The show's finale premiered on Tuesday, Feb. 17, on Hulu at 12 a.m. ET
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NEED TO KNOW
- Tell Me Lies creator and showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer confirmed that the show will end with season 3
- The finale dropped Tuesday, Feb. 17, on Hulu at 12 a.m. ET
- The series follows the toxic cycle of a relationship between college students Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco set in the mid 2000s at the fictional Baird College
Tell Me Lies showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer has confirmed that the end of season three on Tuesday, Feb. 17 will mark the show's conclusion.
"After three amazing seasons of Tell Me Lies, tonight’s episode will be the series finale," Oppenheimer, 39, began an Instagram post on Monday, Feb. 16, featuring a photo of herself alongside the cast.
"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," Oppenheimer's post continued.
The creator and executive producer for the hit Hulu show added that her goal "has always been to protect the quality of the show and give you the best experience I can give you," while noting that she is "grateful" that "we are able to tell a complete story with an intentional ending – a privilege very few shows get."
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Oppenheimer concluded the post, "Thank you for loving our show. We are excited to bring you more stories in the near future."
Based on Carola Lovering's 2018 best-selling novel of the same name, the gripping Hulu series stars real-life couple Grace Van Patten and Jackson White as Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco, who meet in college when she is a freshman and he is a junior. The two then begin a tumultuous and toxic relationship that unfolds in a vicious cycle over the course of several years, culminating in a wedding that brings a complicated circle of friends and exes back together.
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Lucy and Stephen's dramatic cat-and-mouse game becomes so intense that even White, 29, has previously described his character to PEOPLE as a "f—ing super villain."
The show, set in the mid-2000s at the fictional Baird College, also explores the complicated dynamics of privilege and romantic relationships in an emotionally enmeshed college friend group. Spencer House, Sonia Mena, Catherine Missal, Alicia Crowder, Branden Cook, Costa D'Angelo, Oppenheimer's husband Tom Ellis, and more also appear in the show.
The show's third and final season finale premiered Tuesday, Feb. 17, on Hulu at 12 a.m. ET.
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