@@giuliapicchiotti he slept with his student, but she was an adult when it happened. Meredith was in college. She was over 18. Aria was a child when they dated first.
@@alyssalynn5956Ezra groomed Aria just like Byron groomed Meredith except that Meredith was also a manipulative parasite and Aria was actually genuine with Ezra
@@alyssalynn5956 : It doesn't matter that she was over 18, she was still young, and that means she was still groomed by Byron, i bet he promised Meredith that he would've left Ella for her and other shits while in the meantime, he took advantage of her body for sex !! .
The fact that a lot of us girls watched this when we were teens and fully saw nothing wrong with them and thought it was just two people in love and now rewatching we are all adults and completely disgusted ??? That’s reason enough why people in their twenties have no business dating anyone with the Age ending in teen .
Literally 11 year old me was obsessed with their relationship which is crazy cuz it’s super disturbing and gross for them to be together but I never realized that until I rewatched it
My mom once told me when I was a kid that context can change a whole situation and the context of age more than most. I never understood that till I rewatched this as an adult and was like damn now I get what she meant. As a kid we all would have gone there but as adults we all want him in jail
He literally groomed her & the father was/is 1 billion percent right. The moment he found out that she was actually a teenage child is also the moment he should’ve ended it. Yeah, instead he decided to continue to groom her. That’s disgusting.
@@aniahjones7798 actually when they met he thought she was in college since she was wearing a college shirt or something and she let him keep that idea. They made out. The next day he found out her age when she appeared in his class. That's where he should have ended it.
@annielala8 later down in the show he revealed to her he knew she was a teen when they met in the bar so he took advantage because he was writing a book .
if i remember correctly, aria went into a bar with a fake id and pretended to be older, so he thought she was of age. they met there and started a relationship. but when school started, and they saw each other at school and he found out her real age he DEFINITELY should have ended things! but he wasn’t aware at the beginning.
@@solangeonsaturn8809 he knew who she was before they met. if i remember correctly he was writing a book about allison's disappearence and ran a whole investigation on the girls, he was creepy as fuck
@@KiaraWilliamsX Yes. Their relationship was very short lived in the books. Noel Kahn was Aria’s Ezra but in the show, they made him a villainous character.
i think him being her teacher was the icing on the cake. they had an issue regardless but they really had an issue because he was her teacher and authority figure in her life. and weren’t they both teachers or at least her dad was so he understood the dynamic
right!! and he likely would’ve been at least 24ish by this point as a college graduate and starting his career job in a high school like at least 23 like i hate how they tried to play it off like the only issue was that he was her teacher. and then had them together the whole series anyway it was sooo absurd even when i watched as a young teen i could never understand how they let it go on for so long and made it out to be complete fine and normal
@@samgraham7265i honestly never thought the show made it seem normal at all honestly literally everyone she told freaked out and thought it was gross and inappropriate even the other girls
I mean the issue here is grooming. So not only he is much older and a grown adult in a relationship with a 16 years old, which inevitably make their dynamic unbalanced. He also has the power of being her teacher. All in all, it's just a very unbalanced dynamic where it's very easy for Ezra to manipulate Arya into doing what he wants without her realizing
the fact that they tried normalizing this is crazy and disturbing asf ☠️☠️ how df were her parents, well the dad mainly, in the wrong for being rightfully concerned …
Gossip girl and even other series are fine with under aged sex. This is what American media portrays. First they try to make it illegal in various states and the states where this crap is still legal are the ones pushing to bring back the sexualization of minors. The world takes two steps forward and 10 steps back. It’s just the way humanity is.
watching this now as an adult I can not believe they tried to compare Byron's affair with Aria and Ezra. Sure both wrong but one is illegal and one is not
ABC family’s adaptation of the Aria/Ezra story line is soooo different then the original books. It’s so gross how ABC family decided to continue their relationship, while in the books, Ezra gets arrested and Aria ends up w Noel til the end. The author of the books did a great job at portraying Ezra as a creepy and predatory teacher. On the other hand, ABC family decided to romanticize their entire relationship.
The way Ella was looking at Byron every time he said how wrong Ezra was to mess around with his student knowing he was doing the same thing with Meredith has me crying laughing every time I watch that scene 😭😭😭
I don't think it was relevant since his student was at least not underage, he still had power over her and was a POS but they're very different imo, it would also distract from the fact that their 16 year old kid was groomed.
@ yeah we’re not disputing the age but Byron’s still a hypocrite because that entire speech he gave was about her being his student not his underage daughter. He’s a fucking hypocrite cause age aside he slept with his student too. The only difference is that Ezra actually loved aria like really loves her. They end up married. He was using his student and lied to her that’s terrible.
What I don't understand is the incredibly tamed reaction of her parents. I know it's not something to be proud of precisely, but my dad would be at his neck and my mom would be with a lawyer on the phone the second they heard this 💀
fun fact: in highschool (when this show was still airing) we had a english teacher that we all that was super cool and she was kinda younger like late 30s and she would use instagram and would let students follow her and she would post Ezra as her “man crush monday MCM for short lmao and before graduation she got caught having an affair with a student at her house. YOU CANT MAKE THIS SHIT UP.
