Pretty Little Liars Season 4, Eps 1 & 2

Episode 1:

A pig?! The resolution of the cliffhanger from Season 3 -- the girls opening the trunk of Wilden's car and gasping -- was pretty disappointing. It would have been a better payoff if it had just been Wilden, whose body was found later, anyway. 

There are new plotlines materializing for Season 4 after last season had us trying to figure out who dug up Alli's body last season (without ever solving it other than "Red Coat"):

The girls and Mona are now sort of on the same team because Red Coat/"Alli" is trying to kill them all(?) plot line:  I wish the Mona spill session had been more gratifying to me, but I didn't remember all of the things she was explaining the answers to. 

The new Toby's mom, what really happened? plotline: This is interesting because it involves A and also because I love Toby and his ever-changing hair. 

The creepy Alli's mom plotline: I get the feeling that this is going nowhere and Alli's mom is just creepy. 

Ezra and Aria:  Good riddance. I wish that Aria's daydream was real. Was that the first time that the show really recognized that A&E were sleeping together and that it was illegal? This relationship never has anything to do with A except to give A reasons to manipulate Aria, anyway. It's fun that Larisa Oleynik is E's baby-mama, but I wish that she wasn't rocking an unfortunate mom haircut.

The college plotlines: Spencer's UPenn rejection better tie in with A somehow or it will become boring, fast. Emily is clearly not actually on board for Stanford with Paige. This situation is a ticking time bomb. 

The New Cop: Someone has to fill Wilden's shoes! (Where is that actor from? He kind of looks like the guy from Heroes.) But who will make out with him first?

Hanging Threads: Jenna's burn! The veil lady! Spencer's sister on the video! Will there be better music on the show this season?

Best outfit: 

The funeral outfits, obviously. These girls rock a funeral. 

Best quote: "Yeah, I have my own set." -Mona, referring to keys to Emily's car.

Episode 2:

First of all, did Hannah get major extensions since last episode? Second, Hanna gets outfit of the ep for her second pair of metallic leggings in two episodes: 

Things are moving right along in episode 2:

The girls and Mona are now sort of on the same team because Red Coat/"Alli" is trying to kill them all(?) plot line: A legit tries to kill Mona! And Hanna tries to play her for the video from Wilden's car, but she knows and gives up the only(?) copy anyway. 

The new Toby's mom, what really happened? plotline: Toby lies to Spencer (at first) about A, again. This does not bode well. But his mother's apparent suicide is very mysterious. Maybe she was saying she was happy, but her face looked miserable, like the wife on Lie to Me. 

The creepy Alli's mom plotline: A talking parrot, seriously? And the A tag at the end feeding it poultry was just too much. 

Ezra Jake and Aria: Ha! Aria takes self defense and kisses her (young, attractive) instructor, and he likes it. What's the deal with his accent?

The college plotlines: Emily pulls a Jessi Spanno with painkillers at the swim meet and kills her Stanford chances (that was fast). Ezra helps Spencer with her college essay. Snore. 

The New Cop: Absent this week! 

Hanna's mom as Wilden's killer plotline: This just seems like another "Toby is the killer" or "Paige is a stalker" plotline, where a character acts very creepily but it turns out to be nothing. And Hanna and her mom have a very open, calm-sounding conversation where Hanna basically accuses her mom of actual murder, and her mom answers very normally, as if that is a standard conversation to be engaged in with her teenaged daughter. 

Hanging threads: The parrot song phone number!

Best quote: "Which freaky woman? There's a couple." -Aria, on their lives.