A first-year crush that never quite lets go anchors this campus drama, built around two timelines eight years apart.
What is Tell Me Lies about?
Lucy arrives at college certain of who she is, and Stephen, an upperclassman with an easy smile and an answer for everything, unravels that certainty fast. The series splits its attention between that freshman year and a point eight years later, when the fallout from their relationship is still rippling through the wider friend group. Along the way it tracks how one entangled couple can quietly rewrite the loyalties, secrets, and self-image of everyone around them, without either timeline giving up its full hand at once.
About the cast
Grace Van Patten and Jackson White carry the two central roles, with Catherine Missal and Alicia Crowder rounding out the friend group whose lives bend around this relationship. Tom Ellis, Sonia Mena, Branden Cook, and Spencer House fill out the wider campus circle, giving the show more than one vantage point on the same stretch of years.
Context & significance
Created by Meaghan Oppenheimer, the series is a 2022 American drama that leans into the dual-timeline structure rather than a straight chronological retelling, which is part of why individual episodes reward close attention. It sits comfortably in the college-drama lane while keeping its focus tighter and more character-driven than a typical ensemble show. The genre tag is drama rather than romance, and that shows in how much time the show spends on the friend group's own choices, not just the central couple, which gives the wider cast room to matter beyond a supporting role.
Watching Tell Me Lies on Ktime
The series streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so it plays comfortably for Farsi-first households as well as English-first ones. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the show's page itself is open to browse without one. For viewers weighing whether to start it in English or in Persian, both options sit on the same page, so the choice can be made episode by episode rather than locked in from the first watch.