At the 4th episode of Pretty Little Liars, I was chirping to all my friends and all over Twitter how much I loved this series. It's smart, with a perfect mixture of Gossip Girl, Desperate Housewives, AND The Vampire Diaries (sans the fanged ones... well, up to now, that is.) and it's my new summer guilty pleasure.

I'm now at the 8th episode, and somehow, I'm getting a little bored. Hm, might that be due to the absence of one Mr. Fitz for the past 2 episodes? I doubt it, I think I'm more into Emily (Shay Mitchell) than any of the dudes in Pretty Little Liars. Although lately, even Emily is starting to bore me too with her constant constipated look.

I'm starting to wonder how are they really going to develop this whole mystery surrounding Alison's death without dragging everything into a repetitive slow motion straight into a dead end? It was awesome up to episode 6 (the homecoming episode), but 7 and 8 is like climax straight to downhill faster than you can say Alison DiLaurentiis.

The whole unrequited forbidden love thingy between Aria and Mr. Fitz got on a very strong start, but it started fizzling like a leaking balloon starting episode 4 onwards. Forbidden love is a very strong pull on any story, so they need to play this back to the right track. And Mr. Fitz himself is pretty cute too.

I started out liking Emily and Aria. But at this last recent episode, I've shifted completely to Hanna and Spencer. Like COMPLETELY. The previous two got so bland and boring. Like I said, Emily constantly looks constipated.

And that mysterious "A" is starting to make me think that ghosts in Rosewood can actually TEXT.

I might give it a few more episodes, but if it doesn't get back on its two feet, I'm just gonna bolt out of Rosewood and never come back.