‘One Of Us Is Lying’ EP Reveals The Season 2 Ending ‘Absolutely’ Leaves It Open For A Third Season (Exclusive)

One Of Us Is Lying returns for an adjacent darker and much twisted play 2 connected October 20. Murder Club volition beryllium dealing with the aftermath of Jake’s death, and idiosyncratic knows precisely what they’ve done. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with showrunner Erica Saleh astir however rapidly we’ll find retired who killed Jake: was it Addy, Janae, oregon Cooper?

Cooper van Grootel, Marianly Tejada, Annalisa Cochrane, and Chibuikem Uche astatine HL’s NYCC studio. (Paige Kindlick)

“You volition find retired who really pulled the trigger. You’ll find that retired aboriginal successful the season. It’s the archetypal enigma we’re going to lick for you,” Erica revealed.

Addy volition beryllium having a hard clip coping with the trauma she’s experienced, Jake’s death, and the feelings she felt for him. “I deliberation determination are a batch of truly confusing, conflicting emotions for her,” Erica said. “I deliberation we privation our heroes to conscionable person this straight-line travel toward the airy and toward being better. I deliberation Addy makes truthful overmuch advancement and becomes this much existent mentation of herself by the extremity of play 1. But watching the idiosyncratic she loved die, adjacent if helium wasn’t who she thought helium was, inactive has a immense effect connected her.”

Erica added, “She does commencement this play successful a beauteous acheronian spot and successful a truly hard, confusing spot and truly has a travel to spell connected to benignant of find bid and find acceptance with what happened.”

Annalisa Cochrane arsenic Addy Prentiss. (Peacock)

Addy, Cooper, Nate, Bronwyn, and Janae soon find themselves being blackmailed by idiosyncratic down Simon Says. This clip around, these teens aren’t innocent, truthful that ups the stakes successful an adjacent bigger mode successful play 2.

“I deliberation this idiosyncratic is playing a truly amusive crippled of powerfulness and is enjoying the powerfulness that they person implicit them,” the showrunner teased. “Things vigor up and things get beauteous brainsick and beauteous dark. But I’ll accidental I deliberation immoderate of the things that Simon Says asks them to do, particularly aboriginal successful the season, are not what they are expecting of idiosyncratic who knows there’s this immense acheronian secret. I deliberation determination are immoderate surprises successful presumption of however this idiosyncratic wields their control.”

Should we beryllium acrophobic astir the information of the Murder Club? “Oh, yeah. I deliberation we should decidedly beryllium disquieted for Murder Club,” Erice stressed. “I mean, astatine the precise least, this idiosyncratic knows what they did. Slight spoiler, but we realized beauteous rapidly that this idiosyncratic truly knows what they did and could wholly nonstop them to jail. But that mightiness beryllium the best-case script for them.”

On apical of the Jake situation, there’s inactive plentifulness of different play elsewhere. Bronwyn and Nate went their abstracted ways astatine the extremity of the archetypal season, but Erica noted that these 2 can’t stray acold from each other.

Marianly Tejada and Cooper van Grootel arsenic Bronwyn and Nate. (Peacock)

“I deliberation it’s hard for Bronwyn and Nate to beryllium successful a country unneurotic and not beryllium pulled together,” Erica told HollywoodLife. “That attraction is going to beryllium determination nary substance what, and they bash truly conflict with however overmuch tin they spot each other, particularly present erstwhile they person this immense secret. Is it excessively complicated? I think, particularly for Nate, who doesn’t person a large household beingness and is utilized to radical walking distant from him, the thought of truly trusting Bronwyn is truly scary. There’s a batch of push-pull betwixt the 2 of them this season. With Nate, there’s a batch of hesitation astir being consenting to spot idiosyncratic arsenic overmuch arsenic helium would request to spot Bronwyn to truly beryllium with her.”

The Peacock bid is inspired by Karen McManus’ bestselling novel of the aforesaid name. Erica revealed that play 2 “absolutely” leaves it unfastened for a 3rd play with the characters we cognize and love.

“The 2nd play takes america into the 2nd semester of their elder year, and I would emotion to person a 3rd play wherever we effort to get these kids safely retired of precocious school. We’ll see,” Erica said. One Of Us Is Lying play 2 volition beryllium disposable connected Peacock.