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Critic Reviews
Jan 9, 2026
Season 3 Review:
Whether the series is turning its lens inward or zooming out, it remains committed to wading into gray areas and creating a space free of judgment or moralizing. There are no easy answers here, but like a good student, Tell Me Lies is willing to put in the work to search for them.
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Jan 13, 2026
Season 3 Review:
To be honest, there’s a lot I genuinely dislike about this show. .... And yet, the show is also undeniably addictive; the characters and their behaviors might be unlikeable, but with new lies and mysteries unfolding in every episode, there’s just enough there to get you to binge the whole thing.
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Sep 6, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Tell Me Lies is too nuanced for soapboxing and too empathetic for handwringing. At the same time, it’s also clear-eyed about the ugly attitudes giving cover to these relationships, the personal decisions or shortcomings that allow them to flower, and the damage they leave behind. It’s a guilty pleasure in the truest sense — one whose juicy delights are tempered with enough sharp reality to make it stick, just a little, in the throat.
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IndieWireSep 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Tell Me Lies” is at its strongest when it hones in on the thrill and danger of new passions in a new environment. It moves at the pace of a bygone supersized network season, not rushed to hop between major milestones in a campus year and instead living inside the gradual build of new relationships that could be great or terrible (or both).
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ColliderSep 3, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Tell Me Lies Season 2 certainly won’t be to everyone’s taste, but those who enjoyed Season 1 are sure to find the second installment equally juicy. And while it may be tempting to write it off as a somewhat trashy guilty pleasure, I stand by the fact that reducing it to such isn’t entirely fair.
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Sep 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
I wouldn’t have faulted Tell Me Lies for engaging in a pure smut approach for the series, if that was its only endgame. But Tell Me Lies attempts to go deeper, making stabs at developing out their characters’ familial backstories for sympathetic audience approval, complicating its blunt eroticism.
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The PlaylistSep 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Thankfully, Van Patten is a charming presence throughout, and her chemistry with White is palpable. While there is no Team Stephen in this scenario, there is enough about the first half of “Tell Me Lies” to ensure this tale of betrayal is one I want to graduate from.
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ColliderSep 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Over five episodes, half of the entire run of Tell Me Lies, it felt like we were only barely getting to the beginning of the main story. ... The result is a narrow show that finds plenty of individual messy moments to get caught up in, but lacks the depth needed to keep you engaged beyond that.
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