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My Secret Obsession: Pretty Little LiArs

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at U Mass Amherst chapter.

7 days. No, not the amount of time you have until that scary girl from The Ring is going to come out of your television and kill you. Even better, it’s the amount of time that we have left to hate Tuesday nights at 8 o’clock until Pretty Little Liars is back. So close… yet so far.

Okay, I get it, I’m 21 years old and my 13 year old cousin also thoroughly enjoys the ABC Family thriller known as PLL. In my defense, my 24 year old sister also religiously watches (Sorry, Brittany). Despite the fact that a wide array of ages watch the show, I’m assuming the younger ones are sleeping in their parents’ bed at night because we all know that’s where I would be if I didn’t already go through that phase in 7th grade.

This show is scary, funny, embarrassing, stupid and amazing all in one hour. It’s sure to bring you through an emotional roller coaster. If you watch the show enough, you know you’re definitely going to see Emily’s “scared” face where she looks concerned yet does a little lip pucker to keep things hot at least once an episode:

There are times where I get second-hand embarrassment because of what’s going on in the show (usually because of something Hanna says) and there’s also times that I have to look away because I’m scared. Remember when Mona was in the looney bin? Yikes.

But really, where else can you go to see a dead girl come back to life,

A high schooler dating her teacher yet they look the same age (they almost are in real life),

Random murders that happen almost once a week yet all the girls still go to school looking flawless and cracking jokes:

Oh and where else can you see girls running INTO the woods to see where a certain noise came from instead of sprinting the opposite way? Once, I saw an animal in the woods and learned I should join the track team in high school because of it. Seriously… and they’re usually conveniently in jogging clothes. How lucky!

This show has it all. Hence why me and about 3 million other people watch it when it airs. Don’t even get me started about EzrA (see what I did there?)…

Look at that smile, he couldn’t hurt a fly. Call me nAive.

Happy week until PLL fellow obsessors, let the gAmes begin!

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Samantha Walsh

U Mass Amherst

I am a rising senior journalism major, education minor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I've always enjoyed writing and journalism but my career goal is to become an elementary school teacher after I (hopefully) get my masters next year. I love hanging with my family, my puppy brother Charlie, and of course my friends. My friends and I can usually be seen at parties laughing uncontrollably, crying hysterically, and/or dancing like we're in a rap video. Sometimes all at once. It's a good time. My favorite past time is drinking iced coffee and I'm way too obsessed with my iPhone. I work full time in the summers at TPC Boston as a waitress and beverage cart girl. It's pretty ideal. Im super excited to start a life for myself outside of college but if you or anyone you know has a device to slow down time and make senior year last extra, extra long, please contact me. Xo