page_title: Exes and OMGs
section_title: Production
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caption_attribution_description: Meg Foster at Phoenix Film Festival 2013
context_page_description: "Exes and OMGs" is the eighth episode of the seventh season of the mystery drama television series Pretty Little Liars, which aired on August 16, 2016, on the cable network Freeform. The hundred and forty-eighth episode, it was directed by Kimberly McCullough and written by Charlie Craig. "Exes and OMGs" received a Nielsen rating of 0.6 and was viewed by 1.11 million viewers, down from the previous episode. It received positive reviews from critics.
  The series revolves around a group of five women—collectively known as Liars—, who receive anonymous messages in the form of threats from an unknown person named A.D., while they struggle to survive a life with danger. In this episode, the Liars go in search for answers about Mary Drake's second child, while Hanna decides to address the problem face-to-face.
context_section_description: The episode was directed by Kimberly McCullough, her second credit as a director on the series, the first one being the thirteenth episode of the sixth season. The writing for the episode was handled by Charlie Craig, who served as writer on the second season, and returned as executive producer, co-showrunner and writer for the seventh season. This installment features the guest appearances of Brant Daugherty as Noel Kahn, Lindsey Shaw as Paige McCullers, Lulu Brud as Sabrina, Meg Foster as Carla Grunwald, John O'Brien as Arthur Hackett, Keith Szarabajka as Dr. E. Cochran, Sprague Grayden as Dr. Cochran, and Dalton Cyr as Luke.
caption: Meg Foster plays Carla Grunwald for the first and only time during the seventh season.
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