SummaryThe eight-year relationship between Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Stephen DeMarco) becomes more toxic over the years in this adaptation of Carola Lovering's novel of the same name.
Created By:Meaghan Oppenheimer
❮ Tell Me Lies
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Sep 7, 2022
Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
User score
Generally Favorable
6.3
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
63% Positive
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1 Review
Sep 6, 2022
80
Tell Me Lies is too nuanced for soapboxing and too empathetic for handwringing. At the same time, it’s also clear-eyed about the ugly attitudes giving cover to these relationships, the personal decisions or shortcomings that allow them to flower, and the damage they leave behind. It’s a guilty pleasure in the truest sense — one whose juicy delights are tempered with enough sharp reality to make it stick, just a little, in the throat.
Sep 7, 2022
75
“Tell Me Lies” is at its strongest when it hones in on the thrill and danger of new passions in a new environment. It moves at the pace of a bygone supersized network season, not rushed to hop between major milestones in a campus year and instead living inside the gradual build of new relationships that could be great or terrible (or both).
Sep 8, 2022
70
While “Tell Me Lies” isn’t as complex as “Normal People,” a fascinating look at similar changes, it does hold interest, particularly since all of the students have plenty of time to dabble in things that don’t require a paper at the end of the term.
Sep 7, 2022
67
Thankfully, Van Patten is a charming presence throughout, and her chemistry with White is palpable. While there is no Team Stephen in this scenario, there is enough about the first half of “Tell Me Lies” to ensure this tale of betrayal is one I want to graduate from.
Sep 7, 2022
60
The cast comes across as natural, even in their stereotypical roles. The dialogue is similarly fluid and representative of the kind of conversations that would happen in these circumstances.
Sep 7, 2022
58
Over five episodes, half of the entire run of Tell Me Lies, it felt like we were only barely getting to the beginning of the main story. ... The result is a narrow show that finds plenty of individual messy moments to get caught up in, but lacks the depth needed to keep you engaged beyond that.
Sep 7, 2022
30
It just feels like a whole series full of toxic, near-narcissistic characters that aren’t murdering each other. We don’t want to spend our precious time on earth with people like that in real life, much less filling the cast of a young adult drama.
User score
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6.3
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Sep 12, 2022
8
A good show that feels like a cross between Euphoria (with college kids) and The Sex Lives Of College Girls, but with different characters lying at different times and with varying degrees of severity- It’s not as ambitious as Euphoria or as funny as The Sex Lives of College Girls, but its not supposed to be- However, it’s got a few twists and surprises by the end. It’s worth watching. Good acting. Decent drama. Lots of intimate scenes.
Sep 18, 2022
5
An intriguing enough show, but it takes itself way too seriously, much like I remember being in college where it is set. There are too many subplots that water down and confuse me to what this story is actually trying to tell me; Is it the car crash plot? Is is the narcissitic relationship? The actors are not believable college students. Am I supposed to care about them? The bad/borderline abusive sex makes me cringe. I'm just not sure what I'm watching, but maybe that's the point? It's juicy enough to keep me watching and the actors are pretty, but a lot of the content leaves me confused and honestly angry.
