We Were Liars First Look Promises a Summer of Secrets
A tale of the young, beautiful, and wealthy? Yes, please. Prime Video has debuted the first trailer for its upcoming new series, We Were Liars, based on the novel by E. Lockhart, which premieres this summer.
If The Summer I Turned Pretty is Prime Video’s darling series, then We Were Liars will be their wild child going through a rough patch. If there’s one thing the streamer loves, it’s a young adult book adaptation.
E. Lockhart wrote We Were Liars, which was published by Delacorte Press in 2014. In the era of YA dystopian and rebel novels like The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner, We Were Liars was a more subtle tale of family drama and psychological horror.
The book, and therefore the series, centers around Emily Alyn Lind (Gossip Girl) as Cadence Sinclair, daughter of the very wealthy Sinclair family, who spends summer after summer on Beechwood Island, Martha’s Vineyard.
It’s a perfect life accompanied by perfect friends: her two cousins, Joseph Zada (The Hunger Games: The Sunrise on the Reaping) as Johnny, Esther McGregor (Babygirl) as Mirren Sinclair, and Subham Maheshwari as family friend Gat Patil. Their families nickname the four “The Liars.”
But all that changes one summer, when Cadence suffers from an accident that causes significant memory loss. When she returns to Beechwood years later, a shell of her former self, everything is different. None of the other Liars will talk to her about the accident, and no one will tell her why.
Joining the liars in the cast are Cadence’s mother and her sisters: Caitlin Fitzgerald (Succession) as Penny Sinclair, Mamie Gummer (Ricki and the Flash) as Carrie Sinclair, and Candice King (The Vampire Diaries) as Bess Sinclair. Rahul Kohil (iZombie) is Ed, Gat’s father.
David Morse (The Green Mile) is Harris Sinclair, and Wendy Crewson (On the Basis of S*x) is Tipper Sinclair, Cadence’s grandparents, the matriarch and patriarch of the Sinclair family.
Amazon MGM Studios, Universal Television, Julie Plec, Carina Adly Mackenzie, Pascal Verschooris, and Lockhart will produce the eight-episode series. Plec, Mackenzie, and Lockhart are the series’ showrunners.
Unlike The Summer I Turned Pretty, We Were Liars promises a much darker tale of family rifts and the dangers of wealthy and reckless youth. As the Los Angeles Times states, “it’s a classic story of decaying aristocracy and the way that privilege can often hamstring more than help.”
We Were Liars premieres June 18 on Prime Video. Check out the trailer below.
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