Grace Van Patten’s ‘Tell Me Lies’ Sex Scenes Got “Dark” In Season 3

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Spoiler warning: This post contains spoilers for Tell Me Lies Season 3, through Episode 5. So far, Season 3 of Tell Me Lies has been just as twisted as ever — particularly when it comes to the show’s sex scenes. Grace Van Patten (who plays Lucy) and the show’s creator Meaghan Oppenheimer have both spoken about Lucy’s “dark” intimate scenes, explaining how the moments play into the character’s complicated feelings related to sex and “shame.”

In Season 3, Lucy starts up a romance with Alex (played by Costa D'Angelo). Their dynamic quickly turns toxic when she asks him to call her “pathetic” as part of a degradation kink. “There's something really dark about it," Van Patten told Read Entire Article