Everyone who liked PLL will like this, period. It's very bingable, time flies. As the original, not the most innovative concept ever, but it's good at being a mystery as you slowly connect dots and find out more. Let's see if this one actually has a long-term plan though.
One very annoying thing is the overuse of identity politics not just as a topic that's addressed but especially the way cliché buzzwords are just dropped 24/7. After five episodes they already talked about every possible minority topic that's in the book, culminating in a fight of words where a so-called toxic man gets put in his place by the (what he, or rather the writers want him to call her) black feminazi of the year... yes, that's the vocabulary constantly used in the show and it makes me wonder how the original filled so many episodes without being so unbearably cliché. Mysoginist, white privilige, transphobic, I can't even list all the buzzwords they used in such short time. I don't have a problem showcasing these issues, but there are more subtle and less cliché ways to display them, 13 reasons why is a good example of how to do it better.
One very annoying thing is the overuse of identity politics not just as a topic that's addressed but especially the way cliché buzzwords are just dropped 24/7. After five episodes they already talked about every possible minority topic that's in the book, culminating in a fight of words where a so-called toxic man gets put in his place by the (what he, or rather the writers want him to call her) black feminazi of the year... yes, that's the vocabulary constantly used in the show and it makes me wonder how the original filled so many episodes without being so unbearably cliché. Mysoginist, white privilige, transphobic, I can't even list all the buzzwords they used in such short time. I don't have a problem showcasing these issues, but there are more subtle and less cliché ways to display them, 13 reasons why is a good example of how to do it better.