Pretty Little Liars ‘What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted’ review: They go completely mental, apparently

Cheating, bonding, an epic ‘Mona crazy’ breakdown and an extreme ‘accident’ more or less sums up this week’s episode of Pretty Little Liars.

How I’ve missed the sweet and disturbing puns of the A-messages. I’ve always loved the A-team’s fondness of riddles and puns like the classics from season one “Lions and tigers and bitches oh my! There’s no place like Homecoming. See you there, -A” , so I loved A’s little message to Spencer at the beginning of the episode, delivered in quite the fashionable sense inside her sunglasses; “You rat out T, I take down 1 of your 3. – A”. I wonder if Toby sent this message himself? And I wonder why she haven’t been threatened to keep her mouth shut before now, but at least now there’s some kind of logical and reasonable reason why she’s not telling the girls – she should’ve done it when she had the chance.

Spencer keeps acting like a complete lunatic and nothing like her ‘know-it-all’ self, but I’m not complaining. Not only is it brilliantly entertaining to watch, but finally one of the liars are giving Mona a little of her own crazy medicine. Also, between her Strip-trivial pursuit game with Andrew and the reappearance of the good doctor and his adorable sexy accent I’m getting kind of fond of the new Spencer and her hilarious comebacks “I was just about to put out a new doormat saying ‘GO AWAY’”.

However, I liked how Spencer’s behavior is not going unnoticed by the other liars. I especially loved her argument with Emily, because you finally get to see Emily questioning what Toby did and Spencer trying to protect her and the others from him in her own way by more or less commanding Emily not to talk or see him anymore, but without a decent explanation soon, I doubt it’ll do much good.

Meanwhile the storylines revolving Caleb’s father and the other brother continues. Honestly, it’s not like I don’t find Hannah’s attempt to help Caleb reconnect with his father really sweet and adorable, I mean, I love Haleb, but it’s just an incredibly dull storyline compared to everything else going on or is it just me? Haleb are kissing in a church and Emily and Jason nearly gets killed in an elevator ‘accident’. I guess their storyline kind of calms the recent episodes down a bit. A lot of crazy stuff is happening and somehow it’s nice to have a ‘normal’ and down to earth storyline running in the background. The same goes for the Aria/Wesley storyline, but I feel like their story is a bit more exciting seeing as it’ll affect both of their relationships with Ezra. Aria and Ezra’s relationship has more or less been the most steady, or at least the longest running relationship throughout the seasons, so I predict that this’ll obviously cause a lot more tension between them and that Aria might take a step back for a second and seriously consider her relationship with Ezra and how they’re suddenly in completely different places in their lives – mainly due to the age difference. It’ll be very interesting and somewhat needed for their relationship I think.

Now, let’s talk about the elephant in the room – Emily’s more or less one-man-hunt for the truth. We got a few more clues this week, depending on whether you think Jason Dilaurentis is a reliable source. First and foremost, it seems like I was right about CeCe last week, there’s definitely more to this girl than just blond hair. We found out CeCe not only lied about knowing Wilden but also that her and Alison definitely hang out with him at Cape May one way or another. It was also revealed that Jason may or may not have seen CeCe the night Alison died, in Alison’s clothes, arguing with Melissa – but he was obviously so drunk and high that he was probably hallucinating, it’s hard to say, but he must’ve known something since the A-team thought it necessary to nearly kill him (no one really thinks what happened in the elevator was simply an accident, is there?) and afterwards most likely kidnapping him. And may I just say the A-team works fast… and silently… and invisibly. How is it even possible to move a guy with that amount of injuries without making so much as a sound and without a single person noticing? Props to the A-team!

Notes and thoughts 

• Did the creepy Spin-the-bottle game at the end of the episode mean that Spencer’s as good as done or that they’re not done with her at all? I hope it’s not the latter. Poor girl, give her a break!
• I give Caleb’s father a week before he screws everything up.
• Personally I find it extremely unfair that Aria gets both Fitz brothers – I think she should share. I volunteer *Insert Katniss from The Hunger Games’ enthusiasm/desperation*
• I’ve heard from Stefan and Rebekah (The Vampire Diaries) that ‘crazy sex’ apparently is some of the best. Keep that in mind Wren.
• Cut the crap CeCe, you’re not fooling anyone! You’re so full of crap you could pass for a toilet.
• Can you actually get a doormat that says ‘Go away’? I want one!  
• I’m convinced that the A-team must have superpowers. A-team UNITE!