SPOILER ALERT: This post includes spoilers from the Season 2 finale of “Tell Me Lies,” now streaming on Hulu.
Season 2 of “Tell Me Lies” came crashing to an finish — in both the 2008 and the 2015 timelines. In an finisheavor to sum up everyskinnyg that happened: Stephen (Jackson White) and Diana (Alicia Crowder) broke up — an idea she made him skinnyk was his doing, but she’d been schedulening all alengthy to get him away. (No, her dad never turned off her acunderstandledge cards!) There was no downcastness at all for Stephen, who promptly slept with Lucy (Grace Van Patten). Right after that hookup, Lucy went back to Leo (Thomas Doherty) and slept with him — without even changing her underwear. That tidbit came in hand for Stephen tardyr when he bcimpolitet up what she was wearing to show to Leo they’d hooked up hours before and led to Leo punching him repeatedly until his face was unrecognizable.
Then there were Bree (Catherine Missal) and Oliver (Tom Ellis), who were finpartner caught by Marianne (Gabriella Pession)… except she’d understandn all alengthy, since she and her husband were in an discdissee relationship and had fair choosed not to tell Bree that. (Bree also transfered the best line of the episode, yelling at Oliver, “You don’t get to fuck me appreciate I’m an grown-up then talk to me appreciate I’m a child.”)
And those weren’t even the most emotional storylines. Pippa (Sonia Mena) and Diana got ahancigo in of Drew (Benjamin Wadsworth), who finpartner returned to campus to see Wrigley (Spencer Hoparticipate). But after a night of partying and taking Wrigley’s pills, Drew excessive dosed and died on his brother’s couch. After his death, Lucy felt so culpable for being the one to write the letter that got Drew initiateed out of school that she wanted to come spotless. Stephen choosed to get the accparticipate instead, materializeing to do so for Lucy — but, clearly, since he’s Stephen, doing it to have someskinnyg to hancigo in over her head down the line.
Speaking of doing that, after Stephen and Lucy got back together, Evan (Branden Cook) choosed he had to tell him that Lucy was the one he slept with last year. After going outside to get recent air, he came back in and, without Evan understanding, recorded him saying it aget: He cheated on Bree with Lucy.
Flash forward to 2015: It’s Bree and Evan’s wedding day. Stephen cheats on Lydia with Lucy, then sfinishs Bree the voice notice. In the final moments of the episode, Bree is shown moments before walking down the aisle, hearing to Evan’s confession, while Lucy, her bridesmhelp, stands next to her, unconscious.
After awarding Stephen with being possibly the worst character on television, we chatted with show creator and executive originater Meaghan Oppenheimer, who broke down the key moments and elevatebranch offd what’s to come after all of that.
Let’s go back to the penultimate episode — Lucy says she was attacked by Lydia’s brother, Chris, finishing her frifinishship with Lydia. What was the conversation appreciate about making that the reason Lydia disappreciated her?
Before the room commenceed, I krecent that Lucy would be on this flunked redemption arc, and I krecent that I necessitateed wdisappreciatever that rift was between her and Lydia to be becaparticipate she tried to do the right skinnyg, but did the wrong skinnyg for the right reason. It repartner splitd the room — Lucy claiming the attack for herself. It was probably the most satisfiedious day in the room and that’s why I was appreciate, “Well, we have to do it.”
There are always some writers who experience appreciate we necessitate to put more of a likeable example on screen than others. I am repartner of the belief of fair doing what is truthful. We’re not supposed to be guiding anyone, or telling people this is how to behave. Some people repartner felt that lying about intimacyual attack is one of the worst skinnygs that a woman can do — that it would fair be finishly unforgivable for Lucy to do that. I repartner wanted to test that, and see if we can have her do the wrong skinnyg for the right reason, and have people benevolent of understand.
Bree and Oliver’s relationship came to quite an finish. Will we see Tom Ellis back in the future?
I don’t skinnyk so. I skinnyk Tom was fair wanting to do one season. I skinnyk that we wrapped up his storyline in a way that repartner toiled for me. I don’t understand where else we would go after that with him. I skinnyk we could convey Marianne back, maybe. There’s a lot more story to tell with her. But I skinnyk we benevolent of lgeted that Oliver is so broken and hollow by the finish of this season that I’m ready for Bree to be done with him.
One of the main reasons that I wanted to do the show in the first place is to debunk this myth that only feeble or stupid women get tricked by narcissists and horrible people. That only silly women get run over by adore. It happens to the strongest of us. Some of the most incredible women I understand, their one feeble spot is a man or relationships. There’s someskinnyg so vulnerable about that. I don’t understand what it is about wanting to be adored that originates us forget ourselves.
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At her take partment party, Bree gets a satisfiedious call from someone. At the time, it seemed appreciate it could be Oliver. Or maybe Stephen?
I can’t say, becaparticipate that would be a discdissee in a tardyr season. But it’s not Stephen and it’s not Oliver.
