A Tries To Tear The Girls ApartKing ominously warns, “A is always there in a threatening manner, always looming overhead, that sort of cloud of darkness.” Goldstick adds, “There’s a line in the second episode of the season, where Aria looks at Spencer and says, ‘I don’t even know what A wants anymore. You know what happens when you put four lobsters in a tank and you take away their food? They start to eat each other.’ It’s very much what A is after this season because last season A threw some things into motion trying to destroy these friendships that were being rekindled and on the contrary, ironically, it ended up bringing them together. But this season, A is really trying to cut off all support networks these girls have except for each other, and then A can turn them on each other.”
Aria Learns Who A Is — And Faces Competition for Mr. FitzArtsy Aria (Lucy Hale) will be the first to learn who A is. According to Goldstick, “The identity of A is revealed in these early episodes. It’s kind of a shocker. Of course we want a surprise, so we can’t tell you. But it impacts Aria’s life in a big way. Let’s just put it this way: it’s the last person she would have expected to be tormenting her and her friends.” Aria’s secret romance with Ezra continues to be rocky. Says Goldstick, “Simone is Aria’s old babysitter, her former babysitter, now living in New York and proves to be a bit of a threat to her relationship with her teacher slash boyfriend.”
Emily Meets A New GirlAt the end of the last season, Emily’s (Shay Mitchell) soldier father returned home, ratcheting up the pressure on the so far closeted teen. “This cycle of episodes Emily has a really amazing and intense storyline of coming to terms with her sexuality and dealing with her parents in that regard and a lot of growth as a character… We feel a huge responsibility to stay true to that character, to stay true to the choices that character has made, and not have her flip flop back and forth between I’m gay/I’m not,” shares King. “Her mother Pam, does find out that Emily is, as she says, ‘experimenting’ with her sexuality and has a very difficult time with it. I think it’s very truthful and very honest and hopefully very relatable for people who may find themselves in that position.” According to Goldstick, Emily is dealing with romantic, as well as family, angst. “Poor Emily is also going to be on a bumpy road with romance because her relationship with Maya is thrown into real peril early on in the season. Emily throws herself back into swimming with full force and ends up developing an odd relationship with [Paige], one of her rivals on the swim team. She’s… dealing with some issues of her own. Her rivalry with Emily also takes some interesting turns. Paige is [played by] Lindsay Shaw. She and Emily are neck and neck – no pun intended- in the water, vying for captain of the team.”
SOURCE: fancast
