Premise:
Set in the small suburban town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania (not far from Philadelphia), the series follows the lives of five girls: Spencer Hastings, Alison DiLaurentis, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin and Emily Fields, whose clique falls apart after the leader of the group, Alison, goes missing. One year later, the remaining estranged friends are reunited as they begin receiving messages from a mysterious villain named "A" or "A.D.", who threatens and tortures them for the mistakes they have made before and after Alison was alive. At first, they think it is Alison herself, but after her body is found, the girls realise that someone else is planning on ruining their lives.
Watch episode one and make notes on the following:
- How realistic are the teenage representations in the episode?
- What works and what seems a little far fetched?
- What is interesting about the mise en scene?
- What stereotypes are used?
- Why are those stereotypes used?
- In what ways do the representations challenge stereotypes (offer countertypes)?
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