Tell Me Lies Showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer Says This Season 3 Couple Was Planned All Along [Exclusive] – SlashFilm

Don’t press play on any songs about craving — like, for instance, “Lua” by Vibrant Eyes — if you have not watched the season 3 finale of “Tell Me Lies,” titled “Are You Joyful Now, That I am on My Knees?” Spoilers observe!

Relating to “Tell Me Lies,” the steamy collection created by Meaghan Oppenheimer and primarily based on Carola Lovering’s bestselling novel of the identical title, even essentially the most jaded viewer will be shocked by the way in which the story twists and turns … particularly as a result of Oppenheimer has achieved such a wonderful job of increasing the present’s story previous its supply materials. Nonetheless, even I — a longtime fan of each the e book and present — was completely flabbergasted, in a great way, when inklings of a romance started between fundamental characters Bree (Cat Missal) and Wrigley (Spencer Home).

Bree and Wrigley have, up till season 3, been firmly hooked up to different folks — Bree with the rich all-star scholar Evan (Branden Cook dinner) and Wrigley with Bree’s roommate Pippa (Sonia Mena) — as all of them orbit across the present’s fundamental couple, Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco (Grace van Patten and Jackson White). As Oppenheimer completely advised me, although, she was all the time fascinated with a Bree and Wrigley romance.

“I imply, that was all the time one thing that was on the desk from day one as a chance, however every thing can all the time change on the final minute. However what did shock me was the way in which that Evan’s flip in season 3 was surprising,” Oppenheimer famous, remarking on Evan’s stunning season 3 heel flip. (Extra on that shortly.) “However I feel discovering Bree and Wrigley collectively, it simply made plenty of sense, particularly after season 2.”

All through season 3, we watch as Bree and Wrigley discover themselves fully drawn collectively … and within the season’s sixth episode, “I Do not Cry After I’m Unhappy Anymore,” the 2 find yourself sharing a kiss. Although it is objectively “fallacious” to look at them cheat on their companions, you truthfully can not help however root for these wild children, and Meaghan Oppenheimer thinks she is aware of precisely why we really feel this fashion.

“I feel plenty of viewers members really feel like they’re the 2 innocents of the group and actually have not achieved something deliberately dangerous to anybody else, and so, it made sense that they, and I felt like they deserved to, discover a pure connection in that method,” Oppenheimer defined. To make certain, Wrigley endured one thing really horrible when his brother Drew (Benjamin Wadsworth) died beneath horrific circumstances in “Tell Me Lies” season 2, and as we have realized by means of the present, Bree had a tough upbringing within the foster care system. As Oppenheimer put it:

“But in addition, you are discovering Wrigley at some extent the place he is now been dealt this trauma that, for the primary time, he is on the identical stage as Bree in plenty of methods. I feel that in case you’re in a gaggle of people that have not skilled the identical sort of trauma as one another, the opposite one who has seen it, you guys see one another, and so, that is what’s occurring with them at the start of season 3. However their chemistry was so wonderful, and [Cat Missal and Spencer House] are such good buddies in actual life that, yeah, it was actually enjoyable.”

So, the place does this unlikely couple find yourself within the season 3 finale?

Okay, so, here is the cope with Bree and Wrigley all through season 3, briefly. As Bree tries to recuperate from her horrible and tumultuous affair along with her faculty professor Oliver (Tom Ellis), Wrigley finally ends up being a stunning supply of consolation for her, and she or he’s capable of present him with emotional assist in return after he loses his brother. As for Evan, he is solely changing into more and more possessive of Bree, to the purpose the place he truly interferes when Bree varieties a relationship along with her organic mom Mary (Emily Reade), placing Mary into conditions the place she’ll drink to extra so Bree will not belief her.

Within the season 3 finale, although, all hell breaks free. Bree and Evan’s marriage ceremony does, in a authorized sense, go forward as deliberate (regardless of viewers questioning if it might on the season’s begin, because of a bombshell courtesy of Stephen a few one-night time stand between Lucy and Evan), however because the final dregs of champagne are drunk on the reception, Stephen decides to trigger one other downside and reveal some remaining secrets and techniques. Not solely are Wrigley and Bree having an affair that truly started in earnest at her engagement occasion to Evan, however Bree additionally destroyed Lucy’s faculty profession by releasing a harmful video of Lucy admitting that she falsely accused a fellow scholar of sexual assault. (That is a complete completely different can of worms, truthfully.)

After Stephen grabs the mic and spills all of those secrets and techniques, Evan begins screaming at Wrigley … who seems to be previous him and smiles at Bree. Who is aware of what the playing cards maintain for these two, however their connection feels actual — as a result of Oppenheimer did a masterful job creating their romance. 

“Tell Me Lies” season 3 is streaming on Hulu now.