

Meanwhile, Nolan's blackmailing efforts toward Ava, Dylan, and his fake girlfriend Caitlin (Sydney Park) encouraged the three to jokingly vent about wanting to kill him. Nolan also made his stance on payback clear in a class discussion on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, raising Alison's concerns about how much the school's superiors knew about her past. It turns out that a brand new TA immediately digging into students' relationships with each other is never received well. Gifted cellist Dylan (Eli Brown) was writing papers for Nolan (Chris Mason), the son of wealthy tech moguls who were involved in BHU's foundation, and aspiring fashion designer Ava (Sofia Carson), but neither Dylan nor Ava would admit the truth about this to Alison. Soon after Alison (Sasha Pieterse) arrived at Beacon Heights University to be a teaching assistant, she quickly caught on to the shifty dynamics among a group of her students.

Rich blackmailer Nolan Hotchkiss is dead after an encounter with a mysterious figure, so who murdered Nolan on The Perfectionists? Time to break down the possible suspects. Viewers had to wait until the very end of the spinoff series' first episode to learn how this killing happened, but even then, the murder only inspired more questions. Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists was clear about its premise from the beginning, promising an unlikely murder in a relatively safe college town that sends the campus into a frenzy. Ages 14 up.This post contains spoilers for Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. An Alloy Entertainment property, in development for a CW television series. But Shepard expertly crafts characters that are morally complicated, yet sympathetic.

There's a lot going on, and some of it like a suspicious therapist who seems to have only two teen girls as patients defies believability, even for an outrageous story. Meanwhile, police are uncovering clues that further implicate the girls, especially after a second murder occurs in their tony town. A slimy teacher suggestively offers beautiful, brilliant Ava "extra credit," while soccer star Caitlin becomes attracted to her boyfriend's younger brother. This scintillating series kickoff from Pretty Little Liars author Shepard employs a similar formula, mixing archetypical girls the popular one, the musician, etc. When Nolan is discovered dead the next day, the girls become the central suspects and must work together to figure out what really happened. After several dissimilar girls discover they have suffered at the hands of rich, popular bully Nolan, they drug him at his own party and scrawl mean messages on his face, which they share online.
