Tell Me Lies (Season 3)

Created by Meaghan Oppenheimer based on Carola Lovering's novel of the same name, Tell Me Lies returns to Hulu for its third season, streaming from January 13 through February 24, 2026. Grace Van Patten and Jackson White reprise their roles as Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco, the couple at the center of a toxic, obsessive relationship now spanning years, joined this season by newcomers Iris Apatow and Costa D'Angelo. The new season follows Lucy and Stephen as they try to start over during the spring semester, promising things will be different this time, only to find that past betrayals keep casting long shadows over them and their entire campus friend group.

Since its 2022 debut, the series has established itself as one of young-adult television's most explicit romantic dramas, portraying desire, emotional manipulation and physical attraction as tools of power within an unhealthy relationship without flinching. Critics have generally welcomed this third season for its more introspective tone, though some noted that Stephen loses some of the ambiguous charm of earlier seasons in favor of a more overtly villainous portrayal. What makes Tell Me Lies editorially significant within the erotic genre is its ability to make sex and seduction integral to its characters' psychology, rather than mere spectacle for its own sake.

An unabashed guilty pleasure, it speaks to youthful desire with a rare candor for campus television.