Welcome to Don’t Forget the Chickpeas, a Pretty Little Liars rewatch podcast about the things we love and hate about the show, everything queer we can possibly discuss, the best and worst outfits, the best and worst parents, our love for Heather Hogan, and chickpea recipes!  In this episode, we discuss the pilot episode of Pretty Little Liars.

This podcast is hosted by Cameron (she/her) and Deepa (no pronouns), and we have been friends for…jfc, over ten years? And PLL has been a core part of our friendship basically since the beginning. Now that we are back to being long-distance friends, we’re rewatching PLL together and sharing our commentary!

Some things to note from the start:

  • This is a rewatch podcast – it’s our fourth time watching the show, and we have watched all of the spin-offs at least once as well, so we will be spoiling things from across the PLL television universe.
  • We love PLL dearly, but there are a lot of things we dislike about the show and are super critical of, including but not limited to the ableism and sanism, the anti-Blackness and other racism, the transmisogyny and transphobia, the fatphobia, Ezra and every other abuser on the show, and much more. If you are into any of those things – well, yikes, but also this is not the podcast for you!
Chickpea Recipe
Things We Referenced Related to PLL
Fashion Analysis

Our best outfit for the pilot was, shockingly, this dress Aria wears with a cute black leather jacket and boots

Aria is looking in the mirror, wearing a black, red and purple dress with a long necklace.
Aria is looking in the mirror, wearing a black, red and purple dress with a long necklace.
Aria and her father Byron are in the middle of a tense conversation. Aria is now wearing a black leather jacket over her dress and carrying a satchel.
Aria and her father Byron are in the middle of a tense conversation. Aria is now wearing a black leather jacket over her dress and carrying a satchel.

And our worst is… the infamous Yellow Top that basically everyone in Rosewood was wearing that night. It’s not even a good top!!

Alison sitting in a dark space and laughing while wearing a yellow top.

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