In this week’s episode, Season One Episode 14 ‘Careful What U Wish 4’, opens on that video of Alison which Lacey by now is tired of seeing. The girls are studying it with varying reactions ranging from questioning (Hanna) to downright devastated (Emily). Although they all seem to want to take it to the police, they can’t help but bicker. Enter Ian in his first of many creepy appearances. Despite his face being RIGHT THERE on the laptop the whole time, he either doesn’t notice or doesn’t care about the incriminating video. Still the girls, and Lacey, are tense as they try in almost slapstick comedy style to hide it from them. After the intro, it’s the girls setting up for a dance that initially sparked confusion amongst your hosts. Having read the episode description, Lacey knows it’s a danceathon but that’s as far as her understanding goes. Yasemin is perplexed by the idea of raising money for the trip, which Lacey notes most of the students – bar Aria, Emily, and now Hanna – seem to be quite rich. Why do they need to raise money at all? Despite Hanna being head of decorating, she’s got her friends doing all of the grunt work. Lacey thinks the decorating budget could have gone towards funding the trip, but without the dance there’d be no plotline for this episode. Sean returns, much to your hosts’ excitement but Hanna’s disdain. She’s called away to deal with an abundance of Barack Obama’s while we learn Spencer has brought the laptop to school so they can drop it off with the police in the afternoon. “They cannot wait a second longer knowing Ian is out there,” Yasemin says. Hanna is stuck with her excessive Barack Obama cut-outs but is more concerned with finding a job. She dodges Sean’s questions about the danceathon by asking if she can reprise her role of world’s worst dental assistant. Sean isn’t so sure, and he brushes her off further when Hanna lies to say it’s to save for a pair of expensive earrings. Inside, Aria is greeted by her mum and former babysitter Simone in a scene that offers more questions then answers. Lacey asks why Aria appeared to have a babysitter at the grand old age of 15. Laughing, Yasemin adds: “She was an underdeveloped child.” Simone is here to talk to Ella’s English class – she teaches now, apparently – and Aria begs her to speak to Ezra’s. Ella ensures this happens, but riles Aria up when she insists Simone meet Ezra ‘after hours’ for a date. The character roster continues to grow with the addition of Rosewood’s new bad boy, Caleb Rivers. “I always forget how early he comes in,” says Yasemin, while Lacey sings his name to the tune of Conga. He’s vital to ensuring Emily can talk to Maya because he’s in the business of upgrading phones. Though on-screen it comes across more like drug dealing. Hanna chases after him to seal the deal, only to be caught in an awkward confrontation with Lucas instead. At lunch, Hanna’s job search is interrupted by her friends ready to go to the police. Spencer is as ready to say goodbye to the video as Lacey is but Hanna’s realisation that it’s still online leads the girls to discover it gone. Naturally, they suspect Ian Thomas. Their new frenemy A isn’t too keen to leave Hanna unemployed, offering her a job via text. Saturday morning brings Aria to Ezra’s front door with coffee and the hope of some quality time, only for her to discover her beau is running “latte” to meet Simone. “Aria, get some self-respect and leave this man,” Lacey says. Aria’s ire is easily soothed by a kiss from the walking red flag before she’s left standing on the other side of his apartment while he counts to 50 to avoid suspicion. Ezra isn’t the only loser in Rosewood to prefer the company of 16-year-olds, as Ian ditches dinner with his wife’s friends to bump and grind with her underage sister at the dance. Spencer asks after her laptop and Ian denies knowing of its whereabouts. As with all those the liars suspect of nefarious activities, Ian becomes increasingly more sinister a

For anyone who is currently studying the Weimar Republic in History, this episode is for you! Lacey discloses a tip that helped her get a B, let us know if it helps!    Both your hosts are feeling boozy in this episode and have come prepared. After her failed attempt, Lacey re-tries treating you to a segment of ASMR which thankfully is successful!   The episode opens with Spencer guest starring as Gollum, she is listening in on Melissa and Ian’s conversation but she quickly retreats back to her bedroom before she gets caught. A is branching out and sending emails now, which leads your hosts on a tangent discussing their current amount of emails, uni induction and trying to remember their student IDs.   Yasemin is labelled a man hater as she admits she automatically gets annoyed by every new male character, her current target being Ian Thomas. For two episodes in a row, Spencer is continuously interrupted by Ian and we notice she gets progressively more disturbed by his presence.   Byron is back and he is given praise for making his children breakfast, but immediately ruins it by having an inappropriate conversation with his children about Ella’s dating life. Is this man capable of having a normal parent-child conversation?   Noel is still smiling and being his creepy self to everyone in Rosewood, including our favourite Ezra Fitz. ‘No, no, no’ is how Lacey reacted to Ezra’s first scene, but then surprised us all by complimenting his booty.   