The Tell Me Lies series finale ended in 2015 — and now, the cast is revealing their ideas for where the controversial group would be in 2025.
During the Tuesday, February 17, series finale, Stephen (Jackson White) blew up Bree (Cat Missal) and Evan’s (Branden Cook) wedding after the bride had a secret romance with his friend Wrigley (Spencer House).
Lucy (Grace Van Patten), meanwhile, briefly reconciled with Stephen and they left the wedding together. Their latest reunion lasted about five minutes after he ditched her at a gas station.
“It’s a great place to leave off. That’s the whole point is that it’s never ending,” White exclusively told Us Weekly during a joint interview with Van Patten, both 29. “It feels like with these two, I don’t know anything [about their future together].”
While creator Meaghan Oppenheimer said that there’s “no way of knowing” what will end up happening, she is more hopeful this could be the end of their toxic relationship.
“But I would hope that this is Lucy’s wake up call. She finally loses everything. She loses all her friendships and there’s that question of will she choose Stephen or choose her friends and stability and sanity? In choosing him, she loses everything,” Oppenheimer explained. “I wanted to answer the question of can he really change? Is he going to hurt her in the end? The truth is he’s Stephen — of course he’s going to hurt her and of course he’s not going to change.”
Oppenheimer wanted the ending to feel “surprising but inevitable,” adding, “I feel like my favorite endings are ones that — in hindsight — feel inevitable. So that scene felt inevitable to me in a nice way. Right now, we’re just all so excited about this season and that’s what we’re focused on. It’s my favorite season and I think it’s most of our favorite season.”
The screenwriter called a potential spinoff a “really fun” idea.
“The topic of obsessive love is timeless and can manifest in so many different ways. In terms of future seasons, it’s impossible to really know at this point,” Oppenheimer hinted. “I certainly had always thought this was more or less the ending I’d had in mind. But you never know what’s going to happen in the future. There’s definitely a sense of I didn’t want to leave anything hanging this season. Basically, I wanted to satisfy everyone.”
Stephen and Lucy aren’t the only ones whose lives left Us intrigued. Newcomer Costa D’Angelo jokingly suggested to Us that his character, Alex, “hit” Stephen with his car in the future, adding, “Alex has gone on a road trip and he’s just driving down the road somewhere — across America doing this thing.”
Missal, meanwhile, joked that Bree’s wedding ended with “no prenup and a divorce.” A decade into the future, she cosigned a possible spinoff with Bree and Wrigley. Speaking of Wrigley, House weighed in on his character’s story arc.
“I thought they tied it up perfectly. It was a really good ending but it might not be the end. In 10 years down the road, I feel like him and Bree might go the distance,” he noted. “There’s a lot of baggage just when it comes to where were they, how they met and how it all came together and everything. But I think they could go the distance. They’re very honest with each other.”
Cook, however, quipped that Bree and Wrigley “would have to elope,” adding, “You couldn’t have a wedding. After that wedding, you couldn’t then try and have [another] wedding. You would head to Vegas.” House replied by pointing out that perhaps Bree and Wrigley would “just not invite any of those people” to their special day.
As for Evan? “Realistically, Evan’s probably gonna be remarried in 10 years and he’s going to find somebody that’ll love him and put up with his bulls***,” Cook told Us. “He’ll find a way to be in another type of relationship or marriage. He will probably have a kid.”
Alicia Crowder and Sonia Mena shared their hopes for their characters.
“Hopefully they are together and are happy and successful. Would you want to still be friends with everyone? I’m not friends with any of them,” Crowder quipped before Mena added, “Wrigley would still be in my life. Hopefully they get a better and cuter little friend group.”
Tell Me Lies is currently streaming on Hulu.
