Bros Watch PLL Too - A Pretty Little Liars podcast
291 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 590 ratingsBenjamin Light and Marco Sparks break down each episode of Pretty Little Liars in ever increasing detail. This feed covers Pretty Little Liars seasons 1-7, The Perfectionists season 1, and the HBO MAX PLL reboot.
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PLL Commentary - s01e10 “Keep Your Friends Close”
February 08, 2021 08:00 - 51 minutes - 23.9 MBThis week on the pod, we’re skipping s01e09 because we already did a commentary track for that pod last summer with the excellent LaToya Ferguson. Instead, we’re talking Pretty Little Liars s01e10 “Keep Your Friends Close” aka the Camp Mona episode. Mona breaks up with Hanna for being a bad friends and getting detained by the FBI, Aria attempts to emotionally manipulate the guy who’s grooming her, Spencer is looking for clues like Nancy Drew, and Emily is getting closer with Maya, and closer...
PLL Commentary - s01e08 “Please, Do Talk About Me When I’m Gone”
February 01, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutes - 23.2 MBOur commentary pods continue with a revisit of Pretty Little Liars s01e08, “Please, Do Talk About Me When I’m Gone.” Old Jason is here, with all his oily anti-charm, looking to stick a foot up Wilden’s ass just to prove he can do it. Spencer pushes her sister on Ian out of guilt, Aria deigns to go on a date with Noel Kahn (Hi Noel Kahn!), Hanna sells her stolen goods online to buy groceries with the help of soft boi Lucas, and Emily is feeling things as she starts to move on from her Ali inf...
PLL Commentary - s01e07 “The Homecoming Hangover”
January 18, 2021 08:00 - 54 minutes - 25.3 MBThis week on the pod: is Toby dead? That’s right, we’re doing our commentary track for Pretty Little Liars s01e07 “The Homecoming Hangover.” Jenna has a creepy dog that talks to Emily and tells her to kill. Spencer walks into the club kitchen like she owns the place, because she practically does. Sean tries to show up Hanna by sending flowers to Aria, and the Shusher shuts that right down with extreme prejudice, and then interrogates substitute Sara Shepard about Ezra Fitz’s whereabouts.
PLL Commentary - s01e06 “There’s No Place Like Homecoming”
December 28, 2020 19:51 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MBPIXIE SITH LORD PIXIE SITH LORD PIXIE SITH LORD PIXIE SITH LORD PIXIE SITH LORD PIXIE SITH LORD PIXIE SITH LORD PIXIE SITH LORD PIXIE SITH LORD PIXIE SITH LORD. Pretty Little Liars s01e06 “There’s No Place Like Homecoming.”
PLL Commentary - s02e24 “If These Dolls Could Talk”
December 14, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBWe’re joined this week by special guest Courtney and jumping ahead to the end of Season 2 to do a commentary track on Pretty Little Liars s02e24 “If These Dolls Could Talk. Jenna can see! Aria blackmails her parents! Mona devises a scheme that requires her to make out with Hanna’s boyfriend to catch A. The devious genius. Follow us, end up like us.
PLL Commentary - s01e05 “Reality Bites Me”
December 07, 2020 08:00 - 51 minutes - 24 MBEzra. Dawg. Major party foul bringing your high school girlfriend to the bar poetry reading, bro. Your boy Hardy is trying to be chill about this, but, like, dude. Seriously. Also, Toby is that kid who goes to the cafe to read The Catcher in the Rye so everyone will see him reading The Catcher in the Rye. He’s barking up the wrong tree with Emily. Meanwhile Spencer seeks out a ball boy to anger her father with, and the psychiatrist thinks Hanna might have a Martha personality. WHY DID YOU SA...
PLL Commentary - s01e04 “Can You Hear Me Now?”
November 23, 2020 08:00 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBNothing says Thanksgiving like Ezra’s gangly legs on a bike. We spy with our little eye, something that begins with a commentary track for Pretty Little Liars s01e04 “Can You Hear Me Now.” The liars have the only good idea in the entire run of the show: just blocking A’s calls. Also, this is the first collaboration between writer Joseph Dougherty and director Norman Buckley. Cheers!
PLL Commentary - s01e03 “To Kill a Mocking Girl”
November 09, 2020 08:00 - 52 minutes - 24.4 MBThe Bros are back again, no guests this time, to continue doing commentary tracks for Pretty Little Liars. This week, we’re doing s01e03 “To Kill a Mocking Girl.” First appearance of Keegan Allen aka Toblerone Toby Cavanaugh! Meredith being a scamp! The Hastings Family ladies and their wonderful dynamic! Enjoy!
