How does Tell Me Lies end? What happens to Lucy and Stephen? Plus will ending of TV show be like the book?

Toxic drama Tell Me Lies has been back on our screens with season three for a few weeks, and now the final episode is coming very soon.

It’s been an scandalous series so far; with viewers finally finding out how Bree reacts after Stephen sent her that voice recording moments before she walked down the aisle to Evan, only for it to then be revealed that Bree actually has feelings for Evan’s best friend Wrigley . . .

Plus, Stephen and Lucy got back together and broke up again in the most dramatic fashion, leading to him blackmailing her and her beginning another unhealthy relationship with a man called Alex. . . Wrigley too has feelings for Bree, but is feeling bad on his girlfriend Pippa - who also happens to be Bree’s best friend, and is also actually cheating on him with Diana . . . who is Stephen’s ex.

And that’s just a summary of the huge tangled web all the characters have weaved over the past seven episodes. It’s no wonder in a pre-show interview Grace Van Patten, who plays show lead Lucy Albright said: "I'm scared for the audience. Everything's coming to a head, and everything's getting more and more intertwined.”

But, now the end of the season - which is said to be the last - is near. So, when will Tell Me Lies season three episode eight air, what will happen in it, and will the ending be the same as the Carola Lovering book that the series is based on? Keep reading to find out all you need to know.

When it the Tell Me Lies season three finale?

The final episode of Tell Me Lies season three, which is episode eight, will air on Disney+ next Tuesday (February 10).

How will Tell Me Lies TV end and will be the TV series ending be like the book ending?

We know that the ending of the TV show will be different in some ways to the ending of the book because there are six major changes that the TV production crew have made to the storyline overall.

There are two of those changes in particular which will change the way the series ending looks; the first being that Macy - who was killed in a crash in a car driven by Stephen - is Lucy’s childhood best friend in the book but only her college roommate who she barely gets to know in the TV show. Either way, Lucy still needs to find out that Stephen was responsible, but her reaction is probably going to be quite different in the TV considering in that version she didn’t know Macy that well.

There’s also no Lydia in the book, but in the show she’s Lucy’s former childhood best friend turned enemy - and she somehow ended up engaged to Stephen. Presumably, the finale will finally give us an answer as to how that happened.

In Lovering’s novel, Stephen moves to New York City after he graduates from Baird, and he and Lucy continue their on-and-off toxic relationship for several years. We can assume the same will happen in the show as Lucy and Stephen are even seen hooking up at Bree and Evan’s wedding, several years after they first met at college.

Also at Bree’s wedding, she confronts him about Macy, and he pretends to not know what she’s talking about. That’s when Lucy realises that she’s finally done with Stephen and has no feelings for him at all. It is likely this is also what will end up ultimately happening in the TV show - and it’s certainly something fans will be hoping for.

At the end of the book, Lucy and her mum also finally repair their relationship, and Lucy decides that she wants to leave New York and pursue a career in journalism. The reason for Lucy and her mum not getting along is another one of the major changes made from the book in the TV show, but they are still at odds so there’s every chance they will also be shown reconciling in the show.

What the book doesn’t offer, however, is any resolution to any of the issues for Lucy and Stephen’s friends, mainly Bree, Pippa, Wrigley, Evan and Diana, because these characters aren’t really focused on in the book in the same way they are in the TV adaptation. So, there isn’t really any way to second guess what fate may become all of them - but it will be very interesting to watch and find out.