Today we’re covering episodes 1.20, “Someone to Watch Over Me” and 1.21, “Monsters in the end.” We discuss dolls, ableist violence, dentist gossip, and being “allies” in our high school GSAs. We try to remember things about the Jackie storyline and lament the fact that the N.A.T. Club doesn’t actually have anything to do with A or the plot. The episode ends with Deepa bringing up something ridiculous Cameron did in 2020. Unlike Cameron, act normal bitches! 

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Deepa’s Musical Analysis
  • “Someone To Watch Over Me” is a song from the 1926 musical Oh, Kay! by the Gershwins
  • Broadway 2 A Day was a challenge that started on tiktok by voice coach Stacy Moscottin in 2021, where she and thousands of other people following along (including Deepa for a few months) listened to two Broadway soundtracks a day for a year! The only thing that comes up online for it now is a single podcast episode made about it lmao but it still seems to be going on discord
Things We Referenced Completely Unrelated to PLL
  • Books that romanticize running away, like My Side of the Mountain and The Boxcar Children
  • Alison Williams sinisterly drinking milk in Get Out
  • The father of fractals is Benoit Mandelbrot
  • The (god)father of recycling is Armen Stepanian, and the sculpture with a dog who has his face is People Waiting for the Interurban in Fremont, Seattle
Fashion Analysis

Cameron loved Mona’s outfit that “looks like Christmas”, while Deepa weirdly enjoyed Aria’s tiger vest with the pleated skirt, because Deepa is a sucker for pleated skirts? Deepa also liked Mona’s teal knit outfit and Emily’s gay leather jacket

Mona is standing in the Marins’ kitchen beaming. She is wearing a black top with white polka dots, covered by a red jacket that is unbuttoned and has wide lapels, as well as a black, white, and red scarf tied into a bow at her neck.
Mona is standing in the Marins’ kitchen beaming. She is wearing a black top with white polka dots, covered by a red jacket that is unbuttoned and has wide lapels, as well as a black, white, and red scarf tied into a bow at her neck.
Aria is wearing a gray and brown thigh-length pleated skirt and a long sleeve dark top with a red knitted vest over it. The vest has a design with three stylized tigers in red, blue, and pink, and there are two buttons pinned at one of the shoulders of the vest.
Aria is wearing a gray and brown thigh-length pleated skirt and a long sleeve dark top with a red knitted vest over it. The vest has a design with three stylized tigers in red, blue, and pink, and there are two buttons pinned at one of the shoulders of the vest.
Mona is wearing large knitted teal hat and a knitted cardigan of the same color, over a top of the same teal with little silver mirrors or plating on it. She is also wearing silver hoop earrings that have long, thin, silver chains hanging from them.
Mona is wearing large knitted teal hat and a knitted cardigan of the same color, over a top of the same teal with little silver mirrors or plating on it. She is also wearing silver hoop earrings that have long, thin, silver chains hanging from them.
Emily is wearing a black leather jacket with a hood over a top that can barely be seen, but is also dark with some kind of shimmery silver pattern.
Emily is wearing a black leather jacket with a hood over a top that can barely be seen, but is also dark with some kind of shimmery silver pattern.

Deepa really, really hated the owl pendant that is the focus of much of episode 20, but also reserved some disdain for Aria’s green embroidered cardigan and Spencer’s Waldo/sailor with a jean skirt outfit. Cameron super-disliked Hanna’s black & red peplum blazer

Close up of pendant laying on pink crepe paper. The pendant is a stylized black owl with pink fake jewel eyes and a torso that is studded with smaller pink and silver fake jewels.
Close up of pendant laying on pink crepe paper. The pendant is a stylized black owl with pink fake jewel eyes and a torso that is studded with smaller pink and silver fake jewels.
Aria is wearing what appears to be a lacy maroon long sleeve dress, but at the top it is covered by a cropped, knitted, short-sleeved cardigan that is buttoned up and is embroidered with flowers.
Aria is wearing what appears to be a lacy maroon long sleeve dress, but at the top it is covered by a cropped, knitted, short-sleeved cardigan that is buttoned up and is embroidered with flowers.
Spencer is wearing a long sleeved white top with thin horizontal red stripes and buttons at the shoulder, and a denim skirt with some kind of embroidery - possibly of trees. She is also wearing a newsboy-ish cap with denim that matches the skirt and a brown leather bill.
Spencer is wearing a long sleeved white top with thin horizontal red stripes and buttons at the shoulder, and a denim skirt with some kind of embroidery – possibly of trees. She is also wearing a newsboy-ish cap with denim that matches the skirt and a brown leather bill.
Hanna is wearing a fully-buttoned up black blazer with diagonal stripes in a red gradient. The blazer also has peplum.
Hanna is wearing a fully-buttoned up black blazer with diagonal stripes in a red gradient. The blazer also has peplum.

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