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Tell Me Lies’ Tom Ellis, who portrays professor Oliver in the Hulu series, shared insight about his return to the show’s third season, which was renewed in December 2024.
By Adrianne Reece May 09, 2025 4:40 PMTags
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It’s almost time to untangle another web of lies.
Nearly five months after Tell Me Lies was renewed for a third season, Tom Ellis—who stars as college professor Oliver in the Hulu series—shared details about the upcoming season, including how he’s returning to stir up more drama.
“Yes, I’m going back,” Ellis, 46, told People at CBS Fest on May 7. “I’m actually going there on Saturday to start shooting.”
While he didn’t reveal the third season’s release date, Ellis—who’s married to the show’s creator Meaghan Oppenheimer—noted that viewers “will not be disappointed” in the plot’s new layer of drama. In fact, he’s already read “the first four episodes.”
“It is as dark, toxic, and funny as ever,” he continued of the show, which also stars Grace Van Patten and Jackson White. “And just when you thought our characters couldn’t do anything more ridiculous to themselves, they ended up doing it.”
Indeed, his character’s problematic romance with student Bree Benson (Catherine Missal) took a rocky turn in the show’s second season. In those prior episodes, Oliver starts an affair with Bree, even though he’s married to her English professor Marianne, played by Gabriella Pession. Bree struggles with the idea of being his secret, but it’s later revealed that their relationship wasn’t as discreet as she thought.
Near the end of the season, Marianne confirmed that she was aware of their affair the whole time and that she and Oliver have an open marriage—a detail that Bree was unaware of.
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Despite Oliver’s toxic aura, Ellis told People his character has “a lot of redeeming moments” in season three.
“The focus isn’t so much on my character this season,” the Lucifer alum continued. “But it still plays very much into the Bree storyline.”
As for the show’s timeline, Meaghan revealed that there “will probably be a time jump,” transitioning the show’s cast out of their college years.
“We’ll get more and more of the future as time goes on. I think by the third season, we will still have some 2008 because there’s stuff that we have to wrap up there,” she told Variety last December. “But I think it would be a little bit shifted in the sense that there will probably be more 2015 than 2008.”
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