PLL Commentary - s05e05 “Miss Me x 100”
November 02, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBThis is it folks, the last of our commentary podcasts (for now). Norman Buckley is back to give us all the behind-the-scenes trivia about the 100th episode of Pretty Little Liars: s05e05 “Miss Me x 100.” Remember when Caleb returned to Rosewood as a ghost with short hair and we had to see Ezra’s hair legs in the sex scene. Oh yeah.
PLL Commentary - s04e19 “Shadow Play”
October 30, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 31.2 MBWe’re very pleased to have writer and director Joseph Dougherty on the podcast for one of our very favorite episodes of PLL. That’s right, we’re doing a commentary track for s04e19 “Shadow Play.” Joe gives us a ton of insight into the behind the scenes work of producing the famous black & white episode of PLL, and it is a delight.
PLL Commentary - s04e12 “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t”
October 28, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 32.4 MBJourney with us to spooky Ravenswood for this special Halloween episode of PLL. We’re joined by director Norman Buckley to lay down a commentary track for s04e12 “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t,” aka the one where we learn about the A-ness of Ezra. How is Emily chained to a conveyor belt? Nevermind, look, it’s CeCe in a Red Coat, and Aria doing kickboxing!
PLL Commentary - s03e16 “Misery Loves Company”
October 26, 2020 07:00 - 55 minutes - 25.8 MBA very special welcome to Pretty Little Liars’ showrunner and creator I. Marlene King, who has joined us to provide commentary for the first episode she directed, s03e16 “Misery Loves Company.” Stephen King homages and creepy dolls abound. You know why we picked you, right?
PLL Commentary - s04e10 “The Mirror Has Three Faces”
October 23, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 31 MBSomeone’s been living in the DiLaurentis basement! We’re joined by special guest Lesley Fera, aka Veronica Hastings herself to provide commentary for s04e10 “The Mirror Has Three Faces.” Some great Mona vs Veronica scenes in this ep, in addition to Wren being super sus, Toby still hung up on his loser mom, and Red Coat creeping in mirrors.
PLL Commentary - s04e04 “Face Time”
October 21, 2020 07:35 - 54 minutes - 25.5 MBWhere do you go when you need to trade information in exchange for a mask of your own face? Howabout special guests Joseph Dougherty and Norman Buckley, the filmmaker’s behind today’s commentary track for s04e04 “Face Time.” We’ve got some classic scenes to discuss, like Melissa and Spencer at the lake, Lt. Tanner humoring Hanna in the park, and whether Aria is hurt or injured.
PLL Commentary - s04e03 “Cat’s Cradle”
October 19, 2020 07:00 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBThe 10-year anniversary celebration rolls in with a special double-guest commentary track for s04e03 “Cat’s Cradle.” We are joined by writer Joseph Dougherty and director Norman Buckley to talk Baker Bro Zach, Aria’s distaste for dudes who don’t like her black & white movies, and the one and only Hector Lime, Merchant of Masks and Secrets.
PLL Commentary - s03e21 “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”
October 16, 2020 07:00 - 58 minutes - 27.2 MBWhat better way to ring in the 10-year anniversary of Pretty Little Liars than rolling a cop car into the lake? This time on the pod, we’re joined once again by special guest Melanie Mayron, the director of the episode, to provide live commentary for s03e21 “Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” aka, the one where Spencer loses it and ends up in a mental hospital at the end.
PLL Commentary - s03e13 “This is a Dark Ride”
October 14, 2020 07:00 - 58 minutes - 27 MBIt’s the Halloween Horror Train episode!! LaToya Ferguson of PLL Annotations fame joins us to celebrate 10 years of Pretty Little Liars by doing a commentary track for s03e13 “This is a Dark Ride.” Ashley is visited by a ghost! Adam Lambert flirts with Aria! Hanna and Mona almost share their first kiss! What an episode!
PLL Commentary - s02e23 “Eye of the Beholder”
October 12, 2020 07:00 - 52 minutes - 24.6 MBDuncan the teenage flyboy! Jenna getting blown up! We continue to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Pretty Little Liars with this commentary track for s03e23 “Eye of the Beholder,” featuring special guest Melanie Mayron, the director of the episode.
PLL Commentary - s02e16 “Let the Water Hold Me Down”
October 09, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 36.4 MBHanna bashed Lucas with an oar and now she’s stressing! This week on the pod we’re joined by writer Bryan M. Holdman to discuss this classic episode of Pretty Little Liars. We hear some great insights into the writing process, and have a lot of fun watching Spencer interact with Mona.
