Lorena Lobo
Netflix’s One Of Us Is Lying is the newest YA mystery drama that involves all the stereotypes and clichés that we all have seen before. Originally from Peacock, the series is a mix of Breakfast Club, Gossip Girl, and Pretty Little Liars, but with an extra touch of a murder mystery.
Based on Karen M. McManus’ best-selling novel of the same name, the series follows the mysterious death of Simon (Mark McKenna) who suffers an anaphylactic shock while in detention with four other classmates. Nate (Cooper van Grootel), the drug dealer; Addy (Annalisa Cochrane), the cheerleader; Bronwyn (Marianly Tejada), the straight-A student; and Cooper (Chibuikem Uche), the baseball player, the other ones in detention that become immediately murdered suspects.
After episode one presents the murder and the suspects, the series turns into a light version of a true-crime tv show. Through the next seven episodes, the show delves into discovering the responsible for Simon’s death and the reasons why each one of the characters in detention wants him dead.
“That’s the kind of person you can get away with killing: someone everybody else wants dead.”
Meanwhile, the romances, ever-shifting friendships, and conflicts between the various characters lean into a teen drama that brings all the high school social stereotypes we have been presented before. Along with that, the predictable happens. The four suspects find themselves forced to be together by Simon’s death and they come to understand one another even better, creating a connection that they didn’t have with their friends and family.
In the end, One Of Us Is Lying is a tv series that you might binge over a weekend without really meaning to. It is a show that is fun to watch for the first time but will slowly disappear from your mind, and you will not going to lose time rewatching it.
“Unless one of us is lying. Which is always a possibility.”
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