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'Please let me convince you why this show needs to ruin your sleep schedule and life.'

If you value a peaceful night's sleep and low blood pressure, you should probably stop reading now.

Actually, don't. Because if you are anything like me, you don't want peaceful television viewing. You want chaos. You want mess. You want to scream at your television screen while frantically texting your group chat, "DID HE REALLY JUST DO THAT?"

If that sounds like your ideal Tuesday night, I have excellent news, because the most toxic, addictive and infuriating TV show, Tell Me Lies, is back tonight.

Based on the bestselling novel by Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies is a psychological deep-dive into a relationship that can only be described as a car crash you cannot look away from.

Watch the season three trailer for Tell Me Lies here. Post continues after video.


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For the uninitiated, the series follows the tumultuous, intoxicating and deeply destructive relationship between Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White) over the course of eight years.

If you just watched Heated Rivalry, and Ilya and Shane made you believe in love again, consider Stephen DeMarco the man who will completely ruin it for you.

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He is a walking red flag. He is the guy who will wreck your self-esteem and somehow convince you it was your idea all along. He is the guy your friends warned you about, but you texted back anyway. He is calculated, cruel and impossible to predict.

And Lucy's not much better; she's messy, vindictive and equally obsessed, which makes their toxic codependency impossible to look away from.

Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White) in Tell Me Lies Season 3.Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White). Image: Disney+.

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Then there's the friend group — Wrigley (Spencer House), the damaged golden retriever; Pippa (Sonia Mena) and Bree (Catherine Missal), who are struggling to keep their own heads above water while dealing with their own very complicated romantic entanglements, and Evan (Branden Cook), the supposed "nice guy" who is proving he can lie just as well as the rest of them.

When we met them in Season 1, they were all fresh-faced university students. Now, heading into Season 3, the stakes are way higher. The show flips back and forth between the uni years, where they're caught up in a car accident cover-up, and a 2015 timeline that feels like a ticking time bomb.

It keeps you constantly guessing what went down in the years between to make everything fall apart.

Bree (Catherine Missal), Pippa (Sonia Mena) and Lucy (Grace Van Patten) in Tell Me Lies.Bree (Catherine Missal), Pippa (Sonia Mena) and Lucy (Grace Van Patten). Image: Disney+.

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Where other dramas can feel too high-brow, Tell Me Lies is the perfect binge. It is brilliantly plotted with several very intense storylines going on at once, but it's also soapy in the best way possible.

It captures that specific anxiety of early adulthood, where every decision feels monumental, and it will ruin your sleep schedule (but it's completely worth it).

Please watch it, then come find me to chat.

Tell Me Lies Season 3 premieres on January 13 on Disney+. Episodes one and two will drop at the same time, before moving to a weekly release schedule, with the finale airing on February 24th.

Feature image: Disney+.

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