@ literally!! it’s so crazy looking back on it, i grew up in a small town in oklahoma and the four years i was in highschool each year a teacher got arrested for relations with students. it’s foul.
@@UnBesoDeCristal true but as an adult teacher, watching that i mean, how could you not be grossed out. Working with kids and teens all day just to go watch more kids in high school and sleep with a teacher?? It just gives red flag to me with everything else
This relationship was so fucked up, only you realize when you are a adult. Aria was 16 and Ezra was 24 years. Ezra should have been arrested as we later find out...he knew who Aria was. He is a groomer and Aria never realized this.
it’s wild that even back then a student x teacher relationship got the green light in the writers room but its even wilder that the person who came up with this ship still defends it to this day and takes it personally that people call this ship out for what it is.
Man what a time we all knew exactly how aria parents were gonna react and it was a “I told you so” moment of the show that stuck with us forever I miss this show
@@PLLfan.b26 mm well, indeed i never understood why some people like that couple. I always liked Spencer-Toby, Hanna-Caleb and Alison - Emily... never understood this Aria-Ezra thing, i found them very tedious and cloying
This was the beginning of me truly, truly respecting Byron and Ella. Now if they had stayed these parents, instead of condoning the sexual abuse afterwards, I would've continued on respecting them as parents
@@queenshay2956just a 24 casually grooming and targeting a 16 year old and manipulating her into fallinng in love without knowing she was a target all along after his first child love affair failed, with Alison i think
I still think Aria should’ve been A. All roads lead to her. Also its messed up that ABC family groomed everyone into thinking that this child and an adult were okay to be together. If it showed she was A it wouldve made more sense including someone noticing her at Radley and thought they knew her.
The creepiest part we don’t even find out until later on which is that he 100% new Aria was 15 when he met her because he had dated a 13/14 year old Allison.
I'm trying to figure out how the parents were wrong in this situation. He admitted to knowing her before she became his student and then continued to see her after she became his student. See, if these were my parents, they would beat the man down, call some family members, have them beat him down, and then call the cops and act like the man fell down the stairs or something. They wouldn't just allow this man to walk away scott free and proceed to see their daughter, let alone marry her later on in life.
This happens more often than you think. This happened at my school. My band teacher groomed and abused a girl that was 16 at the time they first met. Her brother was the one who came forward. She never wanted to come out bc she was scared. And unfortunately, she was right. People accused her of lying, called her loose, and tried to find who she was. He basically got off, with friends and family supporting him.
There is something I never thought I would hear: That telling the truth is a bad thing because it comes back to bite you. There is a reason why we don't LIE. Because it comes back to bite you. Hard. That was something the PLL never learned.
Now that I myself am an adult, I cannot believe how PLL tried to spin Ezra and Aria into some romantic thing. It's not. He was her teacher and she was 16 years old. He was a grown ass man in a relationship with a kid. AND he knew about her age the whole time!! Idk if any of you have seen Life Unexpected but Lux found herself in a similar situation, in a relationship with a teacher but it wasn't romanticized and it was ended and made clear it was wrong. The same thing should have happened here. The fact that Aria ended up with Ezra is just so...wrong -_-
This was insane to me. When I was a kid everyone around me was shipping it, and no one saw anything wrong with it. I hate the way this was romanticised now. Oh my god!
The worst part is Ezra already knew about Aria's age and he still dated her, we have to remember that Ezra got obsessed with Alison (surprise another minor☠️) and wanted to write a book about her, so he research everything about her @@mindysilver5465
I mean, if you really think about it a lot of men in this show that we were crushing on as preteens were absolutely disgusting. I started watching the show when I was about 11 or 12. Now rewatching this show as a 25 year old.. I’m actually gagged. It wasn’t just Ezra that was a groomer Wren and his obsession with Spencer and he even tried to get with Hanna Officer Garrett and Jenna & Let’s not forget, Ian (dude was a creepy creep creep) and his relationship with Alison and Spencer AND THEN OFFICER WILDEN WITH 15 year old ALISON😭😭😭😭😭 The show has been screaming pedophilia for years, but we never noticed until we became adults 😅😅 Sidebar I never understood why Spencer was shamed/blamed about her relationship with Wren from her family when Wren WAS THE ADUT that should’ve been held accountable, Sis was manipulated And Ezra is definitely more creepier than I remember because the fact that he knew Aria’s age and continued to sleep with her …. And then Byron is somehow casted as the bad guy for protecting his daughter??? make it make sense
I swear, rewatching this, I have to keep pausing and unpausing so I don't throw my phone across the room. Ezra is pissing me off! WHAT DO YOU MEAN you're in love with a 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL???!
16 is the age of consent where they live. A 16 year old is allowed to be romantically involved with anyone of any age, as per the current law. Ezra really wasn’t *that* much older in reality. The ick comes from her being his student
Nah Aria deserved better I'm pretty sure there was a 2nd love interest for her but Ezra bunked it. But like...what where the writers thinking letting the 25 or so aged dude date a 16 year old slide into the story 🤔
I love this show always have but ever since the show first aired I’ve never been comfortable with the story line between aria and Ezra it’s very disturbing.
