Tell Me Lies is ending the cycle of Lucy and Stephen.
Meaghan Oppenheimer, the creator of Hulu‘s buzzy drama starring Grace Van Patten and Jackson White, announced on Monday that the show won’t be returning for a fourth season. The news comes ahead of the highly anticipated season three finale, which releases at 9 p.m. PT/12 a.m. ET on Monday.
“After three amazing seasons of Tell Me Lies, tonight’s episode will be the series finale,” Oppenheimer wrote on Instagram. “This was always the ending my writing team and I had in mind, and we are insanely proud of it. Your incredible response to this season inspired us to explore whether there was another organic way to continue the story, but ultimately we felt it had reached its natural conclusion.”
She continued, “My main goal has always been to protect the quality of the show and give you the best experience I can give you. And so, while it is bittersweet to leave something that has been such a happy experience, I am very grateful that we are able to tell a complete story with an intentional ending – a privilege very few shows get. Thank you for loving our show. We are excited to bring you more stories in the near future.”
Tell Me Lies follows Lucy and Stephen’s addictive and toxic relationship, and how it permanently alters their lives and the lives of everyone around them over the course of eight years. The tumultuous couple at the center of the saga is played by Van Patten and White, who have been dating in real life ever since meeting during the audition process for the series.
The drama on Tell Me Lies unfolds in two timelines; one in the 2008 backdrop of the fictional Baird College, and the future timeline set in 2015 around the wedding of Bree (Cat Missal) and Evan (Branden Cook), a celebratory few months that reunites the group of college friends.
The cast also includes Spencer House, Sonia Mena, Alicia Crowder, Gabriella Pession, Tom Ellis, Costa D’Angelo and Natalee Linez.
Last month, ahead of the season three premiere, The Hollywood Reporter asked Oppenheimer how many seasons she had envisioned for the show, and if she stuck with that vision when making season three.
“I can’t really give a specific answer to that question right now, but I would say the ending of the season is always how I had imagined the ending being,” she teased at the time. “In terms of what could happen beyond that, who knows? But I had always imagined those two timelines culminating together in the way that they do this season. But there are a lot of things that happen within the seasons that are huge surprises, obviously.”
When speaking with THR throughout the season, the cast raved about Oppenheimer’s “perfect” finale, expressing support for the show whether it should continue or end here. “I love the ending so much. It’s an amazing ending, if it was the end,” Van Patten told THR in a chat about the penultimate episode. “I also think they are amazing writers, and that Meaghan could think something up to continue the story. So I’d be very happy either way.”
Ahead of the series finale, which releases on Hulu at 9 p.m. PT on Monday, check out all of The Hollywood Reporter‘s Tell Me Lies season three coverage here.
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