Ravenswood: The Failed Pretty Little Liars Horror Spin-Off

Quick everyone, watch it before WB buries the criticism for a cancelled show

The funniest thing about Caleb’s “you were only a tourist, man. I lived there” line to Toby, was that, due to PLL’s weird convoluted timeline, Caleb was only in Ravenswood for a week or two.

How dare you reduce Caleb to a boy toy and JUST hanna’s boyfriend! He was far more than that. He was also Spencer’s boyfriend too. They don’t just share secrets you know.

Could we talk about how this is the reason caleb is an alcoholic for like three episodes when he goes back to PLL

the absolute, unbridled, batshit audacity of a spinoff show "breaking up" one of the main, most longstanding/beloved couples from their parent show so that one of the characters could date a ghost. completely unparalleled

My favorite comment from the first upload was "The scariest part of Ravenswood was Caleb's haircut," so I'm preserving that take for posterity.

Convinced WB is frantically trying to bury this because they are too embarrassed.

IT MADE ME SO UPSET CALEB PACKED UP EVERYTHING AND LEFT HANNAH TO HELP A RANDOM GIRL HE KNEW FOR AN HOUR

they deprived us of Caleb in PLL for this

Warner Bros: I thought you were dead… Space Ninja: My death was… greatly exaggerated

The narration is giving the vibes of one of the bad fanfics that start like, " Hi, my name is Soran RavenBalm and I'm the cousin is the main character you all love". That's my biggest fanfic pet peeves so this rally gave me the shivers 😨

it gets even better once you realize Caleb went back to Rosewood to the PLL universe, was really weird for about 3 days, told a story about some fireflies went jogging 1 time and then completely moved on and just never mentioned any of the supernatural traumatizing shit he went through in Ravenswood to anyone at all

Imagine a “Supernatural” spinoff where one of the side characters gets a regular 9-5 office job and literally nothing of note happens

i can’t believe THIS is the reason my man caleb left hanna😫😫

They probably saw 'the vapire diaries' get their spin off with 'the Originals' and wanted to do the same. But the Originals were 1) really interesting characters (over 1000 years old with at least that many ennemies to fight) and 2) so great they were outshining the TVD cast: people weren't watching for Elena, Stefen and Damon anymore. Caleb was great, but as you said, he was just Hannah's boyfriend.

Honestly, the core idea for Ravenswood wasn’t awful. The main problem, aside from the HORRENDOUS acting and editing and writing, is that this show made absolutely no sense as a PLL spin off. There were zero supernatural elements to that show until we met Mrs. Grunwald, which was only done to introduce the town of Ravenswood. If this idea had been better executed as a stand alone show far from Marlene Kings grasp, I feel like it could’ve worked. Gives me The Vampire Diaries vibes with a splash of Supernatural now that I rewatch it, and both those shows were and still are insanely popular Edit: I wrote this comment halfway through the video, so when you compared the ending to TVD I screamed 😂

Isn’t using those clips to help criticise the show the literal definition of fair use? They are definitely abusing the copyright system here…

Hannah´s cameo fucks over the continuity of PLL season five. They have a giant argument because Caleb came home traumatized from Ravenswood and both acknowledge that Hanna can´t understand because she wasn´t there and doesn´t know what happened there

Caleb was NOT just Hanna’s boyfriend. He was also completely made up for plot armor and to tie up any loose ends that Marlene was too lazy to do.

Making a spinoff where one of the main show's protagonist's love interest is the main character and therefore has to leave her has got to be the quickest easiest way to have part of your audience be completely AGAINST said spinoff.