A 'Pretty Little Liars' Spinoff Is Coming—and Two Leads Will Reprise Their Roles
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Pretty Little Liars fans, we’re about to make your day. A spinoff of the popular Freeform series is coming, and get this: Two of the original liars are reprising their roles. Nope, this isn’t a drill. Your tweets to I. Marlene King and company have finally been answered.
The new show is called Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, and it’s based on the book series The Perfectionists by Sara Shepard (who also wrote the original PLL novels). The premise of The Perfectionists is eerily similar to PLL : It takes place in a picturesque town, Beacon Heights, and it’s filled with beautiful people—but all of this, well, perfection starts crumbling when somebody turns up dead. Sounds just like the saga of Rosewood, right? The only thing missing is a menacing hooded figure sending cleverly-worded threats via text. (Spoiler alert: That menacing hooded figure turned out to be Spencer Hastings’ evil twin Alex Drake. It’s been three months, and I’m still not over that reveal.)
Unfortunately, you won’t see Spencer in this spinoff—not to our knowledge, at least—but you will get a little more time with Alison DiLaurentis and Mona Vanderwaal. Both Sasha Pieterse and Janel Parrish are expected to reprise their roles for Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Whether this means the teenage or adult versions of Alison and Mona is still to be determined.
If you remember from the series finale, Alison is now married to Emily and has children, and Mona’s off in Europe torturing Alex and Mary Drake in a life-size dollhouse. So does this mean Alison and Mona are just going to…drop their lives and move to Beacon Heights?
The PLL gals have said multiple times they’d love to work with each other again, and this new series seems like a great opportunity to do that with little commitment. I’m predicting it now: Aria, Hanna, Spencer, and Emily will—fingers crossed!—return for at least an episode or two of PLL: The Perfectionists. I.M.K. can be very persuasive.
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