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<div><em>• Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin revives the multi-award-winning teen drama franchise... with a slasher twist</em></div>
<div><em>• 88% critics' rating on Rotten Tomatoes</em></div>
<div><em>• "Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin Is the Next Great Teen Drama" The Daily Beast</em></div>
<div><em>• "The Breakfast Club meets Scream... a breezy blast that's perfect for summer" Decider</em></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hailed by </span><em>The Daily Beast </em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">as "the next great teen drama," </span><em>Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is now available to binge on Showmax. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the small town of Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a brand-new group of Little Liars finds themselves tormented by an unknown assailant, known only as "A". </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Created by </span><em>Chilling Adventures of Sabrina</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoun Bring, the 10-part series has an 88% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As </span><em>Decider</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> says, "It's </span><em>The Breakfast Club</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> meets </span><em>Scream</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, and it's a breezy blast that's perfect for summer."</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Based on the bestselling book series by Sara Shepard, the </span><em>Pretty Little Liars</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> franchise kicked off in 2010 with the beloved original series that won 38 Teen Choice Awards over its seven-season run, including a Scene Stealer Award for South African Sasha Pieterse as bully Alison DiLaurentis. Two single-season spin-offs – </span><em>Ravenswood</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> – were added to the cannon in recent years.</span></div>
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<div><em>Original Sin</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> revives the hit franchise with an eerie new setting, a sharp left into the horror genre that the original took its time coming around to, and an all-new line-up of teens we can't wait to meet </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> (with the bonus of a literal Karen we can't wait to hate).</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The ensemble cast includes a host of fresh faces, along with Critics Choice Award nominee Bailee Madison (</span><em>Good Witch</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Brothers</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as Imogen, Chandler Kinney (</span><em>Lethal Weapon</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> the series) as Tabby, and </span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Mallory Bechtel (</span><em>Hereditary</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as the Beasley twins, mean-girl Karen and her sister, Kelly.</span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Singer and YouTuber Alex Aiono (</span><em>Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and Satellite Award winner Eric Johnson (</span><em>Smallville</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Knick</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) are among the support cast.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"</span><em>Pretty Little Liars</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> was a worldwide phenomenon, with a </span><em>rabid</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> fanbase, and we wanted it to feel different from the original," says Roberto, who also created </span><em>Riverdale</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. "We wanted to lean more into the horror genre, the slasher genre."</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"We knew that we wanted to bring A to life in a very different way, making A a slasher villain, akin to Michael Myers," says Lindsay. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"One of the most primal emotions that we as humans can experience is fear," says Roberto. "When you're a teenager, you start to see the world for what it really is, as a dangerous place. I think that's why horror and teenagers go so well."</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The girls find themselves constantly being watched and, Chandler says, "The omnipresence of A is very frightening." </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"The fact that this killer has no face, has no name, is almost like an implacable force of nature, all that adds to the uncanny sense of dread. Everywhere these girls turn, there's a threat," says Roberto. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">And the threats aren't just the stuff of horror movies either. Chandler says the Little Liars also have to deal with "the internal horror [of] these very real, grounded terrors that happen to women every day."</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Apart from all the nods to old-school horror classics, fans of the franchise (and </span><em>Riverdale</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) can look forward to a tonne of Easter Eggs, ramping up from episode 6, all the way to the final moments. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The consensus from those who've seen the finale is that it pays off perfectly. The final three episodes of the season, says </span><em>TVfanatic</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, "will go down as the best hours in the history of the franchise."</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As </span><em>Paste Magazine</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> put it, "For fans of the original series, this show is a must-watch... it absolutely delivers on its promise to bring more of that classic teenage drama to our screens once again, with a sinister twist... [and] for those unfamiliar with </span><em>Pretty Little Liars</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">... this show is a perfect place to jump in."</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Watch the trailer: </span><a href="https://t.nylas.com/t1/315/20h0qshxdr9piahofhkpbebep/2/878f74bccf3e1d5db41b5e637d5d3e0910f345a6fa4c26d15e2512480ece905d" rel="noreferrer" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #1155cc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQKeaStoCqY</a></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Watch </span><em>Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> on Showmax: </span><a href="https://t.nylas.com/t1/315/20h0qshxdr9piahofhkpbebep/3/aa3d87a308f11b40f7436bfb50fce6cb7efd27adfc54bceb79d856bb9e193419" rel="noreferrer" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #1155cc" target="_blank">https://www.showmax.com/eng/tvseries/i8d35eyz-pretty-little-liars-original-sin</a><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span></div>
