Jaw is on the floor.
There is something about the madness of Tell Me Lies that both continues to shock me and make me be like okay, that tracks in the same breath. The episodes up until now, have been just that. But this episode… WOW.
There was so much that happened and my opinion of every character on this show changed… quickly. I will tell you what I have always told you – that my toxic trait is loving the toxicity of this show.
What I didn’t expect in this show was that that I would actually grow to realize is that there isn’t a character on this show that isn’t so toxic and in need of mass amounts of therapy – because they all do.
Every single last one of them.
We know that at the end of the last episode, Lucy had gotten into Stephens head. No one has ever really told him just how screwed up he is and that in spite of that they still love him.
But Stephen – I don’t get how it is that anyone could find his lies and cruelty to be a good thing. I don’t understand how anyone could be like he’s good person, because he’s not. He uses everyone and when they aren’t doing okay he kicks them harder when they are down.
And well, there was a lot of kicking people when they’re down in this episode.
LUCY, BREE, & THE PARTY
I used to think that Lucy was a good person – that she was just misguided because she’d been mentally abused by so many people in her life. What I have come to realize in this episode is that Lucy is a manipulator and she doesn’t even see that she’s that. She thinks that she is helping everyone all the time by keeping their secrets, but Lucy’s got more secrets than anyone.
She and Bree have a party at their professors house, and stupidly decide to go. Bree shouldn’t go because well, she’s sleeping with the professors husband. Kinda not the best thing to do – show up and be a jealous twat all night.
Bree is so love starved it’s heartbreaking. She wants to have someone fawn over her and I admit, Oliver is a handsome man and who wouldn’t want a man like that wanting to sleep with you every night? Who wouldn’t want a man that cant keep their hands off you? Well that would be me. Why? Because Oliver is the worst kind of man – he’s using and manipulating Bree. He’s playing on her insecurities and her past.
Lucy is trying her best to keep Bree’s secret, but it’s wearing on her. While I do think that Lucy wants to be a good friend – and you know not to mention the fact that she slept with Bree’s man – she has every right to be mad that Bree had sex with Oliver in the laundry room.
Oliver doesn’t love her, but says he does when she freaks out. I believe it was another way for him to try and control her and it works.
It’s her walking out after him and Lucy seeing – I saw some goodness in Lucy. I saw her realizing that her friend was in the wrong. I saw her seeing that she can’t keep this secret.
And Bree shouldn’t be doing this.
But Bree has lost her mind because now that Oliver has said that he loves her – she wants to have him just for her. So she leave her earrings in his pants pocket for his wife to find. Jokes on her though – cause he passes them off as a gift to his wife.
I feel like Lucy was in the right telling Bree that she owes an apology, because she does. She may not see it, but Bree is on a self destructive path and she’s going to hurt her best friend and destroy that relationship. I just think that Bree is so d**k whipped. Oliver is hot and all, but I don’t for a second believe that he has a platinum penis. Like there’s no way that it’s saving the world.
Lets think here Bree.
WRIGLEY AND PIPPA
I have loved seeing Pippa and Wrigley hanging out.
Watching this season, you can tell that Wrigley is broken. He’s emotionally broken and feels it deep down inside. His coach won’t help him with a recommendation and he knows that there is something going on with Wrigley.
And there is something. Something deep. His own brother won’t return a call and blames Wrigley for all of the issues that he has. He’s upset with Wrigley and Wrigley just wants to make things right. No matter what happened, Wrigley loves his brother and family comes first.
Pippa is the only person who makes him feel at ease. The two have become best friends and both are enjoying their new found friendship. The fact that they can tell each other anything, be there for each other without judgement, and that there is just a genuine comfort there is a beautiful thing to watch.
Pippa even feels comfortable enough to tell him she likes a girl. The tension between Pippa and Diana has been flying off the screen, smacking us all in the face, but for some reason, I didn’t really think that either of them would ever really admit feelings. Diana hasn’t told Wrigley who it is, but it’s still one of those things that knowing she told him means that the comfort that she feels with him is back.
And just when I think that friendship is all the two will ever have, they have sex. And though I am not one to critique a sex scene – I will tell you that I thought it was well done.
What do I mean? You felt like this primal passion watching it. Like these two wanted to be with each other, but also this fear that the timing would never be right. And hey, that’s kinda sad, but also kinda beautiful that these two have found their best friend and their other half.
It’s just sometimes other halves don’t always fit.
BAR NIGHTS AND STUPID LIES
Lydia calls and tells Lucy that Chris’ accuser was found innocent and I almost threw up. I felt sick because I could not believe that he got away with rape. I know that disciplinary boards with schools are the worst, but this was just a lot.
