Tonight is the season 6 premiere of Pretty Little Liars and the girls are still in major trouble. The episode is titled “Game On Charles” and the official synopsis reads:
Moments after where the season five finale left off, Aria, Emily, Hanna, Spencer and Mona are trapped outside of Charles’ Dollhouse with nowhere to go and must now deal with an angry tormentor. Just when the Liars thought Charles couldn’t get any worse, his games take a more demented and darker turn. As the girls struggle to survive, the puzzle of Charles’ story begins to come together. Meanwhile, Ezra, Caleb and Toby continue the fight to find the girls with or without Rosewood P.D.’s help.
Show-runner I. Marlene King talked to Us Weekly about the premiere and said that it’s highly influenced by The Twilight Zone. She also said that now “A” has his dolls all fenced in. As for Alison, she’s finally getting out of jail and she’ll also be getting a new love in her life. Actress Sasha Pieterse dished to E! News:
She’s getting a love interest. I think that’s going to be the biggest surprise. She actually has a love interest. Even though it’s not Emily and I think Emison fans are going to be kind of sad, I think it’s healthy for everyone to see and this person doesn’t know anything about Alison and that’s the beauty of it. She’s able to start fresh and have a healthy relationship with someone, one that would normally develop if someone wasn’t going through all these crazy things … His name is Lorenzo, and that’s about all I can tell you.
Pieterse also revealed that the premiere episode of the season will end with a giant surprise as she explains:
It will definitely be one huge secret. There’s one huge, like weird thing that happens that no one is expecting at the end of the episode and it will freak you out.
At some point this season, there will be a time jump, which Pieterse talks to Entertainment Weekly about, stating:
We do a time jump in our show, and you see these girls in totally different worlds. They’ve grown up and they’re dealing with other things; they’re dealing with the realities of life. So I think that’s fun for the fans to see, too, that people always end up differently than they expect … A lot of teenage shows kind of fail when they try to make the girls go to college. This show’s not like that. We’re very different. I think it’s a really important thing for the fans to see. I assure you that none of the flavor of Pretty Little Liars Is going to be lost in the time jump. It’s only growing, and it’s only going to expand. I think. I hope … I think the jump is really going to tackle a lot of those questions that you have as well. I think another question is: How are these girls going to move on with their lives? And you’re starting to see that. These girls are growing up.
As for the rundown on Charles DeLaurentis and his plans for the girls, Alloy Entertainment reports Pieterse as stating:
[Charles] is this self-destructive hyper-sensitive crazy genius that is haunting these girls and his ultimate dollhouse does include Alison. So, you’re just going to see us trying to figure out what his plans are and how he’s going to accomplish that, or trying to stay one step ahead. We start to find things about Charles and it just gets more and more disturbing. It’s interesting. This season is kind of horror-esque. Not completely because we still have our little comedy aspect and the girls still go to school, but there’s a lot of twisted things that, I mean at their age, they should never be going through. This is not a normal situation. It’s very dark, especially considering everything that happened to them in the dollhouse. You’ll start to find out what it was, and it’s really dark. That’s really the craziest aspect of it.
Overall, what you can expect to see this season is darkness. Sasha Pieterse tells Entertainment Weekly:
Honestly, this is our darkest season. It’s the darkest stuff that we’ve ever dealt with. They were kidnapped and tortured by someone they don’t know, who knows everything about them. This started off as a show for teenagers, and it’s so not that anymore. This is dark and a murder mystery—not even murder. Murders, plural!
Pretty Little Liars airs Tuesdays, 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on ABC Family.