I remember telling my mom that this show wasn't okay for my 12 year old sister to watch because of all the grooming...this show is really hellbent on making relationships between grown ass adults and teenagers seem okay. Instead my mom panicked when I wanted to watch The Fosters at 16.
This right here lmk he cared about her frfr he risked his own freedom to confess his love for her to her parents knowing it was wrong . So when he got caught writing that book I knew it wasn’t just that .
Bro yall are bashing him but he tried to end it so many times she was delusional and kept finding ways to see and contact him. She even snuck in his apartment, went through his laptop and just followed him all the way around. It’s not just him it’s both their faults
I’ve never seen this before oh wait I have seen this pretty little liars it’s a drama series thank you guys for bringing this series up I’ll never forget this show brings back memories especially good ones
At this point just stop. All this grooming is bull. You guys elected a president that says his own daughter is hot. He’s said so much more. Please. At this point everyone is groomed and groomer, while the real ones are running our country.
Its kinda creepy that Ezra Fitz fell in love with his student, though. I havent watched Pretty Little Liars in a long time. I always saw myself as Aria Montgomery even with her personality. Aria's father should've gone straight to the police. Aria was a pretty girl.
As an adult I would definitely say Yes when aria and ezra’s relationship started it was wrong since she was in hs and hes her teacher but if they met after she was out it would be fine she was born in 94 and he was born in 88 thats 6 year age gap and her parents dad was born in 67 and her mom 72 and they are 5 year age gap.
Not excusing the whole aria/ezra thing but let’s look at the other side of this. Mikes a little thug. He didn’t care his sister was banging her teacher he just saw an opportunity to punch someone and he took it. Byron is a fucking hypocrite condemning Ezra for doing something he himself did except and I will give Ezra a point here Ezra actually does love aria (doesnt excuse it) but at least he wasn’t using her like Byron used his. And Ella she let him pass when she thought it was Spencer but now that it’s her kid it’s really not ok. And she’s not calling her husband out for the spectacular display of hypocrisy in that speech.
Audibly gagged at this 😭 why is it even something to question, if they're your student (or any position where you hold authority/power) or underage, they're OFF LIMITS
Byron and Ella are wrong, they cannot be mad about that. That means shut up for that, so what I mean is shut up to Byron and Ella like telling them to shut up and with Aria and Ezra alone right now.
Even though it's a show. Aria was groomed. Ezra's a pedophile. Her parents reaction was completely justified. She was fifteen and he was twenty four. She was still a minor while he is a full grown adult..
@@MassimoCalderaro-u8h Um no. Their actions were justified. I would have done way worse to Ezra while the cops were on the way. If you really watch the rest of the show and look at Aria and Ezra's relationship you'll see how gross it was and how toxic they really were for each other. He groomed her and he knew her actual age before he actually met her. Therefore he's a predator. Sadly these things happen in real life.
@@MassimoCalderaro-u8h He stalked her and her friends had cameras in her house groomed her and all in the series he knew exactly who they were. The few seasons later actually reveals this. Look at the facts he was actually a huge creep if you think about it. But he apparently "loved her" nah he was mf stalking her and knew her age. 🤮🤮
@@nicolemitref0719 I was simply saying that they could've been wrong to Ezra and Aria, knowing that in real life, it's not okay to just ground or punish people for just dating.
People need to get thicker skin honestly, anyone who sees this FICTIONAL love story and uses it as an excuse to bring to the REAL WORLD is in serious trouble. I personally loved their story and love the fact that they stayed together and got a happy ending, it's totally fake made up to entertain and it absolutely did, anyone who sees it as an attempt of normalizing any kind of wrong behavior needs to get a life and grow the hell up. If you let TV and movies influence your life choices in any way you are so screwed, tv and movie are meant to entertain you with good and bad behaviors on display, but it's just that, entertainment to please you or piss you off ON PORPOISE, not for you to be gullible enough to take it to heart and use it as life goal expectations or lessons to inspire you. For those things you consume self help videos and go to therapy. Life is hard and unbearable sometimes, stop complaining about everything and just enjoy it for what it is FUCKIN FICTION.
i understand that however this show was catered towards young girls/teenagers it doesn’t highlight that it’s wrong and instead it romanticises it which is kinda gross considering that this show was run by fully brown adults
It's still gross, especially when they find out that he knew Alison and purposely went after aria to get more information about Alison. Basically seducing and manipulating a literal kid in his class. Just no
@@skdjcmsbdjc if they are educated properly they won't be, censoring everything accusing it of being inappropriate and canceling or criticizing anything that has something bad in it isn't going to help them be better it makes them ignorant and unprepared to face adulthood. whether YOU like it or not.
He groomed her. Not only that but their relationship is just toxic. They’d always fight, break up, and get back together almost every few episodes. They did NOT have a healthy dynamic in ANY WAY. Neither of them knew how to properly communicate and fought over some of the dumbest things. Aria being immature made sense because in the beginning she was a TEENAGER, A CHILD. Ezra was a FULL GROWN ADULT who took advantage of a child. I don’t care if it’s fiction, it’s weird. You are weird.
