‘Tell Me Lies’ Boss On The ‘Devastating’ Finale Twist For Lucy, Drew’s Fate & Season 2 Plans (Exclusive)

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Lucy’s location of cards crumbled by the extremity of the Tell Me Lies play 1 finale. Not lone did Stephen and Diana get backmost unneurotic with Stephen not adjacent having the decency to interruption up with Lucy first, but Lucy responded by getting truthful drunk that she slept with Evan. It’s not a large clip to beryllium Lucy Albright.

HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Tell Me Lies creator and showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer astir that game-changing finale ending for Stephen, Diana, and Lucy. While Lucy was near shell-shocked, Meaghan said that Lucy “earned that moment” aft however she treated Diana. Plus, determination was a notation of Drew successful 2015 that inevitably prompted the question: what happened to him? Meaghan talked astir it each and revealed what play 2 would bring arsenic well.

First and foremost, does Bree cognize astir Evan and Lucy sleeping together? Or does she inactive not know?
Meaghan Oppenheimer: She does not.

Does anyone other cognize astir what happened?
Meaghan Oppenheimer: In the aboriginal years?

Yeah.
Meaghan Oppenheimer: I mean, I deliberation Pippa astir apt knows.

In the aboriginal timeline, Stephen is engaged to Lydia, which is simply a large woody considering her transportation to Lucy. If determination is simply a play 2, would you dive into the origins of that relationship?
Meaghan Oppenheimer: In play 2, we mightiness beryllium much successful the big storyline than we were successful play 1, but we volition inactive beryllium chiefly focused successful the assemblage years. The extremity is there’s each these small Easter eggs that are dropped successful the 2015 year, similar what happened to Drew, however did Lydia and Steven get together… those things are each things that we get to find retired successful the assemblage years. Whether we volition spot the full improvement of however Steven and Lydia became progressive successful play 2, it astir apt volition beryllium a slower burn, but we volition decidedly spot them statesman to interact successful play 2.

Speaking of Drew, we perceive Evan archer Lucy to springiness Wrigley a interruption due to the fact that it was his brother’s day recently. Is Drew dead?
Meaghan Oppenheimer: I can’t accidental that. He’s had a unsmooth time, though. I volition accidental that.

Is it thing that possibly happened recently, oregon is that thing that happened successful college?
Meaghan Oppenheimer: It’s thing that volition much apt unfold successful play 2 successful the assemblage years.

We person to speech astir that epic enactment infinitesimal with Stephen and Diana getting backmost unneurotic and walking down the stairs successful beforehand of Lucy. It’s the astir 2008 happening ever with “Mr. Brightside” playing. Talk astir that infinitesimal betwixt the 3 of them. Diana got the past laughter this time.
Meaghan Oppenheimer: I know. So that infinitesimal of them coming down the stairs unneurotic is thing that is successful the publication that I conscionable loved. I could visualize it truthful intelligibly erstwhile I work that scene, truthful I knew I wanted to support that in. That was astir apt 1 of the biggest acceptable pieces that I kept from the book. It was comic due to the fact that erstwhile we were editing it and erstwhile I archetypal got the cut, I was not wholly definite however to marque the country work. Just due to the fact that successful the edit sometimes it’s like, oh, however does this work? We were trying to fig retired the music. At first, we were doing much somber euphony and making it this much affectional moment. And past I said to the editor, “Could you conscionable enactment ‘Mr. Brightside’ on? Can we conscionable perceive what that sounds like?” Because I thought there’d beryllium conscionable thing truthful biting and ironic and benignant of nasty successful a way. We enactment it connected and automatically we were each like, ohio my god, that’s the song. It conscionable made the moment. As atrocious arsenic it is and devastating for Lucy, there’s a mischievous fearfulness to it that I felt was a small spot appropriate. If you marque it excessively somber it becomes excessively melodramatic.

I consciousness similar it was a afloat ellipse infinitesimal aft Lucy flaunted her narration with Stephen successful beforehand of Diana astatine the festival.
Meaghan Oppenheimer: Absolutely. I deliberation that Diana has been underestimated by Lucy consistently passim the season. She played a precise antithetic crippled than Lucy, but she was ever going to win. Also, I deliberation Lucy has benignant of made her bed. As overmuch arsenic we attraction astir Lucy and emotion Lucy, she’s acted similar an asshole. She earned that infinitesimal a small spot from Diana.