PLL Commentary - s01e09 “The Perfect Storm”
October 07, 2020 07:00 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MBSettle in for a trip back to the closest thing Pretty Little Liars has to a bottle episode, with season 1’s The Perfect Storm. We are joined by LaToya Ferguson of PLL Annotations and That’s So Aria fame to talk over all this hijinx of Aria singing, Emily’s muddy shoes, and Veronica Hastings handing Wilden his ass.
PLL Commentary - s01e02 “The Jenna Thing”
October 05, 2020 07:00 - 53 minutes - 24.7 MBWhat the hell, we might as well do The Jenna Thing too, right? It’s always felt like the Pilot and episode 2 are a package. Listen close for the Bros to learn about a certain positive COVID-19 test during the commentary.
PLL Commentary - s01e01 “Pilot”
October 01, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBWe’re back! Celebrating 10 years of Pretty Little Liars, four months late. We thought we’d record a few commentary tracks for the anniversary, featuring yours truly for the Pilot episode, and some special guests for other favorite episodes coming in the days ahead. Enjoy!
Viking Funeral
October 21, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBThis is it folks. The Perfectionists is no more, and it’s time for all good things to come to an end. Marco and Benji are back one last time to give the Pretty Little Liars spinoff a proper burial at sea. The bros answer one last round of questions on the mothership show and its spinoff, and also take some spoiler-y questions on My Name is Trouble towards the end. Good night, sweet prince. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things.
s01 Wrap-up and Q&A
June 05, 2019 08:38 - 2 hours - 65.7 MBWrapping up Season 1 of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Marco and JT return for a look back at the first season of The PLLerfectionists, and a look forward at next season. We offer our humble pitch for Season 2 (4:35) before answering questions from listeners (31:56). Later, we do a non-spoiler Q&A session for our book, My Name is Trouble (1:37:34), before talking spoilers for the book at the end of the pod (1:59:58).
s01e10 “Enter the Professor”
May 25, 2019 01:17 - 2 hours - 70.3 MBRecapping Season 1, Episode 10 of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. In the season finale, the actual premise of the show finally arrives. There’s a creepy Professor who has entrapped the Liars and the Perfectionists into participating in a mysterious psychological experiment. Everyone is pivoting to new plot-lines, Taylor went to a rehab spa to do a bonus scene for some Aladdin money, Mason is still actively diminishing good female characters... Why wasn’t this episode the Pilot? Fing...
s01e09 “Lie Together, Die Together”
May 18, 2019 09:01 - 2 hours - 75.4 MBRecapping Season 1, Episode 9 of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Mona gets immediately busted while Ezra went seven seasons without repercussions. Ali has been demoted to making coffee for everyone. Taylor’s got a gun, and she’s not afraid to use it. There’s a Gala. Maybe everyone’s not going to be in school anymore if the show gets renewed for another season. BLAMMO! Thus falls, Not Scamander.
s01e08 “Hook, Line and Booker”
May 12, 2019 09:11 - 2 hours - 67.9 MBRecapping Season 1, Episode 8 of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Ali and Mona are stuck in lame “romance” subplots this episode, so it’s time for Taylor Hotchkiss and the Perfs to shine. Taylor loves mojitos and hates this new dude Ali’s making eyes at. Caitlin is suddenly suspicious of her boyfriend, Harry Potter. Dylan must trick Dana into thinking he’d drop a dime on his new friends. And Ava is flashing back to happy memories of Nolan because she’s definitely the killer.
s01e07 “Dead Week”
May 05, 2019 08:49 - 2 hours - 74.7 MBRecapping Season 1, Episode 7 of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Ali worries she can’t trust Taylor, even as she grows closer to her doppelgänger. Mona is on the hunt for the bastard who broke into her house and didn’t leave pie. The Perfectionists are trying to study and work on essays during Dead Week. Yeah, their plot line is that interesting.
s01e06 “Lost and Found”
April 27, 2019 08:29 - 2 hours - 71.8 MBRecapping Season 1, Episode 6 of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Ali is helping out with the fashion show this week, because sure. Mona discover’s a secret computer in Taylor’s RV and digs deeper into BeaconGuard. Caitlin is in the hospital having boring drama after getting run over, and Dylan and Ava are off being scamps and getting chased through the sewer by a Pig-Man. Oh, and Mason’s innocent. Wow, shocker.
