#GuiltyPleasureConfessional: ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Is My Favorite Teen Drama

I started to write about Survivor because my desire to be on that show isn’t as embarrassing as my true guilty pleasure: I’m obsessed with TV dramas made for teenagers. I’m in love with Pretty Little Liars, Vampire Diaries and The Originals. They’re basically sociopathic soap operas set in high schools and I can’t get enough. But Imma focus on my favorite, Pretty Little Liars and all of its glorious stupidity. Firstly, I am the girl that sings the theme song at full volume or does a quick lip sync routine (and the routine is quite cute if I do say so myself). Secondly, I am behind on PLL because the drama gives me actual anxiety and I can never finish the season on time. I am always one season behind what’s airing because I need time to process the deaths, the kidnapping, the outfits, and the breakups. My eighteen-year-old sister has been yelling at me for months to catch up. Thirdly, I am not even sure if the writers have met a teenager — everyone seems like a caricature of a caricature. I watch this with the same vigor and disgust as horror films because it’s basically white people making asinine decisions and dying because they haven’t learned to tell the truth or stop splitting up yet.

Pretty Little Liars is always really entertaining because apparently these three white girls and one racially suggestive Asian girl have no supervision until one of them gets arrested or kidnapped (yes there are multiple kidnappings). This leads to all types of shenanigans, surprisingly n…