At exactly 9:00 a.m. EST on November 20, 2025, Hulu detonated the first official teaser for Tell Me Lies Season 3, and within minutes the timeline was a war zone of all-caps screaming, broken wine glasses, and group chats descending into pure anarchy. Thirty-eight seconds. That’s all it took to confirm that senior year at Baird College is going to be the most unhinged, sexually charged, psychologically brutal stretch of television since… well, since Season 2 left us staring at that blood-red memorial cake for Macy and wondering how anything could possibly get worse.
Spoiler: it gets so much worse.
The teaser opens exactly where any self-respecting toxic person would want it to: Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco in bed, sheets barely clinging to decency, the morning-after light slicing through the blinds like a crime scene. Lucy’s eyes are wide open, staring at the ceiling as if she’s counting the lies he told her while she was asleep. Stephen’s voice, low and venomous, cuts through the silence:
“You still think you know everything that happened that year?”
Hard cut to black. Then the sound of frosting hitting drywall.
Yes, THAT cake, the one from the Season 2 finale that honored Macy’s death and somehow became the most cursed dessert in television history, is shown in excruciating slow-motion being hurled against a wall. Crimson frosting splatters like a gunshot wound while Bree’s voiceover delivers the line that has already been turned into a thousand TikTok sounds:
“Some secrets don’t die. They just wait.”
Cue cardiac arrest in three, two…
What follows is a machine-gun montage of images so loaded that fans have already paused, zoomed, and conspiracy-theoried themselves into oblivion:
Lucy walking across campus in an oversized Baird senior hoodie, dark circles so deep she looks like she’s been crying since 2008.
Stephen, clean-shaven and terrifyingly calm, sliding what looks suspiciously like a wedding ring onto someone’s finger. The camera deliberately refuses to show whose hand it is. Twitter has already split into #TeamLucy and #TeamDiana factions ready for civil war.
Diana in a cramped dorm bathroom, knees on the tile, clutching a positive pregnancy test while mascara rivers run down her face.
Wrigley unconscious in a hospital bed, intubated, while Pippa stands outside the glass with an expression that says she’s two seconds from burning the entire campus down.
Evan, red-faced and screaming at Lucy in the middle of Greek Row: “You think you’re the victim here? Ask your boyfriend what he did to my sister!”
A flash of Lucy discovering an old flip-phone (yes, the timeline is still 2007-2015) lighting up with a single text that simply reads: “She’s alive.”
And the money shot: Stephen, alone in what looks like the old Delta house kitchen, slowly licking red frosting off his thumb, staring dead into the lens with the most demonic little smirk imaginable. The final frame freezes on his face as the title card slams in: TELL ME LIES SEASON 3 – JANUARY 13 – ONLY ON HULU.
The internet lost its collective mind in real time.
Within twenty minutes, #TellMeLiesS3 was the number-one trending topic worldwide. The teaser racked up 8 million views in the first hour alone, shattering the previous record held by Euphoria’s Season 2 trailer. Reddit’s r/TellMeLiesHulu crashed twice from traffic. A Change.org petition titled “Move the premiere to tomorrow or we riot” has already collected 47,000 signatures.
Fans are dissecting every frame like the Zapruder film:
The wedding ring scene has birthed two dominant theories: Stephen is either marrying Lucy in some twisted attempt to lock her down forever, or (more deliciously deranged) he’s marrying Diana after knocking her up, turning the ultimate mean girl into the ultimate trophy wife.
The “She’s alive” text has people convinced Macy faked her death or that there’s a secret twin (because apparently this show is now willing to go full soap opera).
Wrigley’s hospital bed has reignited the “Did Stephen drug him again?” debate, with slow-motion zooms revealing what looks like bruising around his neck.
And the frosting lick? Jackson White reportedly improvised that moment on set, and director Erin Feeley kept it in because “it felt too evil to cut.”
Grace Van Patten and Jackson White, who have spent the hiatus insisting they’re “just friends” in real life, were photographed grabbing coffee in New York literally hours after the trailer dropped, both wearing sunglasses indoors and refusing to answer a single question. The paparazzi shots are now the most liked Instagram post on DeuxMoi ever.
Showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer posted a single black heart emoji on her story, then went offline. Hulu’s official caption was pure gasoline: “Senior year. Same liars. Brand-new graves.”
Early word from test screenings (leaked, obviously) claims the first three episodes contain:
A full-frontal fight between Lucy and Diana that ends with someone’s hair extensions on the floor.
Stephen manipulating his way into a professorship (yes, really).
A Halloween party episode titled “The Night Macy Died” that is being called “the most triggering 47 minutes of television ever made.”
Critics who’ve seen the first four episodes are already calling it “Succession with roofies and better sex scenes.” One anonymous reviewer wrote: “If you thought Season 2 broke you, Season 3 will perform an autopsy on the pieces.”
So buckle up, lock your doors, and maybe delete your ex’s number, because on January 13, 2026, Stephen DeMarco is coming back to finish what he started.
And this time, nobody gets out clean.
