Suspicion quickly falls on the four students who were with him when he died - each of whom harbors a secret with the potential to derail their future, and each of whom had reason to fear they were about to be exposed in Simon’s next missive.

And before detention is over, he’s dead of an allergic reaction, in what appears to the cops to be a homicide.Ĭast: Annalisa Cochrane, Chibuikem Uche, Marianly Tejada, Cooper van Grootel, Barrett Carnahan, Mark McKenna, Melissa Collazo, Jessica McLeodĮxecutive producers: Darío Madrona, Erica Saleh, John Sacchi, Matt Groesch Before Simon can deliver, however, he winds up in detention. But acknowledging the clichés it’s trafficking in isn’t the same thing as transcending them, and the result of all this mixing and matching is a teen murder mystery series that’s consistently watchable but never quite great.īased on the book by Karen McManus, the drama begins on the first day of school with a tantalizing post on About THAT - a blog spilling all the school’s dirtiest secrets, run by misanthropic outcast Simon (Mark McKenna) - promising imminent reveals on four unnamed students. Peacock’s One of Us Is Lying is a little bit Breakfast Club, a little bit Gossip Girl, a little bit Pretty Little Liars, and a whole lot aware that it’s building on the tropes and stereotypes that came long before it - characters regularly name-check other shows, movies and genres, including horror and true crime.

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