Pretty Little Liars

Using recaps found via Google and the five episodes up on Hulu, I have successfully been introduced to the world of Pretty Little Liars. I am extremely excited to follow this show, though I am hoping desperately that it doesn't go on for too long - the problem with mystery-based shows is that once the mystery is solved, it's nearly impossible to keep them going, so you have to just keep extending the twists and turns in order to squeeze more seasons out, and honestly, it gets tedious after awhile.
Setting aside my fears for the future, it's actually a pretty good show, and has helped me to figure out my strange addiction to House of Anubis: Anubis has mystery but no suspense or terror, whereas I legit screamed like a small child multiple times when I was watching the 5 episodes on Hulu. In some ways that's good and bad: I never feel the need to skip ahead or close my eyes during Anubis, which is a plus since I hate really scary things. However, it also makes the entire show seem silly and pointless, because I'm really not that invested in the characters or the story. Meanwhile, Pretty Little Liars is absolutely terrifying, and made me call my sister into the room just so I wouldn't be alone while certain scenes were going on.

As far as I can tell, just based off of the Wikipedia synopses (synopsese? synopsisses?), the books and the show differ remarkably in terms of plot. Judging by the brief glimpse I got from the aforementioned synopses, I'm glad. The book plots sound even more complicated, and less likable. This is mainly because it makes me really glad that in the television show, it doesn't seem as though Toby was abusive/raped Jenna, though I may be proven wrong later. Also, he didn't kill himself whichis good, because Keegan Allen is attractive. Not all the time, as sometimes his hair in this series needs a serious haircut/someitmes he looks seriously creeptastic, but other times...yes, please. Noel is also attractive, though perhaps a little too...put-together? I don't know what the word I'm looking for is, but there's something about him that bothers me. He's just a little too generic.

Pretty Little Liars also has a plethora of look-alikes on the show. Besides Jenna, who's the girl from Spectacular!, that musical that Nickelodeon did about a show choir (yes, it was before Glee), which I was mildly in love with, despite the unfortunate haircut of the main guy, and which led to the following video clip:

(which I was also mildly in love with. I also may have had bad taste, I don't know, STOP JUDGING ME.)
Anyway, besides her, there's also a Shia LaBeouf lookalike (who, it turns out, was in that made-for-tv Disney movie, The Luck of the Irish):

 And a Dean-aka-the-one-boyfriend-from-Wizards-of-Waverly-Place lookalike:

 THEY COULD BE THE SAME PERSON.

(Also, this is why I have the IMDB app on my phone. So I can look up what these people have been in previously.)

 

Pretty Little Liars has also led me to The Pierces. After hearing that intro for the first time, I immediately downloaded the entire album. I wish all of their songs were as creepy as Secrets, but they really aren't half bad.