I find Diana’s narration with Stephen arsenic fascinating arsenic Stephen and Lucy’s relationship. She keeps going backmost to this feline erstwhile she could easy determination connected with her life. Why did she privation to get backmost with Stephen? Why does she inactive privation to assistance him astatine all? Is it conscionable to get backmost astatine Lucy?
Meaghan Oppenheimer: I deliberation it’s a batch of reasons. I deliberation that she genuinely loves him. I deliberation she sees flaws successful him and flaws successful his beingness that she does not personally have, truthful she is capable to person a batch of empathy for it. I deliberation she’s besides conscionable idiosyncratic who’s a occupation solver. She sees this messiness of a idiosyncratic and she’s like, “I tin hole him,” which is the buss of death. So galore radical person that issue. I’ve surely had that issue. But also, it’s like, if idiosyncratic wants your toy, you privation the artifact adjacent more. It’s truthful comic to maine erstwhile I ticker The Bachelor, those girls autumn for that guy. Like, 90% of them genuinely truly extremity up liking that guy. And I’m like, if you met him astatine a enactment with 20 different guys, would you similar him? But it’s due to the fact that everyone’s truthful focused connected that guy, you automatically are like, “I request him to take me.” I deliberation it’s not the astir fantastic of motives, but I deliberation it’s relatable, particularly astatine that age.

Lucy inactive has Macy’s decease concealed implicit Stephen’s head. Why bash you deliberation helium took that hazard knowing what Lucy could bash with that secret?
Meaghan Oppenheimer: Because successful that country erstwhile she benignant of threatens him, helium threatens her backmost and brings up what she did Wrigley, the mode she backs down and is instantly terrified… I deliberation helium knows there’s nary mode she’s going to archer connected him due to the fact that it would mean implicating herself arsenic well. She’s truly f**ked up, and she’s damaged her friendships for this relationship. She’s betrayed Pippa, and she has a batch to lose.

Diana is besides consenting to bash a batch for Stephen, but bash you deliberation Stephen knows that possibly Diana wouldn’t support this concealed arsenic Lucy has?
Meaghan Oppenheimer: That’s a bully question. I deliberation helium astir apt hasn’t thought astir that unless that was presented arsenic an existent issue. I deliberation he’s truthful successful the infinitesimal and what needs to beryllium done close now. I don’t know. I consciousness similar there’s a satellite successful which helium could get Diana to support the concealed due to the fact that he’s conscionable specified a maestro manipulator. I deliberation helium would spell astir it successful a antithetic mode than helium went astir it with Lucy due to the fact that I deliberation Diana is not arsenic easy manipulated oregon arsenic easy gaslit. But I deliberation helium could astir apt get her to support the concealed too.

We spoke astir this weeks ago astir however Lucy knowing Stephen’s concealed truly gave Lucy immoderate currency with him that she didn’t person before. We’ve seen however that backfired connected her and however being successful this narration has changed her and made her overmuch much manipulative and damaged her relationships. Between Stephen and Diana and present betraying her person Bree with Evan, however are these things going to alteration Lucy successful play 2?
Meaghan Oppenheimer: I deliberation we’re going to beryllium encountering a overmuch much susceptible Lucy. I deliberation she’s been drinking the Kool-Aid and has been nether this spell of having Stephen beside her and feeling benignant of powerful. I deliberation a batch of her ain mistakes volition beryllium precise wide to her astatine the opening of play 2 of however overmuch she has wounded radical that really were bully to her. I deliberation we volition beryllium uncovering astir apt a kinder, softer Lucy due to the fact that I deliberation she’s a benignant person. She has walls up, and she’s a messiness sometimes, but I don’t deliberation she’s inherently cruel. I deliberation she became cruel due to the fact that of Stephen.

We bash cognize that Stephen and Lucy’s narration does proceed for respective years. When play 2 would prime up, would Lucy beryllium licking her wounds? Would she beryllium successful the aggravated stage? Where would she basal with her feelings towards Stephen?
Meaghan Oppenheimer: I deliberation that play 2 would request to research immoderate of Stephen and Lucy’s romanticist lives distant from each other, oregon astatine slightest portion of the time. They wouldn’t beryllium unneurotic astatine the opening of the season. I deliberation it would beryllium truly absorbing to spot a caller emotion involvement travel successful for Lucy that was messed up and analyzable successful precise antithetic ways and spot her effort to unlearn immoderate of the behaviour that she learned from Stephen and astir apt neglect to unlearn those things. But I bash deliberation determination volition beryllium immoderate rage there, and determination volition perfectly beryllium immoderate revenge plots that hap astatine immoderate point.

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