s01e05 “The Patchwork Girl”
April 20, 2019 08:47 - 2 hours - 62.3 MBRecapping Season 1, Episode 5 of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. JT is finally broken by the baffling timeline. Marco suspects rewrites or an odd edit. As for the show, Ali meets up with her sorta doppelgänger and tries to win her trust. Mona eats peanut brittle with some old janitor before verbally devastating Booker. The other three Perfectionists hatch the dumbest scheme ever to get off the show. Zoe remains the best new character.
s01e04 “The Ghost Sonata”
April 13, 2019 08:30 - 2 hours - 72.1 MBRecapping Season 1, Episode 4 of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Ali signs away her marriage, drinks some wine, and goes looking for the Emerald City. Mona’s got a hot date with Bad Bishop, but Roy Hogadorn may have other plans. The Perfectionists start sharing some secrets and it DOES NOT go like Ali promised it would.
s01e03 “…If One of Them Is Dead”
April 06, 2019 09:24 - 2 hours - 71.2 MBRecapping Season 1, Episode 3 of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Alison DiLaurentis has clearly taken the reigns now. This is her show, and she has all the carefully crafted shots reflected in mirrors to prove it. The other Perfectionists are having a very special episode about learning to trust each other and be friends. Claire Hotchkiss and Dana Booker are shaking down the kids to see which one cracks first. And Mona might not be real, but is definitely banging Taylor Hotchkiss.
s01e02 “Sex, Lies, and Alibis”
March 30, 2019 08:51 - 2 hours - 70.3 MBRecapping Season 1, Episode 2 of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Claire Hotchkiss is drinking in the dark but otherwise very chill for losing her only remaining offspring. Mona is writing crazy equations on the wall. Ava is suddenly super grief-stricken and a pill to be around. Dylan and Caitlin are there. Ali meets the Tanner 2.0 and decides she’s done being New Ali.
The PLLerfectionists Preview Pod - March 2019
March 01, 2019 08:41 - 2 hours - 65.1 MBWe’re almost to the Pilot! Join the Bros on their last preview pod before Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists finally drops on March 20th. James and Marco talk about the marketing blitz for the show: the trailers, the Instagram ads, the weird poster, Ostinato, etc. Then we delve into the final third of The Good Girls, Sara Shepard’s sequel to The Perfectionists. SPOILER ALERT, as always!
The PLLerfectionists Preview Pod - February 2019
February 01, 2019 08:00 - 2 hours - 68.5 MBIt’s getting juicy, guys and gals. We might be days—days!—away from a Perfectionists airdate reveal. Shooting has wrapped. There’s a weird logo teaser. Lucy is filming Paradise Island or maybe just vacationing with Ryan Hansen & crew. We’re soaking in Act II of The Good Girl, where relationships are being tested, Julie is losing her grip, and Parker has more motive to kill than ever before. Pop a Four Loko and join Marco and Benji for some intrigue.
The PLLerfectionists Preview Pod - January 2019
January 01, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 48.8 MBThis month on the podcast: Marco and Benji provide some half-assed production updates for The Perfectionists before jumping into a discussion of chapters 1-10 of The Good Girls by Sara Shepard. New theories arise as the conflict resets for the second book in the two-part series. RIP Leslie the evil stepmom?
The PLLerfectionists Preview Pod - December 2018
December 01, 2018 08:00 - 2 hours - 60.4 MBThe guys are back to talk the latest updates on the production of The PLLerfectionists before diving into the last third of the novel. Spoiler Alert for the book, obviously. Then at the end of the pod, we also spoil the hell out of Lifetime’s You, and debate whose book we’d rather read: Beck’s, or Aria and Ezra’s?
The PLLerfectionists Preview Pod - November 2018
November 01, 2018 07:00 - 2 hours - 63 MBThe guys are getting into the meat of the book version of The Perfectionists this months. Major spoilers and new Tulpa theories. Production has begun on the rest of season 1 of The PLLerfectionists, and we talk a little about Lifetime’s You at the end.
The PLLerfectionists Preview Pod - October 2018
October 01, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBThis month on the pod, Marco and… not Benji? talk about the Upfronts trailer for PLL: The Perfectionists, that we are probably not technically supposed to have seen. Then we break down chapters 1-8 of the first Perfectionists novel by Sara Shepard. Bonus: stick around till the end of the pod for some discussion of Lifetime’s You, co-starring Shay Mitchell.
The End
August 28, 2017 07:39 - 3 hours - 113 MBThis is it folks, your last episode of Bros Watch PLL Too. Benji and Marco answer as many questions from out wonderful listeners as we can, as well as covering various top 5s like Tertiary Characters, A Tags, Episode Titles, Film References, and more. Thanks for listening everyone, and watch this spot in a couple months for a rebooted Headcanon as our new main podcast.
