We Were Liars Is Tipped To Be the Summer’s Biggest Teen Show — Why Parents Should Watch It Too
Nothing has glued us to our TV screens in the past decade quite like a twisty mystery about rich people with dark secrets. From the dawn of Big Little Lies in 2017 all the way through the most recent season of The White Lotus, the allure of social elites who do bad things always keeps us coming back for more.
Now, Prime Video is giving this glossy television subgenre a YA twist with We Were Liars. But fear not, parents, the new show that is expected to have your teenager hooked has plenty in it for you, too, so you won’t have to give up TV time—as long as your kid is willing to share.
We Were Liars, which premieres on June 18, adapts E. Lockhart’s 2014 book of the same name and follows the mysterious unraveling of the seemingly-perfect Sinclairs, a wealthy American dynasty family who are becoming smothered by their own secrets. Those familiar with the book will know all about the “big twist” that is sure to leave viewers slack-jawed by the end of the series’ eight episodes.
Set on the Sinclairs’ private island off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, the show’s protagonist is Cadence Sinclair Eastman (Emily Alyn Lind), the eldest grandchild of the wealthy Harris Sinclair. Picture if Celeste Wright and Shiv Roy had a baby.
Cadence spends her summers having cold plunges and sneaking wine behind her parents’ back with her two cousins, Johnny (Joseph Zada) and Mirren (Esther McGregor), and their long-term friend Gat (Shubham Maheshwari)—who call themselves the Liars.
However, after their sixteenth summer on Beachwood Island ended in an accident that left Cadence injured and almost-drowned, stripped down to her underwear and with no memory of how she got there, Cadence returns the next summer, determined to figure out what happened to her.
The only problem is, the Liars seem to be living up to their name and keeping something from her. And in a family as affluent as this, there are plenty of secrets to keep.
In a Succession-like trope, every adult in the Sinclair is morally defunct in some way. Cady’s mother, Penny (Caitlin FitzGerald), is stone-cold and superficial, and is constantly at odds with her her two sisters, Bess (Candice King) and Carrie (Mamie Gummer) as they compete to ensure their father, Harris Sinclair (David Morse), gives them a good cut of his inheritance.
Cadence, in her efforts to solve the mystery of Summer 16—the Liars number their summers by their ages at the time—ends up learning the dark side of the opulent lifestyle she once adored.
The show has all the aesthetic allure of Netflix’s Nantucket-set The Perfect Couple, with its beachy mansions and perfectly blonde protagonists, and has the addictive qualities of a bingeable whodunnit. Thus, it smoothly enters the canon currently dominated by adaptations of books by Liane Moriarty, Elin Hilderbrand, or anything selected by Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club.
If any of those works have piqued your interest, We Were Liars will too.
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