Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin TV Series Details:
Based on | Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Slasher Crime thriller Mystery Teen drama |
Season | 1 |
Episodes | 10 |
Release date | July 28, 2022 |
Running time | 47–53 minutes |
Starring | Bailee Madison Chandler Kinney Zaria Malia Pyles Maia Reficco Mallory Bechtel Sharon Leal Elena Goode Eric Johnson Alex Aiono Lea Salonga Jordan Gonzalez Elias Kacavas |
Created by | Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa & Lindsay Calhoon Bring |
Creative director | Neil Patel |
Produced by | Jimmy Gibbons Jenina Kibuka Amy Myrold Sean Fogel |
Executive producers | Marlene King Gina Girolamo Leslie Morgenstein Caroline Baron Michael Grassi Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa |
Cinematography by | Joe Collins Anka Malatynska Teodoro Maniaci |
Edited by | Elizabeth Czyzewski Joseph Hatton Leigh Dodson |
Music by | Joseph Bishara Opening theme “Secret” by the Pierces |
Production Company | Muckle Man Productions Alloy Entertainment Warner Bros. Television |
Distributor | HBO Max |
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin TV Series Cast & Character:
- Bailee Madison as Imogen Adams, a resourceful pregnant teen
- Chandler Kinney as Tabby Haworthe, an aspiring filmmaker and horror film fanatic
- Zaria as Faran Bryant, a determined ballerina who deals with racism in the industry
- Malia Pyles as Minnie “Mouse” Honrada, an Internet-obsessed teen with a history of trauma
- Maia Reficco as Noa Olivar, a track star freshly out of juvie
- Mallory Bechtel as:
- Karen Beasley, the queen bee of Millwood High who recently had a falling out with Imogen
- Kelly Beasley, Karen’s twin sister who often is outshined by her sister
- Sharon Leal as Sidney Haworthe, a real estate agent and Tabby’s mother
- Kristen Maxwell as teen Sidney
- Elena Goode as Marjorie Olivar, a nurse and Noa’s mother
- Sarah-Anne Martinez as teen Marjorie
- Eric Johnson as Sheriff Tom Beasley, the local sheriff and the domineering patriarch of the Beasley family
- Alex Aiono as Shawn Noble, a popular jock and Noa’s supportive boyfriend
- Lea Salonga as Elodie Honrada, one of Mouse’s mothers, who tries to keep her daughter safe
- Emily Bautista as teen Elodie
- Jordan Gonzalez as Ash Romero (season 2; recurring season 1), Mouse’s love interest
- Elias Kacavas as Greg (season 2; recurring season 1), Karen’s boyfriend
- Sasha Pieterse as Alison DiLaurentis (season 2)
- Kate Jennings Grant as Madame Giry, the ballet instructor at Millwood High
- Carly Pope as Davie Adams, Imogen’s mother
- Ava DeMary as teen Davie
- Robert Stanton as Marshall Clanton, the principal at Millwood High
- Nico Kiefer as young Marshall Clanton
- Connor Marsh as teen Marshall Clanton
- Jeffrey Bean as Mr. Smithee, the film teacher at Millwood High
- Ben Cook as Henry Nelson, a ballerino and Faran’s love interest
- Lilla Crawford as Sandy, Karen’s friend
- Jennifer Ferrin as Martha Beasley, Karen and Kelly’s mother and Sheriff Beasley’s wife
- Derek Klena as Wes, Tabby’s boss at the theater who recently graduated from film school at NYU
- Carson Rowland as Chip Langsberry, Tabby’s co-worker and best friend
- Gabriella Pizzolo as Angela Waters, a teenager from the mothers’ past who killed herself at midnight during a rave to celebrate Y2K
- Kim Berrios Lin as Shirley, one of Mouse’s mothers
- Zakiya Young as Corey Bryant, Faran’s mother and a paralegal at a Pittsburgh law firm
- Kristian Mosley as teen Corey
- Brian Altemus as Tyler Marchand, a student who recorded an exploitative video of Karen
- Benton Greene as Zeke Bryant, Faran’s father
- Alexander Chaplin as Steve Bowers, a father who seeks comfort in Mouse after his daughter disappeared.
- Jarod Lindsey as Leslie, a tattoo artist in a flashback scene.
- Charles Gray as Eddie Lamb, a former nurse at Radley Sanitarium who is now a maintenance manager at the Radley Hotel. Eddie was a recurring character in the first series, where he was originally played by Reggie Austin.
- Annabeth Gish as Dr. Anne Sullivan (season 2)
Storyline:
The slasher series follows the lives of a group of teenage girls who live in Millwood, Pennsylvania, after receiving terrifying and cryptic messages from a mysterious assailant named “A”, holding them responsible for something tragic that their mothers did that resulted in the death of a classmate 22 years earlier. The girls are forced to team up to figure out what happened during the year of 1999 and what roles their mothers played that resulted in the tragedy.
About Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin TV Series:
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin is an American slasher teen drama mystery television series created by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring for HBO Max. It is the fourth television series in the Pretty Little Liars franchise, which is based on the novel series written by Sara Shepard, and set within the same continuity as the previous series. The series features an ensemble cast, headed by Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Zaria, Malia Pyles, and Maia Reficco.
On September 2, 2020, it was announced that a new Pretty Little Liars series was in development at Warner Bros., with Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa taking over as showrunner from I. Marlene King. Original Sin takes place within the same continuity as the previous television series but follows new characters and storylines in a new setting.
On September 24, 2020, HBO Max gave the series a direct-to-series order of 10 episodes and was named Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, with Aguirre-Sacasa teaming up with Lindsay Calhoon Bring to develop the series. Aguirre-Sacasa also executive produces the series alongside King, Leslie Morgenstein, and Gina Girolamo. Production companies involved with the series are Muckle Man Productions, Alloy Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Television.
The series was set to film at Upriver Studios in Saugerties, New York, in mid to late 2021. Filming began on August 23, 2021, in the city of Hudson, New York, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming wrapped on May 2, 2022.
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin premiered on July 28, 2022, with the first three episodes available, followed by two more episodes each on August 4 and 11, and then the final three episodes on August 18. In September 2022, the series was renewed for a second season, retitled as Pretty Little Liars: Summer School.