We witness Hefty Hanna’s iconic scene with those piggy cupcakes, which leads to a traumatic flashback where we find out Ali’s top weight loss tip.   Pam is not quite accepting of her daughter’s sexuality and freaks out when she sees Emily and Maya playing footsies, but in Pam’s mind it was much much more. Pam finds a secret stash of something in Maya’s bag and uses it to ruin Emily’s newfound relationship.    Mike reveals Noel told him about a rumour that the English teacher might be having an affair with a student, which leads to Aria very nearly breaking down. She then accompanies Ezra, who is having a breakdown, thinking his career and life is over after standing his ground with Noel.    Melissa is acting a little too different to usual, which Spencer picks up on, yes she’s a newlywed but why is she so happy? Spencer finds an ovulation kit and of course, you guessed it, Ian walks in and interrupts them.    Noel is caught by the principal for having three answer sheets to their midterms and Ezra and Aria’s inappropriate relationship is saved for another day, which also means the girls’ A theory is wrong.   Whilst the girls take advantage of no Ian and look through those boxes, Emily spends one final date with Maya before she is shipped off to True North. After only finding comic books, old newspapers and binoculars, an unexpected A text gives them another piece of the puzzle which confirms their theory of Ian potentially being involved in Ali’s disappearance.   Intro/Outro Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):  https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/gossip  License code: 7GXS53X2JECHKWEJ    Follow us on social media:  Instagram: https://instagram.com/immortalitea.podcast   TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@immortalitea.podcast   Youtube: https://youtube.com/@immortalitea.podcast?si=lgO6hGDIJrFCZZcQ 

As we cross into the halfway point of season one, Yasemin reveals she’s sick. “Speaking of sick people,” Lacey begins the episode entitled ‘Salt Meets Wound’. “Hanna’s returned home from the hospital.” Confined to a wheelchair, Hanna has to knock down half the contents of the upper kitchen cupboards for some pop tarts. Instead of a sweet treat, however, she is served with cold, hard cash inside a box of lasagne which culminates in a hard discussion between Ashley and Hanna. Emily is having her own mummy issues as dinner with Maya at the Fields household looms over Pam’s head. Despite her dislike for Emily’s new “friend”, she’s determined to be a good host. In town, Spencer’s too busy snogging Alex to care for her own mum. Still, she perks up at the mention of Melissa and Ian, who are on their honeymoon in Ohio. Mrs H shrugs it off, making sure Spencer never forgets she’s the reason they’re even a thing. “She will never get away from that,” says Yasemin. Spencer spies Toby headed to city hall who, despite being bailed out of jail, isn’t getting away from the accusations against him either. But the biggest crime of all is his haircut, which neither of your hosts can get over. “Imagine if it’s just a wig,” Yasemin wonders when Lacey questions how much hairspray kept it in space. Now that the girls know about Aria’s secret teacher fling, it’s all eyes on them during English class. Lacey reminisces on your hosts’ weekend, where she too got to learn a little more about Yasemin’s own teacher crush thanks to her high school friends. “If only he was my teacher, I think this would have been the exact dynamic we had in our classroom,” Yasemin says. As usual, Aria is pissing your hosts off with her audacity. She reassures Ezra no one but Noel knows about them and switches seamlessly between promising Noel is going to keep his mouth shut and inviting herself over to Ezra’s apartment. Naturally Noel uses his knowledge to try and blackmail the dirty teacher. “Poor Ezra,” says Yasemin but Lacey does not share the sentiment. She evilly cackles at Ezra’s misfortune, turning a latter conversation between Atia and Ezra into a BTEC Dickensian play and, despite her initial sympathy for Ezra, even Yasemin is over his dramatics. At the highly anticipated Maya/Fields Family dinner, Pam Fields has turned her home into a 1950’s housewife’s dream complete with matching outfit. All seems well until Maya does the unthinkable. She turns down Pam’s food. Despite offering to suck up the hives it will bring her, Pam’s evening is ruined. The more Maya speaks, the more Pam despises her. Emily is blissfully unaware of this, lapping up Maya’s every word. Meanwhile, Mona terrifies Hanna for a brief moment only to surprise her with a party consisting of her nearest and dearest… and Noel. Noel’s presence triggers a flashback for Hanna where we learn Alison once broke up his relationship in favour of Aria, only to gaslight her gang that they were all in on the deed. Hanna only has a brief moment to ponder if this inspired Noel’s A-ness, because she’s got bigger problems to tackle in the form of a very drunk Lucas who’s ready to pick a fight with Sean. Spencer and Alex kiss, again, only to be interrupted by Noel Khan who, like anyone the girls suspect to be A, has become 10x creepier this episode. While Yasemin can’t get over Noel’s never-ending smile, Lacey can sympathise: “He’s probably so nervous because every time he’s walked in a room, everybody’s looked at him.” Lacey’s love for Noel only grows when he gaslights Aria into doubting Ezra. Yasemin is not so convinced and is quick to point out Lacey’s blossoming crush. Before Emily joins the rest of the girls at Hanna’s party, she spies Toby desperately trying to rid himself of the Casio Watch strapped to his ankle. Lacey utilises her BTEC drama skills once more when she mocks Emily as she pleads with Toby to believe that she wasn’t the one to turn her in but he refuses to give her the satisfaction. Aria