Tbh i still as an adult don.t see anything wrong with this couple i mean if 2 People love eachother really love eachother then age really doesn.t matter its just a number i mean i understand what you all mean and i get why you believe its wrong but i still believe in the whole age is just a number when it comes to love
Getting older is realizing age does matter to a certain extent. If you guys are both legal adults then ig u can argue age doesn’t matter. But if your in ur mid 20s with a minor then ur disgusting and obviously have issues on why u can’t find someone ur age.
@cutiepumpchickns414 yeah obibously i know that dating someone who is 6 years old whille you are 22 is wrong but what i mean by saying age is just a number is dating someone who is 26 whille you are 33 years old that is what i meant when i said that i don.t see anything wrong with this if you love eachother that much age really doesn.t matter
@@lewishamilton.f1.44but Aria was 16. If they were both adults it would of been fine. Also, Ezra knew about Aria before they met, so Ezra was grooming her
@SA-ft4gu yes but aria could have chosen to leave ezra but she kept returning to him and ezra never hold her against her will so the blame is mostly on her also i do think aria really loved ezra bc if she didn.t she would have leaved and as i said before age really doesn.t matter if you truly love someone
I can't believe PLL tried to show Byron as the villain for not wanting a grown man to date his 16 year old daughter
He wasn't a villan, but he was an hypocrite cause he did the same thing !!!!
@@giuliapicchiotti he slept with his student, but she was an adult when it happened. Meredith was in college. She was over 18. Aria was a child when they dated first.
A 40 year old dating a 20 year old or however old Meredith was, isn't exactly okay either @@alyssalynn5956
@@alyssalynn5956Ezra groomed Aria just like Byron groomed Meredith except that Meredith was also a manipulative parasite and Aria was actually genuine with Ezra
@@alyssalynn5956 : It doesn't matter that she was over 18, she was still young, and that means she was still groomed by Byron, i bet he promised Meredith that he would've left Ella for her and other shits while in the meantime, he took advantage of her body for sex !! .
The fact that a lot of us girls watched this when we were teens and fully saw nothing wrong with them and thought it was just two people in love and now rewatching we are all adults and completely disgusted ??? That’s reason enough why people in their twenties have no business dating anyone with the Age ending in teen .
I feel the same way!!! I’m rewatching right now and how come these grown up dudes were messing around with 16yo girls????!
its like you read my mind, and the same goes for every major or life altering decision. like chill you are not an adult just still a kid.
Literally the only exception is 20 and 19 or a small age gap like that. A fully grown adult should not be messing with a 16 year old ever
Seriously! Especially with what we found out about Ezra later, that he knew who Aria was because he dated Alison, seriously creepy
Yup! And the fact that they had her end up marrying him in the end is sick.
Me as a kid: Why are the parents so mad? She’s in love. Let her be happy!
Me as an Adult: Yeah this is f*cked ip and he should be in jail.
Right?! I remember when this aired I was so mad that her parents reacted like this, now I'm mad that they didn't report him and just accepted it
Deadass😭
Literally 11 year old me was obsessed with their relationship which is crazy cuz it’s super disturbing and gross for them to be together but I never realized that until I rewatched it
My mom once told me when I was a kid that context can change a whole situation and the context of age more than most. I never understood that till I rewatched this as an adult and was like damn now I get what she meant. As a kid we all would have gone there but as adults we all want him in jail
No fr🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He literally groomed her & the father was/is 1 billion percent right. The moment he found out that she was actually a teenage child is also the moment he should’ve ended it. Yeah, instead he decided to continue to groom her. That’s disgusting.
excatly and the thing is he already knew who she was and how old she was when they met
@@aniahjones7798 actually when they met he thought she was in college since she was wearing a college shirt or something and she let him keep that idea. They made out. The next day he found out her age when she appeared in his class. That's where he should have ended it.
@annielala8 later down in the show he revealed to her he knew she was a teen when they met in the bar so he took advantage because he was writing a book .
That's what he told aria when she found out he knew Alison
@@annielala8he revealed in season 4 that he had been following her after Alison’s disappearance and already knew who she was
It’s insane how Ezra was fully aware of who Aria was AND HER AGE whenever they met.
that is so gross to think about
@@judigemini178yet look at who’s president 😂
if i remember correctly, aria went into a bar with a fake id and pretended to be older, so he thought she was of age. they met there and started a relationship. but when school started, and they saw each other at school and he found out her real age he DEFINITELY should have ended things! but he wasn’t aware at the beginning.
@@solangeonsaturn8809 he knew who she was before they met. if i remember correctly he was writing a book about allison's disappearence and ran a whole investigation on the girls, he was creepy as fuck
@ omg wait yes thank you for reminding me! it’s been so long since i’ve seen the show i completely forgot about that portion of it.
It’s sad that her parents were mad at her, when she should’ve gotten help and Ezra should’ve been arrested.
In the books that happened. So in a way things are right
Also in the books aria is with Noal con for most of the books and Hanna dates Mike arias brother
Ezra should've been arrested after this smh
He was in the books.
@@CBAmbitioand gone for good?
