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NextImg:7 Shows like 'Tell Me Lies' if you want more sexy, soapy scandal

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Are you already hooked on Tell Me Lies: Season 2 and hungry for something similar as you wait for each new episode to drop from week to week? Luckily, we’ve got you covered with recommendations for some shows that evoke different aspects of the Hulu Original psychological drama series.

Based on Carola Lovering’s 2018 novel Tell Me Lies, the series takes place in 2007 and revolves around the steamy and stormy relationship between Baird College freshman Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and junior Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White) over the course of eight years.

Nearly two years after the Season 1 finale, Season 2 premiered on September 4, 2024, picking up with Lucy and Stephen as they begin their next year of school with some bad blood following a tense breakup at the start of summer. But back at school and in each other’s orbit, they form a new version of their unhealthy dynamic, while their friend group is affected by the fallout in various unexpected ways.

So what else can you watch to see such juicy and binge-worthy toxicity, intrigue, and more? Read on to learn the 7 shows like Tell Me Lies that you should stream now.

  1. HBO

    Beyond the similarity in titles, Big Litte Lies and Tell Me Lies share major moments of harmful infidelities, impactful secrets, and wicked deeds. The HBO Original dark comedy-drama series reveals that behind their seemingly perfect facade, several wealthy Monterey, California families are hiding information and actions that have the power to completely unravel the lives of those around them. Past traumas and current abuses add up to culminate in a sudden death that implicates five women in the community (Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, and Zoë Kravitz).

  2. Olivia and Fitz kissing on Scandal
    Photo: ABC

    If you like the messy relationships in Tell Me Lies then you’re sure to love the delicious, complicated mess that is Olivia Pope (Kerry Washinton) and Fitz Grant III (Tony Goldwyn) in Scandal. The political thriller series aired on ABC from 2012 to 2018, following Olivia Pope as she leaves her position as the U.S. President’s media consultant to open up and run her own crisis management firm. The past, however, proves difficult to leave behind as Olivia and her team work to clean up other peoples’ messes all while continuing to deal with their own.

  3. Yellowjackets
    Photo: Paul Sarkis/SHOWTIME

    Looking for something that’s reminiscent of the more psychological parts of Tell Me Lies? Then check out Yellowjackets, a critically-acclaimed Showtime Original thriller drama series that sees what happens when people are pushed beyond the limits of their humanity and morality in order to sirvive and advance. In 1996, a talented high school girls’ soccer team is en route to a national tournament when their plane crashes in Canada, stranding them deep in the wilderness. The survivors go to extreme means to stay alive, affecting them in ways that continue to persist even 25 years after their rescue, leaving them complex and traumatized adults who can’t seem to fully leave the past behind.

  4. Sex/Life
    Photo: AMANDA MATLOVICH/NETFLIX

    If you love the steaminess of Tell Me Lies then you’ll definitely be into the raunchy exploits of this Netflix Original erotic drama series. Sex/Life centers on suburan wife and mother Billie Connelly (Sarah Shahi) who, despite leding a seemingly-ideal life with a beautiful family and nice home in an affluent New England suburb, finds herself going through a mid-life crisis that leads her on a path back to her ex-boyfriend, Brad Simon (Adam Demos). But in embracing her wild-child past, Billie just might destroy her happy family with a salacious and risky affair.

  5. Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar Jones in Normal People
    Photo: Hulu

    Much like Tell Me Lies, Normal Peoople is based on a book and follows a complicated couple over many years, including some formative university ones. This Hulu Original romantic psychological drama begins with affluent and ostracized Marianne Sheridan (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and well-liked athlete Connell Waldron (Paul Mescal) as high school students in County Sligo, Ireland. Despite their differences, they strike up a secret relationsip that evolves into something new as they grow both together and seperately through college and young adulthood.

  6. You
    Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%
    Penn Badgley stars as Joe Goldberg, a bookstore manager who stalks and then dates Beck (Elizabeth Lail). The Lifetime series explores the line between love and obsession with the thrilling tale of Joe and Beck.
    [Stream YOU on Netflix December 26] Photo: Everett Collection

    Both Tell Me Lies and Netflix’s YOU are shows based on books and involving unhealthy obessions that twist romantic connection into something a little darker and toxic. This psychological thriller revolves around Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley ), a charming and manipulative serial killer with an ever-shifting identity, ready to become whoever he needs to in order to get what, or who, he wants. Over the course of several season, Joe inserts himself into the lives of those who captivate him, wreaking destruction and chaos in his wake.

  7. CRUEL SUMMER – “Off With a Bang” – Victim or villain? Jeanette continues to add fuel to the fire as her reckless behavior causes her friends and family to question her even more. This episode of âĜCruel Summerâĝ airs Tuesday, April 27 at 10:00 p.m. on Freeform. (Freeform/Bill Matlock) SARAH DREW, CHIARA AURELIA
    Photo: Freeform/Bill Matlock

    If the crime-drama and messy interpersonal moments of Tell Me Lies had you hooked, then Cruel Summer just might be the nest must-see title for you. This mystery thriller anthology series follows different compelling stories over the course of its two season run. The first story is set in Texas from 1993 to 1995 as a socially awkward teen girl (Chiara Aurelia) suddenly blossoms and rises in the social ranks after a popular classmate’s (Olivia Holt) disappearance. The following season takes place between 1999 and 2000 and follows three teens who become involved in a tangled love triangle that leaves one dead and the other two suspects.