Imagine it’s 2010, and you’re scrolling through channels and land on ABC Family.
There, you watch a show that’ll change your life forever.
Of course, they think these texts are from Alison you know, because of the A.
That and the fact that the texts include secrets only Alison knew.
“A” didn’t work alone, though they had help from the aptly named A-Team.
Obviously, there will be spoilers, so if you haven’t watched it, you’ve been warned.
Yes, it was a shocking reveal, but that’s only because no one knew this character existed.
So who exactly is Alex Drake?
She’s Spencer’s evil British twin.
We’ll give you a second to process that.
At times, Alex would pretend to Spencer, but somehow no one noticed.
TheAlex Drake revealbrought a level of disappointment similar to the final season of “Game of Thrones.”
One fantweeted, “Pretty Little Liars was literally the biggest waste of seven years of my life …
I’m so upset.”
Sara Harvey
Next up is Sara Harvey.
Honestly, Sara is a disgrace to the name Black Widow.
We think it’s safe to say she’s one of the most hated characters on the show.
She made her debut in Season 5 and just disappeared until making a random reappearance in Season 7.
Our biggest gripe with Sydney is how many loose ends there are with her character.
Her relationship with Jenna?
Her ties to Mona?
Forgotten by the writers.
Why did she come back out of the blue for Season 7?
No one really knows.
Shana Fring
Where do we even start with Shana Fring?
Mona also says that Shana and Jenna were scared of Melissa, but it’s never explained why.
Did we mention she straight-up shot Ezra and then pointed her gun at the Liars?
Where’d this gun come from?
Noel Kahn
Noel Kahn is just (insert audible sigh here) something else.
Like, Noel, don’t you have anything better to do?
Also, where does he find the time?
After all, he’s still in high school.
This is the one that really irks us.
You’re a grown man, why are you tormenting high schoolers?
Wilden working with the A-Team is on brand, seeing that he’s a rotten piece of scum.
If you don’t know, Wilden had a creepy and very illegal relationship with Alison.
His time on the A-Team, along with Mona coming back to school, led Lucas to be homeschooled.
This might have something to do with Melissa’s boyfriend Ian having yet another illegal relationship with Alison.
That being said, you might imagine that she would have beef with Alison and she did.
This raised a lot of upset from fans because the show’s first transgender character was handled so poorly.
It’s a singular story.
themes are inferred."
“Honestly, I thought it was Aria.
I thought for the whole eight seasons that they were eventually going to make Aria ‘A’.
There were so many things that, like, led up to it.
She was always missing in action.
I was wrong,” she said (viaBuzzFeed).
Aria would have made a great villain talk about wasted potential.
The thing is, Jenna was awful to the Liars in all seven seasons.
How did “A.D.” get Jenna to join the A-Team?
Actress Tammin Sursok wanted her character to be “A,” seeing that she’s the No.
“I would love to be ‘A.’
Toby Cavanaugh
Now, this was an amazing A-Team reveal.
In Season 3, Toby Cavanaugh reveals to Spencer that he’s joined the A-Team.
Jaws dropped everywhere, but executive producer Oliver Goldstick said it shouldn’t be a big surprise.
His darkness isn’t coming out of nowhere,” he noted (viaPopsugar).
(Have we mentioned that Season 1 Ali is a horrible human being?)
We eventually find out that Toby only joined the A-Team to keep Spencer safe (viaRefinery29).
Spencer Hastings
Speaking of Spencer, she joined the A-Team shortly after Toby did.
Once Spencer joined, she was all in.
You’d never suspect her and that’s why it’s so iconic.
Mona had them all fooled and right under her thumb.