@@KiaraWilliamsX Yes. Their relationship was very short lived in the books. Noel Kahn was Aria’s Ezra but in the show, they made him a villainous character.
@@CBAmbitio the writer for the show was too busy trying to give preteen fans what they wanted.
I always found it funny that their issue was him being a teacher and not him being involved with a minor at 22/23/24
Iirc it’s because Aria was supposed to be 16 at the start of PLL, which is the age of consent in PA
i think him being her teacher was the icing on the cake. they had an issue regardless but they really had an issue because he was her teacher and authority figure in her life. and weren’t they both teachers or at least her dad was so he understood the dynamic
right!! and he likely would’ve been at least 24ish by this point as a college graduate and starting his career job in a high school like at least 23 like i hate how they tried to play it off like the only issue was that he was her teacher. and then had them together the whole series anyway it was sooo absurd even when i watched as a young teen i could never understand how they let it go on for so long and made it out to be complete fine and normal
@@samgraham7265i honestly never thought the show made it seem normal at all honestly literally everyone she told freaked out and thought it was gross and inappropriate even the other girls
I mean the issue here is grooming. So not only he is much older and a grown adult in a relationship with a 16 years old, which inevitably make their dynamic unbalanced. He also has the power of being her teacher. All in all, it's just a very unbalanced dynamic where it's very easy for Ezra to manipulate Arya into doing what he wants without her realizing
the fact that they tried normalizing this is crazy and disturbing asf ☠️☠️ how df were her parents, well the dad mainly, in the wrong for being rightfully concerned …
Gossip girl and even other series are fine with under aged sex. This is what American media portrays. First they try to make it illegal in various states and the states where this crap is still legal are the ones pushing to bring back the sexualization of minors.
The world takes two steps forward and 10 steps back. It’s just the way humanity is.
watching this now as an adult I can not believe they tried to compare Byron's affair with Aria and Ezra. Sure both wrong but one is illegal and one is not
ABC family’s adaptation of the Aria/Ezra story line is soooo different then the original books. It’s so gross how ABC family decided to continue their relationship, while in the books, Ezra gets arrested and Aria ends up w Noel til the end. The author of the books did a great job at portraying Ezra as a creepy and predatory teacher. On the other hand, ABC family decided to romanticize their entire relationship.
Ew that’s nuts considering it was ABC FAMILY
And here I thought they were the "it" couple in the books! Good to know !
Her dad should've just gone straight to the police
This is the only appropriate response.
Then he should've gone to the police when he was doing it
@AjaWright-t5k Her student wasn't underage babe. He was still a POS but he wasn't a pedo, Ezra was.
Mike was the only one that TRULY passed the vibe check.
Ezra admitting he’s in love with a minor 🤢🤢🤮🤮
He’s caught a case
The way Ella was looking at Byron every time he said how wrong Ezra was to mess around with his student knowing he was doing the same thing with Meredith has me crying laughing every time I watch that scene 😭😭😭
And yet she never called him out on it she lets it pass. She’s just as bad as him for that.
@ maybe not just as bad because she wasn’t sleeping with underaged students but I know what you mean she definitely should’ve called him out
I don't think it was relevant since his student was at least not underage, he still had power over her and was a POS but they're very different imo, it would also distract from the fact that their 16 year old kid was groomed.
@ yeah we’re not disputing the age but Byron’s still a hypocrite because that entire speech he gave was about her being his student not his underage daughter. He’s a fucking hypocrite cause age aside he slept with his student too. The only difference is that Ezra actually loved aria like really loves her. They end up married. He was using his student and lied to her that’s terrible.
What I don't understand is the incredibly tamed reaction of her parents. I know it's not something to be proud of precisely, but my dad would be at his neck and my mom would be with a lawyer on the phone the second they heard this 💀
I feel like that would be a normal parent reaction. Of course, I think my parents would both have unalived that man so quick
fun fact: in highschool (when this show was still airing) we had a english teacher that we all that was super cool and she was kinda younger like late 30s and she would use instagram and would let students follow her and she would post Ezra as her “man crush monday MCM for short lmao and before graduation she got caught having an affair with a student at her house. YOU CANT MAKE THIS SHIT UP.
wtffff
As an adult so many red flags, letting kids follow her on social media, watching a show meant for kids, and her man crush
@ literally!! it’s so crazy looking back on it, i grew up in a small town in oklahoma and the four years i was in highschool each year a teacher got arrested for relations with students. it’s foul.
@@deisygonzalez9480I don't think watching pll was an issue, I think the rest was 😭
@@UnBesoDeCristal true but as an adult teacher, watching that i mean, how could you not be grossed out. Working with kids and teens all day just to go watch more kids in high school and sleep with a teacher?? It just gives red flag to me with everything else
Mike made me so proud in this episode.
This relationship was so fucked up, only you realize when you are a adult. Aria was 16 and Ezra was 24 years. Ezra should have been arrested as we later find out...he knew who Aria was. He is a groomer and Aria never realized this.
Ella and Byrons reaction to their relationship is completely justified
No Byron did worse he was a husband and father he cheated Ezra and Aria weren't married.
