How Meaghan Oppenheimer Made ‘Tell Me Lies’ the Most Dangerous, Sexy Primetime Soap in Ages
variety.comMatt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Meaghan Oppenheimer is a Hollywood showrunner with a husband, an infant, three stepkids and a dynastic family polo ranch on the outskirts of Tulsa, Okla.
Despite these dignified badges of adulthood, she can still tell you the last time she cried at a bar over a boy. “It was here, 10 years ago,” Oppenheimer says, taking in the musk of Barney’s Beanery in West Hollywood.
The beloved local chain of dive bars has been usurped in recent years by Gen Z, looking for cheap well drinks and a staff that won’t call the cops if seven people are vaping under a table. “But I haven’t cried in bars since I got married.” Thankfully, her memory is long.
It’s what powers her sensational Hulu series “Tell Me Lies,” a sexually charged drama about college kids who play the devastating, consequential mind games of “Dangerous Liaisons” atop sheets by Bed Bath & Beyond.
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