We Were Liars

Great storyline, just a very frustrating execution. Just watch episodes 1, 7 and 8. The rest is filler and adds absolutely nothing to the plot. Pretentious use of time, ridiculous script at points, but a nice overall storyline if it had been 3 episodes, or a movie. Acting across the board is decent, especially with some of the ridiculous lines the actors were forced to regurgitate, and cinematography is pleasant.

Bit twee and cheesy at times, would have benefited at being clear as to what audience they are looking to engage - seems like they tried to pander to all whilst satisfying none.

Overall, not worth the total time investment, follow other critics advice and skip the middle episodes, unless you have nothing better to do and looking to kill time.

The four major roles - Cady, Gat, Mirrin and Johnny are cast with actors that are too old to play 16-year-old teenagers. Shubham Maheshwari, who plays Gat, is 29. The actresses who play Cady and Mirrin are 23 and the actor who plays Johnny is 20. The carriage and maturity between a 16-year- old and a 23-year-old is very different. It shows.

The mothers are only 10 years older than their actor children. Again, it shows.

The other thing that is unrealistic is how money grubbing the three sister's characters are. If they hate each other so much, they wouldn't spend the summer's together. And not every person with money just wants money. The patriarch is also a horrible person, also all about money. I think the author or screenwriters are writing about a world they don't know or understand. Very shallow writing.

The scenery is pretty, the premise bizarre. Issues that could have been explored were ignored. Other issues - like grief, privilege and race were dealt with badly.

This show is not convincing on so many levels, so I say - it is a miss.

I want to say that I think the majority of people who are disappointed in this didn't read the book or don't know that its based off of a book. For those complaining about the writing, it was a young adult novel that was a pretty average book to begin with. I read it as a teacher because my middle school girls were obsessed with it for a period of time. It's creative and not perfect. I think this is a solid adaptation of a pretty good book. I just hate to see some people giving the show so much hate. For those of you who read and came here first to check out reviews, see if you can get a hold of the book and read it before watching the show!

I was only able to watch 4 episodes of this rubbish before I finally had to give up hope of anything of any consequence happening to this vapid cast - apart from one of them falling over and another dying in her sleep. Whenever anything vaguely exciting happened, like the dogs running amock at a funeral, someone dying their hair black or some pies getting burnt, the camera cut away. The constant flask backs and forward do nothing to engage the viewer or help them understand why this nonsense ever made it to the screen, and the dry hopeless acting screams 'I may be doomed to see this out but you can switch off now whilst you still have a chance and enjoy the rest of your life'

I just have no words. I assume this movie is targeting the audience of 10 years old. The writing is really bad. It's like everyone involved was almost catatonic ...Very lazy writing, a cast that looks half-asleep, and dialogue that sounds like it was scribbled during lunch. It was worse than a filler time involving teenage soap-opera types of topics but act like they're not even teenagers. As if some kid in primary school wrote an essay and was made into this series.

I wasted time, I'll never get back hoping that it would at least end ok but it ends pathetically if you are a teenager. These kind of stories are what one would read to an 8 year old. I can't even believe that some actors in the series even signed up to play the characters and how bad the acting became because of the writing and cheesy predictable dialogues.

This whole season could just be 1hr movie. First time ever that I'm writing a review here because I just had to, since I've never seen anything this bad when it came to deciding to watch something.