Episodes 2.12 & 2.13: “Trick or Treat, Aria”

We’re back again, bitches! Episodes 2.12 (“Over My Dead Body”) and 2.13 (“The First Secret”) are wildly different and we treat them as such. The first has it all: creepy dolls! Ali visitation! Stopping weddings! Answers to lingering questions! But Emily’s appropriative Halloween costume in the second episode makes us sad and mad, and Deepa provides context with infuriating facts. We hope you accept a longer episode as an apology for our absence.

Our awesome theme song is composed by Ashok R. Chandran! You can find his other work at his website.

Episode Transcript:  Read it on Buzzsprout!

Chickpeas Oh My Gosh: Cameron loves chopped salads! Cucina Cucina recipe and a shout out to this recipe inspired by the one at Pablo y Pablo. More chopped salad discourse to come

Fashion Analysis: Our best and worst outfits!

Deepa’s Literary Analysis: Deepa fails at figuring out what James Joyce book Meredith is reading, but Deepa did so much research for this episode that all is forgiven

Grounding PLL in Indigenous history:

• Emily’s appropriative costume is especially violent in a show about a missing white girl, given the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) and the high rates of violence Indigenous women and girls face
• Pennsylvania has invisibilized its Indigenous residents, including the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, which is fighting for state recognition (you can sign a petition at their website)
• Yet Pennsylvania was also home to the Carlisle Industrial School, which was the U.S.’s flagship residential school and killed and abused Indigenous children

Things We Referenced Related to PLL: 

• The PLL Wiki’s timeline of the show

Things We Referenced Completely Unrelated to PLL: 

• The phenomenon where people in survival situations envision another person helping them is called Third Man Syndrome 
• 2008, but you were probably there
• Notting Hill is boring
• deeper cuts! 
• Fuck Sweetgreen for having a founder who is both Zionist and horrible in other ways??

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