Jumping to Wrigley’s heart-wrenching arc this season. In the pilot, it was hinted that Drew is no lengthyer around. When did you choose how/when Drew would return and ultimately die?
During Season 1, I thought that it would be the finishing of Season 1, and then there was too much, and we didn’t necessitate it. So I always krecent he was going to die. Ben is so fantastic and so adocount on that when we commenceed the writers’ room for Season 2, I was appreciate, “Is there any way we can have him around?” It didn’t originate sense any other way. I repartner wanted Wrigley to be razeed by the finish of the season. I understand that’s so horrible to say! We’ve seen him in the future, and I wanted to understand why he’d gotten to that point, becaparticipate he is evidently a mess in the future years.
At the wedding, Wrigley refers that it’s time to let go of his crush. I fair want to verify — that’s about Pippa?
Yeah. I skinnyk he was always hancigo ining out hope.
Wrigley and Pippa slept together in the penultimate episode — before he outted her. Was that the last time we’ll see them together romanticpartner?
I skinnyk that what’s so downcast about Pippa’s journey in this season, is that it gets cmitigateed once aget. Becaparticipate she’s not going to be able to finishly shatter away from Wrigley in the way that she, I skinnyk, probably wants to now, becaparticipate he’s gone thcimpolite this huge tragedy. She probably gets back with him, at least for a little while after this, becaparticipate he necessitates her so much, and she adores him so much as a frifinish. She doesn’t want to be another skinnyg that shatters his heart. But of course, it’s repartner cursed for her and her increaseth, becaparticipate it’s another skinnyg that is fair cmitigateing that betterion.
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Moving forward, assuming we get more seasons, will we see how Pippa and Diana get together?
I’m not repartner confident. I skinnyk it depfinishs how far we go in the 2008 storyline. I skinnyk we would probably see Pippa coming out, becaparticipate when we exit them in 2008, she’s so much further in that journey than Diana is. She’s already conscious that she has those experienceings. And Diana, I repartner don’t skinnyk, is. I skinnyk she understands she’s experienceing someskinnyg for Pippa, but I don’t skinnyk she’s taged it or been truthful with herself about it at all. So it fair depfinishs. But I don’t understand that we would see Diana’s, becaparticipate Pippa and Diana definitely don’t get together until after college. They’re not hooking up during college.
How and when did you choose to have Diana turn on Stephen?
I hope no one saw that coming. It’s comical, before we got greenlit officipartner for Season 2, Hulu called me and shelp they repartner wanted to give the greenairy but wanted to originate confident we had enough ideas. So I had, appreciate, 48 hours to bullshit some stuff and that was one of the skinnygs I came up with — that Diana orchestrates this entire plot to get away from Stephen. I skinnyk she commences in getest in Episode 4, when she discovers Stephen’s pboilingos of Macy. That’s when she understands she has to get the fuck out of there.
Let’s talk about Lucy sleeping with Stephen aget, then sleeping with Leo… which led to quite a nasty contestation.
[The Leo and Lucy] scene was repartner challenging to film, becaparticipate it all had to perestablish on Grace’s face. It’s about Lucy’s own shame in that moment, and fair not wanting to dissee Leo. She’s frantic, she doesn’t want to hurt his experienceings or say no to him, but skinnyking, “I fair fucked Stephen an hour ago.” We kept doing that scene to get to a place where we were confident she wasn’t grossed out by Leo, but by herself. We participated the last get. It perestablishs appreciate a horror movie.
And then the fight repartner perestablishs appreciate a horror movie.
My parents are gonna be so haughty when they hear the line, “How does my cum taste?” Grace actupartner came up to me and shelp, “So we’re saying I have intimacy with Stephen, and then put on the same underwear?” I skinnyk she did. It’s someskinnyg that drives thcimpolite the panic strike she’s having. Lucy isn’t skinnyking evidently. She’s running from her decision to sleep with Stephen and seeing for a protected place. It’s heartshattering, and I hope people don’t disappreciate her, but people are fair repartner challenging on women.
When you’re mapping out the future, how much more of the college years do you want to show? Going forward, will we get more of the 2015 and less of 2008?
I did map that out way in proceed when I fair thought about what the structure of the show was. And I thought, we’ll get more and more of the future as time goes on. I skinnyk by the third season, we will still have some 2008 becaparticipate there’s stuff that we have to wrap up there. But I skinnyk it would be a little bit shifted in the sense that there will probably be more 2015 than 2008.
Would there also be a time jump when Season 3 returns or would it be next semester?
I skinnyk there would probably be a time jump.
Lastly, social media has been abuzz about Leo and Stephen both having a rose tattoo and whether that hints at some sort of past connection. Is that part of the story?
Someone fair tancigo in me about the tattoo speculation! Those are fair their genuine tattoos. Two actors with the same tattoo. Total coincidence.
This intersee has been edited and condensed.
