8/31/2023 0 Comments Pretty little liars title sequence![]() Twenty-two years later, their daughters - pregnant Imogen ( Bailee Madison), film obsessive Tabby (Chandler Kinney), ballerina Faran (Zaria), introverted Mouse (Malia Pyles) and defiant Noa (Maia Reficco) - come together to take down their sneering bully (Mallory Bechtel), a racist homophobe pointedly named Karen. “Original Sin,” premiering July 28 on HBO Max, first flashes back to the tail end of 1999, when the public suicide of Angela Waters (Gabriella Pizzolo) stunned the five girls who berated and ignored her throughout high school. Think “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and “Halloween” - or, more accurate to the actual plot, “I Know What Your Moms Did Last Y2K.” ![]() Though 2007’s “Pretty Little Liars” eventually leaned harder into horror, 2022’s offshoot immediately embraces the genre. Set to an unsettling remix of “Secret,” with an anonymous creep destroying smiling photos of the main cast on what can only be described as a classic “murder board,” “Original Sin” quickly asserts itself as a visceral nightmare of a teen slasher. Now, after two previous tries at spinoffs (“The Perfectionists” and “Ravenswood”) failed to launch, a new attempt at reviving the franchise has arrived in the form of “Original Sin.” Created by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring of “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” the drama follows in its predecessor’s footsteps by establishing its tone straight from its evocative opening-credits sequence. The stage thus set, TV’s first iteration of Sara Shepard’s novels was slick, if not exactly subtle. ![]() The original series, which ran for seven seasons on ABC Family before the channel became Freeform, began each episode with the lilting melodies of the Pierces’ “Secret” over pristine images of the main quartet in their funereal finest, making winking eye contact with the camera in order to shush it. For a certain generation of TV watchers, the theme song for “ Pretty Little Liars” scratches an itch like no other.
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