Warning: This story accommodates spoilers in regards to the plot of Inform Me Lies season 1.
A chaotic conclusion to an advanced relationship. After offering some context for current day occasions in season 1, Inform Me Lies ended the finale with a bang when it got here to Lucy’s (Grace Van Patten) future with Stephen (Jackson James White).
In the course of the explosive episode, which aired on Hulu in October 2022, viewers returned to Lucy and Stephen assembly at Bree and Evan’s engagement get together. This time, nonetheless, there was extra historical past behind the primary dialog since their offscreen cut up. Whereas Lucy tried to have minimal interplay together with her ex-boyfriend, Stephen launched (or extra particularly reintroduced) the viewers to his fiancée — Lucy’s childhood finest buddy Lydia.
The stunning twist got here on the heels of a troublesome glimpse into Lucy and Stephen’s steady ups and downs. After trying to have a wholesome relationship throughout Lucy’s freshmen 12 months, Stephen finally determined to drag the plug on their romance by getting again collectively along with his ex Diana (Alicia Crowder).
Inform Me Lies, which is predicated on a novel by Carola Lovering, wove an emotional story about Lucy’s poisonous romance with Stephen throughout her freshman 12 months of school. (In the meantime, the guide coated an eight-year time interval of the duo’s respective lives.)
Earlier than the hit collection premiered, showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer opened up about bringing the unlikable character to life.
“Some individuals hate him and don’t have any forgiveness for him. Some individuals don’t like what he does, however they nonetheless like him at instances. I believe it’ll actually depend upon individuals’s private expertise as effectively and the way a lot he triggers them,” she instructed Hollywood Life in September 2022. “However I believe at the very least you’ll perceive him greater than within the guide. Not that you just don’t perceive him within the guide, however we delve into his private life and his backstory and his household somewhat bit extra, and we tried to discover why he’s the best way that he’s.”
For the screenwriter, it was vital to “humanize” Stephen when pondering of the present’s long-term story traces. “If somebody is simply fully, there’s no hope for them, then there’s not a lot area to play with that,” Oppenheimer added. “I believe Stephen goes to be very polarizing, simply from what I’ve skilled to this point.”
White, for his half, additionally supplied a glimpse at how he scored the position, telling Esquire that very same month, “I wasn’t actually afraid of how I regarded in these auditions or how I used to be being perceived, and I believe that completely lined up with this man. Stephen’s superpower turned not caring what different individuals suppose, and that labored with this fed-up angle I used to be having in my profession.”
Scroll down to search out out what questions have been answered — and what we nonetheless want solutions to — following the season 1 finale of Inform Me Lies:
