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The TV series premiered in the summer of 2010 on ABC Family and ended in 2017. It also had two spin-offs that were both cancelled after one season: Ravenswood in 2013, and a sequel series Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists in 2019. A new series, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, has been ordered; unlike its predecessors, it airs on HBO Max.

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Jerkass: Alison definitely crosses into this trope. The reason why she is popular is because she is attractive, smart and charismatic.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: And yet she seems to really care for the four girls. Her appearances in the present that suggest she may be alive seem to indicate she Took a Level in Kindness. She did.
Jerk Jock: Noel and Ben. Subverted, though not fully, with Sean.
Just Friends: Hanna and Lucas.
Last-Second Word Swap:
When Emily first meets Samara at a cafe.

Samara:

Emily:

Late-Arrival Spoiler: It's extremely hard for anyone who comes across even the smallest amount of info regarding the later seasons to avoid finding out that Alison is still alive. DVD and streaming cover art from Season 5 onward commonly includes Alison when she wasn't in them previously, and seasonal blurbs and summaries often discuss her as well.
Latex Perfection: for Mona disguised as Melissa in the finale.
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Alison (to the other Liars) near the end of the Grand Finale: For some reason, this feels like the end of the something.
Leg Focus: Invoked when Ella, discussing a potential outfit for her second wedding to Byron, comments "I may need to borrow Emily's legs."
Les Yay: Invoked by Alison, in order to manipulate Emily.
Lethal Chef: Emily's empanadas.
Let's Wait a While: Spencer and Toby decide on this at the start of Season 3. Upon Toby seeing spetting out of the shower shirtless she starts having doubts about waiting. They get together later in that season in "The Lady Killer."
Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Two duos with the four liars. Spencer and Aria are dark, Hanna and Emily are light.
Hanna is the light to Mona's dark.
Emily is the light to Maya's and Talia's dark.
Paige is the light to Shana's dark.
Love Triangle: Oh, where do we start - almost all characters were involved in at least one.
For Aria, the first part of Season 1 had Ezra/Aria/Noel. In the last episode of the season, we get introduced to Aria/Ezra/Jackie, which is further developed in Season 2. Season two also had Ezra/Aria/Jason. We later got Ezra/Aria/Wesley, Maggie/Ezra/Aria, a downplayed Holden/Aria/Ezra, Jake/Aria/Ezra and now Aria/Andrew/Ezra, because she simply can't get over that guy, no matter how many times they break up or how illegal it is.
For Hanna, it started out with Sean/Hanna/Lucas, then there was Caleb/Hanna/Lucas. After Caleb was Put on a Bus to spin-off series-ville, Hanna attempted to deal by directing her feelings towards Wren, Holbrook and Travis, while still harboring feelings for Caleb. Mona's possible romantic feelings for Hanna are so far still in the realms of Fanon.
Emily is probably in the triangle lead. First there was Ben/Emily/Maya, followed by Paige/Emily/Maya (with Samara thrown in the mix later on in the season). Then A pushes Emily into creating Samara/Emily/Quinn. By the time Emily and Paige got back together, we got ourselves some Emily/Paige/Shana, as well as a very creepy post-mortem Emily/Maya/ Nate/Lyndon. In season 5, Alison returned and the Emily/Ali/Paige triangle began. Late season 5 brought some light Talia/Emily/Paige, with Talia chasing Emily who was on the last legs of a long distance relationship with Paige, until Paige decided to ask for some space. And the writers didn't think that was enough and come season seven we were graced with Sabrina/Emily/Paige, which caused Alison to feel threatened and when Emily dumped Sabrina for Paige, Alison decided to try and jump in and we would've got Alison/Emily/Paige, had Emily not shut that down immediately and gone after Paige.
Spencer had three main ones, all had some serious ick factor - Melissa/Ian/Spencer, Melissa/Wren/Spencer and Jenna/Toby/Spencer. She also gets into one in season 6 with Caleb and Hanna.
Ali added some spice to that, seeing how it was really Melissa/Ian[[Spoiler:/Ali]]/Spencer all along. Fanon later insisted that Ali/Ezra/Aria was also a thing.
Mona had Jenna/Noel/Mona.
Even the parents got in on the action - we had Ella/Byron/Meredith, Ted/Ashley/Wilden, Ashley/Tom/Isabel, Veronica/Peter/Jessica and more recently Ted/Ashley/Jason.
Lipstick-and-Load Montage: The opening credits, and it's a corpse that is dolled-up.
Lipstick Lesbian: Emily, Samara, Maya, (possibly) Alison and Talia. Averted with Paige in the first season, but played straight in later seasons.
Love-Interest Traitor:
Toby is one of A's accomplices and Spencer's greatest love.
Topped by the reveal that Ezra, Aria's love, is A-ish.
A more minor example, though rather heartbreaking example was when Hanna found out in season 1 that Caleb hooked up with only because Jenna paid him.
Sarah Harvey was only brought into the show for this exact purpose, so Emily wouldn't be the only one left out.
Lured into a Trap:
Spencer goes to meet Toby in the Fun House at a carnival and gets shoved into a tiny space instead.
In "The Bin of Sin," A baits Spencer and Aria with Mona's laptop, only to lock them in a freezer instead

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Take My Hand!:
Spencer tries to save Mona this way in the Season 2 finale. She isn't able to, but Mona lives.
Aria tries to do the same with CeCe Drake in Now You See Me, Now You Don't, but fails. Again, CeCe lives.
Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Noel Kahn, Ezra, Garrett, Toby, Caleb, Darren, Holbrooke and Lucas in the books.
Talking Down the Suicidal: The Cold Open of "Game Over, Charles" (which was available to preview after "Last Dance" aired) shows the Liars trying to do this to A, who has been identified and backed into a corner.
Tangled Family Tree: The DiLaurentis and Hastings families are all smashed up together. It started with learning that Jason is actually Peter Hastings' son. Several seasons later, Charles DiLaurentis entered the picture and turned out to be now Charlotte, AKA CeCe Drake, and since, we've met her mother and Jessica DiLaurentis' twin, Mary Drake, who has another child: Spencer. The series finale threw one last twist: Spencer has a twin sister, Alex.
Teacher/Student Romance:
Aria and Ezra, of course.
Plus Byron had one before the series with his student Meredith.
Teens Are Monsters: a theme on this show. Especially with Alison, Mona, Jenna and A.
Teen Drama: Marketed like "Desperate Housewives for teens".
The Friend Nobody Likes: A dark deconstruction with Alison. While everyone in town hates her, the Liars put up with her. However, they spent most of season five wondering why and turned on her when she continued to lie to cover her tracks. They even suspected her of murder and did everything they could to get her arrested.
The Usurper: Spencer is going out for Academic Decathlon Captain after Bradley is mysteriously injured but little does she know she is running against the most unlikely candidate, Mona, who wins by psyching Spencer out.
There Are No Therapists: Well there are therapists, they just tend to make things worse. Wren might actually be evil. Elliott/Archer definitely is.
This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: A hilarious tumblr dedicated to lampshading the constant and never-ending use of the word on the show.
Three Minutes of Writhing: A pretty accurate description of Hanna and Emily's dancing in "Pretty Isn't The Point" (and Emily's the following week in "Bloody Hell").
Time Skip: In the very last scene of "Game Over, Charles," the action jumps to five years later - all the Liars except Alison have left Rosewood, and Alison's now a teacher. Suddenly, Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily rush into her classroom and warn her "he's" coming... which doesn't happen until the penultimate episode. As a nightmare Emily has. The Vulture recapper is unlikely to be the only viewer to have felt cheated by this.
"Till "DeAth Do Is Part" takes place a year after the previous episode.
Too Goodfor This Sinful Earth: Wayne Fields, the only husband who never cheated nor left his wife for another woman and the only father who prioritized the mental and physical well being of his daughter, dies in the Time Skip. His death ended up affecting Emily, who went into a spiral.
Toplessness from the Back: The shown often indulges in the practice.
Spencer in "It's Alive" and "Hush, Hush, Sweet Liars" is shown this way when she's changing clothes. Also in "New Guys, New Lies" when she gets out of bed after sleeping with Caleb.
Aria is shown like this whenever she has sex with Erza. Notably, "Miss Me x 100" and "Til DeAth Do Us PArt" have both the same scene, with Aria with her back to the camera straddling Ezra in bed and flinging the Modesty Bedsheet over them as she plunges down on him.
Alison in "The Perfect Storm" when she drops her towel in the locker room, right in front of Emily who gets visibly distracted.
Emily herself does this in "Never Letting Go" when she takes off her dress and gets changed in front of Samara.
Town with a Dark Secret: Lots of secrets.
Treacherous Quest Giver: A gives the girls treacherous quests to cover-up their secrets.
Treachery Cover Up: Mona pretends to be crazy and pleads for the girls to forgive her for trying to kill Hanna.
Troubled, but Cute: Toby and Caleb.
True Companions: The Liars are like this. They'll do anything to protect each other. In "Now You See Me, Now You Don't", Emily also makes it clear that this attitude extends to Alison, despite how she's treated them in the past.
Uncanny Valley: The opening of the series; the first time you see it, it appears to be a girl getting dressed up, but it seems really off... then it becomes obvious very quick that it was a corpse being dolled up.
Undressing the Unconscious: In "Game On, Charles", The Liars fail to escape A's dollhouse and get hit with a Knockout Gas. They wake up later in a fake morgue, naked with only Modesty Bedsheets draped over their bodies. Spencer theorizes A took photos of them like that to send to their families so that they would think then dead and would stop looking for them.
Unlimited Wardrobe: None of the Liars ever seem to wear the same outfit twice.