Two years ago, “Tell Me Lies” emerged as one of Hulu‘s most streamed original series, in no small part to its steamy storyline. Based on Carola Lovering‘s 2018 novel of the same name, the show chronicles an addictive and tumultuous eight-year relationship between two undergrads at a fictional upstate New York college, and the damage it causes both them and their social circles.  

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Season 2 picks up where Season 1 left off, with Grace Van Patten‘s Lucy Albright and Jackson White‘s Stephen DeMarco not on speaking terms after their dramatic breakup the previous academic year.

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It has been nearly 25 years since Felicity Porter (Keri Russell) ventured to New York City to begin college and pursue the guy of her dreams. Since J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves’ TV debut, there have been plenty of other university set shows, yet “Felicity” is still the benchmark. Now comes Hulu’s adaptation of Carola Lovering’s best-selling book, “Tell Me Lies,” which takes a very different approach to the concept of a college romance.

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Based on the novel of the same name by Carola Lovering, the new Hulu drama “Tell Me Lies” follows the toxic relationship between Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten, “Nine Perfect Strangers”) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White), over the course of eight years, starting when they first meet during college. Meaghan Oppenheimer (“Queen America”) serves as showrunner for the racy series, with Emma Roberts executive producing with her partner Sarah Preiss under their Belletrist Productions banner. 

The show’s star, Grace Van Patten, first got the taste for acting in an episode of “The Sopranos” directed by her father Tim Van Patten.

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What are the laws of attraction? For some, it can be no more than toxic traits. The Hulu series “Tell Me Lies” delves into a college student finding enticements in the darkest corners of sexual magnetism. 

An adaptation of Carola Lovering’s book of the same name, the project marks a major step for Emma Roberts. She assumes executive producer duties as part of a deal with the streamer.

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Michael Bay’s latest, the L.A. action extravaganza “Ambulance,” calls to mind one of the many, many oft-quoted lines from “The Big Lebowski.” John Goodman’s Walter Sobochak, in his rebuttal of the “believe in nothing” stance of the nihilists, proclaims, “Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.” Now, to be clear, I am not comparing the work of Mr.

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Everything you need to know about Eve Fletcher (Kathryn Hahn) is crystallized in her first scene with her son, Brendan (Jackson White). It’s the night before he heads off to college, leaving this single mom alone for the first time. They’re packing up his room – well, to be more precise, she’s packing up his room, and he’s looking at his phone. She tries to get him to help, or to at least participate, and also to make some emotional investment in this very important evening for her; he demurs and condescends, and then he snaps.

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