Everyone’s favourite word has returned in episode 11, yes you guessed it…’PEDO’. Much to Lacey’s dismay, Ezra is back to being a regular character and there is no sign of him disappearing again. We have a chaotic start to this episode as Lacey decides to treat us to a smooth session of ASMR but in fact, drastically fails and ends up covering her laptop in Diet Coke.  The episode itself opens with Hanna being carted away in the ambulance and Aria spotting the only man who was invited to the party, Noel. But he wasn’t invited, so why is he there?  The girls are all very emotional, waiting to be updated in the hospital waiting room. Spencer comes to the realisation that they should’ve been expecting this all along as it did start out with murder, a point Yasemin in particular is very passionate about, “I've said this the whole time, I don't understand why no one is talking about the fact that Alison was murdered.” Whilst the girls contemplate talking to the police, your hosts have a debate over a mystery Tanner that Lacey is sure was mentioned but Yasemin is adamant she’s crazy and misheard, “who the hell is Tanner?” If you have the energy, please do settle it for us. We experience a very rare sisterly moment between Spencer and Melissa, which divides your hosts. Yasemin finds it very endearing and sweet, but Lacey thinks it’s hilarious and gives us her own rendition of the scene and it is not the only one.  It’s been awhile since your hosts consumed alcohol, but Lacey introduces a new drinking game where you drink every time you see cat scrubs, a common issue in this show that irks Yasemin as she can’t understand why nurses and doctors are wearing scrubs with cats on them again! More importantly, Hanna is alive and recovering in the hospital. Ashley is there to greet her, but there is no sign of Sean, only of the orchid he bought her. Hanna is more concerned about calling her friends anyway so she can spill all the tea on what she saw at Camp Mona.  Lacey is as enthusiastic as ever for every Ezria scene, so excited that she has to pass it over to Yasemin, “Eurgh I hate him, I can’t even, you’re going to have to do this scene.” Aria spends the entire episode being our delulu queen trying to come up with an excuse for literally everything.  As the girls are settling back into their day to day life, the Field’s household is rather frosty. But Lacey was paying attention to other things and she surprises Yasemin with 5, yes 5 different questions about the state of their dining room. They are all very detailed and have absolutely nothing to do with the plot, have you ever wondered why their dining chairs are so big? The girls reunite with Hanna at the hospital where she is finally able to tell all and Aria’s secret relationship is revealed. Noel is now A and the girls find out about Mr Fitz, sorry Ezra Fitz. Noel makes an appearance at the hospital and Aria tries to catch him out. Lucas visits Hanna in the middle of the night to secretly kiss her forehead, but it isn’t a secret as Hanna confronts him about it the next day. Your hosts go from loving Lucas to strongly disliking him as we start to see the more obsessive side of Lucas which is an immediate red flag. Also, what the hell is his problem with Sean?   Noel and Aria have another encounter where she calls him out for being in the crowd at Mona’s party. Noel comes clean and it’s another scene that Lacey absolutely loved and felt like our listeners deserved another rendition, as I said one of many. We get the infamous scene of Alison visiting Hanna in the hospital in her candy stripe nurses outfit, Lacey is all over this scene making almost an orgasmic noise. Is Alison a hallucination? Is she real life? Either way Ali gives Hanna advice on how to solve their A dilemma and we find out that she does in fact care about Hefty Hanna.  We obviously can’t have an episode without singing and in this episode Taylor Swift’s, You Belong With Me makes an appearance to open up Emil

You know in every show there’s that randomly inserted musical episode that you probably usually skip? Yeah, this is that episode. “It’s episode 10, double digits,” Lacey sings offkey to welcome you to the recap of the season one episode entitled “Keep your friends close”, as sung helpfully by Yasemin. “Just thought I’d carry it on,” she adds. No, really, this is a running joke throughout this episode. Protect your eardrums. Ian makes his official introduction to the series as the girls’ new field coach, and we learn through Spencer that he broke Melissa’s heart back in the day. “She doesn’t have a good track record with men, at all,” Lacey observes as Yasemin makes a jab at Spencer: “I think someone gets in the way of these relationships.” Although Melissa’s failed relationships are a running theme of this episode, it’s Camp Mona that really takes the cake. All of the girls are invited, much to their disdain, and only Hanna is up for it until A reveals it’ll be a scavenger hunt to find their identity. But Camp Mona and the hunt will have to wait because