"Tell Me Lies" is back for season 2 with even more twists, drama, and sexy scandals than before!
Season 2 premiered today on Hulu and it is nothing short of riveting!
Tell Me Lies is an American drama television series created by Meaghan Oppenheimer, based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Carola Lovering. Tell Me Lies is a story about the turbulent relationship between Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco that unfolds over nearly a decade. The story follows their connection through college and thereafter. The ties that bind them are strong, messy, seductive, and volatile. Relationships and friendships are tested and often fall victim during Lucy and Stephen’s on again/off again romantic affair.
The first two episodes of Season 2 premiered today September 4, 2024 on Hulu. This season will have 8 episodes. After the 2 episode premiere, episodes will debut weekly on Wednesdays until the season 2 finale episode on October 16, 2024.
Lets recap season 1 to get everyone up to speed on this heavy emotional, twisty, and drama filled series. College Freshman Lucy and Junior Stephen met during Welcome Week at Baird College in September 2007. They hit it off, but before they can have a official date, Lucy’s roommate Macy (Lily McInerny) is killed in a car accident. In the midst of this, Stephen reconnects with his ex-girlfriend Diana (Alicia Crowder) and rekindles their relationship. He also learns that Drew (Benjamin Wadsworth), who is the younger brother of his best friend Wrigley (Spencer House) witnessed the car crash that killed Macy. Stephen tells Lucy’s friend Pippa (Sonia Mena) that his best friend Wrigley who Pippa is involved with witnessed the crash that killed Lucy's roommate Macy.
With emotional baggage in tow, Stephen and Lucy get together and also talk about exclusivity, but both seem to be put in positions that would be consider infidelity ridden if they are in an exclusive relationship. Lucy hooks up with a bartender and Stephen talks to Diana about them getting back together. Both Stephen and Lucy seem to be far from ready to emotional invest and settle down with someone. We see Stephen looking at intimate photos of Macy, and it’s revealed to audiences that Stephen and Macy had some sort of relationship before her death.
Lucy begins to suspect that Stephen is seeing other people which leads to an emotionally heavy scenes and tension for everyone involved. While all of this is unfolding, Lucy's friend Bree (Catherine Missal) connects with Evan (Branden Cook), Stephen’s roommate. The drama in this series is engaging, dicey, and sexy as romantic relationships, emotional stability, and friendships get out to the test.
Over Christmas break Stephen and Lucy’s complicated home lives gives viewers a look at how their past affects the decisions they make and ways that they act. His mother is a lot to deal with and very troubled, while Lucy’s mom is stable but distant and sometimes callous. In fact, Lucy believes her mom was cheating on her father when he was ill. After a memorial for Macy, Lucy finds that Macy had a drawing of a flower that looked just like the one Stephen gave to Lucy.
As the next semester starts, Lucy confronts Stephen about Macy. He confesses that they were friends with benefits and that he was in the car when she died. He also tells Lucy that Drew witnessed the crash in another car and left. Stephen also breaks things off with Diana again and tells her that he’s not over her years-old hookup with his best friend Wrigley so he's calling it quits with her.
At a weekend getaway at a lake house, Evan accidentally lets it slip to the friend group that Bree grew up in the foster system, but that doesn't stop the sexy times between to two. A tough decision is made as Lucy thinks about telling Macy’s parents that Drew was the driver who caused the crash. Meanwhile Pippa, despite her romantic relationship with Wrigley ends up making out with Charlie (Zoe Renee), Lucy’s new roommate. The toxicity between Stephen and Lucy continues as they argue over Diana and what her relationship is or how deep her relationship was with Stephen. Lucy eventually drops an anonymous note about the crash in the dean’s mailbox, blaming Drew for what happened to Macy.
When school launches an investigation into Macy’s death and Drews name comes up, he goes on the defense and questions those who are close to him who knew about the truth. The blame game is on as friends lie and betray each other. Stephen and Lucy are at the center of the scandal as they scheme and lie to ultimately make sure that each other is in the clear.
As the series flashes back to the night of Macy’s death, viewers see that Macy and Stephen decided to hook up that night and that he was the driver of her car during the crash. Audiences are floored when it is revealed that not only did Stephen removed all evidence of himself being at the scene of the crash or connected to Macy that night, but he also moved Macy’s body to make it staged as if she was driving the night of the fatal crash.
At the end of season 1, Stephen and Lucy continue their tumultuous and problematic relationship, but Stephen eventually humiliates her. Stephen flaunts his yet again rekindled romance with Diana in front of Lucy at an end of the year party and everyone sees the hurt, mental stress, and drama that their relationship has caused Lucy to go through. In hopes to drown her heartbreak in alcohol, a slightly inebriated Lucy hooks up with her friend Bree’s boyfriend and future fiancé Evan. Stephen, the ever untrustworthy, scheming, and self-absorbed person that he is still resents Wrigley for sleeping with Diana ages ago so he lets Wrigley believe that Pippa wrote the letter which causes issues between the somewhat steady pair. Drama Drama Drama!
The series stars:
Grace Van Patten as Lucy Albright
Jackson White as Stephen DeMarco
Catherine Missal as Bree
Spencer House as Wrigley
Sonia Mena as Pippa
Branden Cook as Evan
Benjamin Wadsworth as Drew
Alicia Crowder as Diana
Season 2 will feature new characters including actor Tom Ellis from Lucifer, the real-life husband of showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer. Elli will play a Baird professor named Oliver.
Gossip Girl actor Thomas Doherty will play a Baird Junior classified student named Leo, who becomes drawn to Lucy after returning from a year abroad.
All of the schemes, hidden agendas, destructive behaviors, and betrayals at the end of season 1 set season 2 up to be riveting and even more scandalous! Vengeance takes center stage. Friends fallout like never before and new relationships and alliances are formed that make this dicey drama one that audiences DO NOT WANT TO MISS!