@@KS-cl8brand while it’s bad Byron cheated, he did so with an adult. Meanwhile Ezra knowingly got with his underage student as an ADULT.
Him actually going to her parents and confessing this like it’s normal was crazy and how didn’t they get up and beat his ass expeditiously?!
it’s wild that even back then a student x teacher relationship got the green light in the writers room but its even wilder that the person who came up with this ship still defends it to this day and takes it personally that people call this ship out for what it is.
Dont watch it then. They were the best couple of the series.
@@KS-cl8br seek help
Arias family should’ve kept that same energy all the way through.
I was so in love with this couple as a teenager 🤮
We all were and tbh in few years it was fine
Man what a time we all knew exactly how aria parents were gonna react and it was a “I told you so” moment of the show that stuck with us forever I miss this show
@@PLLfan.b26 mm well, indeed i never understood why some people like that couple. I always liked Spencer-Toby, Hanna-Caleb and Alison - Emily... never understood this Aria-Ezra thing, i found them very tedious and cloying
Lol same now I realize spoby was the only good couple healthy and they were there for eo
Same, the actor was soo pretty. If he were ugly and old we would've thought it was awful just like Paris with her college teacher on Gilmore girls
I can’t with this why was this even a storyline it’s sick! Also him stopping in front of a load of cars to kiss her is so funny🤣🤣
This was the beginning of me truly, truly respecting Byron and Ella. Now if they had stayed these parents, instead of condoning the sexual abuse afterwards, I would've continued on respecting them as parents
What sexual abuse?
@@queenshay2956just a 24 casually grooming and targeting a 16 year old and manipulating her into fallinng in love without knowing she was a target all along after his first child love affair failed, with Alison i think
I’m so glad even as a 13 year old, I was grossed out about this relationship
I still think Aria should’ve been A. All roads lead to her. Also its messed up that ABC family groomed everyone into thinking that this child and an adult were okay to be together. If it showed she was A it wouldve made more sense including someone noticing her at Radley and thought they knew her.
they could never make me like you ezra
The creepiest part we don’t even find out until later on which is that he 100% new Aria was 15 when he met her because he had dated a 13/14 year old Allison.
Im a TA and I can't even fathom the thought of dating any of my (university) students let alone a high school kid!
I feel that Cody Christian should've had more of a role in this series
Yuppp
The way that I didn't even ship them and STILL considered her parents the villians in this🤦♀🤦♀
I'm trying to figure out how the parents were wrong in this situation. He admitted to knowing her before she became his student and then continued to see her after she became his student. See, if these were my parents, they would beat the man down, call some family members, have them beat him down, and then call the cops and act like the man fell down the stairs or something. They wouldn't just allow this man to walk away scott free and proceed to see their daughter, let alone marry her later on in life.
This happens more often than you think. This happened at my school. My band teacher groomed and abused a girl that was 16 at the time they first met. Her brother was the one who came forward. She never wanted to come out bc she was scared. And unfortunately, she was right. People accused her of lying, called her loose, and tried to find who she was. He basically got off, with friends and family supporting him.
Not Emily bring lowkey mad she didn’t get one lol 😂like girl be grateful tf
All I can focus on is her damn earrings.
There is something I never thought I would hear: That telling the truth is a bad thing because it comes back to bite you. There is a reason why we don't LIE. Because it comes back to bite you. Hard. That was something the PLL never learned.
“her affair” u mean groomed
Yep, Ezra should be in prison that's all I'll say 😌
Now that I myself am an adult, I cannot believe how PLL tried to spin Ezra and Aria into some romantic thing. It's not. He was her teacher and she was 16 years old. He was a grown ass man in a relationship with a kid. AND he knew about her age the whole time!! Idk if any of you have seen Life Unexpected but Lux found herself in a similar situation, in a relationship with a teacher but it wasn't romanticized and it was ended and made clear it was wrong. The same thing should have happened here. The fact that Aria ended up with Ezra is just so...wrong -_-
This whole thing was inappropriate from the start.
I don't understand how they promoted underage dating at all!! And got great reviews
This was insane to me. When I was a kid everyone around me was shipping it, and no one saw anything wrong with it. I hate the way this was romanticised now. Oh my god!
Why was this 23 minutes long?
LMAOOOO FR SAME
Yeah this is insane Ezra is crazy
Aria Montgomery is in love with a Teacher? How did this happen?
They met at a bar before school started. She didn't know he's gonna be her teacher
The worst part is Ezra already knew about Aria's age and he still dated her, we have to remember that Ezra got obsessed with Alison (surprise another minor☠️) and wanted to write a book about her, so he research everything about her @@mindysilver5465
@@mindysilver5465but he knew 🤮
Well 2 wrongs doesn't make a right 😂but this relationship is messed up but has wild chemistry 😜
Wow they got dry from the rain so fast 😂
Omg I forgot that Toby was the human version of Eeyore 😂
I mean, if you really think about it a lot of men in this show that we were crushing on as preteens were absolutely disgusting.
I started watching the show when I was about 11 or 12. Now rewatching this show as a 25 year old.. I’m actually gagged.