school comes first according to an eavesdropping Ashley, who still gives Hanna a singular $100 note. But visit to the principal’s office dampers Hanna’s plans and a text from A to Mona claiming Hanna used liposuction to lose weight gets her uninvited from Camp Mona entirely. Poor Ashley probably could have used the extra dosh, however, as she spends most of this episode fighting with a robot telephone operator to try and rejig her mortgage. Adding salt in the wound is Mrs Potter, who visits her safety deposit box once a year “like clockwork” and unwisely brags to Ashley that she’s the last of her kind. When she goes, so does the fistfuls of money she’s dumping onto Ashley’s desk. When Mrs Potter takes all the butterscotch but forgets her key, Ashley decides to pocket it alongside all of Mrs Potter’s cash. At the Hastings House Melissa seems pleased by Ian’s return, although Spencer still has to grovel for ruining her previous engagement. Yasemin is confused why Melissa still blames Spencer, but Lacey points out the Hastings girls have likely been put up against each other since toddlerhood. “Spencer learned to walk, and Melissa had to learn a bike,” Lacey says, correcting herself. “I don’t think you’d make it in the Hastings household,” Yasemin quips. Lacey agrees, fancying herself more of a Marin girl. Anything but a Montgomery. Aria is at least still giving a boy her age a try, but Ezra Fitz and A are determined to ruin it. Aria and Noel talk outside Aria’s locker which she opens and a book falls out, adorned with a note from A. Unaware, Noel does as the note tells him and opens to page 22 which features the world’s worst poem by Ezra Fitz. Lacey is more than happy to give a dramatic reading. “What’s your favourite line? I think mine is ‘Gold Falafel, as though ice’,” she adds. Throughout the episode more clues are given about Alison’s killer, and almost all of them point toward Toby Cavanagh. The girls are shown the ‘”I know you wanna kiss me” video by the FBI, and Hanna is most out of sorts over the green sweater she is wearing. It’s revealed via news bulletin later that this sweater belonged to Toby, leading the girls to believe he was Alison’s older boy much to Aria’s disbelief. The liars digest the Toby of it all in their own way and Emily, in a heart-to-heart with the freshly returned Daddy Fields, almost comes out to her family only to chicken out. However, A has taken the moment from her when it comes to Good Ol’ Pam who, while eavesdropping on the daddy-daughter conversation, reveals she has been sent the photobooth pictures. While Yasemin debates whether Pam is truly homophobic, Lacey says it like it is: “I mean the homophobia is right across that face.” Finally, the liars make it to Camp Mona and the drama begins. As Emily pulls into the campground, Toby pops up from her backseat with a new haircut that is equally as hated as Ezra’s old one by your host

The ninth episode of Pretty Little Liars Season One is entitled The Perfect Storm but as Yasemin points out it’s “the perfect storm that never ends… and that we never see”. Lacey concedes that it’s dark, at least, and both hosts admit the lighting choices made them both question the time of day throughout the show. This episode centres around the SATS, beginning with a study sesh in the Hastings house with Spencer, Hanna, and Aria. While Troian studies her lines – er, Spencer studies her cue cards, Hanna is relentlessly bugging Aria about her non-existent relationship with Noel Kahn which reminds your hosts of their own study sessions in university. To no one’s surprise they were just as on track as this one. But where is Emily, you may ask? Well, she’s in her room and it’s dark, and she’s dirty – except her fingernails, of course. Could Emily and those perfectly manicured hands have something to do with the smashing of Ali’s memorial? Wilden seems to think so. He corners her at school as the titular storm rages on and an interesting camera pan draws attention to Emily’s less-than-pristine shoes. “Who the hell wears white trainers in a storm?” Yasemin asks. Emily is a little on edge throughout the episode, snapping at her friends and sneaking off into the library’s Charles Dickens aisle to reminisce on what could have been with Alison. For a moment your hosts question her sanity when she spies the deceased blonde through the aisles, but as Lacey explains: “The lightning goes, and Ali’s gone – but she’s in a flashback!” Here we get a glimpse on Alison and Emily’s relationship before the former rudely went missing: sweet, innocent and perhaps not so one-sided as first thought. Alison isn’t the only guest cameo as we’re treated to Mrs Hastings and everyone’s favourite proctor, Ella Montgomery. Your hosts aren’t sure what that means, exactly. “I’m assuming like a – what’s the word we use?” Yasemin asks Lacey, who struggles with the word invigilator. More confusing is Ella’s economic situation – who cuts the hours of the employee that lives above your business? Unfortunately, “little Byron” is also in the episode and his presence at the Marin McMansion gives Lacey a chance to have yet another dig at the “Montgomery Shack”. Byron and Ashley’s joint scenes this episode leave your hosts wondering if the writers were trying to expand upon their relationship in a romantic way. Byron isn’t doing much to sell himself, whining away to Ashley who despite being unable to afford artisan cheese always has room in