i went into this show with pretty low expectations given how the original pretty little liars wound up in the end and the reputation of it's other spin-offs but this still was shockingly...not good. normally i can find something enjoyable in most tv shows or films even if they're not objectively good, but i genuinely cannot find one thing about this that i liked. the writing was terrible, the editing was terrible, the directing was terrible, most of the acting was terrible. it wasn't suspenseful at all and i found the entire thing really boring - the only reason i made it through the entire season is because i wanted to give it a few episodes to see if it picked up a little bit and then i got far enough into it that i felt like i needed to see it through to the end just to see what happened, but most of the "secrets" weren't a little bit shocking and it didn't feel dramatic at all. i didn't connect with any of the characters at all as i didn't feel like they were really fleshed out and they didn't act or speak like 16 year old girls would actually act or speak, and i genuinely almost quit watching the show purely because of how annoying tabitha was but that's an entire other review in itself. i was initially kind of excited about the fact that it seemed to be a lot darker than the original pretty little liars and that it was leaning more into the horror genre as i absolutely love horror movies, but i still wouldn't even call it a horror show and it can barely call itself a pretty little liars show given how different they are from one another, which would have been fine as i wasn't expecting *pretty little liars* but it makes absolutely no sense to make this into a spin-off show when it doesn't add anything onto the world at all. i wish i could add something positive to this but i very strongly did not enjoy this, which is something that doesn't happen for me very often. it's genuinely baffling to me how many positive reviews this show has, but then maybe i'm just missing something that other people seem to have seen :person_shrugging_tone1:♀