One Of Us Is Lying

Season 2 of One of Us Is Lying is never bad but not great, falling into this middle-tier of mediocrity that’s attached with a lot of modern teen television. The characters are given more room to explore their authentic selves, for the most part falling away from the shells of their Season 1 stereotypes and shields, though the balance between emotional arcs and the overarching suspense never truly reaches an equilibrium.

The show is a catalog of soap-opera conceits that borrow not just from “Melrose Place” or “Dawson’s Creek” but ’30s radio. ... We know exactly what it’s doing and where it’s going. The conclusion will be a surprise, one assumes. But the getting there is, as they might say in French class, déjà vu.

What eludes One of Us Is Lying is some special spark to set it apart from all the other murder mysteries and teen dramas out there — some subversion or deepening of the formulas it’s trafficking in, some jagged edges to break up all its slick competence.

One of Us Is Lying has been described as John Hughes ‘Breakfast Club’ meets ‘Gossip Girl’; unfortunately it brings nothing new to the teen drama genre. The characters never stray away from their ‘Not Another Teen Movie’ stereotypes. The blonde actress’s facial expressions and line delivery is straight out of a daytime soap opera. Elite, dubbed in English - has more compelling characters than this show.

So the book is one of my favorites so when I found out about thw show I was like im probably going to love this and I was so wrong I mean besides the fact that most of the characters look anything like there book descriptions they literally did everything wrong and oh my god with Addy I mean come on guys! If your going to make this a show at lest put some effort into it!