Tell Me Lies is over for now — but the cast already has ideas for a spinoff.
Before the season 3 finale premiered on Tuesday, February 17, creator Meaghan Oppenheimer confirmed the hit Hulu series had reached a conclusion. Us Weekly spoke with Grace Van Patten, Jackson White and more about the possibilities for follow-up shows after Stephen (White) left Lucy (Van Patten) following yet another reconciliation.
“Is Lucy done with revenge? Maybe she finds herself,” Van Patten, 29, suggested for a potential new story line. “We have enough revenge.”
White was on the same page about trying something new if Tell Me Lies expanded with another series. But while White, 29, didn’t see another show centered around Stephen, he was willing to keep it in the family.
“It’s called ‘Norah From Bayville.’ It’s my mom, [Katey Sagal], and it’s her own show,” he quipped. “She smokes cigarettes and goes to the grocery store and f***s with her kids.”
Elsewhere in the finale, Wrigley’s (Spencer House) secret affair with Bree (Cat Missal) came to light at her wedding to Evan (Branden Cook). Missal cosigned Us‘ suggestion for a spinoff centered around the trio — a.k.a “the next toxic love triangle” — while Cook could see a show where Evan “finds love” again with someone new. (Perhaps Evan’s ex Molly — played by Cook’s real-life fiancée, Katherine Hughes?)
House, meanwhile, had a more humorous take, suggesting, “I think just Wrigley as a used car salesman or something and we just follow him around.”
The only people who were able to be marked safe from Stephen’s reign of terror in the finale were Pippa (Sonia Mena) and Diana (Alicia Crowder) — and the actresses would love the potential to come back for more.
Mena pitched seeing Pippa and Diana’s “messy era,” while Crowder added, “I think Diana goes to law school and undergrad. Then we can see how they find each other along the way.”
Based on Carola Lovering‘s novel of the same name, Tell Me Lies aired for three seasons on Hulu. Oppenheimer confirmed on Monday, February 16, that it was her choice to end the show.
“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,” she wrote via Instagram. “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.”
She concluded: “My main goal has always been to protect the quality of the show and give you the best experience I can give you. And so, while it is bittersweet to leave something that has been such a happy experience, I am very grateful that we are able to tell a complete story with an intentional ending — a privilege very few shows get. Thank you for loving our show. We are excited to bring you more stories in the near future.”
Oppenheimer previously spoke to Us about why it made sense to end the story with season 3.
“In terms of future seasons, it’s impossible to really know at this point,” Oppenheimer exclusively told Us in January. “I certainly had always thought this was always more or less the ending I’d had in mind.”
Oppenheimer didn’t rule out a return in some capacity, adding, “But you never know what’s going to happen in the future. But there’s definitely a sense where I didn’t want to leave anything hanging this season. Basically, I wanted to satisfy everyone.”
Tell Me Lies is currently streaming on Hulu.
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