Podcast Extra! The Norman Buckley Exit Interview
August 07, 2017 19:00 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBOur farewell tour for Pretty Little Liars continues. Please join us for an interview with Director Norman Buckley as we talk the PLL finale, social media, shippers, plot vs theme, Personal Shopper, Hitchcock, and much more. Thanks to Norman for joining us, and all that he’s done to introduce new listeners to our podcast!
Podcast Extra! The Troian Bellisario Exit Interview
July 20, 2017 04:57 - 1 hour - 37.6 MBSpecial guest Spencer Hastings herself, Troian Bellisario has graciously joined us to talk the end of PLL, Alex Drake, directing her first episode, her new movie Feed that she wrote and starred in, and much more. Enjoy!
s07e20 “Til DeAth Do Us pArt” part II
July 03, 2017 06:44 - 3 hours - 112 MBRecapping Season 7, Episode 20 of Pretty Little Liars. PART II. Aria discovers that she’s infertile the day before her wedding, which of course Ezra makes all about him. Hanna and Caleb are also trying to get with child, but the Actual Bad Guy has a lot of attitude about Hanna inviting Mona to live with them while she recovers from her adrenalized hyperreality. Emily has Emison twins now (courtesy of Wren) is so nosy and pushy that she almost ruins Ali’s marriage proposal to her. And Spencer ...
s07e20 “Til DeAth Do Us pArt” part I
July 03, 2017 06:19 - 3 hours - 115 MBRecapping Season 7, Episode 20 of Pretty Little Liars. PART I. Aria discovers that she’s infertile the day before her wedding, which of course Ezra makes all about him. Hanna and Caleb are also trying to get with child, but the Actual Bad Guy has a lot of attitude about Hanna inviting Mona to live with them while she recovers from her adrenalized hyperreality. Emily has Emison twins now (courtesy of Wren) is so nosy and pushy that she almost ruins Ali’s marriage proposal to her. And Spencer d...
Podcast Extra! The Joseph Dougherty Exit Interview
June 26, 2017 07:50 - 2 hours - 75.7 MBSurprise extra podcast! Pretty Little Liars writer, director and executive producer Joseph Dougherty joins us to provide commentary on “Farewell, My Lovely” and dish on the series as a whole. Topics include: the amazing Janel Parrish, the construction of the Five Years Forward PLL world, Paily, Charlotte’s villainy, Ezria controversy, and much more. Thanks to @Kockenlocker for tiding us over till the big finale.
s07e19 “Farewell, My Lovely”
June 23, 2017 11:23 - 3 hours - 117 MBRecapping Season 7, Episode 19 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria talks to herself/a dead body/Pigtunia until Ezra lectures everyone about being mean to his girl and then tackles her into a tree—which he can because he has an American Literature MFA. Hanna is super-chill because she’s married now, and mostly acts as a stand-in for Charlotte fugues. Emily has a nonsense flash-forward dream sequence about that we’re all writing off as a gas leak boner. And Spencer happily loses an ex-boyfriend to wed...
s07e18 “Choose or Lose”
June 16, 2017 08:49 - 2 hours - 87.1 MBRecapping Season 7, Episode 18 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria is outed as an A.D. collaborator by Mona, but is rewarded with an alibi for the Wrick murder for her troubles. Hanna has relocated her chill and comes clean with her mom, with a little help from Caleb who she then marries in a lo-fi Justice of the Peace ceremony. Emily is robbed of morning sex when the cops raid all the liar haunts, but Ali gets her back later with a special romantic night by the Kissing Rock. And Spencer feels the h...
Podcast Extra! An Interview with Lesley Fera
June 12, 2017 07:00 - 58 minutes - 36.1 MBSurprise bonus episode. Lesley Fera aka Veronica Hastings joins us to talk Spencer’s boyfriends, Peter’s many transgressions, her character’s surprising political affiliation, favorite moments, and all the usual Hastings Family intrigue. Thanks so much to Lesley Fera for joining us!
s07e17 “Driving Miss Crazy”
June 09, 2017 09:03 - 2 hours - 91.7 MBRecapping Season 7, Episode 17 of Pretty Little Liars. Aria walks further down her dark path, helping A.D. plant an audio bomb to tear apart the Hastings Family, and blowing off Ezra’s recent interest in their impending nuptials. Hanna gets a visit from Detective Marco, causing her to worry about what other evidence they might have missed, and her mom is getting suspicious too, so Caleb proposes to throw Ashley off the scent. Emily’s new girlfriend and babymama Ali has run off to NYC to see J...