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- HULU
- Sep 7, 2022
- HULU
- Sep 7, 2022
Summary The 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.
- HULU
- Sep 7, 2022
- HULU
- Sep 7, 2022
Summary The 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.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
65
63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
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.
“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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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