We Were Liars Season 2: Author Reveals Major Updates Fans Have Been Waiting For
E. Lockhart drops fresh intel on Prime Video’s We Were Liars Season 2: familiar faces return, Family of Liars threads weave into a darker Beechwood Island arc, and casting and production are already rolling.
Prime Video is diving back into Beechwood Island, and E. Lockhart just dropped a bunch of Season 2 nuggets that actually tell us something. Short version: the new season pulls in her prequel, Family of Liars, digs into that ghost situation the show teased, and brings back key players from Season 1. No date yet, but there is a book date worth flagging.
What Season 2 is actually doing
Lockhart says the show is not just a straight retelling of Family of Liars. Instead, it blends the prequel material with the storylines already in motion, which makes sense given where Season 1 left the Sinclairs. Julie Plec and Carina Adly MacKenzie are back running the show, and Lockhart sounds genuinely into their approach.
"They have lots of ideas up their sleeves, so that people who know Family of Liars will get to see everything that they want to see, but they will also get to be surprised," Lockhart told Deadline.
She also teased an emotional, mystery-leaning arc that stays true to the messy heart of this world while still letting the show, well, be a show.
The ghost thread is not going away
Remember Aunt Carrie and the whole my-son-Johnny-is-a-ghost reveal that Season 1 dangled and then moved on from? That was not a one-off. Lockhart says Season 2 goes deeper there. The structure will bounce between past and present, connecting the Sinclairs across generations and keeping everything orbiting Beechwood Island’s secrets. If you read Family of Liars, you can probably see how those timelines click together.
Who is back
- Emily Alyn Lind as Cadence Sinclair Eastman
- Joseph Zada as Johnny Sinclair Dennis
- Mamie Gummer as Aunt Carrie
- Caitlin Fitzgerald as Penny
- Candice King as Bess
Lockhart’s read on the showrunners’ plan
She told Variety she trusts Plec and MacKenzie to keep the series bingeable without sanding off what makes it complicated: the tangled family dynamics, the big feelings, the characters who make questionable choices for reasons that still sting. In other words, expect the same tonal hit as Season 1, just widened to include the prequel era.
When to expect it
Prime Video has not announced a Season 2 premiere date yet. Separate but related if you follow Lockhart’s books: her We Fell Apart releases on November 4.