If you are familiar with ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars, then you are probably all too familiar with the girls’ staged faces of horror, the endless amounts of dead ends, and the overall ridiculous pranks from A.

Pretty Little Liars is mainly about a group of girls from Rosewood,Pennsylvania, whose leader/best friend, Ali, suddenly disappeared at the end of seventh grade. The girls, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin, Spencer Hastings, and Emily Fields, receive disturbing text messages from a conniving person that goes solely by “A.” A countlessly tries every possible way to ruin their lives. It is up to the Pretty Little Liars, as the general public fondly calls them, to find out who A is and stop whoever it is from causing destruction to Rosewood one person at a time.

The show used to be amazing in the first couple of seasons, but now it feels like it is being dragged out to its maximum amount of episodes. It now has hackneyed ideas that have almost nothing to do with the situation or with Ali. In fact, A is portrayed as being almost omniscient; I mean who else stalks four girls at the same time? Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week?

I believe that Pretty Little Liars would be a lot better if the producers brought back Ali’s evil twin, Courtney from the New York Times Best Selling Series, Pretty Little Liars.  I am, however, not the only one who believes this is true, “I think it’s getting really boring because nothing is happening the way it should be and it is not following the story line of the book at all,” explained freshman, Debbie Lee.

The story line is very convoluted because the producers of the show don’t want to make it anything like the books. In fact, they are trying so hard to make it different that I don’t think they even know who A is themselves.

It all boils down to this: in order to save the show from its dawdling and wasting of episodes, the producers should move forward and reveal who A is, or better yet, have Ali return and twist the show into the drama that Sara Shepard originally wrote.