the cupboard for a bottle of chardonnay which she pours freely for her companion. “Stop talking,” Yasemin interprets while she and Lacey relentlessly mock Byron’s sad little life. Ashley doesn’t seem to mind, offering to act as menu translator for the man child at his next faculty dinner. But, like most men, Byron takes it a step too far and invites her. While she seems inclined to agree at first, by the end of the episode both characters agree it’s not for the best. Mrs Hastings’ is also put in an awkward situation when she’s introduced to Spencer’s beau, Alex, who it seems she’s met before and doesn’t appear to like. Yasemin puts herself in Spencer’s shoes when analysing the interaction, asking whether you’d wonder if she was having an affair with Alex or if you’d just think something went down at the club of the country variety. With all these extra characters you’d be forgiven if you missed the absence of other notable students, such as Sean and Maya, but Yasemin is quick to point it out. Your hosts wistfully ask after the characters that matter: Ben and Jenna’s guide dog. “I miss Ben,” Lacey sighs. “Remember when Ben was in the show?” Frustratingly there’s one character that couldn’t have the decency to piss off like he does in the books: Ezra Fitz. Lacey is jumpscared by his picture on the librarian’s desk: “Ezra couldn’t leave me alone for more than two episodes,” Lacey wails, affectionally referring to him as “the

Caught up in their success of securing the highly sought after tickets for the UK leg of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, your hosts begin this episode in a fluster as they struggle with its’ title. The eighth episode of season one is officially known as ‘Please Do Talk About Me When I’m Gone’ - but if you ask Yasemin, it’s please don’t talk about me when I’m gone and in Lacey’s case - she’s abandoned the English language all together, switching up her b’s and d’s like a primary school child learning to write. “Adoot,” she giggles at her notes before your hosts get themselves together enough to do their jobs and recap the show. “To me, this is Pretty Little Liars – this is the episode I know, back to front, all of it,” declares Lacey but as the podcast goes on, her knowledge is put to the test. She even tries to add another rule to the drinking game: drink at every mention of p*dos? “We’d be druuunk,” laughs Yasemin, axing that rule as she’s finally ditched the soda and gone “super basic white girl” with her Black Cherry White Claw. The episode opens with a giant box carrying a statue commissioned by Ella’s “friend” from the gallery, prompting Emily to ask after her well-being like the polite girl Pam raised her to be. It’s revealed Ella has moved above the gallery, but Aria insists that it’s just “for now”. While Aria thinks the statue is a good representation of Ali, Yasemin believes something more devilish suits her aura. In a rare moment of reminiscing, Spencer says the quote that inspired this podcast’s name: “That’s immortality, my darlings.” Of course, it originated with Alison whom we see in a flashback set at the lake, originally thought to be a beach by Lacey. As she and Yasemin ponder over America’s obsession with lake vacations, Lacey adds: “We all know one lake,” in reference to her favourite novel/film, After. This flashback returns time and time again throughout the episode and in each instance shines an individual light on the liars. In Spencer’s lake-centric flashback, Jenna finally takes off her shades. “We get to see Jenna’s pretty blue eyes,” says Yasemin as Lacey laughs, adding: “They’re green.” Green or blue, the big takeaway here is that Jenna can see. But there’s hints of tension between Alison and Spencer as the former makes a cheap joke at Toby’s expense. Hanna’s flashback makes her reflect on herself as she now chooses to be kind to those she once sat back and let Alison bully. This works in her favour when Lucas, known as Hermie by both Yasemin and Alison, offers to help her sell some designer bags now that Ashley has finally curtailed her expensive lifestyle. She’ll need all the cash she can get as it turns out your hosts aren’t the only ones to snag VIP tickets this episode. Thanks to Noel Kahn, Sean and Hanna are going to see the highly sought after Band of Horses. “They f*cking copied us here,” says Yasemin. His invite is stringent on Aria’s attendance, however, who is the only one moping about the lack of Ezra this episode. “It’s been so blissful,” says Yasemin. In her lake flashback, Aria recalls Alison saying that Noel was perfect for her and decides it might be worth trying an unseasoned man. Emily’s flashback also centres around her love life. While past-Emily had to make do with queerbaiting Alison, present day Emily gets to enjoy a date with the fabulous Maya St Germain. Additionally, things continue to heat up between Ashley and Byron as they bond over being single. Byron is quick to point out, however, that he and Ella are only separated for now. But the drama of this episode stems from Jason DiLaurentis, Alison’s older brother. None of the liars can remember much about him and it’s no surprise as your hosts note his actor is later changed, thus declaring this imposter “Not Jason” from here on out. Yasemin questions his age, saying that he looks more like a 35-year-old accountant than someone Melissa’s age as he’s supposed to be. She adds: “He just looks so old, why’s he in a suit?

