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Reactions To The Pretty Little Liars TV Show, Four Years After The Final Book

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Reactions To The Pretty Little Liars TV Show, Four Years After The Final Book
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During the middle school days, the Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard was one of my absolute favorites. Each book left on a complete cliffhanger, so whenever a new one would come out I would be begging my parents to take me to the bookstore so I could find out who was A. I would even reread the books, and once the series was finally completed, I went back and read the whole series once again. I knew there was a TV show of the book, but after watching one episode with a creepy mask at a friend's house, I decided to pass. Fast forward four years after the last book was published, and here I am watching the show from start to finish.

I'm on Season 5, Episode 14 right now, and so far the series has left me with more questions than answers. The differences between the book and the TV show are drastic. In the books, Caleb wasn't even a character, Hanna ends up with Mike, and most importantly, Ali was A and never came back from the dead until Emily faked her death to go track her down. And because PLL can't be talked about without asking this question: Why did the girls always keep what was happening to themselves, or wait to talk to the police until it was too late? Regardless, the books and the TV show are so different that during the first season of the show I found myself looking up parts of the show to figure out what was happening.

The show premiered in 2010, four years before the last book was published, so differences between the show and the books are understandable, but big differences between books and shows or movies continue to be commonplace. In many cases, people don't read the book and watch the show, but as a person who often reads the book and then watches the movie or show months or even years later, I would love to see movies and shows that actually follow the plot of the book. Will, that actually happen? Probably not. After all, I'm totally hooked on Pretty Little Liars, despite so many differences between the book and the movie. But the books still lead up to a totally different but super intriguing ending, and I would've wanted to see that on the screen, too.

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