Monday television, long the night for football, or where good shows went to die, is now a hotbed of queer characters on teen shows with a gay character on ABC Family’s Greek and a main lesbian character each on that network’s guilty pleasure Pretty Little Liars and on MTV’s American remake of Skins.
SheWired’s been running Pretty Little Liars Gay-Caps about the show’s lesbian character Emily's (Shay Mitchell) storyline. Today we offer PLL re-caps but check back tomorrow for a Skins recap since this week’s episode was all about its gay character Tea (Sofia Black-D’Elia).
Pretty Little Liars- Careful What you Wish For
When we last left Emily she was saying farewell to her adorable girlfriend Maya (Bianca Lawsen), who’d been hauled off to juvie rehab after Emily’s mom (Nia Peeples) found – gasp—marijuana in Maya’s backpack. Better weed-smoking lesbian than Rufies at a frat party but Emily’s mom does not share that value.
Fast-forward to this week’s episode and Emily is having Maya DT’s. It seems the ‘True North’ rehab facility, which is likely also a rehab from the homosexual lifestyle, is blocking Emily’s calls.
Leave it to pretty little liar Hanna (Ashley Benson), who was the first to discover Emily’s and Maya’s relationship, to know the new kid at school who can jam Emily’s phone number so the rehab police won’t know it’s an nefarious lesbian on the line.
“What do they have her doing in those woods, building a log cabin?” Hanna asks.
And that’s just all wrong. Building log cabins would be far too butch for a rehab called ‘True North.’ I’m picturing Maya clad in Peptol Bismol pink and learning to cook, clean, and iron all while falling in love with Clea Duvall ala But I’m a Cheerleader.
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There’s a lot of back and forth between Hanna, Emily and the phone jail breaker Caleb, an all-around mysterious type, who gouges Emily by charging her triple to make her phone Maya-ready, but at the end of the day Caleb hooks up the phone. Emily calls Maya while outside of the school’s ‘Dance-a-thon.’ And from the sound of the conversation on Emily’s end Maya isn’t lovelorn over her forced separation from Emily.
Spencer (Troian Bellisario) happens upon Emily just as the conversation is ending and asks how Maya is doing.
“She seems really happy,” Emily replies, sounding not at all happy about Maya’s being happy. “She was there but she wasn’t.”
Being the good supportive friend that she is Spencer tries to console Emily saying Maya was likely being watched and has a lot going on… But Emily won’t be assuaged. “Maybe she’s moved on,” Emily says. But what Emily should realize is that Maya is from California, flakey brainwashing cult central. Maya is going to be an annoying ex-gay in no time. Emily should not take it personally.
Dejected and heartbroken Emily lifts Hanna’s flask from its hiding place in the coat check, and proceeds to guzzle the contents. It turns out that sweet Emily is a bit of a belligerent boozer. And my mom always says, “If you can’t be a happy drunk, don’t drink.”
Hanna discovers Emily outside the dance on a bench, flask in hand. ‘That’s my flask,’ Hanna says. To which Emily slurs, ‘I helped myself.’
Meanwhile, drunk-ass Emily takes the opportunity to rail on Hanna, who danced the night away with her geek friend Lucas, who also happens to be in love with her. Emily accuses Hanna of playing with Lucas' emotions for her own ego boost, but what Em doesn’t realize is that the girls’ blackmailer ‘A’ has been prodding Hanna with thousands of dollars to break the poor kid’s heart. And as Hanna’s mom is broke and has resorted to creatively ‘borrowing’ from little old ladies’ life savings to pay for groceries and designer handbags, Hanna felt she had no choice but to allow ‘A’ to pimp her out.
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Emily, who has no idea ‘A’ is blackmailing Hanna outside of the typical PLL extortion tells Hanna she’s just like their bitchy dead friend Alison, who teased a then-closeted Emily with the occasional well-placed kiss.
Later, Spencer and Hanna opt to not take a drunk Emily back to her mom’s house. “I’ll be feeding bears with Maya," Hanna says, as she was the ostensible liquor supplier. And there's no way Hanna is going to homosexual rehab juvie.
The girls get Emily back to Spencer’s house to sleep it off when Emily tries to drunk-dial Maya. And here’s proof-positive that Hanna is a good friend. She confiscates Emily’s phone. "Friends don’t let friends dial drunk," she says. And Emily passes out in a black cocktail dress in Spencer’s bed.
Tune in for next week’s re-caps when we’re hoping to discover more about just what Maya is doing in juvie rehab.
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