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The series adapts E. Lockhart's 2014 novel, a book celebrated for a final-act twist so surprising that fans guard it fiercely, and the show preserves the story's slippery, unreliable point of view.

It was developed by Julie Plec and Carina Adly Mackenzie of The Vampire Diaries, and the adult cast includes Vampire Diaries alum Candice King among the Sinclair family elders.

Standing in for the fictional New England setting of Beechwood Island, production filmed around Nova Scotia in Halifax and Lunenburg; Prime Video renewed the show for a second season based on Lockhart's prequel Family of Liars.

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We Were Liars is a Prime Video adaptation of E. Lockhart's 2014 young-adult bestseller, developed for television by Julie Plec and Carina Adly Mackenzie of The Vampire Diaries. Faithful to the novel's dreamy, unreliable narration, the eight-episode series unfolds as both a lush summer romance and a slow-tightening psychological mystery about a family with everything to hide.

Emily Alyn Lind stars as Cadence Sinclair, the eldest grandchild of a wealthy New England dynasty that decamps each summer to its own private island. Cadence, her cousins Johnny and Mirren, and the outsider Gat call themselves the Liars, and after a mysterious accident leaves Cadence with amnesia, she spends the following year desperate to remember what really happened during Summer 16. David Morse, Mamie Gummer, Caitlin FitzGerald and Candice King anchor the adult cast as the scheming Sinclair elders.

Premiering in June 2025, the series climbed to number one on Prime Video's charts and earned generally favorable reviews for its juicy family dynamics and its handling of the book's famous gut-punch of a twist. Prime Video renewed it for a second season, drawing on Lockhart's prequel novel Family of Liars. It streams on Prime Video.

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