two seasons of the show, has been playing a 16-year-old for the past 20 years. She got her start playing a teenager on My So-Called Life in 1994.

13. Spencer's birthday is 6/12/94 - according to a prescription bottle she has.

14. Brant Doherty auditioned for both Ezra Fitz and Toby Cavanaugh before finally being cast as Noel Kahn.

15. Keegan Allen, who plays Spencer's boyfriend Toby Cavanaugh, originally auditioned for the part of mysterious British doctor guy Wren Kingston. Oh! And Wren Kingston's original last name was Kim.

16. Shay Mitchell, who plays Emily, originally auditioned for the role of driven, type A Spencer Hastings. Weird right?

17. Aria's parents might have looked very different: Alexis Denisoff, who starred as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was originally slated to play Byron but the part was given to Chad Lowe before the pilot was shot. And Jean Louisa Kelly was first cast as Ella before the role was passed on to Holly Marie Combs.

18. Aria has cheated on every boyfriend she's had on the show.

19. And Lucy Hale's admitted that she'd actually want to get with Toby. "If I had to pick one in real life, character-wise I think I'd go with Toby," she told Celebuzz. "He's got the whole mysterious thing going on, and he's quiet but still really sexy. That would be my type."

20. PLL Is peppered with Hitchcock references - Rosewood's coffeeshop is called Rear Window Brews, and the Season 1 finale of the show - a struggle in the church tower - paid homage to Hitchcock's Vertigo pretty directly.

21. Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, and Janel Parrish have all had bit parts on The O.C.

22. Ashley Benson's first job was in a Domino's Pizza commercial.

23. She's also one of the silent but bitchy mean popular girls in 13 Going on 30.

24. Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where PLL takes place, isn't actually a real town - it's based on Rosemont, Pennsylvania, an affluent suburb near Philadelphia.

25. Rosemont was also the inspiration for soap opera creator Agnes Nixon's fictional Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, which is the setting for All My Children.

26. Troian Bellisario's father Donald created the TV shows Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS, and she got her start acting on Quantum Leap.

27. Bellisario is also a filmmaker: In 2013, she produced the short film Exiles, which she starred in with fellow PLL cast member Shane Coffee.

28. Pretty Little Liars author Sara Shepard actually appeared on the show once - as substitute teacher Ms. Shepard for Aria's class in the episode "The Homecoming Hangover" in Season 1.

29. None of the TV Liars looks anything like the character descriptions in Shepard's book. In the book world, Aria has black hair and blue eyes, Spencer has dirty blonde hair and green eyes, Hanna has auburn hair and brown eyes, and Emily is a strawberry blonde with green eyes.

30. In the books, Emily's bisexual, not a lesbian.

31. Betty Buckley, who plays Hannah's sassy southern grandma Regina, is the sister of Pretty Little Liars director Norman Buckley.

32. Emily friggin' loves Christmas, as evidenced by the episode "Taking This One to the Grave" where Emily goes crazy decorating her parents' house for the holiday.

33. At 28, Troian Bellisario is actually the oldest Liar. She's actually older than Ian Harding, who's 27, and plays Ezra Fitz.

34. Spencer and Toby were 'shipped up by the show's producers after they noticed how well Troian Bellisario and Keegan Allen got along.

35. In addition to being an actor, Keegan Allen's also a photographer. He's got a book of his photos, titled life.love.beauty coming out in February 2015.

36. Ian Harding (Ezra) and Julian Morris (Wren) are (uh, sort of) DJs too.

37. Spencer used to be a chronic sleepwalker, which doctors at the University of Pennsylvania blamed on stress.

38. The song playing during Alison's funeral during the first episode of PLL? "Begin Again," by Measure.

39. Ironically, Emily Fields' nickname is Killer.

40. Lucy Hale's first television appearance was on the reality singing competition show American Juniors in 2003. She finished in the top five and formed a quintet with the other winners. That led to television appearances and acting gigs with Drake and Josh and Wizards of Waverly Place.

