PITTSBURGH — High schoolers being terrorized by a mysterious figure threatening to reveal their deepest secrets isn't just a Philadelphia area thing. There's apparently plenty of that to go around in Western Pennsylvania, too.
HBO Max recently completed airing the first season of "Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin," a twisty teen thriller based on the series of young adult novels written by Pittsburgh native Sara Shepard. It features an entirely different story and set of characters than the Freeform "Pretty Little Liars" series, which ran from 2010-2017 and was set in the fictional eastern Pennsylvania town of Rosewood.
In "Original Sin," most of the action takes place in Millwood, a town not too far outside Pittsburgh. Though most of the show's first season was shot in upstate New York, it does include a few fun local flourishes. Everyone seems to be a Steelers fan, a character references attending "Romero Fest" in Pittsburgh and Corey Bryant, the divorced mother of aspiring ballerina Faran Bryant (Zaria), resides in the Steel City.
