‘We Were Liars’ Season 2 News & Updates: Everything We Know

Prime Video is headed back to Beechwood Island for a second season of its YA series adaptation We Were Liars.

Based on E. Lockhart’s novel of the same name, the first season splashed onto the streamer in the summer of 2025 with all episodes at once. It received a Season 2 renewal in September of that year.Since then, Lockhart has published another novel set in the same universe, We Fell Part.

For all the secrets of We Were Liars Season 2, read on.

When will Season 2 of We Were Liars come out?

No release date has yet been set for Season 2.

Is We Were Liars Season 2 in production?

Yes, as of early July, Season 2 is in production. Prime Video posted a photo of Joseph Zada and Emily Alyn Lind posing in a shot. Co-creator Carina Adly Mackenzie had been teasing camera tests and location scouting before then.

What will Season 2 of We Were Liars be about?

Season 2 will draw from Lockhart’s prequel novel, Family of Liars, which focuses on the three Sinclair sisters who are aunts and mothers to the titular liars in Lockhart’s original novel.

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Emily Alyn Lind’s Cadence Sinclair, who narrates the book We Were Liars and the first season of the show, will be back at the island off the East Coast as well. “As she digs deeper into family secrets, she learns about the Sinclair Sisters’ summer of 1999 — a summer rife with first love, rivalry, and even murder,” the logline reads. “In flashbacks, we see Carrie (Lapaine), Penny (Roorbach), and Bess (Wolfe) navigate their own teenage summer, as they come to terms with their past in the present day.”

Who else will be back in We Were Liars Season 2?
 
Joseph Zada — who will soon be seen as a younger version of Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping — will return to reprise his role of Johnny Sinclair, whose ghost haunts his mother, Carrie (Mammie Gummer) in a coda scene in the first season and provides a way into her past.

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Dempsey Bryk, who plays a character new for the show, Ebon, has been upped to a series regular for Season 2. Described as a rough-around-the-edges Boston guy who spends his summers among the blue-blooded elite, captaining a charter boat for senators and celebrities,” Ebon will be back on Martha’s Vineyard after losing his love interest Mirren (Esther McGregor) last summer.  

“He’s got a fresh chip on his shoulder and absolutely no interest in being pulled into rich people’s sordid secrets — but it’s hard to avoid in these murky waters,” his character description and logline read.

“They’ve told me a little bit about the arc of the character,” Bryk told Deadline at SXSW Film Festival 2026, where his directorial debut Crash Land, premiered. “They’ve told me a little bit about the arc of the character. I’m really excited. It’s something new, but it feels really authentic to how they wrote him in the first season.”

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We Were Liars author E. Lockhart confirmed Emily Alyn Lind’s return alongside that of Joseph Zada. The actresses who portray mom versions of Carrie, Penny and Bess — Mammie Gummer, Caitlin Fitzgerald and Candice Kign — will return as well.

Are there new cast members for Season 2 of We Were Liars?

Yes, Prime Video has unveiled who will play younger versions of David Morse’s Harris Sinclair, Wendy Crewson’s Tipper Sinclair and their three daughters Carrie, Penny and Bess.

Josh Dallas (Manifest) will play Young Harris, Peyton List (The Rookie) will play Young Tipper. Madison  Wolfe (True Detective) will play Young Bess, Elysia Roorbach will play Young Penny and Parker Lapaine will play Young Carrie.

Costa D’Angelo (Tell Me Lies) will portray Pfeff, who comes from Family of Liars. His full name is Lawrence Pfeffernan in the prequel novel, and thus his nickname is “Pfeff.”

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Madeleine Arthur, who just appeared in the finale of Prime Video’s Elle, will portray Young Yardley, the older version of whom will be played by Riley Voelkel. Jaelynn Thora Brooks, Layla Douglas, Callan Potter, Aidan Shaw, Shaun Sipos and Brendon Tremblay have also rounded out the cast.

Who else is behind We Were Liars Season 2?

We Were Liars Season 2 is written and executive produced by co-showrunners Julie Plec and Carina Adly MacKenzie. Also executive producing are Emily Cummins for My So-Called Company, Brett Matthews, Marguerite MacIntyre and the novel’s author, E. Lockhart. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Amazon MGM Studios are behind the project.