Season 1

In the beginning...

Pretty Little Liars is an American teen, mystery drama which is based on the books by Sara Shepard. In the beginning only ten episodes were aired in June 2010, however ABC Family then ordered twelve more episodes to be created and then these were then aired in January 2011 and ended in March 2011.

Overall the season premiered 2.47 million views and during the the season finale, this soared to 3.07 million views. Currently to date in 2016 there are six seasons, however the actress that plays Aria Montgomery confirmed that there will be a seventh season but that will be the final season of Pretty Little Liars. 

Pretty Little Liars Season 1 Episode 1

Episode 1 begins with the four main girls, Aria Montgomery, Emily Fields, Hanna Marin and Spencer Hastings are startled by a noise outside the barn, only to discover it as their friend Alison DiLaurentis. 

As the night goes on, the girls are just being their normal teenage selfs, having a gossip and a drink to the point where they all fall asleep. Aria has awakened to find that Alison and Spencer are both missing and then wakes up Emily and Hanna for them to both ask where are Alison and Spencer. As they all start to waken themselves up, Aria then shouts "Ali" and Spencer replies that Alison is gone and she has looked every where for her. Spencer also reveals that she thought she heard Alison screaming. This sparks the disappearance of Alison and the growing apart of the group.

As the episode continues on, it reveals that it has been a year since Alison went missing that night.   Through this year, things have changed for the girls. They had grown a part, Aria had moved away, Hanna became the "it" girl of Rosewood High and also became best friends with Mona Vanderwall, Spencer had maintained the status as "overachiever" and Emily continued with her swimming and being with her boyfriend, Ben.

The Funeral 

Back in Rosewood, it was about to change again for the liars because Maya's family found a body in their back garden and soon it was named as Alison's body. The four girls are shocked and devastated that she was their the entire time, they had hope she would be found alive. There is a funeral held for Ali and the girls are in for another shock as one of their class mates, Jenna who has been left blind due to an accident caused by the girls turns up at her funeral. 

As the girls leave the church from the funeral held for Ali, they receive one text from "A" and it reads, "I'm still here bitches. And i know everything -A." 

The Secrets 

The girls reconnect when they all realise they are receiving messages from a mysterious person who knows all the girls deep dark secrets. Spencer is the first to receive a message from this person called "A". Spencer had a fling with  her sister's Melissa's fiancé, Wren Kingston and now "A" knows about this. Also the person knows that Spencer not only had a fling with another boy who Melissa was dating called Ian but she stole her sisters' school paper so that she could keep her grades up and maintain the achiever within the family and "A" threatens to tell everyone about this but Spencer tells the girls first to beat "A".

Next is Hanna to receive a message from "A". This person wants to reveal about Hanna's past when she was bulimic. "A" however finds a way to do this throughout the season as Hanna's mother, Ashley steals money from the bank with the intention of paying it back because she was short on money this time, it was a simple solution."A" had a different plan and during a party that Hanna was hosting, they snuck in and stole the money from them. "A" then blackmails Hanna a little at a time with such tasks as eating cupcakes and hurting her friends by outing their secrets.

Aria had recently moved back to Rosewood with her family after living in Iceland for the year. This moved was because Aria's father Byron, had cheated on his wife with a colleague he worked with. None of the girls knew about this except Alison but this did not last long because "A" outed this secret by writing a letter to Aria's mother, Ella explaining about the affair and mentioning that Aria knew about along. With the guilt eating away at Aria she visits a local bar and ends up kissing a guy who we know is Ezra Fitz, Aria then walks into her english class the next day to discover the guy that she kissed is now her new english teacher.

Lastly for Emily, Alison knew that Emily had feelings for her and that she does struggle with her sexuality. In Rosewood there is a new girl moving into Alison's old house, Maya St Germain and Emily becomes rather close to her. As the season progress, they become closer and closer and one night they end up kissing in a photo booth but "A" is not too far behind and steals the pictures of them kissing. "A" then blasts the pictures of them all over the school which makes Emily feel better because she is no longer needing to hide her sexuality but this causes problems between her and her mother, Pam. 

The girls come together as these messages from "A" begin pouring out but the girls soon realise that only person knew all of their secrets and that was Alison, could "A" be Alison?

Thank you for reading and the next few posts will continue to be about season one. Then after it will be about the current season as the finale for season six is tomorrow! Please leave any comments below and i will get back to them as soon as i can.