‘We Were Liars’ Season 2 Adds Peyton List, Madison Wolfe & More!!

Prime Video‘s hit YA thriller series We Were Liars is coming back for a second season, and it looks like the new season will be exploring the mysterious past of the Sinclair family. The series has just announced the casting of a number of new actors for the upcoming second season, which has not yet set a release date.

Season 2 will flash back to the early days of the Sinclair family, with many of the new additions playing younger versions of the show’s characters. Patriarch Harris Sinclair, played in the present by David Morse, will be portrayed in his youth by Josh Dallas (Once Upon a Time), while his wife Tipper, played by Wendy Crewson in the present, will be played by Peyton List (Mad Men). (This Peyton List is not to be confused with the other actress of that name, who starred on Cobra Kai and School Spirits.) Eldest Sinclair sister Carrie, played by Mamie Gummer in the present, will be played by Parker Lapaine (House of the Dragon); middle sister Penny, normally played by Caitlin FitzGerald, will have her younger incarnation played by Elysia Roorbach (The Pitt); and youngest sister Bess, played in the present by Candice King, will be portrayed by Madison Wolfe (The Hunting Wives). Also joining the cast is Costa D’Angelo (Thrash) as Pfeff, a mysterious college kid who upends the lives of the Sinclair sisters.

What Is ‘We Were Liars’ About?

We Were Liars follows the travails of the wealthy Sinclair family, who own their own private island, Beechwood. Cady Eastman (Emily Alyn Lind) is the eldest grandchild; she is close friends with her cousins, Mirren (Esther McGregor) and Johnny (Joseph Zada), and their friend Gat (Shubham Maheshwari), who collectively call themselves the Liars. The rest of the family is riven by disputes and squabbles, driven by the desire to inherit the family mansion, Clairmont, from dementia-stricken patriarch Harris. The series follows two timelines; one, as Cady and her friends arrive at Beechwood for the summer, and another two years later, as Cady suffers from amnesia, unable to remember what accident befell her. The truth may be too terrible for her to remember…

We Were Liars is an adaptation of the 2014 novel of the same name by E. Lockhart. It is written, executive produced, and showrun by Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries) and Carina Adly MacKenzie (Roswell, New Mexico). Also executive producing are Emily Cummins (The Endgame) for My So-Called Company, Brett Matthews (Legacies), Marguerite MacIntyre (Vampire Academy) and author Lockhart.