When I didn’t think it could get any worse, but it does. And no shocker, the worse part is Lucy’s fault.
People are talking about how Katie probably regretted her night with Chris and lied. They were diminishing what Katie was going through and her truth. It infuriates me, even though I know it happens, and that people say things like “she made it up” and “she just regretted what she did” amongst other things.
But what made me IRATE was that Lucy decided to take Pippa’s story and tell it as her own. She said that she knows that Katie wasn’t lying, because Chris did it to her.
I honestly think I blacked out during this scene. As a survivor of sexual assault, scenes like this make me so angry. Lucy had no right. I get the want to defend Katie and she had every right to. But there are ways to do it, without LYING and taking away from the women who come forward.
Look, what Pippa went through, that’s for her to talk about. I understand why she hasn’t come forward and I believe that even though she hasn’t, there is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong, because Pippa went through it. It’s her that has the right to tell her story. It’s not for Lucy to do and it’s not for Lucy to pass off as her own.
I officially HATE Lucy. Yes, I am fully aware of what I am saying. And I don’t regret saying I hate her, because I am disgusted by her.
I know that I may not agree with the way storylines like this go, but I will say that the writers did their job, because they made the viewer feel emotion. And I feel a lot of emotion about this episode and what Lucy has done. But I also feel a lot about what Pippa has gone through.
And I am just MAD.
(Disney/Josh Stringer)
HOW DARE YOU
Pippa decides to stay when Lucy decides to leave. It’s when Wrigley decides to tell Diana that Pippa is into girls, that I becomes ANGRY again. What is wrong with him? Your best friend told you something that was between the two of you and you decide that it’s okay to tell the world? I wasn’t shocked when Pippa went off on him.
Like girl was actually pretty tame from what she could have been. Most of us would have decided that kicking the s*** out of Wrigley was justified.
But it’s what happened the next day that I think was probably one of the most important scenes that Tell Me Lies has ever had. Wrigley shows up to apologize to Pippa and he’s destroyed.
He admits he was wrong, but he also admits that he’s just sad all the time and he feels so bad. He’s talking about how everything is overwhelming and he keeps saying sorry. TBH, I thought he was telling her that he’s suicidal and every single part of me broke.
We always see the toxicity of this show, but seeing the real mental health part of life and how it’s affecting him. We see that there is a part of Wrigley that may not recover, but desperately needs his friends. He’s only able to be honest with Pippa and her reaction to him is what I needed to see. I needed to see support and understanding.
I needed to see the realness of friendship and this one was a beautiful thing to see.
I did not know that I needed this show to explore the mental health part of things versus just watching everyone try and mind f*** each other all the time.
And I hope they continue to explore this.
STEPHEN AND HIS WORST SELF
What Lucy said to Steven at the end of Episode 6 got in his head and we all know it. She knew the worst of him and still loved him. That is not a flex Stephen. That’s showing your stupidity.
But it’s gotten into his head.
Steven is the worst kind of human – manipulative and absolutely terrifying. There is nothing that he can say that makes what he does acceptable. He’s gross.
Diana says that she knows that he’s a good person, that she knows who he can be. But, does she? Because it doesn’t matter if who he can be is someone that he never wants to be. Steven doesn’t want to be a good person. He wants to be who he is.
He wants to be the worst of the worst. Steve wants to be manipulative and cruel. There is no part of him that doesn’t want to take everyone for granted and only appreciate them if they can do something for him. He wants to get turned on from arguments and have someone let him take advantage of them.
And when he realizes this, where does he go? To Lucy. He goes to Lucy and tells her that they work together, BECAUSE they know the worst of each other and they still love each other despite knowing the worst. That’s why they work together and don’t work with anyone else.
Excuse me while I puke.
We see Lucy close the door to her room as he says this. Yes, we know that she’s going to make stupid choices, because that’s what she does. This is what we’ve seen.
I hate these two.
And yet I know that I am going to sit here and watch these two make stupid choices – like being together.
God, I hate and yet love this show.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- Who is shocked that Oliver passed Bree’s earrings off as a gift to his wife? HAHAHA.
- Evan trying to figure out who Bree is with? That makes me LOL too
- The things Steven says to Wrigley? Eff you Steve!
- I can’t with how dumb Lucy is
- Diana is the only one making sense when she shows up at Lucy’s door
- Lucy trying to relate to her classmate at the party shows how Lucy doesn’t think about anyone but Lucy
- Not shocked that Lydia told Lucy that their friendship was over and if Lucy is shocked, she’s dumb
Tell Me Lies streams on Hulu.
