PLL; the real "dollhouse", plus a social commentary

I'm someone that loves to find the deeper meaning in things, and I usually can catch on pretty quickly. What I didn't realize until Heather Hogan pointed it out in a recap was that on "pretty little liars" there is something going on. I posted what she said on my facebook and I'll summarize it, the dollhouse was doing to the girls, what rosewood had already been doing to them, and what in real life, our life, society does to us. A lot of the subtle commentaries I picked up on, because it's not that hard. In season 1 we get that even the best of mom's (ashley marin) says to her daughter "you CAN'T mess up... in this town, what people think of you matters" that sets the stage for the entire show. I love Ashley but she sleeps with a cop so he will drop shoplifting charges against hanna, setting the example that it doesn't matter if you actually do the right thing. It only matters if people don't find out about your mistakes. People say these girls should tell the cops, they should tell their parents, they should go to a trusted adult. I wonder if these people are watching the same show I am? The show isn't trying to teach teens that all cops and parents are bad, it's just being realistic. The girls haven't figured out who "-a" is and when they try to tell someone, it not only backfires because -a retaliates, it backfires because of two words: "victim blaming"
this is something that has been going on since day 1 on this show and is still going on now. I could say so much about this, I could use so many examples using any of the girls.
But I'll go with just one family because I want to share this video someone made. The Dilaurentis family, or more specifically Alison Dilaurentis. From the beginning of the show we are focused on Alison, even though she is missing and later found "dead". We see that Alison is a "mean girl" she bullies nerds, and even her own group of friends. She controlled everyone around her, and selected the four girls to be her playthings. Most of the audience at this point can't stand her. We find out that she was having an affair with one of her friend's sister's boyfriend, Ian, who is of college age. And we find out that she played a trick on a girl that was in love with emily, she toyed with emily's emotions, she blackmailed aria's dad about the affair he was having with his student, cheating on his wife. Then we find out that Alison was getting threats from -a before she went missing, -a was threatening to kill her. We find out she faked her death and is still alive somewhere and the girls find her and bring her home. Where she later is shunned by her friends who are convinced she is -a, and then she is put in jail for a murder that wasn't even real. The girls trap her for the police. After being charged as accomplices, the other girls are kidnapped by -a and trapped in his dollhouse. Once the police figure out that Mona is alive, alison is set free. Then here is what Alison does, she knows that -a wants her the most, so she sets herself up as live bait in order to find the girls, including the one who faked her own death to put Alison in prison, and all the ones that helped her pull it off, unknowingly. After all this, Alison is being guarded by cops, who she overhears call her a "skank", when she tells her dad about it, he basically tells her it is her fault, because when she was 14 she was mean to some nerds, who then got payback over and over again. And because she was being threatened by an unknown person so she needed money. So she blackmailed an adult married man, because he was cheating on his wife with a student. And because a college aged guy and his friends spied on young girls through their window so often they started a literal club and he and alison hooked up because he liked young child girls, we know this because he did the same thing to spencer. And the girl that stomped on Alisons back so hard she had a giant bruise. These are the people who alison was so mean to. This is why the entire town hates her most of all, more than the cop who exploited Ashley for sex, more than the teacher who seduced his student, and was using her all along to write a book. More than the man who cheated on his wife with his student and then turned around and was extremely upset at his daughter for dating a teacher. The whole town is against Alison because of things she did when she was 14, most of which was done to keep from literally DYING by being MURDERED. She had to leave town after this thing happened that was also her 14 year old self's fault, she was hit in the head with a rock and knocked unconscious, by her brother that she didn't know existed. Her mom witnessed this and then her own mother buried Alison alive in their backyard, and never told anyone. We also find out as shown in this video that Alison wasn't always a little liar, she was taught at the age of six, by her mother, the only person whom alison knew to learn things from, the person who had been intrusted the responsibility to raise alison into who she would become. Her mom taught her to lie and hide things, at six years old. With no one else to teach her any different. Her mom did it so that they could all remain the "perfect" family, this is after they had sent off one son, charles, to a mental institution. Which he did need but they still kept him a secret and even convinced their other son, Jason that charles was imaginary, they told him "charles had to go away" all to be the "perfect family" ....
I'm not sure if the writers of this show are using Alison as a social experiment or not but later on things change. I always partially liked alison, for reasons I didn't even know about. I'll put the video here and see if anyone understands what I'm trying to say.

Jason was about the only one who understood Alison from the start, because he was there. And now finally her friends are starting to see it too, hopefully the audience will step in line and learn some stuff. This show is so unrealistic, but is it? or is it the most realistic show on tv?

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