Lucy Hale might have simply teased a doable Aria cameo on the upcoming season of Fairly Little Liars: Summer season College, and followers should not OK.
An official poster for season 2 of the teenager slasher dropped on Tuesday, April 9, which was shared by the present’s primary solid and Max’s official Instagram account. “It’s gonna be 🅰️ killer summer season,” the caption learn, noting that the upcoming season will hit the streaming service on Thursday, Could 9.
Hale, 34, who starred as Aria Montgomery on all seven seasons of the unique collection, shortly took to the feedback part to share her pleasure. “Kinda making me need to return to high school?” she wrote alongside a coronary heart eyes and hearth emoji.
Her coy response led many followers to query whether or not Aria might make an look in future episodes after the character’s identify was talked about in season 1.
“Not you hinting at a cameo Ms. Hale!!! 👀👀 Mrs. Montgomery-Fitzgerald educating?” one particular person wrote, whereas one other added, “Now wait a minute 👀🌚 I’ll anticipate to see you miss ma’am 🤫🤭.”
A 3rd pleaded, “@lucyhale lady… don’t play with my coronary heart like that!”
Fairly Little Liars aired on ABC Household earlier than shifting to Freeform from 2010 to 2017. Hale’s character wrapped up the collection by driving off into the sundown with longtime love — and former highschool English instructor — Ezra Fitz (Ian Harding). After two spinoffs of the present, Ravenswood and PLL: Perfectionists, had been canceled after one season, Max introduced Fairly Little Liars: Unique Sin, which premiered in July 2022.
The brand new iteration takes place within the fictional city of Millwood, the place a collection of tragic occasions virtually ripped the blue-collar city aside. Twenty years later, a bunch of disparate teen ladies discover themselves plagued by an unknown ‘A’ssailant. Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Faran Bryant, Malia Pyles and Maia Reficco star as the brand new Liars.
Within the final episode of the primary season, Madison’s character, Imogen, revealed that she determined to position her child for adoption after discovering a pair who’ve been attempting to have a child for a very long time: Ezra and Aria Fitz. Aria’s infertility was a plot level within the unique collection, and it was later revealed through the Perfectionists that Ezra and Aria had adopted a daughter and named her Katherine Ella.
Though Hale didn’t make an look on Unique Sin on the time, she opened up about the opportunity of returning to the function throughout a January 2024 interview with MovieWeb.
“I overlook how my character Aria is concerned, however I do know she’s been talked about ultimately. I imply, I by no means say ‘by no means.’ That present was the most important reward in my life,” she informed the outlet. “That was an expertise that modified my life in each approach, form and type. And I maintain a lot gratitude for that have. I don’t know if I’d ever do a reboot, however who is aware of? I’m glad they’re letting it stay on. I believe it’s superb. I believe it’s a terrific premise. So I’m in full assist of that.”
Summer season College, a rebranded second season of Unique Sin, was introduced in September 2022. Whale showrunner Robert Aguirre-Sacasa hasn’t confirmed if any unique Liars will present up in Millwood, he teased that followers can anticipate a little bit of a “greater, badder and bolder” premise.
“Our villain is a feminine determine of horror, which is one thing we actually wished to discover in our female-centered horror present,” he informed Cosmopolitan in March 2024. “We additionally wished our villain to really feel fairly apocalyptic and terrifying. And since most of our season is ready throughout summer season — in addition to taking inspiration from our favourite slashers — we wished it to really feel a bit extra apocalyptic, like one thing like The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath and even Midsommar.”
He continued, “There’s quite a lot of actually horrific imagery tied to films like that and we wished to faucet into these a bit bit. And we additionally knew we needed to make a villain scarier than A and it was fairly scary in season 1.”