41. She was home-schooled.

42. Hale is also a fashion designer: She designed a limited edition collection for Hollister "inspired by California."

43. Sean Murray, who pays Thackery Binx in Hocus Pocus is Troian Bellasario's step-brother. She also played his sister on NCIS.

44. Shay Mitchell's real first name is Shannon.

45. Tammin Sursok, who plays Jenna Marshalll, is originally from South Africa (though she grew up in Australia), and had to film PLL's most recent seasons around her pregnancy. She has a daughter named Phoenix with her husband Sean McEwen.

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45 Things You Probably Didn't Know About "Pretty Little Liars"

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1. Pretty Little Liars' January 2014 season debut was the most tweeted season premiere in history; more than 30,000 tweets per minute were tweeted during the show. 2. Ashley Tisdale was originally slated to star in the series, but she turned it down to star in Hellcats, a short-lived Kevin Murphy show about competitive cheerleading.

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Rosewood Day is where the liars go to school. On page 61, it says "Above her were the same eggshell white, vaulted ceilings. Below her were the same farm-house-cozy wood floors. To her right and left...

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Read bios for all actors and actresses in Pretty Little Liars.

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Shepard's book series Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game have both been turned into television series by ABC Family (now under the name of Freeform). The Pretty Little Liars series of novels is "loosely based on her experiences growing up in Chester County. The adaptation television series Pretty Little Liars lasted for 7 seasons.

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Sasha Pieterse was 12 when she landed the famous role.

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With Pretty Little Liars being off of our screens until April 2017, there's going to be a very large Rosewood-shaped hole in our hearts for the next few months.

But instead of crying over spilt Spoby blood (too soon?), here are 21 facts you probably never knew about PLL that might tide you over for now.

1. Sasha Pieterse was 12 years old when she landed the role of Alison DiLaurentis. It's been alluded to in interviews that she got a little thrifty with her age in order to actually get the part, and by the time the PLL bigwigs realised how old she really was, she'd already shot the pilot. VERY Alison of her.

2. Ashley Tisdale of High School Musical fame was originally going to star in it, but eventually turned it down for a show called Hellcats, which was about cheerleading (and got cancelled after one season. Ouch).

3. Chad Lowe, who plays Aria's dad, used to be married to Hilary Swank. He's also directed a bunch of episodes of PLL.

4. PLL uses some of the same sets that Gilmore Girls used to shoot on back in the day. The Apple Rose Grille was Luke's diner, and Emily's porch was formerly the Gilmore's.

5. It was actually Ashley Benson who suggested the show's iconic opening song. Surprisingly, "Secret", by The Pierces wasn't written especially for PLL, but Ashley heard the song and immediately thought it was perfect. I hope she got some commission on that bad boy.

6. Brant Daugherty auditioned for the parts of Ezra and Toby before landing on Noel Kahn. We couldn't imagine him playing anyone else, tbh.

7. Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale and Janel Parrish have all appeared on The O.C (at different times). They've been in the biz for YONKS.

8. Sara Shepard, the author of the original Pretty Little Liars books, made a cameo on the show once, playing a cover teacher back in season 1. You've also probably noticed that her latest mystery series, The Amateurs, has been popping up on coffee tables in The Brew during the latest episodes of PLL.

9. Troian Bellisario has directed an episode of PLL for season 7B. It's called "In the Eye Abides the Heart" and is written by Joseph Dougherty.

10. Shay Mitchell's real name isn't actually Shay, it's Shannon. SCANDALOUS.

1 1. Alison's last name, DiLaurentis, is an anagram of the phrase 'Liars united'. God, even her name is mysterious.
12. Back during the casting stage, Sasha Pieterse originally auditioned for the role of Hanna...
13. And Shay Mitchell read for the part of Spencer. The thought of Shay rocking sweater vests is genuinely harrowing.

