Pretty Little Liars Review: Along Comes Mary (Season 7 Episode 5)

Pretty Little Liars, you are slowly regaining our faith!

Remember how last season we wrote about how history was repeating itself in Rosewood, and how repetitive it was that the Liars kept chasing a false lead in the form of Sara Harvey?

Well now, the two people with the biggest axes to grind against the Liars have reunited. Jenna finds Sara at The Radley, and together they seem to be making devious plans.

Now, this should freak us out, and it does. But can you imagine a bigger pay off than these two colluding?

The only thing that could make this scene better is a bunch of robed singers breaking into a chorus of “It’s Not Over Yet” from A Very Potter Sequel!

We were never quite clear about what role Jenna played in the Original A drama, but she definitely wasn’t the brains of it all.

They’re both targets for no reason other than convenience, and seeing the two of them together feels like kismet.

What tension and havoc they could reek on the rest of the season.

There is one disappointment we have, and that is the lack of Mona. After her spellbinding return and “Hit and Run, Run, Run” she’s as entangled in Elliot’s disappearance as any of the Liars.

Yet, Mona doesn’t make an appearance in the episode, and given some of the things that are happening, if felt like she should have been Number One on the speed dial.

Let’s face it, once they revealed Mona as one of The Black Hoodies in A’s Lair, the veil that is technology has gone out the window.

So, when Alison goes to the bank and finds that her accounts are frozen due to insufficient funds, couldn’t Mona have done her little criminal mastermind thing and traced the funds back to who stole them?

Not using Mona in these situations is like going ten miles an hour in a top of the line sports car, for lack of a better metaphor.

If you let Mona loose, wouldn’t the A.D. problem have been solved by now?

Speaking of who stole Alison’s funds: does anyone else suspect that Mary Drake has the money hidden in plain sight or something?

She and Elliot did come to Rosewood to take the DeLaurentis family for everything they had, chief among them the money. Mary Drake says she was double-crossed, but can we really trust someone who pretended to be her dead sister?

Think about it.

Sure, there was some friction between Mary and Elliot before his demise, but it sounded like it was more about Ali than the money.

When would Eliot have swiped the money? It seemed they had the perfect window for draining the account right after Ali’s voluntary admittance to Welby. Unless he siphoned it off in small amounts to avoid suspicion?

Mary Drake, Jenna, and Sarah are among our most suspicious people this week, but the end of the episode brings one more familiar face into the mix.

Noel Kahn is back!

Noel is another character who pops in and out of the storyline, switching alleged allegiances at every given turn.

But what is he doing back in Rosewood now? I guess we will have to wait until next week to find out.

And now for some happy news! 

We’d be remiss not to mention the #PLLProposal that left us hanging by a thread this week, but in a review about cunning and manipulative characters, this sweet gesture seems to need a section all it’s own.

The prospect of an Ezra and Aria’s engagement is much more adorable now than it was when she was in high school.

But there’s an elephant in the room, as there always is with Pretty Little Liars. 

Nicole is missing and presumed dead, but why is she calling Ezra’s phone? Anyone care to predict that the reason a wedding will either not happen or be postponed is because of this revelation? Or is A.D. up to some trick?

The plot thickens! 

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Pretty Little Liars airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Freeform.

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