The seventh episode of Pretty Little Little Liars, titled ‘The Homecoming Hangover’, picks up right after homecoming, of course. Yasemin begins the episode talking about the last week’s cliffhanger ending that was “the best thing ever”. Perhaps another hangover is brewing as the podcast’s new drinking game makes a return. Lacey is overjoyed to see a ‘Go Sharks’ sign only one minute in, whilst Yasemin yet again remains sober for another episode.    The opening scene is of Aria, Spencer and Hanna rightfully panicking, but Yasemin won’t give up a chance to mock them as they’re prancing around the school hallway looking for Emily. Clearly your hosts are not the ones to call when your tinder date turns out to be a potential murderer – “stop being dramatic” is probably not what you’d want to hear upon begging them to call the police.     Whilst talking about the horror vibes of the opening sequence, Yasemin ponders on more important things, like how Spencer is able to turn the lights on using a switch - “who has light switches in their school?”. Despite the chaos, your hosts continue to mock and laugh at the liars’ worry and fear. The girls eventually decide to do the smart thing and ring Emily, only to find her phone outside the chemistry lab where it’s obvious something bad has gone down.    While the girls are rightly worried for their friends’ safety, Yasemin downplays the seriousness of it all: “It’s like the tiniest bit of blood okay, it’s not like a pool, it’s just like a little bit, you know someone’s been cut, someone isn’t bleeding to death.”      Luckily Emily is alive, but unconscious, in the back of Toby’s car. Your stereotypically white hosts are obviously true crime enthusiasts and are quick to ponder the possibilities that await Emily. “Is he driving to chop her up?” asks Yasemin. To your hosts disappointment, that sort of gruesome stuff doesn’t occur until the later seasons of Pretty Little Liars and obviously Emily survives to be snubbed for favourite liar another week. To cheer her up, there’s a brand new Toyota Corolla in her driveway because of course she won the raffle. “Emily’s in bed, she’s back home already, so it clearly wasn’t that big of a deal” says Lacey, further supporting the fact that Emily is being overdramatic even though she was potentially with Ali’s murderer.   Like normal friends, Aria and Spencer dish the dirt and tell Emily all about their findings in Toby’s file, whilst insinuating Toby was up to no good with his step sister - but is Jenna a victim here? Emily does not fall for Toby being the villain, pointing out that if he murdered Ali why didn’t he bother to kill her too?  Your hosts treat you to short, but regular, renditions of a poorly done Southern American accent because clearly Pam Fields gives off that vibe. When Pam is questioned by the police, she gets a shock when the policeman lets slip just who Emily’s real date was to homecoming.   Pam isn’t the only confused soul as Lacey is equally confused about when the school made a guest-list. Yasemin joins the confused party saying “why would you make a note of their date, would you not just make a note of the list of people who came, you wouldn’t say X came with X.”  Pam defends Emily against accusations from the police officer that she might be keeping secrets, which makes your hosts fangirl over her even more - “Pam needs a spin off” says Yasemin and Lacey adds that it’s “the sitcom we didn’t know we needed, Good Ol’ Pam”.  The liars grill Emily on what happened and after revealing she tripped, Aria is adamant Toby was more involved and wants her to go to the police. Spencer is also on the hate Toby train – in reality, she never left - wanting him to go down for murdering Ali and attempting to do the same to Emily (if only he hadn’t failed). Hanna finally shows up, bringing with her the very thing everyone is talking about - the file!     Unlike Aria and Spencer, Hanna is a nice friend and attempts to lighten the mood, b

“Don’t you just love a homecoming episode?” begins Yasemin, although neither of these Brits actually know what a homecoming even is.  “If you’re American, let us know what it means,” she adds. The sixth episode of season one, entitled “No Place like Homecoming”, begins with the liars giving Aria an intervention which means we’re treated to a flashback, much to your hosts’ disgust. “Spencer saves us all,” Lacey says with relief when Spencer tells her friends that she’s going to take her country club boo, Alex, to homecoming and for a moment Pretty Little Liars is just like any other teen show. But of course, an A message via a fortune cookie reminds us of why we love this show so much.  Aria who, as usual, causes heated discussion amongst your hosts throughout the episode, seems particularly miffed at her intervention being gate crashed. “I’ve lost my pedo of a boyfriend, my parents hate each other and now my fortune cookie is ruining my life – screw this,” Yasemin mocks.   Despite this, homecoming is the titular event of this episode, it takes an awful lot of build-up to get there. While Hanna debates how to beat her 40-year-old rival for homecoming queen – “It was some extra they found round the corner – it was like, you’ll do. You’re Heather Perez,” explains Lacey - Emily does the most to try and avoid Maya in the halls making lame excuses. “You are 16 years old,” adds Yasemin. “You are not busy.”   A new drinking game is introduced (alcoholics anonymous, anyone?) – in addition to in mirror shots, any mention or sighting of ‘Go Sharks’ also initiates a sip of your drink. Although, maybe for Lacey it’s just an excuse. “I clung to that sign” she says as she swigs her wine before an Ezria scene plays. She later adds another drinking rule whereby any shot looking out through the ridiculously large cafeteria window equals a sip. Meanwhile, poor Yasemin suffers through it sober.  