14. Ashley Benson appeared in the film 13 Going on 30 as one of the mean girls. She dishes out her best side eye beside Oscar-winner Brie Larson.

15. Troian Bellisario's real life fiancé is Suits star Patrick J. Adams, and he even appeared in an episode of PLL back in season 1.

16. Patrick later admitted that the reason he guest-starred on the show in 2010 was to win back Troian, who had broken up with him at the time. Well, it clearly worked.

17. Spoby only became canon for the PLL writers after realising how well Troian and Keegan got on IRL. If that isn't #goals, we don't know what is.

18. Remember Garrett Reynolds, the dodgy cop from the earlier seasons? Well, he played the Italian popstar Pablo in the ICONIC Lizzie McGuire Movie. Mind. Blown.

19. Aria has cheated on every boyfriend she's had during the course of PLL. Probably our favourite fact out of this bunch.

20. Lucy Hale and Ashley Benson played the younger sisters of Robin and Barney on the show How I Met Your Mother. Small world, innit?

21. At 30 years old, Troian is the oldest Liar out of the bunch. She's even older than Ian Harding, which is quite funny considering he played her teacher for a few years. Can someone please tell us which moisturiser she uses?
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21 things you didn't know about Pretty Little Liars

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With Pretty Little Liars being off of our screens until April 2017, there's going to be a very large Rosewood-shaped hole in our hearts for the next few months. But instead of crying over spilt Spoby blood (too soon?), here are 21 facts you probably never knew about PLL that might tide you over for now.

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ABC Family

Cancel Thanksgiving, we're already stuffed.

Excuse us while we go put on our stretchy pants hella early this holiday season because we are so full of Pretty Little Liars scoop after watching the Nov. 24 special, "Flash-Forward," that we almost physically ill. (JK, pass the pumpkin pie, you monsters.)

In the jampacked one-hour special, we got an update on just what has happened to all of Rosewood's residents in the five years since "A" was unmasked and stopped (Charlotte [ Vanessa Ray] is still around though).

Here, we've broken down all the information given to us by showrunner Marlene King, stars Lucy Hale, Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Shay Mitchell and Sasha Pieterse, as well as the bed buddies ( Ian Harding, Tyler Blackburn and Keegan Allen), by each PLL.

Warning, prepare for information overload in 3...2...1...

Aria (Lucy Hale)
After deciding to end things with Ezra (Ian Harding), Aria went to Georgia before transferring to Boston after deciding to switch her major from photography to writing. There, she "finds a love of publishing," which is how she and Ezra reconnect. "They start working together," Hale said. But Ezria fans shouldn't get too excited just yet.

"She's in a good spot, she's in a new relationship," Hale previewed. "She's fallen in love again." The lucky guy? Liam, her co-worker.

Still, Aria might be "in denial that she's fully over" everything that happened to her in the past.

Hanna (Ashley Benson)
After the finale, Hanna and Caleb (Tyler Blackburn) did move to New York City together, living in Tribeca. While Caleb continued his work in the tech world, Hanna went to FIT, studying fashion and interning for Zac Posen before heading off to Europe, where she met her current boss.

"Things didn't really quite work out with her and Caleb she was always one a lot traveling, she didn't really make time for her relationship," Benson said, leading to a split. "While she was in Europe she met her fiancée." That's right, Hanna is not engaged to Caleb, something that upset Benson about the time-jump: "That was the saddest part I ever read, that I was away from Caleb."

Blackburn said fans will see Caleb experience "anxiety" over seeing Hanna again.

Spencer (Troian Bellisario)
Spencer was off the Georgetown after the "A" debacle, with Bellisario saying she "really finally got to focus on her academics." But the distance was too much for her and Toby (Keegan Allen), who stayed in Rosewood and on the police force. "They really just grew apart...you get to take a romance that's been working for six year and watch the moment where it all crumbles."

Now, Spencer works on Capitol Hill and is a lobbyist/"glorified coffee-gofer" with "high political aspirations."

