Posted on by Melissa Rose Bushey: Author

Tell Me Lies Review

So I know it has been a while and the reason for that is because life is just busy. I am here now, and that’s all that matter haha just kidding. A

Anyway, I am here to do my review of Tell Me Lies.

Tell Me Lies is based on the novel by Carola Lovering. It has grown in popularity and was picked up by Hulu. I admit I never heard of the show. It wasn’t until a co-worker reached out to me and told me about it. One night after work, I decided why not put it on, since I was on the hunt for a show to watch.

As soon as I turned this show on, it put it’s nasty hooks in me. I was addicted. I could not stop watching.

SPOIL ALERT!!!

Tell Me Lies is about Lucy Albright. A young woman who never really had emotions it seemed in the beginning. Meaning no empathy. She was a freshman in college in NY and met two girls Bree and Pipa. They became fast friends. They were inseparable, until Stephen DeMarco entered the scene. A guy who seemed to have it all figured it out. He wasn’t the best looking, but he was oozing with confidence. He had an off/on again girlfriend Diana.

Lucy was attractive and that appealed to Stephen. They met at a party on campus. That was it and they too became inseparable. At first Stephen was sweet, he was there for Lucy when she was don and out about something. But he got his hooks in Lucy so tight. She had her first real orgasm with Stephen and fell in love with him. Stephen however, he just seemed like he was playing Lucy and going back and forth with Diana, at one point sleeping with both of them. It was disgusting and poor taste but I ached for more, because I love smut trash. Who doesn’t?

Stephen also had two best friends. Wrigley and Evan that were Sophomores. Wrigley was with Pipa and Evan was back and forth with Bree who he eventually married. There was an incident in welcome week where Wrigley’s brother who was a freshman, got drunk and drove and thought he ran an innocent girl off the road, when in actuality it was Stephen who was driving the car of the girl and she died. Stephen never came forward but told that juicy information to Lucy who held onto that, which eventually drove her mad.

Wrigley told Pipa also in confidence, but Wrigley’s brother Drew didn’t want anyone know about this. Stephen told Drew to never tell anyone. But that ate at him to where he eventually died from overdosing accidently it seems. Lucy was apart of why Drew was falling apart she wrote to the dean about what happened asking them to question to Drew, but nothing ever came of that.

After Drew passed, Lucy was going to admit to Wrigley about this anonymous letter she wrote but Stephen took the fall for that. Lucy loved him for that.

However, that was when things took a turn for the worse. Everything started falling apart with Lucy. She lied and said she was SA’d by her best friends brother when her friend Pipa actually was. Stephen found out she lied and made her come clean on tape but said he would never send it out to the students. Lucy felt like he hung this over her head and he completely drove her mad. She couldn’t sleep, she was hallucinating.

In the midst of all this Bree was having a full affair with a college professor who was married and the wife was Lucy and Bree’s teacher.

Lucy was drunk one night and Evan and her slept together, so technically Evan cheated on Bree which also at at Lucy. She felt terrible for sleeping with her best friends ex boyfriend.

At the end of the last season, it was brought to our attention that Bree found out on her own and no one know. Stephen called Bree and left a voicemail on Bree’s phone the day she was getting married to Evan. He wanted to destroy Evan because Evan told him about him and Lucy sleeping together and that devastated him. The whole show was a sex fest it seemed.

Everyone was sleeping with each other. Pipa ended up sleeping with Diana and actually ended up together in the end. Wrigley and Bree were sleeping each other all the way up the the wedding of her and Evan’s. Lucy wasn’t sleeping with anyone, she was expelled from Baird for lying about the SA, which Bree released because of the whole sleeping with Evan part.

Stephen DeMarco was a twisted man, who only cared about himself really. He had a terrible home life, with a mom he couldn’t stand and a sister who he tried to take care of, and a brother who seemed like he didn’t want nothing to do with.

In the end Stephen exposed everyone in front of each other at the wedding. It was crazy and it seemed like the writers of the show wanted to just throw everything together.

In my opinion, the first and second season were good. Had me hooked. Season 3 lost me. It seemed sloppy and they just threw everything in there, which was sad because I did enjoy it. Maybe reading the book would be better if you were interested. Out of 4 stars, I give it about 2.5.

M.

Posted on by Melissa Rose Bushey: Author

Six Feet Under review….

Okay man oh man how I wish I could have watched this series in real time. I started watching this a couple months ago when I stumbled upon it while scrolling on Netflix. I tried to binge it as much as I could but some days it was hard.

SPOIL ALERT!!!!!!!!

If you have never watched Six Feet Under, I suggest not reading this post. However, if you are curious about it then please feel free to continue to read on.

This show is about the Fisher family who own a funeral home and live within the home. You have the mom, who is really delicate and very senstive. She dresses like someone from the house in the prairie. Honestly she wasn’t my favorite character.

Next we have the dad, who literally dies within the first couple of episodes of season one. But don’t fret, he’s always around lurking. Coming to his children or his wife or even someone that was close to him. He seemed to live a miserable life and also had a secret life. He would venture to a secret room that was in the vicinity of a Mexican restaruant. We were told he wanted to go there veg out.

Son # 1 Nate Jr. He was set to live in Seattle but then ended up coming to back to Los Angeles when his father died. He really didn’t know what to do in life but ended up being a funeral director like his old man and his younger brother David. Nate lived almost a carefree life, I say almost because he was complicated. He wanted to do what he wanted but always had something in the back of his head that bugged him. He was eventually diagnosed with AVM, which has something to do with a brain aneurysm. He had to get an embolism so it could be temporarily taken care of. Nate eventually succumbed to his death in the final season of Six Feet Under, which honestly left me with tears streaming down my face. He was definately one of my favorite characters of the show.

Son # 2 David. David always seemed like he had something to prove. He was always trying to be perfect. He walked in his father’s footsteps becoming a funeral director. He had a battle from within realizing that he was gay. He eventually came out of the closet and ended up with a relationsip with a man from the start all the way until the very end of the series, whom we have come to love.

Daughter, Claire. I loved Claire, she was kind of a bad ass and she knew what she wanted. She wanted to be an artist. That was her goal in life. She was determined and ambitious. However, she had her demons. She couldn’t have a normal healthy relationship. She found herself ending up with men who were “needy”. In the end though she found her person and her success.

REVIEW!!

This show got me going from the start. With it’s humor and with its drama. The characters were thought of exquisitely. All the actors were amazing in this show and I couldn’t possily think about anyone else playing them. :

Nate Fisher Jr. played by Peter Krause

Claire Fisher played by Lauren Ambrose

David Fisher played by Michael C. Hall (Dexter)

Ruth Fisher (mom) playedby Frances Conroy

Nathanial Fisher Sr. played by Richard Jenkins

Like I said excellent choice in characters. So anyway the story had many ups and downs. A lot of having to do with the owning of a funeral home, but also a lot of relationship stuff.

I enjoyed this series so much and when the end came I cried hard and it stuck with me. I was involved with this people. It was like I was living with this people and experiencing everything they were going through. Nate and his relationships with Lisa and Brenda. Claire with her art obsession. David coming to terms being gay. Ruth trying to pursue relationships after being a widow.

I’m really going to miss the Fisher’s they were like family to me. But now I have to move on and find something else. If anyone has any recommendations please feel free to drop the name and the platform it’s on.

Thanks for reading as always!

M.