What happened to Missy in the TV series and book Tell Me Lies?

This post contains Spoilers About “Tell Me Lies”.

A lot of bad things happen Hulu original series “Tell Me Lies” – Directed by Megan Oppenheimer and based on Carola Lovering’s hit novel – One of the Worst Things to Happen to Missy Campbell (Lily McInerney). A young woman ends up trapped in the orbit of Steven DeMarco (Jackson White) (which is quite unsettling because Steven is… awesome Women) who is related to the series’ heroine, Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten). In both the book and the series, Missy meets a terrible and tragic fate, and in both novels, it ends up creating dire consequences for everyone.

“Tell Me Lies,” which focuses mostly on the tortured relationship between Stephen and Lucy in the book but devotes a lot of time to the supporting characters in the Hulu show, is a very dark film, and the story of what happens to Missy is no exception. The bottom line here is that Missy died in both the book and the TV series, but her character changed quite a bit In the adaptation processchanging her backstory to simplify the narrative a bit. Here’s everything you need to know about Missy Peterson in both versions of “Tell Me Lies,” and the impact her sudden and shocking death will have on the story both on the page and on screen.

In both versions of “Tell Me Lies”, Missy dies in a tragic car accident…and the accident involves Steven. So how is it different? Let’s start with Carola Lovering’s narration, in which Lucy arrives at Byrd College to begin her freshman year, haunted by the fact that her childhood friend, Missy Petersen (her name is different in the series), died in a car accident (all of which happened a lot). Even more complicated is the fact that Lucy has always pined for Missy’s older brother Gabe, who in turn was sleeping with Lucy’s married mother (C.J.). After meeting and becoming involved with Steven, Lucy eventually discovers something very terrifying: Steven also He knew Missy and was secretly dating her. (Lucy ends up recalling, at one point in the book, that Missy revealed she was quietly seeing someone who had a girlfriend but assured her the relationship was over.)

Lucy confronts Steven about this and he lies to her, which she immediately registers. “I know he’s lying in the way you know it’s going to blow, the electrical charge in the air that precedes lightning,” Lovering’s book said. “I know what he did to Missy – it is an instinct in me that has overshadowed what Missy should also know; this knowledge is passed on to me silently of her own. There are no specific details that I can comprehend in my mind; there is no evidence or evidence, only an inexplicable certainty but “Indisputable.”

While Missy’s last name is Campbell and she is Bird’s new roommate of Lucy in the series, the end result is the same. Steven is still in the car with Missy when they crash — an accident that kills Missy instantly — and in Season 1 of “Tell Me Lies,” we actually see that happen. In a distressing scene, Steven, who was driving the car (while drunk), moved Missy into the driver’s seat and fled the scene, making it appear as if Missy crashed alone.

In Tell Me Lies, Lucy discovers that Steven was involved in Missy’s death…but because there’s no one in Byrd custom Missy, the perception only affects her. In the show, since Missy was a student at Byrd when she died, the repercussions are more widespread.

Lucy still finds out first when she finds a doodle in Missy’s belongings that she also saw on a piece of paper that belonged to Steven, but he manages to convince her that even though he was in the car, the accident was actually fellow student Drew. Error (Benjamin Wadsworth). (Steven simply told Lucy that Drew, who was driving drunk that night, ran them off the road and wouldn’t admit it was him.) also Drunk and severely distracted.) Angry, Lucy writes a public letter accusing Drew of killing Missy, devastating Drew…which only gets worse when Drew also He died of a drug overdose at the end of season two.

Aside from Drew, someone else is deeply affected by Missy’s death: Steven’s no-nonsense friend Diana (Alicia Crowder). In the book, we don’t know much on Diana is something we don’t hear from Stephen, who is, to say the least, an unreliable narrator. In the show, we watch as Diana discovers nude photos of Macy on Steven’s computer – as well as photos of the two of them – and quietly deletes them, protecting Steven from facing any consequences related to Macy. However, she takes action and tells Steven that she failed her LSAT and is now separated from her rich and powerful father, which she knows will result in Steven leaving her, and tells Crowder Universality Messi’s images directly inform this plan. “She knows after seeing the pictures of Macy that she has to stay away from him. He’s dangerous,” Crowder said. Another understatement.

“Tell Me Lies” is streaming on Hulu now.

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