Tell Me Lies” Season 3: Everything We Know

The emotional roller coaster that was “Tell Me Lies” Season 2 ended on October 16, 2024, but fans are already eagerly awaiting further episodes. The Hulu drama, based on the novel of the same name by Carola Lovering, follows Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White), who meet as students during Lucy's freshman year at the fictional Baird College, and go back and forth in a toxic relationship. As the years go by, their relationship develops into a mess, occasionally betraying their mutual partners.

Season 2 ended with a wild and explosive finale, and Season 3 will show the culmination of a decade-long revenge plot. Below is everything we know so far about the future of “Tell Me Lies.”

Hulu has yet to reveal anything about the future of “Tell Me Lies,” but there is plenty of buzz to keep the series alive. For the past two months, fans of the show have regularly taken over social media each week to discuss the latest plot twists, and the series has remained in Hulu's top 15 in the country during season 2's run.

Fans can likely expect good news in the coming weeks, as the season 2 renewal announcement came a month after season 1 debuted in October 2022.

Even if “Tell Me Lies” is speedily renewed, fans will have to wait a while for new episodes. Season 2 came to Hulu in September 2024, two years after Season 1 debuted in October 2022; Hulu could speed up the delivery of new episodes, but if Season 3 is on schedule, new episodes will likely be available in fall 2026.

It is almost certain that Grace Van Patten and Jackson White will return for Season 3, as “Tell Me Lies” would not be possible without Lucy and Stephen. The rest of the main cast will also likely return, including Katherine Missal (Bree), Spencer House (Wrigley), Sonia Mena (Pippa), Branden Cook (Evan), Alicia Crowder (Diana), and Natalie Lines (Lydia).

As for one of the show's most shocking plots, Tom Ellis will likely not return as Oliver in Season 3. Creator and executive producer Megan Oppenheimer told Variety that the “Lucifer” actor (who is also Oppenheimer's husband in real life) “only wanted to do one season,” adding that she believes season two “really wrapped up his storyline.”

However, he added that he believes Season 2 will “really bring his story together.

However, Gabriela Pesion's Marianne is likely to return.

“Tell Me Lies” season 2 finale spoilers ahead. In the Season 2 finale, Stephen and Lucy's long-standing venom reaches its peak as Bree and Evan's wedding is about to begin. After her boyfriend Max breaks up with her, Lucy immediately turns to Stephen for comfort, but Stephen doesn't head for the (purported) happy ending. Instead, just as Bree is about to walk down the aisle, Stephen emails Bree an audio recording from eight years ago in which Evan confesses to having an affair with Lucy at that Hawaiian college party. So there's that to deal with.

In addition to the possibility of starting the next season with the runaway bride scenario, there are plenty of other dangling plot threads to follow in future episodes. We still don't know how Stephen got engaged to Lucy's former best friend Lydia in the later timeline, or how Bree and Oliver's (and now Marianne's) college-era affair will be resolved. There is also Pippa's journey to (hopefully) seek justice for her assault and the shocking death of Wrigley's brother Drew. Not to mention the fact that at the end of Season 2, almost no one knows that Steven is involved in Macy's death.

Over the past two seasons, Tell Me Lies has expanded beyond the original novel, expanding the roles and stories of several supporting characters, including friends of the main duo. Nevertheless, the series remains largely faithful to the basic events of the novel. Season one covers about a third of the book's content, and season two takes even more creative license with the book's plot. Since many of the show's main characters (especially Lydia) follow the show's original path, it is likely that reading the books will provide only minimal insight into what happens next.

In a meeting with Variety magazine for the Season 2 finale, Oppenheimer, creator and executive producer of Tell Me Lies, said that Season 3 will include a time jump and that new episodes will be more about the 2015 timeline than the 2008 college years He teased that the focus will likely be on the line. (To be fair, there are more questions about where the group of friends will end up later.)

“When we thought about how the show was going to be structured, we planned that in advance,” Oppenheimer said of the plan to add more scenes in 2015.

“And as time went on, I knew the future was going to come out more and more. I think there's still 2008 left in the third season. But I think it will probably shift a little bit in the sense that there will be more 2015s than 2008s.”

Meanwhile, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, stars Van Patten and White (who are dating in real life) shared their thoughts on the bonkers finale cliffhanger and their characters' futures. “I couldn't believe that Steven had recorded Evan saying [he cheated on Bree and Lucy] and saved it for eight years,” Van Patten said of the moment, later adding that White said Steven's revenge was ”psychotic.”

“The work this man had to do to keep the bomb for eight years ...... very much work,” Van Patten continued. 'It was beyond my imagination how manipulative he could be. I really couldn't believe it. I was so curious and shocked to see what was going on in Megan's head in the third season and how that wedding was going to play out.”

When asked about his hopes for Stephen's future, White said, “I think it would be cool to see Stephen completely stuck, with nowhere to run and nowhere to go. I don't even know what that means. Like, there's no way to manipulate anything to get out of it. Then again, Megan said she had an idea for a threesome with Wrigley, and if it came up, I wouldn't be opposed to it. But I'll keep my fingers crossed.”

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