Pretty Little Liars Has a Thing for Body Torture

More reason for Mona (Janel Parrish) to be forgiven for her crimes: at least she didn't strip Hanna (Ashley Benson) to her undies, trap her in a shed, and shock her with a cattle prod in the dark.

While A certainly upped the ante by using human body parts in her puzzles, it wasn't until the Dollhouse that things started to get really escalate, beginning with the Liars getting stripped nude and invaded with tracking chips.

The doll theme has been creepily pervasive throughout the entire series, but the morgue scene in the Dollhouse took it to a new level.

The show never took time to really explore the psychological relationship Charlotte must have with a biological female body but focused, instead, on the torture and prom part of her plan.

While A.D. is carving a path separate from Charlotte's, the goal is to maintain a still terrifying, albeit different torture normalcy throughout the season, to keep this more dangerous level of fear and panic for all these episodes.

Clearly, blackmailing someone's mom into sleeping with the town's creepiest detective wasn't going to be enough to maintain murder stakes.

Other than a meta reference for those of us keeping score of Sara's shower habits, there seems to be no narrative reason for her to have been bludgeoned, stripped naked, and posed in the bathtub.

A.D. invaded the DiLaurentis house in a cop disguise with a puffy latex mask (the levels of artifice, leaps of faith with latex, and Trump-esque BS-ery are astronomical this season, but that's another 1,000 words for another day) to set the stage for what could've been Alison's end.

Imagine if Rosewood's former greatest manipulator died not having been able to figure out this dead-eyed mute officer was actually an assassin.

All this isn't to mention all the needles and forced penetration this season, the restraining, the drugging, the hosing down (in a white shirt no less), and often reduction of humanity all the Lia