Spencer and Hanna discover Toby’s tattoo (901 Free At Last) in a scene that has Lacey and Yasemin drooling while the liars are further flummoxed by the fact notorious loner Tony has snagged himself two tickets to homecoming. Yasemin adds: “I thought that they were going to suspect ‘who is it? Who is he taking?’ But they think, automatically, that it’s Jenna and they’re going to kill them.” The new information about Toby spurs Spencer’s manhunt for them and, unbothered about Hanna’s homecoming woes, she insists her friend steals Jenna’s file from the psychiatrist's office.   During the build up there are several cute couple scenes (not you, Ezria. Never you!) where both Toby and Alex have your hosts swooning but of course, Aria could never let us forget about her grooming Romeo as she spends most of the episode pining for him.  Trying to lure Aria from her self-pity party, and to also secure another vote for homecoming queen, Hanna pushes her friend to come to homecoming after all by offering her a choice of two dresses – one of which forces Lacey to reminisce on another well-known teen drama. “As soon as I saw that dress I got PTSD – I was like: That’s the dress – I bet that’s made out of business material,” she tells Yasemin after treating the listeners to an excerpt of Anna Todd’s infamous Wattpad story turned bestselling novel, After.  Eventually the liars make it to homecoming and your hosts are in awe of its extravagance, recalling that their own school discos were a little lower budget. “I was lucky if we had a CD that had the most recent artists on it at our school parties. It was normally crazy frog, big fish little fish cardboard box,” Lacey adds. Despite the drama of the episode, perhaps the biggest shock was the Toyota Corolla raffle taking place at this school dance. “Is this an advert? They big up this car eight times this episode,” says Lacey.  At the homecoming, barely anyone gets Lacey and Yasemins’s seal of approval when it comes to their attire. From Spencer’s lacklustre strapless silver dress to Hanna’s updo that ages her by

“I’m going to be bloody smashed at the end of this,” laments Lacey as she and Yasemin introduce a new drinking game in the fifth episode of season one of Pretty Little Liars, Reality Bites Me. To play along at home, listeners need only to take a sip every time there’s a mirror shot… of which there are many. Your hosts could only hope the alcohol would numb the pain of the horrors of this episode. No man is safe from Yasemin’s wrath as she begins by ripping Byron Montgomery to shreds, mocking his parenting and the way he handles his wife’s reaction to finally learning about his year-old affair. She and Lacey rally behind Ella while she tries to sort out her feelings and figure out what to do next. As for her daughter, they’re a little less forgiving. When Ezra tells Aria that he’ll have to hurt himself if his reading sucks, Lacey prays for his demise. “He’s so fake humble,” she adds with disgust but as Yasemin says: “Aria is no longer helping the situation.” Taking her fawning over Ezra into the public eye at a pub, Aria catches the attention of one of his old college mates – known as Hardy or Artie depending on the timestamp – and Yasemin finally wakes up to their inappropriate relationship, although initially her anger seems misplaced. By the end of the episode, however, even Ezra gets on her nerves. “He’s full of hypocrisy and I just can’t take it, he’s pissing me off.” Even sweet, wouldn’t-hurt-a-fly Emily gets rinsed by Yasemin. After forming a bond with Toby over shared music tastes, Emily promises to meet him at the Rosewood Grill only to snub him for her friends. “Betrayal,” Yasemin spits. “Stabbed in the back.” However, Lacey for once is Team Emily – pointing out that Emily followed the gossip and even she would do the same. “I will go where the tea is,” Lacey says. “Maybe Toby has a lot of tea, you’ll never know because you weren’t there,” Yasemin shoots back. At the Rosewood Grill, Emily catches up with Spencer and Hanna’s lives. The latter is serving time at her (ex?) boyfriend’s mother’s dentist office, where she bumps into the infamous Jenna who Yasemin briefly forgets is blind, not deaf. This episode sees Hanna go undercover in more ways than one – taking on an alter ego find out more about Jenna and why she’s at the dentist office, as well as internet stalking Sean’s potential new boo. Spencer’s dad comes home, and he needs her to help him win over some clients at the country club, where Spencer finally meets an age-appropriate boyfriend. Spencer and her father butt heads over what it means to win in the Hastings family. “Honestly, whoever produces Pretty Little Liars needs to pay for my therapy,” Lacey says during this very passionate episode.   Quotes “I have a question – why is a dentist person wearing a cat top. Why has it got cat on it? Why has it not got teeth on it or something? I was like ooh, is it a vet? ‘Cause it just implies vet not the dentist.” – Yasemin “And [Jenna] kind of click clacks down the hallway, as usual, and Hanna follows her, totally not suspiciously and really not weirdly and definitely like a normal person would walk down the hallway.” - Lacey “The only problem, in Hardy’s eyes, is that she’s his student, but she’s also underage. So, if she was his student or not – it’s wrong. She’s sixteen and you are what? 24, 25? You are a paedophile!” – Yasemin “I love this, I love that you’re matching my energy. I thought I was going to be absolutely ruining Ezra’s character and you were going to be coming back to me like, no it’s cute!” – Lacey “[Spencer’s] so desperate I’m like hun, it’s just tennis. It’s not life or death – honestly, you’d think that she was competing for Wimbledon.” - Yasemin “Okay, I do not support [Ezria] in any way, shape or form – but if I was trying to rizz on my teacher and he invited me to a bar which, again, how does she even keep getting into bars underage, she’s just there, although I don’t think she drinks, anyway, but back to my point, I don’t think I’

