HBO Max’s ‘Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin’ Embraces Teen Slasher Tropes to Blunt, Addictive Effect: TV Review

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HBO Max’s ‘Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin’ Embraces Teen Slasher Tropes to Blunt, Addictive Effect: TV Review
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'It might sound basic, but enough reboots have failed on that front to at least make PrettyLittleLiarsOriginalSin a refreshing outlier.'

” scratches an itch like no other. The original series, which ran for seven seasons on ABC Family before the channel became Freeform, began each episode with the lilting melodies of the Pierces’ “Secret” over pristine images of the main quartet in their funereal finest, making winking eye contact with the camera in order to shush it. The stage thus set, TV’s first iteration of Sara Shepard’s novels was slick, if not exactly subtle.

“Original Sin,” premiering July 28 on HBO Max, first flashes back to the tail end of 1999, when the public suicide of Angela Waters stunned the five girls who berated and ignored her throughout high school. Twenty-two years later, their daughters — pregnant Imogen , film obsessive Tabby , ballerina Faran , introverted Mouse and defiant Noa — come together to take down their sneering bully , a racist homophobe pointedly named Karen.

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