{"id":89704,"date":"2025-08-23T09:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/89704\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:49:11","slug":"we-were-liars-gets-promising-season-2-renewal-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/89704\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We Were Liars’ Gets Promising Season 2 Renewal Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs Prime Video<\/a> is riding the big viewership wave of The Summer I Turned Pretty\u2019s third and final season<\/a>, the streamer has renewal decisions to make on three other YA series that premiered in May and June, We Were Liars<\/a>, Motorheads and Overcompensating. <\/p>\n

\n\tOvercompensating and We Were Liars already had been looking promising for a pickup. A comment about We Were Liars by Laura Lancaster, Head of US SVOD TV Development and Series \u2013 Co-Productions at Amazon MGM Studios, bodes well for the thriller drama, further boosting the chances of Julie Plec\u2019s and Carina Adly MacKenzie\u2019s adaptation of E. Lockhart\u2019s bestselling book. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile speaking about executive Kara Smith who, along with Tom Lieber, have been given new, expanded roles, Lancaster wrote in an internal memo<\/a>, \u201cHer extraordinary leadership and innovative vision helped craft The Better Sister and We Were Liars into must-watch series that have captured the cultural conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile The Better Sister, starring Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks, was billed as a limited series, We Were Liars was designed to be an ongoing series with potential for multiple seasons. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe praise for We Were Liars Season 1\u2019s cultural impact by Lancaster follows encouraging recent comments by Amazon MGM Studios head of TV Vernan Sanders. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s one of the shows where the writers are hard at work, working on what a Season 2 would be,\u201d he told Deadline last month<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve been really excited by the results we\u2019ve seen there, and it\u2019s one of the shows that I hope will have some positive news to report soon. They\u2019re hard at work in presenting us with material on a Season 2, and there\u2019s been quite a clamor from fans of that show to keep the story going. So we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time of the Season 1 finale in June, Plec, MacKenzie and Lockhart, who all executive produce the series, spoke about Season 2<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not allowed to talk about Season 2 plans, but if you watch We Were Liars all the way til the end and you watch the little coda, you can see that that coda tips to the start of Family of Liars,\u201d Lockhart said, referring to her prequel book. <\/p>\n

\n\tWe Were Liars follows Cadence Sinclair Eastman and her tight-knit inner circle, nicknamed the Liars, during their summer escapades on her grandfather\u2019s New England private island. Alyn Lind, Esther McGregor, Joseph Zada and Shubham Maheshwari led the cast of Season 1 as the eponymous Liars. The series is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Prime Video is riding the big viewership wave of The Summer I Turned Pretty\u2019s third and final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,15230,427,66751],"class_list":{"0":"post-89704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-prime-video","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-we-were-liars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}