You can tell that the writers enjoy working on this show. Sure, a lot of the dialogue is trite and clichéd, but they keep throwing in these clever, artful moments and you can almost feel the writerly hand behind them. And after tonight, I'm thinking that at least one of the writers is a fan of The Great Gatsby.
I just love this show!
I just love this show!
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One thing that teenager shows can do credibly for me is show the characters visibly reinventing themselves, and that was really on display tonight both in the flashbacks and the present-day stuff. Is the (upper middle class) American teenager inherently Gatsby?
(Also it becomes clearer each week that the actress playing Spencer, Troian Bellisario, is the strongest of the lead quartet.)
That's a great theory about why Gatsby is so popular in (upper middle class) American high school English classes (or at least seemed to be in my day).
I now think Noel is the scariest person on the show, regardless of whether he's a killer; he's heading fast to sociopath territory.