‘Tell Me Lies’ Creator Announces There Won’t Be A Season 4 Ahead Of Season 3 Finale: “It Is Bittersweet”

Tell Me Lies fans were hit with a harsh truth ahead of the hit drama’s highly-anticipated Season 3 finale: There won’t be a Season 4.

Before Tell Me Lies Season 3, Episode 8 premiered on Hulu Tuesday, February 17, creator/showrunner/writer Meaghan Oppenheimer announced on social media that the Season 3 finale would also serve as the series finale.

“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,” Oppenheimer wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of the cast.

“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,” the showrunner continued. “My main goal has always been to protect the quality of the show and give you the best experience I can give you. And 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.”

Since the toxic, addicting drama premiered back in 2022, fans watched tumultuous relationships between Lucy (Grace Van Patten), Stephen (Jackson White), and friends unfold in two timelines. While the Season 3 finale gives viewers a sense closure in terms of Lucy’s sophomore year and the friend group’s 2015 wedding reunion, with so much unknown about the gap years, fans were hopeful the show would continue and answer some more burning questions.

When Decider asked the creator if she had a set arc in mind after Season 1, she said, “I think it really just depends. I think most shows nowadays do well with three seasons. I think that’s a very clean, good number to me — especially when it’s something that’s a smaller story, not a big procedural thing. I would rather have something end when it’s good than just drag it out too long.” Ahead of Season 3, Oppenheimer also told Decider that the finale showed “the ending [she] had mind from the beginning.”

During Decider’s Season 3 finale interview with Oppenheimer, the creator cleared up several unknowns about the 2009 to 2015 gap years and shared additional insight into why she went out on Season 3. The full post-mortem interview (with finale spoilers) will publish on Tuesday, Feb. 17. So stay tuned for more answers and in-depth Tell Me Lies finale coverage on Decider.

Tell Me Lies Season 3 is now streaming on Hulu.