S01:E04 – Can You Hear Me Now? Your hosts Yasemin and Lacey continue to be baffled by the geography of Rosewood as well as the early 2010 graphic design choices featured in this episode as the girls finally do what viewers have been screaming at them since episode one – block A! This episode features a wonderful story about Aria’s definitely-not-crazy Aunt Ruth and the liars’ scary attention to detail when it comes to shades of red, as well as the answer to a question everyone has been asking: Does Hanna Sail? It also debuts the first S.O.S text of the series as, despite being digitally ghosted, A finds a way to continue to torture the liars in creative and illegal ways. Speaking of ghosted, Hanna hears from her dad for the first time in a year after the “minor incident” with her boyfriend’s car. Excited to show off the whole two pounds she’s lost, Hanna’s hopes are crushed when Tom Marin reveals his true intentions. Spencer takes charge of Alison’s bracelet and the crusade against A, only to find she’s blocked more than her tormentor when a former fling comes crashing through the kitchen door, and an argument with Ezra makes Aria reconsider telling her mother about the affair before she’s beaten to it by a letter. Meanwhile Emily overthinks a gift from Maya and channels her inner Edward Cullen in science class when she’s given a new lab partner. Listen to find out just who Ezra reminds Yasemin of and reminisce on all the ways we used to communicate before texting existed. Kids these days just don’t appreciate a good ol’ radio dedication! Intro/Outro Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/gossip License code: 7GXS53X2JECHKWEJ

S01:E03 – To Kill a Mocking Girl Yasemin and Lacey are back with a more reasonable length of podcast, although one certainly filled with excitement as the girls gear up for the party of the year and Detective Wilden really hones in on the important things like Hanna’s yearbook photo and the real reason butter is so spreadable. This episode introduces Noel Kahn and Toby Cavanagh as well as the return of Byron’s lover, Meredith, and includes not mosquitos, but NATS! As usual, the liars’ lives are plagued with drama. Spencer shows no remorse as her sister Melissa is faced with the fallout of her failed engagement, Aria invites Ezra on a field trip to her mum’s gallery (really, what was she thinking?) while an unexpected saviour gives Emily the confidence to finally end it with Ben. Meanwhile, Hanna and Sean don’t see eye-to-eye on what it means to ‘score’ and Ashley Marin embraces her inner Mama Bear. With a bit of a crash ending, this is one episode you don’t want to miss. Intro/Outro Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/gossip License code: 7GXS53X2JECHKWEJ

S01:E02 – The Jenna Thing Despite declaring the episode one where “nothing happens” your hosts Yasemin and Lacey manage to cook up a two-and-a-half-hour deep dive into its faults, all the while pondering the burning questions you want to know the answers to: What’s on the Apple Rose Grill’s menu? What do the PLL parents do for a living, exactly? And finally, what the heck is the Jenna thing? This episode features the introduction of two new characters, an overzealous stink bomb, some questionable fashion choices, and even more questionable behaviour from men too old to be talking to 16-year-olds like that. As Wilden becomes more aggressive in his investigation, Ezra and Aria take ‘extra credit’ to a whole new level at the movies. Wren also forgets which sister he’s supposed to be marrying (hint: it’s the one who can legally order her own alcoholic drink). Meanwhile, Emily gets a little closer to Maya right under good ol’ Pam’s nose and Hanna doubts her totally age-appropriate relationship. Your hosts also reminisce on their own school days as Lacey recounts a traumatic hockey injury and Yasemin relates to Aria with her very own teacher crush. Ooh la la! Intro/Outro Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/gossip License code: 7GXS53X2JECHKWEJ

Holy crap, it’s the first episode! Your hosts Yasemin and Lacey relive the first ever episode of Pretty Little Liars and its iconic characters: Ali “The Missing” DiLaurentis, Spencer “Jailbait” Hastings, “Hefty” Hanna Marin, Aria “Teacher’s Pet” Montgomery and the other one, what’sherface? Oh, Emily Fields. Listen as they detail all the iconic moments from Ali’s disappearance, Aria’s extracurricular activities, Hanna’s sticky fingers, Spencer’s (sorry, Melissa’s) new boo, and whatever the hell is going down in Emily’s neighbourhood. Free bursa sac massages to everyone who rates and reviews. Also remember to follow us on tiktok and Instagram @immortalitea.podcast or A will get you xoxo Intro Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/gossip License code: 7GXS53X2JECHKWEJ

Welcome to That’s Immortali-tea, my darlings - a Pretty Little Liars recap podcast. Get to know your hosts, Yasemin and Lacey, as they talk about their history with the iconic teen show and what to expect as the podcast progresses. Intro Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/gossip License code: 7GXS53X2JECHKWEJ