Wednesday, January 4, 2012

The Lying Game Winter Premiere

Another fabulous ABC family show.


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Background - Also another book by Sara Shepard (she rocks!). It is about two twin girls Sutton and Emma who were separated at birth. Sutton was adopted by the rich Mercer's who live in Phoenix and Emma was bounced from foster home to foster home and wound up in Vegas. They find each other and plan to find their birth mom. They switch places and Emma gets to live the fab life with the family she always wished she had. Sutton ends up on a wild goose chase in LA, stays with her bff Mad's brother Thayer (who she also ends up sleeping with) and finds her mother Annie Hobbs, who was locked up in a mental ward. Emma has repaired Sutton's broken life, grew closer with her family and has started a love fest with Sutton's secret bad boy boyfriend Ethan. (Who by the way was on 90201, now on Lying Game and also starred on Switched at Birth, he is a busy guy!). Sutton's sis Laurel is dating a mysterious guy named Justin, who's parents died in a car crash. He gives her his mother's bracelet which Ted Mercer thinks is familiar. Ted Mercer and Alec Rybek (Mad's dad and Sutton's godfather) are in this secret together. From what I get is that they took the twins from Annie Hobbs, made her think that one of the girls died in a fire, so she got locked up from the pain, and now they are trying to keep everything a secret. Alec has his hand in everything. In the summer finale, Sutton comes back to reclaim her life. She tries to seduce Ethan and have Emma walk in. She tells them that she is going to out Emma at the birthday party. On the way to the party. someone is in Sutton's car and makes her crash into the lake. The car and Sutton are drowning. Emma is about to reveal to loved ones her true identity, when she sees someone lurking in the shadows. When mother Mercer and Emma go outside, we find out that she calls the women Annie.

All caught up? Let's dig in...

We open up at the birthday party, where Annie is there. But not the Annie Hobbs that we saw from the mental ward. This is Annie Seul, or Char's aunt and Kristin, Alec and Ted's highschool friend that went off the deep end. I am still very confused. There are two Annies? At least this one (Charisma Carpenter, old Buffy alum) has changed her name to Rebecca. Strange. Sutton is nowhere to be found and they are all worried (Ethan, Thayer and Emma). Thayer starts to believe that there was foul play and Ethan is behind it.

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When they get back they find out that their spare car (who has a spare car) is missing. Emma and Ethan realize it must be Sutton who stole it. Later on they find the car in the lake, with a phone and a purse. Sheriff Dan is weary, says it must be Suttons and Ethan takes the blame. Says they took the car to reminisces on the past when they used to date. Alec lets them go, with his creepy smile.

Rebecca is an apparent theme here. She tells Alec to send her sister away for mandatory rehab. I have a feeling she wants to step in and take care of Char. She has a plan and I am not sure what is is.

Laurel misplaces the bracelet from Justin. Meanwhile, Ted pretends to find it although it looks like he took it. He wanted to examine it further. This bracelet means something more and now Ted know it belonged to Justin's mother. Justin explains that when he saw his dead mother in a body bag, he saw the bracelet too. I am getting the feeling that either Ted was his real father, knows his real father or was the doctor during the death and covered it up somehow. Justin is out to get Ted Mercer, but poor Laurel, hope she doesn't get roped into this.

Back at casa de Emma/Sutton, there is an extra gift that they somehow forgot. Of course this is more A - PLL style. Same author, same style. They open it up and there is a piece of Sutton's dress with a note that states, "Keep being Sutton or you're next". Cliffhanger, for sure. Who is behind this?

And furthermore, what happened to Annie Hobbs? How is Rebecca tied up in all of this?

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