We Were Liars

I read the young-adult novel by E. Lockhart years ago and I was captured by its storytelling, characters and plot twists.

Watching the characters Cadence, Gat, Johnny and Mirren come to life and follow their summer in the series was really moving.

They did a great job portraying each character. The visuals were so overwhelming at times that I had to remind myself its just a series.

The last two episodes made me tear up and my heart race even though I knew what actually happened, but seeing it on screen was more brutal than reading it and imagining the scenes in my head.

I can really recommend watching the series and also to read the book!

Prior to watching this I'd never heard of the book or had heard any advertising for the show so I didn't know what to expect.

Throughout the show viewers are left wondering was there foul play with Candace accident, was it a family member out for revenge, was it truly an accident? Although the show is quite slow, I enjoyed it most of the time. The acting was decent, the script was good, and love the messy family drama. Overall the show would be maybe a 5/10 until the ending.

The ending was something I would've never guessed, and I'm here for it. Not only do we get closure on Candace's accident, we're left with an introduction into a storyline that if it gets approved will answer many of the other questions brought up throughout the show.

Overall if you're looking for a good show to watch in your downtime that you don't have to pay super close attention too, this is the one!

I'm usually really picky with TV shows. I can tell within a few minutes if something isn't for me. But this show grabbed me almost immediately. Maybe it was the visuals, or the divergent storyline, but something about it just clicked. The dynamic between the three Sinclair sisters was the highlight for me, their squabbles, their raw honesty, and the beautiful chaos of their lives. It felt authentic. Familiar, even reminiscent of Succession, but still fresh in its own way.

I expected the flashbacks to throw me off, and at first, I thought I was more drawn to their pasts, the lives they lived before the accident we knew little about. But as the episodes unfolded, I found myself just as invested in what had happened as I was in what was coming next. It surprised me how much I cared. It made perfect sense.

When I started watching this show, I had literally no expectations since the little I had heard about the book wasn't that good. But it was an excellent surprise! The mystery of what happened to the protagonist, her pain and confusion trying to remember the year before and her sweet romance was incredibly hooking. It took me basically one sitting to watch it all. Emily Alyn Lynd does an excellent job as a trauma survivor and is able to made me sympathize with her pain despite of my reality being as far as possible from a white rich girl. I liked most of the other actors, too, and my only reason to not giving 10 stars is the unnecessary length of the show giving the fact that there were not so much plot beside of what happened to the protagonist. But, in sum, I was completely hooked from the start and entirely devastated at the ending of it.

I grew up as one of the "poorer" cousins to old money from the east, so I am very familiar with the mindset, settings, attitudes, and behaviors of the wealthy. So far this does, in fact, portray them accurately. Yes they pretend to be perfect, but are far from it in reality. Maybe they're not portrayed favorably, as some critics would hope for, but accurately. I'm not here for that though, what I am here for is the mystery of regaining memories, rediscovering family, and character growth/development. Even though some people seem to be too idealistic in their views of the world, that's how some people are. I didn't get the sense that this show is being preachy at all. One character's views are not propped up as the only correct view. People believe different things, share different insights, get upset over petty issues, and it all comes together in a kaleidoscope of personalities. And "news flash" most people are disgusting, fallible, and stupid, whether they are in a trailer park, or in a mansion. It's just that some mask it better than others, and some try to control things so much to overcompensate for it, that the control bleeds over into invading the lives of others. I think if anything, so far, the show tells us that lies have consequences, no matter who you are. That is universal.