Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Time to bring your A game.
Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they begin receiving messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 8 June 2010 |
| Status | Ended, last episode 27 June 2017 |
| Genre | Drama, Mystery |
| Created by | I. Marlene King |
| Starring | Lucy Hale, Troian Bellisario and Ashley Benson |
| Seasons | 7 seasons, 161 episodes |
| Episode length | about 44 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 118 hours |
| Rated | TV-14 |
| Scores | TMDB users 8.0/10 |
Where to watch Pretty Little Liars
Pretty Little Liars is streaming on Hulu ($18.99 a month) in the US. It is also on Max ($18.49 a month). At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 3 months of Max, or $55.47 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
Pretty Little Liars is a drama mystery that runs on the premise that everyone is lying and someone is keeping score. Created by I. Marlene King, it follows four former best friends who are haunted by a mysterious figure known only as “A.” The hook is simple: you are watching to see who is protecting whom, and who is about to get burned. It is 7 seasons and 161 episodes long, totaling 118 hours of watching secrets unravel. The pacing is deliberate, letting the tension simmer before it boils over. It is a long haul, but the payoff is the chaos itself.
What the critics said
The pilot landed in that awkward spot between promising and predictable. Metacritic scored it 54 out of 100 based on 14 reviews. The New York Daily News saw potential, noting it "makes most popular vampire romances look anemic." The New York Post was more cautious, calling it "half-good, if that makes sense," provided you skip the first 15 minutes. Not everyone was charitable. Entertainment Weekly gave it a D−, imagining the pitch as a not so subtle mix of I Know What You Did Last Summer and Gossip Girl. Later seasons found their footing, earning acclaim for the ensemble cast even as the plot twists drew complaint.
How it did with audiences
The TMDB user score sits at 8.0. That is a solid number for a show built on secrets. No box office figures exist, because this is television. The audience was distinct. A 2016 New York Times study found that over 94 percent of the show's Facebook Likes came from women. That demographic skew was unique in their dataset. It also became the most watched series on ABC Family. It held an average of over 2 million viewers. The channel never had another show do that. The data points to a specific, loyal fan base.
What came next for the cast
Lucy Hale stepped out of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, then landed in Scream 4. Ashley Benson moved from 13 Going on 30 and Bring It On: In It to Win It into Pixels and Spring Breakers. The timeline shows where they went, not why. Credits record the sequence, not the cause.
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Sources
- Pretty Little Liars on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q32450 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Pretty Little Liars” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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