In this episode, we covered 1.04, “Can You Hear Me Now”, and 1.05, “Reality Bites Me”. We get our first Alex (yay!) and a new dad (boo). We discuss Toby’s masculinity, Mona’s love for Hanna, shoes on furniture, and strategies to cope with watching Ezra’s scenes. We also spend way too much time talking about Homecoming even though the dance doesn’t happen in either of these episodes. “Follow me, end up like me!”

Chickpea Recipe
Corrections
  • This will come up in the next podcast episode, but Deepa and Cameron are both incorrect in saying that Melissa doesn’t give out the Homecoming Queen crown in the Homecoming episode
  • Deepa’s also incorrect in saying that Maya won’t be around for a while after these episodes
  • Cameron briefly mentions a reference made to Dissociative Identity Disorder in one of the episodes, but uses the older term “Multiple Personality Disorder”
Deepa’s Literary Analysis
  • Deepa tried to find a good disability studies analysis of To Kill A Mockingbird but the best thing Deepa could find was this book that appears to have two interesting essays on the topic (chapters 13 and 14)
Things We Referenced Related to PLL
  • In case you didn’t know, the actor who plays Ezra’s college friend Hardy (who was later one of the stars of Suits) is married to Troian Bellisario
Things We Referenced Completely Unrelated to PLL
Foot Vision
  • An artist’s rendering (so that we don’t have to show our actual feet on the internet)
Photo of a mounted television where Pretty Little Liars is playing, with the scene onscreen of Ezra saying to Aria, "Hate you?" On top of the photo, a light brown foot has been crudely drawn in Microsoft Paint, lifted up to block out Ezra's face.
Fashion Analysis

Our favorite outfit was Hanna’s cute beachy dress that she wears to school (and, inexplicably, changes out of for a less cute dress to see her father that evening, but maybe Tom doesn’t deserve her better dress)

Hanna shown from the waist up in the school cafeteria, wearing a short-sleeved dress with vertical stripes (possibly pleats?), cinched at the waist with brown belt. She is also wearing gold earrings and a long gold necklace that goes down past the belt.
Hanna shown from the waist up in the school cafeteria, wearing a short-sleeved dress with vertical stripes (possibly pleats?), cinched at the waist with brown belt. She is also wearing gold earrings and a long gold necklace that goes down past the belt.
Hanna wearing the same dress, but from a wider shot that show it goes down to her knees; she is standing outside talking on the phone, and she is carrying a large, light blue fake leather bag.
Hanna wearing the same dress, but from a wider shot that show it goes down to her knees; she is standing outside talking on the phone, and she is carrying a large, light blue fake leather bag.

Our least favorite was the outfit that Aria wears for basically an entire episode, which has far too many layers for our liking, and which Cameron referred to as “hobbit fashion”. We did also hate Aria’s peplum outfit as well, so that was a close runner-up!

A wider shot of Aria standing in her living room. Her full outfit is a long-sleeve white shirt covered by a short-sleeve dress that is gray at the top and plaid at the bottom. On top of the dress appears to be a fuzzy reddish shrug or cover, and on top of that is a satin-y pale pink ribbon tied in a bow around Aria's waist.
A wider shot of Aria standing in her living room. Her full outfit is a long-sleeve white shirt covered by a short-sleeve dress that is gray at the top and plaid at the bottom. On top of the dress appears to be a fuzzy reddish shrug or cover, and on top of that is a satin-y pale pink ribbon tied in a bow around Aria’s waist.
Close-up shot of Aria's upper body, where you can see that along with the white long-sleeve shirt and fuzzy dress on top of it, she is also wearing a necklace with a pendant that looks like an animal's tooth covered in gold enamel.
Close-up shot of Aria’s upper body, where you can see that along with the white long-sleeve shirt and fuzzy dress on top of it, she is also wearing a necklace with a pendant that looks like an animal’s tooth covered in gold enamel.

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