Okay I just watched we were liars. GOLLIGY GEE WILLABY WILLOW WALLABY WILKERS MOMMY MILKERS BIKES AND BONKERS. Sorry that sounds a bit sus but whatever. Real quick; spoiler warning, and trigger warning if you don't like, like...death. Okay so first; I did have issues with this show. A lot of the reviews I read were pretty mad at it, so I don't wanna say THIS WAS PERFECT. But also...I feel like people can be so judgemental. They get mad when a character is annoying or thinks a certain way, and they forget that people being annoying or having certain thinking processes isn't purely a thing represented in fiction; its a real-life thing. The truth is, people are annoying and aren't always going to experience things exactly how *you* want them to. If you don't enjoy how an experience is played out, that's fine, you don't have to pretend you do, but don't go tear other people down for it. Characters are created because real people have those same traits, and maybe its a bad mix of traits but somebody out there probably acts just like them-and it doesn't even mean they're a bad or dislikeable person. Just...please, STOP JUDGING PEOPLE SO HARD FOR LIKING THINGS YOU DISLIKE! Anyways. As I was saying, I definitely had a few issues with this show-like how long it was. It could've been two episodes shorter and had the same impact, I feel like. I also wish they'd played a bit more into Harris's changes after the accident, and I wish they'd just shown or discussed it a bit more. It was supposed to be a commentary on wealth, and I wish they'd showcased the supposed changes better-like Harrison accepting Dan, and kind of being less racist. Also the way the other liars appeared as ghosts-it was nice, but kind of lessened the emotional impact. I feel like I would prefer it if they could only be seen by people they had like a mission to complete with, like helping Cadence understand what she did. I guess its kind of implied this *might* have happened in the show, considering they all dissapear to Cadence after jumping in the water, but its pretty unclear, and it could still be open to interperitation with Johnny appearing to his mom at the end that they can still appear to Cadence. I feel like it does slightly lessen the emotional impact, realizing she can still talk to Johnny and hug Mirian (is that her name? Idk why I can never remember her name. You know who I'm talking Abt tho) and make out with Gat...even though they're dead. It's less 'theyre gone forever their dead' and more 'their dead but I can still make out with my boyfriend sooo'. I wish it was like they had to help Cadence remember, and then had to tearfully be like 'well bye we can't visit you anymore our job together is done' blah blah sappy sad stuff that would make me cry even harder and then they would jump in the water. Then Johnny could still have his mission with his mom, of helping her quit droogs, as shown at the end. Yeah, those are my main critiques. I heard some people complaining about the acting and how it felt so stuck up and unnatural, but I frankly liked it. I don't come from a *rich* family but I won't deny my previlage, and I definitely have more money than most, and I feel like this has let me see and notice a lot more of the 'side effects' of richness a bit more. Frankly, I don't doubt real people in a situation could kind of act like that; the stiffness felt real, because it felt like real people verbally whipped into shape until they had no space to quiver or make a mistake. When your put under that sort of pressure they were put under, stiffness can often become natural, because of their obvious fear of just...any imperfection. Does that make sense? I could be wrong but lowk my brain is going brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and I am not exactly driving it, it's....it's more like I am in an offtrail jeep and my subconscious is control and I have no choice but to ride along and if I wanna write a review at all I have to write the stones I collect from our crazy jeep journey, or else I just can't write and I'll cry instead. And I just did my makeup, sooo.
Anyways, so the show itself definitely made me cry. Just the scene where Cadence realized broke something inside me. I feel like...idk, I just related to it. I know the reason she could see Johnny and the other liars was because they're ghosts, but I was like 'oh she must've hallucinated/imagined them' and frankly this was something I did when my own omi died. I mean not to Cadence's extent, but I would see her out of the corner of my eye or think I heard her footsteps. Sometimes I think I still do whenever I think about her, specifically I think I'll hear her call me or I'll just smell her scent (she had a very specific scent). ANyways this has turned less about we were liars more about my omi so imma move on. I don't even know what to say anymore, I think my crazy jeep ride is coming to an end and I'm about to go into a writing burnout for like sixteen weeks (before picking up a pen again sixteen weeks later, writing like a crazy person all day every second for like one or two days, then sixteen more weeks of burnout. There is no in between.) Anyways, just....this show was sad. I like sad shows. I definitely recommend, just bear with it ik its long. And I am gonna go cry hehe.
