Amazon Prime Video has officially renewed We Were Liars for a second season, after the plot twist at the end of the first batch of episodes devastated viewers.
Based on E Lockhart’s bestseller, the hotly anticipated summer thriller was a summer vibes machine – until it ended with a big reveal many viewers never saw coming.
But fear not, because it’s now been confirmed more of the show is coming, promising fallout from rich young thing Cadence Sinclair, played by Emily Alyn Lind, finally uncovering the show’s central mystery.
The first season focused on her path to uncovering her lost memories of the previous summer, after she half-drowned and was left with no recollection of what had happened.
‘Something terrible happened last summer,’ Cady told us via voiceover, which is peppered throughout the show. ‘I have no memory of what or who hurt me.’
With the season finale of the eight-parter we finally learned what happened – but fear not, because show bosses have promised there are still plenty of surprises left for a second season.
‘MacKenzie and Plec have big, big plans for season two, including everything readers of my books are dying to see onscreen – and a lot of surprises as well,’ said the book author E Lockhart at the show’s renewal news.
Meanwhile, the show co-creators Julie Plec and Carina Adly Mackenzie – who were behind The Vampire Diaries and The Originals – said they ‘can’t wait to keep digging up’ the many secrets still buried on Beechwood Island.
Metro’s thoughts on We Were Liars
Senior TV Reporter Rebecca Cook shares her take…
When Cady isn’t making ominous reference to her impending amnesia via voiceover, We Were Liars is largely a summer vibes machine with a big-budget soundtrack.
The breathy voiceover can sound like Carrie Bradshaw’s column word salad when you really tune into what she’s quite repetitively saying.
But whenever you start to feel bogged down in the so-so teen melodrama, some big reveal will come from another corner of the show to pull you back in. This is the show’s strength: it moves at a clip and there is always something barmy happening to one of the Sinclairs.
Unlike the best eat-the-rich mysteries, this is painfully lacking in the laughs department and probably takes itself a bit too seriously.
But you won’t regret sticking around for the final reveal to plug the gap in Cady’s memory: it’s so bonkers it’s beyond the guessing game.
So, how did the first season end and what did viewers make of it?
We Were Liars season one spoilers ahead.
With the show’s finally episode, we finally learned the truth of what happened that fateful night: that all of Cady’s cousins, including her maybe-love interest Gat (Shubham Maheshwari), died in the fire they set and she had been hallucinating them the following summer.
The finale reveal left many fans ‘devastated’ to learn that Gat, Mirren (Esther McGregor) and Johnny (Joseph Zada) had all been dead for getting on to a year.
No cast announcements have been made for the second season yet, so it’s unclear whether any of the now-dead characters will make a flashback-form return.
Taking to X after watching the finale, @alchemyoflines wrote: ‘I just finished We Were Liars and I don’t think I will be recovering from that plot twist anytime soon.’
Meanwhile, @lalizey2442 described it as ‘the most tragic plot twist I’ve ever seen in a show,’ while @aesahisamajhlo said it will ‘haunt me for the rest of my life’.
@qgirl_21 wrote: ‘Started this thinking it’s one of those typical teen romance shows. I can’t remember when last the plot twist of a series messed me up like that. This was devastating.’
We Were Liars is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
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