This post contains spoilers for Tell Me Lies and Tell Me Lies season 2.
If you are not yet caught up with Tell Me Lies, this is your sign to do so. Based on Carola Lovering’s 2018 best-selling novel of the same name, the series, which premiered in 2022, follows the “tumultuous but intoxicating relationship” of Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White) over the course of eight years via dual timelines set in 2008 and 2015.
If you came here looking for a typical, feel-good rom-com, you’ve come to the wrong place; Tell Me Lies is more like a bumpy rollercoaster. “Although their relationship begins like any typical campus romance, they quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will permanently alter not only their lives but the lives of everyone around them,” the official synopsis reads. Meaghan Oppenheimer serves as creator and executive producer for the show, the latter alongside Emma Roberts.
Following the success of the first offering, Tell Me Lies returned for a sophomore season this fall with more drama, more secrets, and more cliffhangers. While season 1 focused on Lucy and Stephen’s romance, season 2 picked up as they returned to class right after their dramatic breakup at the beginning of summer. The story also expanded to feature more of the lives of the duo’s friend group following the fallout from season 1.
The season 2 finale, of course, ends with a tense cliffhanger and some tragic conclusion, and it leaves fans eagerly craving a third one. Will there be one? Below, find out everything we know about Tell Me Lies season 3, from its renewal status to updates from the cast and crew.
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Is Tell Me Lies renewed for season 3?
At the time of writing, Hulu has yet to renew Tell Me Lies for a third season. However, it sure looks like it will. Aside from the cliffhangers galore, Tell Me Lies has made the streamer’s best original shows list and has steadily remained in the Top 15 series.
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As a little reminder, Hulu officially announced Tell Me Lies had been renewed for a second season just one month after its first season wrapped. The show premiered in September 2022 and finished in late October that same year. The renewal was then made public in November. Seeing as Tell Me Lies season 3 wrapped on October 16, 2024, its potential renewal for a third season could be imminent, so stay tuned!
What would Tell Me Lies season 3 be about?
Season 2 of Tell Me Lies ended with some pretty intense cliffhangers — i.e. that wedding fallout and the death of Wrigley’s brother, Drew.
Should Tell Me Lies return for a third season, the show will likely start by addressing these unanswered questions first while still going back to the 2008 timeline sporadically, as series creator Meaghan Oppenheimer has confirmed. “By the third season, we will still have some 2008 because there’s stuff that we have to wrap up there. But I think it would be a little bit shifted in the sense that there will probably be more 2015 than 2008,” she told Variety. “We’ll get more and more of the future as time goes on.”