As for Toby, he's inherited "a lot of money" from his house that was blown up by "A," and decided to buy three acres of land outside of Rosewood "to start building his dream home," Allen revealed (And the countdown for a storyline a la The Notebook begins!) Oh, and he ends up saving a woman named Yvonne who will be "an important person in the story and his life," Allen teased.

Emily (Shay Mitchell)
Wanting to get as far away from Rosewood as possible, Emily went to California as it "always held a special place in her heart," Mitchell said. But after the tragic death of her father, she dropped out of school. "It was too much for her," Mitchell explained. "She starts bartending in California."

The most damaged by the past, Emily will return to Rosewood with the biggest secret. "[Aria, Spencer and Hanna] create secrets in our episode back, but Emily come back with a secret, the biggest baggage," Marlene King said.

However, there is one bright spot for fans: In a sneak peek (more on this later), Alison revealed that Emily has at least visited Paige ( Lindsey Shaw) at Stanford. Hope for Paily?!

Alison (Sasha Pieterse)
Alison is now a teacher at Rosewood High School and is happily married...to her sister Charlotte's doctor, Dr. Owen. "He treats her really well," Pieterse dished, adding that the relationship needed to be a secret at first.

Alison and Charlotte have also done a lot of bonding throughout the five year time-jump, which leads to Alison asking the four girls to come back and testify that they no longer feel threatened by Charlotte.

"The girls don't want to do it, but they feel an allegiance to their friend, to each other," Bellisario said.

Ezra
Arguably the most damaged of the entire group? Ezra, who has had an eventual five years, Harding said.

Why? Ezra followed Nicole down to South America and he truly loves what he is doing there. But "that is taken away from him very quickly and violently," Harding warned. Forced to return to Rosewood, Harding said Ezra is "completely rudderless" and has "no sense of who he is and what he's supposed to be doing with his life." This leads Ezra to "fall down a really deep well into a sea of alcohol."

King added, "He's broken."

Other Teases
New BFF alert? Toby and Caleb! Apparently, they are "best best friends" and go fishing each weekend. Caloby 4eva!

Radley Sanitarium is now a boutique hotel. (What is this, American Horror Story?!)

Spencer is now living in the barn from the pilot, the one she originally redecorated before Melissa took it over. Sadly, all of the girls' old bedroom sets were taken down.

Spencer's mom is running for Senate! (We're so glad the Pretty Little Moms were able to escape that basement.)

Two scenes from the Jan. 12 premiere were shown, including one in which Alison and Jason visit Charlotte (with an appearance by Dr. Anne Sullivan [ Annabeth Gish]), and another, far more juicy one, in which Alison and Mona have a not-so-sweet reunion after Mona (who we learn went to Duke and majored in political science) makes a surprise appearance at Rosewood High. We soon learn she tried to sneak in and get close to Charlotte. Why? She's nervous about the secrets and info Charlotte has on each of the girls, and if she will reveal it once she's released.

There was need for a heart-shaped bed for a scene. Speculate away!

As for the new big bad? The girls begin to receive messages again after they all return to Rosewood, but it feels very different-and far more lethal-this time. "It's no longer about 'I'm going to expose some secret that you have,' it's paranoia, it's blackmail, it's a life-threatening situation," Bellisario teased, adding that they know it's not Charlotte behind the creepy messages this time. "It's life or death," King warned.

Phew, enough info for ya? What are you most excited to see when PLL returns? Sound off in the comments!

Pretty Little Liars returns Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 8 p.m. on Freeform, the new name of ABC Family.

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Created by I. Marlene King. With Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell. Four friends band together against an anonymous foe who threatens to reveal their darkest secrets, while also investigating the disappearance of their best friend.

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The noble one

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The characters and opening scene of the pilot episode of Pretty Little Liars, sets the tone and mood for the whole series as a group of four girls try to figure out the disappearance of their best friend, as they receive anonymous notes from the one who holds all of their secrets.