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‘We Were Liars’ Creators on Book-to-TV Changes, Delving Into Race and Class and How That ‘Haunted’ Final Scene Could Set Up a (Supernatural?!) Second Season
The ‘We Were Liars’ showrunners and author open up about changes from the novel to the show, the death twists and what that ending could mean for a possibly supernatural second season.
The story, while unfolding as a YA drama of summer love, has a deeper theme about privilege as the Sinclair family, specifically the liars’ grandfather, Harris (David Morse), and their mothers Carrie (Mamie Gummer), Penny (Caitlin Fitzgerald) and Bess (Candice King) are full of secrets. Plec: There is no business for the show to be made today, in this time, with this cast of beautiful, rich, wealthy, white people, if it’s not about the perils of entitlement and privilege and without exploring the issues of class. Plec: I think when Emily wrote the prequel, it unlocked in my brain the realization that this wasn’t just a single young woman’s journey, that this is a multi-generational fantasy on an island that has generations of drama and secrets.
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