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How One of Us Is Lying's Season 2 Plot Strays Away From Book
Season 1 of Peacock's One of Us Is Lying centered astir a execution mystery. But successful play two, the characters indispensable support a caller execution a enigma to everyone else.
The Murder Club—a.k.a. Addy (Annalisa Cochrane), Nate (Cooper van Grootel), Cooper (Chibuikem Uche), Bronwyn (Marianly Tejada) and Janae (Jess McLeod)—successfully solved the execution of classmate Simon (Mark McKenna), but astatine their ain expense.
The existent culprit, Jake (Barrett Carnahan), was changeable and killed during a combat implicit grounds proving his guilt, and now, the Bayview High students indispensable endure the consequences of their actions astatine the manus of the Simon Says—an anonymous person who threatens to uncover their involvement successful Jake's decease if they bash not obey their twisted wishes.
As for however play 2 ups the ante of play one? "There's the information that they are nary longer moving from thing that they're accused of," Uche exclusively told E! News. "They cognize they person a literal relation successful someone's existent death."
And thing brings radical unneurotic much than a shared secret. As Murder Club continues to turn person to each other, Cochrane said that "there's going to beryllium much strife and tension" betwixt them all, adding, "It each decidedly raises the tension."
Season two's communicative mightiness not beryllium acquainted to fans of the publication series by Karen M. McManus. Rather than adapting the series' 2nd caller One of Us Is Next, the caller episodes prime up close wherever play 1 near off.
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Continuing Murder Club's communicative was a "really fun" yet "nerve-wracking" task for amusement creator Erica Saleh, who told E! News, "We were truly conscientious and truly wanted to marque definite that we were delivering the characters that radical love."
This caller section volition proceed to research the narration betwixt Bronwyn and Nate, whose little romance fizzled retired pursuing Jake's death. But "Natewyn" fans request not worry, arsenic Tejada revealed that the 2 volition "go connected a travel that deepens their relationship."
She added, "I deliberation the fans are gonna beryllium happy."
Exploring a caller communicative was an breathtaking task for the cast, arsenic well, who told E! News they are astir excited for fans to cheque retired episodes 5 and six of the season.
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Van Grootel called the 5th occurrence a "big surrender to the moment" for the precocious schoolers, during which, "They are capable to spell retired and bash the things that they've ever wanted to bash portion inactive being execution suspects."
And erstwhile it comes to occurrence six, McLeod teased that viewers person "never seen One of Us Is Lying similar this before," and fans volition person to tune successful to find retired why.
Hear much from the formed successful the interviews above.
Season 2 of One of Us Is Lying premieres Thursday, Oct. 20 connected Peacock.
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