‘The most insane, jaw-dropping, craziest, amazing end’: explosive Tell Me Lies season 3 finale splits fan opinion — but the final 10 minutes is ‘peak television’

WARNING: spoilers for the Tell Me Lies season 3 finale ahead.

I feel like I've simultaneously run a marathon, been winded on a rollercoaster and dunked in a cold ice plunge pool after watching the explosive Tell Me Lies season 3 finale.

With full-on drama and absolutely no resolution or happy ending for anyone, episode 8 is both exactly what we hoped and feared for. It's easy to see why the fanbase is instantly split — a quick social media search dubs the finale as 'underwhelming', or as one fan puts it, "the most insane, jaw-dropping, craziest, and slightly amazing finale I’ve ever seen."

The creative team and cast has thrown everything and the kitchen sink at making the final-ever episode of the hit Hulu and Disney+ show (sorry to bring you back down to earth with that reminder) as memorable as it can be... and regardless of opinion, you can't deny that it's delivered all the outstanding answers.

But it's the final 10 minutes that can easily be crowned peak television. As we finally return to the 2015 timeline to wrap things up, Stephen (Jackson White) makes a speech at Bree (Catherine Missal) and Evans' (Branden Cook) wedding that nobody will forget.

As much as we hate him, Stephen brings the Tell Me Lies season 3 finale to an impeccable close

In short, the wedding exposed every secret that every character has been hiding to a very public crowd in an incredibly short space of time. Thanks to Bree's slip of the tongue, Stephen realizes that she leaked the tape of Lucy (Grace Van Patten) back in 2009, making him the fall guy.

With nothing else to lose, Stephen gets up at the wedding reception to make a speech, and all the dirty laundry comes out. He tells the guests that Lucy slept with Evan, he slept with Lucy that morning, and Bree and Wrigley (Spencer House) have been sleeping together for months. Safe to say that everyone descends into chaos after that.

If that wasn't enough, Stephen asks Lucy to leave with him, which she accepts — only to be left at a gas station by him purely for his own amusement. It's a whirlwind of an ending, with Lucy finally free from his control, but also still a victim of his decisions.

Wrigley and Bree equally don't feel the consequences of their actions, despite Wrigley arguably being the least problematic of the bunch. While he slept with Pippa (Sonia Menia) after he started seeing Bree just because Pippa was "sad," nothing really took off for them. Some might view this as a missed opportunity, but I think it's nice to finally have a dodged bullet.

Pippa and Diana (Alicia Crowder) seemingly run off into the sunset, and it feels as though everyone else simply has to live with their own bad decisions. If anything, that's the most realistic and fulfilling ending Tell Me Lies season 3 could have possibly had.

As creator Meghan Oppenheimer states above, this is the most natural conclusion for the show we could have asked for. Nobody should have been reprimanded — the biggest punishment is living with who you truly are.

Am I mad there's not going to be Tell Me Lies season 4? Far from it. If I ever saw Stephen again, my eyeballs couldn't take it... they all need therapy, not more airtime.

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