Talk:Season 1/@comment-39134813-20190702070327

I think that's it's for the best that Marlene is only doing Pretty Little Liars The Perfectionist, since that show seems to be very well-received. Marlene's shows usually suffer in quality when she has to do 2 or more shows at the same time. Pretty Little Liars was her first show and did receive mixed reception, but fans agree that the first 3 seasons were really solid, and that's when she was only focused on Pretty Little Liars. Then Season 4 came along and it started to retcon things and give plot holes, and this was when she started doing Ravenswood, which was also not very well-received. Then Season 5 came along and because they needed to find a way to wrap up the Ravenswood story (though they did it badly in my opinion), the season was dealing with a lot of external things. Though she wasn't doing anything else during Seasons 6, and most of Season 7, she was dragging out Pretty Little Liars' story and had to reveal who A was, but because she wanted it to be a surprise that no one would guess, she put shock value over good writing.

She did Famous In Love, but it was doomed to fail.

I can't imagine how bad it would have been if Marlene had done The Perfectionist and The Heiresses at the same time, since both would have suffered from a quality drop by being produced at the same time when both of those stories could stand on their own and be well-received stories. I do think that it would have been neat if The Heiresses and The Perfectionist were both released around the same time with both being spin-offs to Pretty Little Liars and focusing on characters from Pretty Little Liars so that they could connect and have collaborations as it could have worked very well. But if the quality is better from Marlene only focusing on ond story, then The Heiresses can wait. I mean eventually she'd probably do it since the only other story is The Amateurs, so she'd probably want to do The Heiresses first out of the two since she did have a script ready for it.

Too bad for Ravenswood though. I was genuinely interested in the story, but Haleb fans had to ruin it for everyone. If Marlene had made Ravenswood its own show unrelated to Pretty Little Liars, or used a character that had not been in a current relationship with someone from Pretty Little Liars, the show could have lived on for at least 3 seasons.