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Meet The Sinclairs, again. Prime Video has assembled nan main formed of We Were Liars Season 2, which flashes backmost to 2 and a half decades earlier nan events successful nan first season. Josh Dallas (Manifest), Costa D’Angelo (Tell Me Lies), Peyton List (School Spirits), Madison Wolfe (True Detective), Parker Lapaine (House of nan Dragon) and Elysia Roorbach (The Pitt) person been tapped arsenic bid regulars successful nan caller installment, which draws inspiration shape Family of Liars, E. Lockhart’s prequel caller to We Were Liars, connected which Season 1 was based.
Dallas and List play younger versions of patriarch Harris and matriarch Tipper, while Lapaine, Roorbach and Wolfe, represent younger versions of their daughters Carrie, Penny and Bess, respectively. In Season 1, nan roles were played by David Morse (Harris Sinclair), Wendy Crewson (Tipper), Mammie Gummer (Carrie), Caitlin Fitzgerald (Penny) and Candice King (Bess).
D’Angelo plays Pfeff, a caller characteristic to nan bid who is from nan Family of Liars book.
Returning from Season 1 are Emily Alyn Lind arsenic nan bid narrator, Penny’s girl Cadence Sinclair, and Joseph Zada (Haymitch successful nan upcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise connected nan Reaping) arsenic Carrie’s boy Johnny Sinclair, 2 of nan titular Liars.
In Season 2, successful an effort to face her truth, Cadence (Lind) returns to Beechwood. As she digs deeper into family secrets, she learns astir nan Sinclair Sisters’ summertime of 1999 — a summertime rife pinch first love, rivalry, and moreover murder. In flashbacks, we spot Carrie (Lapaine), Penny (Roorbach), and Bess (Wolfe) navigate their ain teenage summer, arsenic they travel to position pinch their past successful nan coming day.
Charming, well-heeled, and dedicated to raising his daughters to grant nan family name, Harris (Dallas) is simply a difficult worker, a loyal husband, and stoic successful nan look of crisis. Despite already having bid of a media empire, Harris often finds himself formed successful nan protector of his moreover much charming – and acold much reckless – older brother, nan only personification opinionated successful nan measurement of nan early he envisions…
The young matriarch of a Kennedy-esque dynasty, Tipper (List) tin cook a cleanable pie, big nan hellhole retired of a meal party, and deftly propulsion nan strings successful her husband’s quest for much wealthiness and power. She’s ever done it each pinch effortless grace and old-money elegance – but this year, a family situation exposes her crisp edges, her icy temper, and her soiled small secrets.
In nan summertime of 1999, Carrie (Lapaine) is sensitive, quick-witted, and yearning to beryllium loved. Ostensibly, she is nan Harvard-bound, well-heeled, pious eldest daughter… until an intriguing caller boy arrives connected nan island, and tempts her pinch a very different benignant of future.
With a competitory streak a mile wide, Penny (Roorbach) is charming, popular, and a hopeless romanticist – for now, anyway. She deftly hides her struggles pinch her assemblage image and a burgeoning panic upset hidden from everyone, until personification unexpected sees beyond her “Perfect Penny” mask.
The summertime she turns 16, Bess (Wolfe) dreams of being a songwriter, an adventurer, and astir importantly… thing for illustration her mother. Desperate to fresh successful pinch nan older kids, particularly nan 3 college-age boys who person unexpectedly moved into nan impermanent house, Bess will do thing to impressment them… including immoderate things she’ll unrecorded to regret.
A New England assemblage kid pinch a mysterious edge, Pfeff (D’Angelo) is observant, soulful, and wounded successful nan astir compelling way. When he shows up connected Beechwood Island, he doesn’t really intend to upend nan Sinclair sisters’ lives – but it’s an inevitability.
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 nan novel’s author, E. Lockhart. Universal Television, a section of Universal Studio Group, and Amazon MGM Studios are down nan project.
Dallas precocious starred arsenic Ben Stone successful NBC’s Manifest. He besides starred arsenic Prince Charming successful ABC’s Once Upon A Time. Feature credits include Red Tails, Marvel’s Thor and Zootopia 1 and 2. He’s repped by Verve, Untitled Entertainment, and Gendler, Kelly & Cunningham.
D’Angelo was precocious seen successful Hulu’s Tell Me Lies. He’s presently filming a Netflix lucky bid alongside Michelle Monaghan, and besides appears successful Zoe Kazan’s adjustment of East of Eden, besides for Netflix, premiering this fall. He’s repped by Entertainment 360, Shanahan Management, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Lapaine was past seen connected nan UK shape successful Red Speedo for head Matthew Dunster and successful nan last section of Season 2 of HBO’s House of nan Dragons. She’s repped by Atlas Artists and Hamilton Hodell.
List was astir precocious seen recurring connected Star Trek: Picard and ABC’s The Rookie, and was a bid regular connected CW’s Frequency and The Tomorrow People, among others. She tin presently beryllium seen successful nan independent film, Spinning Gold, directed by Tim Bogart. List is repped by Innovative Artists and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.
Roorbach has starred successful complete a twelve short films and tin beryllium seen recurring successful Season 2 of HBO Max’s Emmy-winning bid The Pitt. She’s repped by Realm Talent and Schreck Rose Dapello & Adams.
Known for her activity on True Detective, Wolfe tin astir precocious beryllium seen successful Netflix’s The Hunting Wives, opposite Brittany Snow, Malin Åkerman, and Chrissy Metz. She besides starred successful AMC’s Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches. She’s repped by Untitled Entertainment and UTA.
