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Prime Video shares 'We Were Liars' first look images and release date
One island, four friends, and countless lies — nothing is as it appears in Prime Video's adaptation, We Were Liars. The show is based on E. Lockhart's acclaimed novel, which was released on May 13, 2014.
"We Were Liars" follows Cadence Sinclair Eastman and her tight-knit inner circle, nicknamed the Liars, during their summer escapades on her grandfather's New England private island. The Sinclairs are American royalty—known for their good looks, old money, and enviable bond—but after a mysterious accident changes Cadence's life forever, everyone, including her beloved Liars, seems to have something to hide.
The new mystery thriller stars Emily Alyn Lind as Cadence Sinclair Eastman, Shubham Maheshwari as Gat Patil, Esther McGregor as Mirren Sinclair Sheffield, Joseph Zada as Johnny Sinclair Dennis as "the Liars." Additional cast includes Caitlin FitzGerald as Penny Sinclair, Mamie Gummer as Carrie Sinclair, Candice King as Bess Sinclair, Rahul Kohli as Ed Patil, and David Morse as Harris Sinclair.
Perfect summer. Perfect family. Perfect lies. We Were Liars premieres June 18. pic.twitter.com/IaAGLuzFSu
— Prime Video (@PrimeVideo) April 22, 2025
The series is written and executive produced by co-showrunners Julie Plec and Carina Adly MacKenzie, with Emily Cummins for My So-Called Company and Lockhart also executive producing.
"They were so thoughtful," the author told Entertainment Weekly regarding the showrunners. "I just felt that I was handing it over to a pair of people who were going to be the creative leads on the team as opposed to just selling it to a production company. And they were readers of the book. They were paying attention to the story as it was told in the book."
Plec explained she puts adaptations into three categories: "One is what I call the Twilight/Harry Potter category, which is like: 'F--- with the book at your own peril.' Two is what I'll call the Vampire Academy category, which is: 'These books are great. You should adopt as much of that storytelling as you can.' And then there's The Vampire Diaries, which is like: 'Thanks for your characters. We're going to do our own thing.' And I put this one squarely between Vampire Academy and Twilight, where you want to honor the book because it is so beautifully written and it's an experience in and of itself to read it, but you need to flesh it out because it's a first-person narrative narrated by a girl with amnesia."
we were happy. we were liars. june 18. pic.twitter.com/wStvqJY9ND
— Prime Video (@PrimeVideo) April 22, 2025
Lockhart was in support of the changes because "a TV show and a novel are so radically different," adding, "The TV show has to expand and reinvent. We Were Liars is about the inside of one teenage girl's head, so I absolutely understood that they were going to explode it out and show other people's perspectives. A TV show is never centered on solely the experience of a single character."
"We really want readers of the book to watch this and still feel like they're getting something new," MacKenzie commented. "So we did want to make some adjustments, but we wanted to make sure none of those adjustments flew in the face of what the core of this book is. So I think that readers of the book, even readers who are diehard fans and do remember every word of the book, are going to find some exciting new things in here."
Plec also promises that it "packs a huge, huge emotional punch in the last chapter." All eight episodes of We Were Liars premiere on June 18.
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