It wasn’t just Ezra that was a groomer
Wren and his obsession with Spencer and he even tried to get with Hanna
Officer Garrett and Jenna
& Let’s not forget, Ian (dude was a creepy creep creep) and his relationship with Alison and Spencer
AND THEN OFFICER WILDEN WITH 15 year old ALISON😭😭😭😭😭
The show has been screaming pedophilia for years, but we never noticed until we became adults 😅😅
Sidebar I never understood why Spencer was shamed/blamed about her relationship with Wren from her family when Wren WAS THE ADUT that should’ve been held accountable, Sis was manipulated
And Ezra is definitely more creepier than I remember because the fact that he knew Aria’s age and continued to sleep with her …. And then Byron is somehow casted as the bad guy for protecting his daughter??? make it make sense
I love these long videos. Please post more pretty little liars!!
This is the dumbest stupidest problematic scene ever
my favorite show 💜
I swear, rewatching this, I have to keep pausing and unpausing so I don't throw my phone across the room. Ezra is pissing me off! WHAT DO YOU MEAN you're in love with a 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL???!
16 is the age of consent where they live. A 16 year old is allowed to be romantically involved with anyone of any age, as per the current law. Ezra really wasn’t *that* much older in reality. The ick comes from her being his student
Nah Aria deserved better I'm pretty sure there was a 2nd love interest for her but Ezra bunked it. But like...what where the writers thinking letting the 25 or so aged dude date a 16 year old slide into the story 🤔
ME watching this at the same age as Aria, "SEND HIM TO JAIL!!"
They are literally just normalizing this
I was always so grossed out by that relationship I just ignored them when they came on screen
I love this show always have but ever since the show first aired I’ve never been comfortable with the story line between aria and Ezra it’s very disturbing.
Aria Montgomery Lucy hale make you believe run this town bless myself was her song she was singing that's why i need her to follow aria.s dreams. ❤
I remember telling my mom that this show wasn't okay for my 12 year old sister to watch because of all the grooming...this show is really hellbent on making relationships between grown ass adults and teenagers seem okay. Instead my mom panicked when I wanted to watch The Fosters at 16.
Alright I’ll watch it againnnnn 🤣🤣
Love this comment section
If yall wanna come at Ezra I better see wren hate as well 👏🏽
Im not going to ask questions. Just be grateful that this is 23 mins 😂❤ real mvp
9:11 Both of them are like to Aria, "We understand.".
This right here lmk he cared about her frfr he risked his own freedom to confess his love for her to her parents knowing it was wrong . So when he got caught writing that book I knew it wasn’t just that .
Bro yall are bashing him but he tried to end it so many times she was delusional and kept finding ways to see and contact him. She even snuck in his apartment, went through his laptop and just followed him all the way around. It’s not just him it’s both their faults
Again she’s a MINOR and she doesn’t know what she’s doing she mentally not there, but he’s A grown man ! Not her fault it’s all his
Parenting is not easy.
It sucks to be in your 30s and still in high school.
Ezra was fine idgaf. 😂
So fine. 🔥
He still groomed a minor. Looks go out the window at that point.
not compared to noel/jake
I’ve never seen this before oh wait I have seen this pretty little liars it’s a drama series thank you guys for bringing this series up I’ll never forget this show brings back memories especially good ones
Man 6:40 feels like the SpongeBob episode with the wallet.
People saying its just a tv show but little girls watching this will grow up thinking dating a grown man as a child is okay
This weird from when I was a child.
At this point just stop. All this grooming is bull. You guys elected a president that says his own daughter is hot. He’s said so much more. Please. At this point everyone is groomed and groomer, while the real ones are running our country.
i swr lmao
Its kinda creepy that Ezra Fitz fell in love with his student, though. I havent watched Pretty Little Liars in a long time. I always saw myself as Aria Montgomery even with her personality. Aria's father should've gone straight to the police. Aria was a pretty girl.
her EARRINGS MY GOD HAHAHA
14:24 At last, Ezra returned to her.
Ella Montgomery took tooo long to react lol Piper Halliwell would’ve started blasting! lol
As an adult I would definitely say Yes when aria and ezra’s relationship started it was wrong since she was in hs and hes her teacher but if they met after she was out it would be fine she was born in 94 and he was born in 88 thats 6 year age gap and her parents dad was born in 67 and her mom 72 and they are 5 year age gap.
9:31 Why is she being sent to her room?
Not excusing the whole aria/ezra thing but let’s look at the other side of this. Mikes a little thug. He didn’t care his sister was banging her teacher he just saw an opportunity to punch someone and he took it. Byron is a fucking hypocrite condemning Ezra for doing something he himself did except and I will give Ezra a point here Ezra actually does love aria (doesnt excuse it) but at least he wasn’t using her like Byron used his. And Ella she let him pass when she thought it was Spencer but now that it’s her kid it’s really not ok. And she’s not calling her husband out for the spectacular display of hypocrisy in that speech.
