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Hold onto your hats, “Tell Me Lies” fans. You might not be prepared for everything that takes place in season three.
Warning: this article contains major season two spoilers.
Episode one picks up where we left off, in the 2015 timeline at Bree and Evan’s wedding. You’ll recall season two ended as Bree got a recording from Stephen of Evan admitting he slept with Lucy. We’ll see Bree’s reaction before we go back to the 2008 timeline of the gang returning to Baird after break and Stephen, well, being Stephen.
“He’s questioning his morality. I think he’s having feelings, he doesn’t know what they are. And he’s trying to, you know, react,” Jackson White, who plays Stephen, told On The Red Carpet. “He doesn’t know what to do with his feelings, except to hurt people. That’s his only weapon. So, we just see him do everything he’s been doing, but worse.”
“Stephen and Lucy are getting back together and Lucy really starts off the season with thinking things are gonna be really different and that’s her first mistake,” said Lucy’s portrayer Grace Van Patten. “So I think it’s just her realizing that and that cycle continuing and her starting to face consequences in a more tangible way as opposed to a mental away.”
Executive producer/showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer said they wrote Lucy’s arc as a response to fan chatter online.
“I hear a lot of people say ‘she’s as bad as Stephen,’ which I think, it’s just baffling to me that anyone thinks that, but here we go. And so they’ve been asking for Lucy to be punished since season one. And so I was doing something where I’m like, we’re gonna put her on this punishment storyline. And I want you guys to ask yourselves at the end of the season if you feel OK about that, you know? How do you actually feel that you were so hard on this girl? Does it not feel like it was maybe too much,” Oppenheimer said. “I love our audience so much. I really love them, but I think we are just so much harder on women than we are on men and writing the show has, it’s never been clearer for me that that is the case.”
Oppenheimer notes that the fans were also hard on Bree last year, during her relationship with Oliver, a professor, saying “People were like, ‘oh, she knew what she was doing.’ I was like, ‘She was 19!'”
This season will see Bree, played by Cat Missal, going through multiple layers of turmoil, including more Oliver fallout, relationship and friendship drama.
“There were some really challenging scenes that as an actor I was really excited for. Any time you have to play a reveal is really hard, you know,” Missal said. “Bree, a few things are revealed for her, so having those scenes to play out were both a challenge but also really fun.”
Bree is also reunited with Alex, who is a link to her past. He’s played by Costa D’Angelo.
“He’s had a rough upbringing, you know, similar to Bree. They grew up together in the foster system and then they got separated. He has lived his whole life staying away from being hurt again like he was and that abandonment,” D’Angelo explained. “He sees her at school and he knows that she’s there but never approaches her. But then we finally see them come together again after all these years and what does that do to Bree and Alex and all these relationships? And he’s kind of thrown into this crazy group of people and you know for him it’s a bit of a nightmare but also beautiful moments as well.”
Season three brings big moments for everyone, including Wrigley (Spencer House), Evan (Branden Cook), Pippa (Sonia Mena) and Diana (Alicia Crowder).
“I was very happy to see that there was kind of a redemption arc to Wrigley and I got to play it almost felt like I was playing a new character because you know he had this persona and this faade up for everyone. And now he’s had no choice but to grow up,” said House. “He’s being more of himself which is a different guy and that that was so fun to to play because it’s just it’s always fun to play the hope aspect.”
“I think (Evan’s) trying to figure it out and he is doing what he believes to be the best thing for him at that moment and he has a conversation that I think really shapes his mind moving forward and that’s why he ends up shifting a couple of things and a couple of ways he’s thinking and stuff,” said Cook.
Who was that conversation with and what shifted? That’ll all be revealed.
What’s also revealed is more of the origin story of Diana and Pippa’s relationship.
“For Diana… Pippa’s so grounding in a way that I don’t think that she’s, like, experienced before. And there’s something really reassuring about that, about being able to just be yourself with someone who, I don’t know, has gone through, like so much yet is still like showing up for you,” teased Crowder. “That’s really special.”
“(Pippa) really like, initiates and is really brave and… vulnerable,” added Mena. “Also because I have only had scenes with you that are quite icy and chilly up until this point. And so I just found it to be really, really cool and interesting because it’s not what I would have imagined her to be.”
Oppenheimer has one bit of advice for viewers ready to dive into season three.
“Pay attention to the details,” she said. “Put your phone away, put social media away just really watch. I think a lot happens that is not spoken, that are a little… you know, looks between characters that end up being big clues to things. So I would just say, pay attention.”
“I think the audience will be surprised by everyone this season, which is really exciting,” said Van Patten.
See all the surprises, reveals and shocking moments when season three of “Tell Me Lies” premieres January 13 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
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