Pretty Little Liars: Summer School Sets May Premiere Date on Max

School is out for a horror-filled summer on Pretty Little Liars: Summer School.

The anthology teen drama returns with two episodes on Thursday, May 9, on Max. New episodes of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin‘s sophomore season will be released weekly through the finale on June 20. 

Cosmopolitan‘s first-look photos released last month revealed that Pretty Little Liars: Summer School will take place directly after Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin. The show’s first installment concluded with Season 1 Episodes 8-10, “Bad Blood / Dead & Buried / Final Girls,” in August 2022. 

“It’s almost a direct pickup from the end of season 1. We end sort of on Christmas Eve, with our amazing last tag kill which is A killing Chip and A on the loose,” co-creator, writer, and executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa told Cosmo. 

“And then we pick up Christmas morning with Imogen and Tabby unwrapping Christmas gifts with Tabby’s mom and getting a panicked phone call. And that’s all in the first minute of the episode so we are definitely picking up right where we left off in a really pulse-pounding way,” Aguirre-Sacasa added.

The feature also teased bigger scares, a female villain named Bloody Rose, a horror church with a teen youth group, romance, and more on Pretty Little Liars: Summer School.

The “Pretty Little Liars face a fate worse than death – summer school. However, Millwood High isn’t the only thing getting in the way of their fun summer jobs and new, dreamy love interests. A new villain, who may or may not have a connection to A, has come to town and is going to put them all to the test,” per the synopsis.

Pretty Little Liars: Summer School‘s returning cast includes the liars — Bailee Madison as Imogen, Chandler Kinney as Tabby, Malia Pyles as Mouse, and Maia Reficco as Noah, and Zaria as Faran. The other ensemble members are Mallory Bechtel, Sharon Leal, Alex Aiono, Jordan Gonzalez, and Elias Kacavas.

Gonzalez and Kacavas return to the Max Original Drama series as series regulars.

Millwood’s newcomers are Ava Capri as “Noa’s former juvie cell mate Jen, who lands back at school among the titular Liars and draws Noa into her messy drama,” and Antonio Cipriano’s Johnny, “a self-described player who melts Imogen’s heart while working alongside her at Millwood’s Ice Creamery.”

Noah Alexander Gerry also joins Pretty Little Liars: Summer School as Christian, “a New York transplant who works with Tabby at the Orpheum, where they strike up a romance straight out of a horror flick,” per TV Line.

Meanwhile, Loretta Ables Sayre will portray Mouse’s grandmother, Lola, “who becomes concerned when she gets involved in a creepypasta-like online community.”

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin already established a number of ties to ABC Family/Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars. The anthology will continue that tradition on Pretty Little Liars: Summer School. Annabeth Gish, who recurred as Dr. Sullivan on PLL, will reprise her role in the upcoming season, per Deadline.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring created, wrote, and executive produced Pretty Little Liars: Summer School. Max renewed the series for a second season in September 2022. 

Aguirre-Sacasa’s Muckle Man Productions and Alloy Entertainment produce, in association with Warner Bros. Television. Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo also executive produce, along with Marlene King and Michael Grassi. King developed the original Pretty Little Liars series.

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Pretty Little Liars: Summer School on Thursday, May 9, on Max.

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