If you, like us, can't get Tell Me Lies out of your head, then may we present you with a very minor but undeniably noticeable editing faux pas that may well have you thinking of the hit series in a totally new light.
For the uninitiated, Tell Me Lies tells the story of the toxic relationship between two college students, Lucy (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen (Jackson White). The pair first meet during the first weeks of Lucy's freshman year at the fictional Baird College, with the couple whose relationship eventually becomes a years-long on-again, off-again romance, with each of them cheating on other partners at various points along the way. The series comes with a ready-made fanbase too, having been based on Carola Lovering's bestselling novel of the same name.
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It turns out, however, that there's one huge editing error during one episode of the second season that may well ruin (sort of) Tell Me Lies for you. It's one of those slip-ups that's a real once you see it, you won't be able to un-see it.
The editing error, which TikTok sleuths unearthed, features in episode six when Bree (Catherine Missal) is indulging in some selfie-taking in the mirror using her flip phone.
Users on TikTok then noted how you can see her looking at the selfie she took on her flip phone, which should essentially show us what we just saw right? Well, that’s where the editing error comes in as instead of the picture showing her using the flip phone, we instead see a modern iPhone.
It’s pretty obvious that the phone in question is an iPhone, which suggests that they made her take the picture using either her phone or a prop phone so they could get a better quality snap but forgot to photoshop the flip phone in. Once you see it...
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Naomi May is a seasoned culture journalist and editor with over ten years’ worth of experience in shaping stories and building digital communities. After graduating with a First Class Honours from City University's prestigious Journalism course, Naomi joined the Evening Standard, where she worked across both the newspaper and website. She is now the Digital Editor at ELLE Magazine and has written features for the likes of The Guardian, Vogue, Vice and Refinery29, among many others. Naomi is also the host of the ELLE Collective book club.
