Tell Me Lies show creator Meaghan Oppenheimer announces important season four details as season three ends

Fans of the Hulu series, which is based on a book of the same name by Carola Lovering and showing on Disney+ in the UK, were hoping that the hugely popular show would return for a fourth season.

The show documents the twisted and toxic on/off relationship between Lucy (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen (Jackson White), and the consequences of the multiple lies they tell each other. Their manipulation of each other also results in them lying to their friends, Bree (Cat Missal), Pippa (Sonia Mena), Diana (Alicia Crowder), Wrigley (Spencer House) and Evan (Branden Cook) - who are also all dealing with their own chaotic and dysfunctional relationships.

You won’t find any season three ending spoilers here, but if you do want them then check out our article on how does Tell Me Lies end and will ending of TV show be like the book. But, Meaghan has given some very definite details of season four.

On Monday night, she posted the news to Instagram that no fan wanted to hear - they won’t be another season.

Explaining her reason why, she wrote: “After three amazing seasons of Tell Me Lies, tonight’s episode will be the series finale. 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. My main goal has always been to protect the quality of the show and give you the best experience I can give you.”

She continued: “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.”

The news may not come as a huge shock to some fans as it has long been rumoured that season three would be the last - but it has not been confirmed until now and it may well have been hoped that Meaghan may change her mind and continue the story, given the show’s huge success.

Speaking on that to Deadline, she said: “Obviously we love making the show, and I love our audience, but I had had so many conversations with our writers, and when you actually look at what could happen next, Lucy’s not in school anymore. Most of the cast are graduating college in the future. They’re all living in different places. They’re not in the same industry. There’s not a lot connecting them.

“So I felt like it would have to be completely re-imagined. The framing device is over. So yeah, while it’s difficult, I think the worst case scenario would be turning in something I didn’t believe in. And also just knowing how much the cast loved this ending, and they were the people who’d been embodying these characters for so long. That gave me a lot of peace about it.”

Van Patten also spoke to told Deadline and said that the show ending after three years was “bittersweet”. I think it’s so beautiful and rare that we got to do this for three seasons. We got really lucky that everybody loved the show and we were able to keep going, and it was so great. We were able to have a beginning, middle and end,” she added.