‘Inform Me Lies’ Burning Questions Answered After Season 1 Finale

Warning: This story accommodates spoilers concerning 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).

Through 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 break up. Whereas Lucy tried to have minimal interplay along with her ex-boyfriend, Stephen launched (or extra particularly reintroduced) the viewers to his fiancée — Lucy’s childhood greatest pal Lydia.

The shocking twist got here on the heels of a troublesome glimpse into Lucy and Stephen’s steady ups and downs. After making an attempt to have a wholesome relationship throughout Lucy’s freshmen 12 months, Stephen in the end determined to drag the plug on their romance by getting again collectively together 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 ebook lined 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 folks hate him and haven’t any forgiveness for him. Some folks don’t like what he does, however they nonetheless like him at instances. I believe it is going to actually rely on folks’s private expertise as effectively and the way a lot he triggers them,” she advised Hollywood Life in September 2022. “However I believe at the least you’ll perceive him greater than within the ebook. Not that you simply don’t perceive him within the ebook, however we delve into his private life and his backstory and his household slightly bit extra, and we tried to discover why he’s the way in which 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 utterly, there’s no hope for them, then there’s not a lot house to play with that,” Oppenheimer added. “I believe Stephen goes to be very polarizing, simply from what I’ve skilled thus far.”

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 appeared 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 folks assume, and that labored with this fed-up perspective I used to be having in my profession.”

Scroll down to seek out out what questions had been answered — and what we nonetheless want solutions to — following the season 1 finale of Inform Me Lies: