When the third season of Hulu’s Tell Me Lies premiered on January 14, it was clear just how popular the psychological drama had become. A report confirmed that the Grace Van Patten and Jackson White-led series had earned 5 million views across Disney+ and Hulu globally in its first seven days. This marked a 150% increase compared to the Season 1 premiere, a stat bolstered by confirmation that social conversation was up 220% and total engagement on Tell Me Lies handles was up 580%.
With the release of the first few episodes of Season 3 of Tell Me Lies, it felt like this gripping series was unstoppable. However, that all came to a screeching halt when it was confirmed that the adaptation of the 2018 novel of the same name by Carola Lovering would officiallyend with Season 3. In a statement confirming the end, creator Meaghan Oppenheimer admitted that positive fan response to Season 3 had urged her to “explore whether there was another organic way to continue the story,” however, they ultimately felt the series “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 added.
So what is next for Oppenheimer? Revealed in a new report, the screenwriter, producer, and former actress is set to lead the charge for Hulu’s latest unmissable drama: Bastards. Hulu and 20th Television are reportedly “fast-tracking the project,” with Oppenheimer supposedly delivering the script for the series to an “enthusiastic response” following the end of Tell Me Lies. A logline for the series reads:
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“After a world-famous artist is engulfed in a public scandal, her three adult children – each from a different father and each unraveling in their own way – are forced to move back into their childhood home to take care of the teenage sister they barely know. As old dynamics resurface and secrets come to light, the siblings must confront their inheritance of love, cruelty, and chaos.”
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
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⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
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Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
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🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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‘Tell Me Lies’ Went Out with a Bang
After two impressive seasons, and although viewers didn’t know it, Tell Me Lies was ready to go out with a bang earlier this year. The final eight episodes were packed with twists and turns and did not disappoint both audiences and critics. For Collider, Isabella Soares agreed, awarding the series a huge 8/10 in her review. “For those wondering if Tell Me Lies has still maintained its gripping narrative while also raising the bar on messiness, the answer is yes,” she wrote.
Stay tuned to Collider for the latest updates on the latest shows.
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Release Date
2022 – 2026-00-00
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Network
Hulu
Showrunner
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Meaghan Oppenheimer
Writers
Meaghan Oppenheimer, Carola Lovering, Allison P. Davis, Bill Kennedy
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