We wrote this before it was announced that this would be its final season. We’ve chosen not to rewrite to show it’s ending, because we write the episode is over and we didn’t want to reshape our feelings.
If this is where Tell Me Lies ends – I would be okay with that. It’s not often that I think that I watched a series finale, before I am told I watched a series finale. But, as I watched season 3, episode 8, I felt like that was exactly what was happening and I was satisfied.
I still hated every character at the end. but I had resolution.
It’s not to say that I wouldn’t watch another season, but the things that have happened these past three seasons are all tied up, as best as they can be, and what I am walking away with is that all of these actors are ready to move on. These characters are ready to be put to bed and this level of toxicity isn’t something that we should ever have to witness again.
Tell Me Lies has always told us both truth and lies. But they are like that toxic boyfriend – the one that you just try and walk away from and somehow they are are there until you are able to just cut the ties.
Cut the ties Hulu. We’re all ready to let go.
As you may remember – Bree told Lucy that she’s a horrible person. She wasn’t lying. She is a horrible person. That’s not to say that she’s the only horrible person. Bree, Pippa, Diana, and Lucy – they are all horrible. But Bree, she’s on the Steven level of horrible.
Do I get that she’s upset that Evan cheated with Lucy? Absolutely. I mean, who wouldn’t be. But there is being upset and then there is being absolutely diabolical. Bree didn’t know the whole story. There has never been a moment where what Lucy did wasn’t wrong. This is true. But Bree, well she should have spoken to Lucy rather than destroyed her life.
We start in 2015 and keep going back. Bree was upset – naturally so – that Evan and Lucy cheated and had been lying to her face. She should have confronted, but instead she stole the tape from Lucy and uploaded it to the internet for the entire school to watch. She doesn’t say a word – doesn’t tell Lucy and doesn’t tell Pippa. Bree is like Steven and she lets the internet do its thing.
And that tape spreads all over school. There isn’t anyone who hasn’t seen it. Lucy thinks it was Steven (hell, we all do) and she goes to confront him. I don’t think that she should have kept her mouth shut, because he would have been the first person I thought would have done that to her also.
That’s the funny thing about life though, we see what we want to see from other people. Bree would have never been anyone that I would have guessed, if I were Lucy. Why? Well that would be because I wouldn’t assume that she has a motive and I wouldn’t be able to see the forrest through the trees, because I would only be thinking bout what I did to her. She had the invisibility cloak that Lucy gave her.
Lucy got kicked out of school for the video. The video that she believed that Steven put out, but the video that he didn’t. Bree felt guilty for releasing it because she found out that it wasn’t as simple as she thought. And she found out what had happened to Pippa.
What I did find interesting was that Bree and Wrigley didn’t get together until the engagement party. They never spoke about him and Pippa sleeping together that one last time and her finding out from Pippa. Them talking about it at the party, and then sleeping together for the first time – well – I can’t say that I saw that coming. I thought they had been together for years.
Now, you know I was always told that nothing good happens after midnight and I never want in life to admit that my parents were right – but they were. It’s 3am at the wedding and Steven figures out that Bree released the video. He figures out that Bree is hiding something because she wasn’t mad about the recording of Evan admitting that he slept with Lucy.
The show comes full circle with Steven being the one to put everything out on the table the night of the wedding. Lucy and him sleeping together, Wrigley and Bree sleeping together, and Bree putting out the video. All chaos breaking out and Diana tells Pippa they are leaving.
Diana has always been smart, EVEN WHEN she’s not.
Bree tries to do damage control. but there is none to be done. What will be will be. Lucy leaves with Steven and he leaves her at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. She can’t help but laugh, and that’s where we leave it.
An ending that is left open to whatever you want it to be and that would be good enough for us.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- Steven telling Evan he doesn’t like him had me LOL because I was like no one likes you Steven
- Wrigley laughing when Evan confronts him – I get that
- Steven is the root of all evil
- Lucy never learns
- Pippa and Diana – they are the only ones learning anything
- Wrigley and long hair isn’t my jam
- The whole Bree’s Mom along with Oliver and his wife – ick. Me and Mom would be done
- How did Bree and Wrigley never talk about what happened
- Alex was not in the wrong at all
- I actually felt so bad for Alex and also why would Lucy go there
- It doesn’t matter though – all these characters are horrible human beings
- Bree trying to gaslight everyone all the time is gross.
- All of these kids got away with never being held really accountable – thats gross
Tell Me Lies is streaming now on Hulu.
