4.8 The Guilty Girl’s Handbook Hanna’s storyline, which has been the standout all season, understandably dominated the episode, but Spencer was still on her detective kick – eventually connecting the death of Toby’s mother with Detective Wilden and Radley. Maybe there’s only been one huge, tangled mystery to solve all of this time, and every single thing about Rosewood that hasn’t added up is part of the same conspiracy? We can only hope, but it at least looks as though uncovering whoever paid Wilden off to lie about the ‘suicide’ will lead Toby to the truth about the ‘blonde girl’. I’m still not buying that it was Cece (and we learnt that Toby was in New York this week knocking on doors), and sense that the show is throwing it out just so the big Alison twin reveal isn’t such an anti-climax (P.S. it still will be). Maybe I’m wrong and it’s somebody totally unexpected but, besides one of the parents, there’s really no one left on the show who hasn’t been a suspect. Even kind, sensitive Ezra is on my watch list, and people like Lucas and Jenna are conspicuous simply by the absence. No matter what, the girls are taking control of their own destinies, and Hanna’s planned confession feels like stage one of a fight back. Aria’s storyline, though at first appearing to be about the safety of her little brother, again boils down to her love life. Ezra, for once, doesn’t enter the picture, but it turns out that Mike has been taking martial arts lessons from ex-beau Jake. They make a date to see Insidious 2, so I guess we’ll be hearing far too much about this relationship for the foreseeable future. It seems like a lose-lose for the show, even, since the people who want her with Ezra really want her with Ezra and the people that don’t, by and large, want to see her contributing to the non-teen drama parts of the show. Next week’s episode looks pretty dramatic, with a possible death and the return of Jenna. The promo makes it look as though Spencer’s the one face-down in the lake, but maybe it’s Shana? Let’s face it, it could be anyone. Please, if you can, buy our charity horror stories ebook, Den Of Eek!, raising money for Geeks Vs Cancer. Details here.
