The Hulu drama Share Me Lies will conclude with its Season 3 finale airing Tuesday, February 17, showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer announced Monday, bringing an finish to the story of Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco’s tumultuous relationship.
Oppenheimer revealed the news on Instagram, stating, “After three amazing seasons of Tell Me Lies, tonight’s episode will be the series finale. This was always the ending my writing team and I had in mind, and we are insanely proud of it. Your incredible response to this season inspired us to explore whether there was another organic way to continue the story, but ultimately we felt it had reached its natural conclusion.”
The decision to end the series after three seasons, despite its popularity, stemmed from concerns about maintaining the quality of the narrative, Oppenheimer explained in a conversation with Deadline. “I believe three seasons is the perfect amount,” she said. She noted that as the characters moved beyond the college setting central to the show, the natural connections that drove the plot would diminish. “Lucy’s not in school anymore. Most of the cast are graduating college in the future. They’re all living in different places. They’re not in the same industry. There’s not a lot connecting them.”
The show, based on Carola Lovering’s 2018 novel, follows Lucy (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen (Jackson White) through a complex and often destructive relationship, unfolding across an eight-year timeline. Their friends – Bree (Cat Missal), Pippa (Sonia Mena), Diana (Alicia Crowder), Wrigley (Spencer House) and Evan (Branden Cook) – are drawn into the fallout of their actions.
Oppenheimer emphasized the importance of delivering a complete and intentional ending, a rarity in television. “The worst case scenario would be turning in something I didn’t believe in,” she told Deadline. She also acknowledged the cast’s support for the planned conclusion, stating that their investment in the ending gave her “a lot of peace about it.”
Van Patten echoed this sentiment, telling Deadline, “It was bittersweet. I think it’s so beautiful and rare that we got to do this for three seasons. We got really lucky that everybody loved the show and we were able to retain going, and it was so great. We were able to have a beginning, middle and end.”
Oppenheimer also addressed the frequent comparisons between Stephen and the clinical definition of a narcissist, acknowledging the overuse of the term. “The problem is that the word ‘narcissist’ is so overused, and just because your boyfriend cheated on you, it doesn’t mean he’s a narcissist,” she said. She distinguished Stephen’s inherent cruelty from Lucy’s actions, which, while often harmful, stemmed from a different intention. “Lucy is never deliberately cruel. She always does things that end up being cruel and end up hurting people, but they’re always coming from a place of an intention that’s very different than that. And Stephen is just cruel.”
Looking ahead, Oppenheimer is developing a latest series with 20th Television, described as a dark and twisted family drama revolving around adult siblings. “I’m developing a new thing, and it’s definitely about dark, twisted relationships, but it’s a little bit more revolving around adult siblings and their lives and their kind of interconnectedness,” she said. She described her creative aspiration as being “a perverse Nora Ephron.”
A previous project, Second Wife, starring Oppenheimer’s husband Tom Ellis and Emma Roberts, will not be moving forward at Hulu, though the possibility of redeveloping it as a feature film is being explored.
The Season 3 finale of Tell Me Lies will be available on Hulu and Disney+ at 12:00 AM ET on Tuesday, February 17.
