Here are my favorite shows that are quite similar to Pretty Little Liars. Keep in mind the list is in no particular order. The first on the list should be the next show you should watch…
Gossip Girl
High school is over for the privileged former students at an exclusive prep school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, but Gossip Girl still shares text-messaged scoops on scandals and heartache. As the graduates embark on their futures, with some attending college and others focusing on burgeoning careers, Gossip Girl continues to stir the pot and feed any potential scandals. And still the identity of Gossip Girl remains a mystery. From executive producers Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Leslie Morgenstein, Bob Levy and Joshua Safran.
The Lying Game
Emma Becker and Sutton Mercer are, unbeknownst to them, identical twins. Separated at birth and unaware of each other’s existence, the girls have led very different lives. Emma is a kind-hearted foster kid while Sutton was adopted by wealthy parents and lives what is seemingly every teenager’s dream life. When Emma learns about her long-lost twin, the teens are eager to meet each other but ultimately agree to continue living their separate lives.
That is, until Emma has an unfortunate encounter with her foster family and flees to the only person to whom she can turn — Sutton. When they meet, Emma agrees to step into Sutton’s life for a few days while Sutton searches for their birth mother. But when Sutton fails to show up at the time the girls agreed to meet again, Emma must decide whether to come clean about her identity, and put herself at risk, or continue secretly living Sutton’s life.
90210
“Beverly Hills, 90210” gets a facelift in an edgier drama about a tight-knit circle of friends from West Beverly — a glamorous world of privilege. After high school, relationships within the group are tested and loyalties are questioned as their journeys into adulthood lead them in many different directions. While some decide to attend college, others embark on careers that include acting, singing and business ventures. The friends try to maintain their closeness in the world-famous zip code, where anything can happen.
Twisted
When charismatic Danny Desai returns to his hometown after spending five years in juvenile detention, he sees that things are no longer as he remembered them. His mother’s socialite status has plummeted due tohis incarceration, and his childhood friends Jo and Lacey have grown apart and are at opposite ends of the social spectrum. Lacey is popular and dating the captain of the soccer team, while Jo struggles to put the trauma of the past behind her.
Jo wants to give Danny a second chance, but when she asks for answers about the motive behind his crime, he won’t — or can’t — reveal the information. When a fellow student is found dead in her home, the town spins into a frenzy of suspicion and mystery — with Danny as prime suspect. Jo and Lacey must decide if their childhood friend is guilty or just a victim being persecuted for his twisted secrets.
Vampire Diaries
A few months after their parents are killed in a tragic car accident, Elena Gilbert and her brother, Jeremy, are trying to come to terms with their grief. For Elena, formerly popular and involved with school and her friends, it’s a struggle to hide her sadness. She finds herself drawn to a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan, unaware that he is a centuries-old vampire doing his best to live peacefully among humans. His brother, Damon, however, is the embodiment of vampire stereotypes, including violence and brutality, and the two brothers wage a war for the souls of Elena and everyone else in her small Virginia town. Based on the series of novels by L.J. Smith.
Switched At Birth
Bay Kennish is a teenager who grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother. Fellow teen Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age, was raised by a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. One day in her high-school chemistry class, Bay discovers that her blood type doesn’t match either of her parents’. Official tests confirm that Bay is not her parents’ birth child. When the Kennish family meets Daphne and her mom, Regina, they realize that the girls were switched at birth. The news prompts the Kennishes to allow Regina — who is experiencing financial difficulties — Daphne and Daphne’s grandmother to live in their guest house. The two polar-opposite families struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls, who try to keep their footing in both the world they know and the new one into which they are thrown.
Jane By Design
Jane Quimby is a high-school fashionista who works as an assistant to high-powered fashion executive Gray Chandler Murray. Jane’s problem is that she got her job because they thought she was an adult so she must keep her true age a secret. Jane soon learns that working for a high-profile executive in the cutthroat world of fashion brings you enemies. In Jane’s case, that adversary is India, Gray’s former assistant who is now gunning for the executive’s job. But Jane has an ally in attractive senior designer Jeremy, who piques her interest even though she still harbors feelings for longtime crush Nick in her “other life” at school. Jane’s best friend, Billy, helps her keep her secret as she lives her two lives. But Billy has his own secret that he is keeping from Jane — a relationship with her school nemesis, Lulu.
One Tree Hill
Following a four-year jump in time, the 20-somethings of Tree Hill find more questions than answers as they try to keep their dreams alive and their friendships intact. Haley faces the challenges of running a busy cafe and raising two children while her husband, Nathan, spends more time on the road as an agent. Married with twins, Julian and Brooke tackle burgeoning careers, while Chase, Nathan’s friend and business partner, pursues a romantic relationship with Quinn. Together this group continues to share experiences as they work towards defining what their lives will be.
Make it or Break it
Emily Kmetko’s dreams of becoming an Olympic gymnast inch closer to reality when she receives a scholarship to The Rock training center in Colorado. But her natural abilities and lower economic status don’t immediately make her any friends among the center’s elite, who include top gymnast Payson Keeler, beautiful Kaylie Cruz, resident hottie Carter Anderson and ultracompetitive Lauren Tanner, who would like nothing more than to see Emily head back to where she came from. Amidst the backstabbing and bonding, they’re teammates in name only, all in pursuit of what every gymnast competes for: a perfect routine.
Ravenswood
When Caleb Rivers heads to Ravenswood, a town near his hometown, to help some friends who went there to crash a party, he meets kindred soul Miranda. Caleb and Miranda quickly become friends and he decides to stick around Ravenswood to help her out. But Caleb has second thoughts about his decision after meeting Raymond — Miranda’s cold, unwelcoming uncle — and having unpleasant interactions with local Luke, who struggles to deal with a recent family tragedy and its subsequent scandal. But Caleb ultimately works with Miranda, Raymond, Luke and Luke’s twin sister, Olivia, to dig into Ravenswood’s dark past to investigate a curse that has plagued the town for generations.
The Secret Circle
After her mother dies in a fire, Cassie Blake (Britt Robertson) goes to live with her grandmother in Chance Harbor, Wash. As she adjusts to her new life, she is more than skeptical when her new friends explain to her that she is a powerful witch and they have been waiting for her return so they can complete the Secret Circle. When she finds a spell book hidden in her mother’s childhood bedroom, she realizes what they have told her is true, but there is more danger ahead for them than they realize.
The Fosters
Stef, a dedicated police officer, is in a relationship with Lena. The two have built a close-knit family with Stef’s biological son, Brandon, and adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. When Lena meets Callie — hardened from being in and out of foster homes — the couple welcome her into their home, thinking it is temporary. Callie’s blunt commentary about the atypical family hits a nerve with the twins, who struggle with their own identities. Then the girl discovers a secret that could land Mariana in trouble. Brandon helps Callie navigate the social scene at high school, but she skips school to meet up with an old friend. Her behavior makes Stef and Lena second-guess their decision to help her.