THIS IS SO DAMN DISGUSTING 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
proud to say i never liked ezra
10:30 🤢
Audibly gagged at this 😭 why is it even something to question, if they're your student (or any position where you hold authority/power) or underage, they're OFF LIMITS
Cool
I hate Aria never liked her
Me too
Martin Karen Hernandez Gary Jackson Eric
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We are all Aria
Sike
Byron and Ella are wrong, they cannot be mad about that. That means shut up for that, so what I mean is shut up to Byron and Ella like telling them to shut up and with Aria and Ezra alone right now.
Even though it's a show. Aria was groomed. Ezra's a pedophile. Her parents reaction was completely justified. She was fifteen and he was twenty four. She was still a minor while he is a full grown adult..
@@nicolemitref0719 No, but what Byron and Ella did was wrong.
@@MassimoCalderaro-u8h Um no. Their actions were justified. I would have done way worse to Ezra while the cops were on the way. If you really watch the rest of the show and look at Aria and Ezra's relationship you'll see how gross it was and how toxic they really were for each other. He groomed her and he knew her actual age before he actually met her. Therefore he's a predator. Sadly these things happen in real life.
@@MassimoCalderaro-u8h He stalked her and her friends had cameras in her house groomed her and all in the series he knew exactly who they were. The few seasons later actually reveals this. Look at the facts he was actually a huge creep if you think about it. But he apparently "loved her" nah he was mf stalking her and knew her age. 🤮🤮
@@nicolemitref0719 I was simply saying that they could've been wrong to Ezra and Aria, knowing that in real life, it's not okay to just ground or punish people for just dating.
Let him date her I wish this was real
It was such a bad show lol
I love this couple and no I'm sorry and I don't agree with Byron's relationship.
People need to get thicker skin honestly, anyone who sees this FICTIONAL love story and uses it as an excuse to bring to the REAL WORLD is in serious trouble. I personally loved their story and love the fact that they stayed together and got a happy ending, it's totally fake made up to entertain and it absolutely did, anyone who sees it as an attempt of normalizing any kind of wrong behavior needs to get a life and grow the hell up. If you let TV and movies influence your life choices in any way you are so screwed, tv and movie are meant to entertain you with good and bad behaviors on display, but it's just that, entertainment to please you or piss you off ON PORPOISE, not for you to be gullible enough to take it to heart and use it as life goal expectations or lessons to inspire you. For those things you consume self help videos and go to therapy. Life is hard and unbearable sometimes, stop complaining about everything and just enjoy it for what it is FUCKIN FICTION.
i understand that however this show was catered towards young girls/teenagers
it doesn’t highlight that it’s wrong and instead it romanticises it which is kinda gross considering that this show was run by fully brown adults
It's still gross, especially when they find out that he knew Alison and purposely went after aria to get more information about Alison. Basically seducing and manipulating a literal kid in his class. Just no
We can compare it to real life as much as we please. It quite literally happens in real life, and kids are impressionable whether you like it or not.
The problem is the show normalizes the relationship and the majority of the viewers are teenagers.
@@skdjcmsbdjc if they are educated properly they won't be, censoring everything accusing it of being inappropriate and canceling or criticizing anything that has something bad in it isn't going to help them be better it makes them ignorant and unprepared to face adulthood. whether YOU like it or not.
I really don't care what anyone says. Aria and Ezra were one of the best couples on TV hands down. I said what I said, and I'm not changing it.😘✌✌
just say you're a predator & move along.
@@softcoreluvrOr that they are an immature child lol
He groomed her. Not only that but their relationship is just toxic. They’d always fight, break up, and get back together almost every few episodes. They did NOT have a healthy dynamic in ANY WAY. Neither of them knew how to properly communicate and fought over some of the dumbest things. Aria being immature made sense because in the beginning she was a TEENAGER, A CHILD. Ezra was a FULL GROWN ADULT who took advantage of a child. I don’t care if it’s fiction, it’s weird. You are weird.
You must be a 10 year old girl who is being groomed
Tbh i still as an adult don.t see anything wrong with this couple i mean if 2 People love eachother really love eachother then age really doesn.t matter its just a number i mean i understand what you all mean and i get why you believe its wrong but i still believe in the whole age is just a number when it comes to love
Getting older is realizing age does matter to a certain extent. If you guys are both legal adults then ig u can argue age doesn’t matter. But if your in ur mid 20s with a minor then ur disgusting and obviously have issues on why u can’t find someone ur age.
@cutiepumpchickns414 yeah obibously i know that dating someone who is 6 years old whille you are 22 is wrong but what i mean by saying age is just a number is dating someone who is 26 whille you are 33 years old that is what i meant when i said that i don.t see anything wrong with this if you love eachother that much age really doesn.t matter
@@lewishamilton.f1.44but Aria was 16. If they were both adults it would of been fine. Also, Ezra knew about Aria before they met, so Ezra was grooming her
@SA-ft4gu yes but aria could have chosen to leave ezra but she kept returning to him and ezra never hold her against her will so the blame is mostly on her also i do think aria really loved ezra bc if she didn.t she would have leaved and as i said before age really doesn.t matter if you truly love someone
@@lewishamilton.f1.44 she was manipulated? how tf is it her fault
i blame this show for the reason i had the biggest crush on my geometry teacher in highschool 🫠
girl same 😫