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Forbes
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Why Does Cadence From ‘We Were Liars' Look So Familiar?
Emily Alyn Lind in "We Were Liars." The new Prime Video series We Were Liars stars Emily Alyn Lind in the lead role as Cadence 'Cady' Sinclair Eastman. What else has Lind starred in? All eight episodes of We Were Liars debuted on June 18 on the Amazon Prime streaming service. The official summary for the series reads, 'Based on the best-selling novel by E. Lockhart, We Were Liars, the series follows Cadence Sinclair Eastman and her tight-knit inner circle, nicknamed the Liars, during their summer escapades on her grandfather's New England private island. 'The Sinclairs are American royalty — known for their good looks, old money, and enviable bond — but after a mysterious accident changes Cadence's life forever, everyone, including her beloved Liars, seems to have something to hide.' We Were Liars also stars Shubham Maheshwari, Esther McGregor, Joseph Zada, Caitlin FitzGerald, Mamie Gummer, Candice King, Rahul Kohli and David Morse. Lind's screen career kicked off in 2008 when she starred as one of the younger versions of Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) in coming-of-age drama The Secret Life of Bees. From there, Lind appeared in a slate of guest roles on such series as NBC's Medium and CBS' Criminal Minds, and had a recurring role a Emily Gardner on the ABC fantasy drama Eastwick from 2009 to 2010, and appeared in a recurring capacity as Emma Lavery on the daytime drama All My Children in 2010. In addition, Lind played the young version of Amanda Clarke (Emily VanCamp) in a recurring role on the ABC mystery thriller Revenge from 2011-2015, and the recurring role of Ariel on the CBS medical drama Code Black from 2015-2018. On film, Lind starred in director Gaspar Noé's psychological drama Enter the Void in 2009 and played the young version of Hollywood icon Shirley Temple in the Clint Eastwood-directed 2011 biopic J. Edgar, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover. Lind's other film roles include the 2013 supernatural horror movie The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia and the 2016 horror thriller Lights Out. Lind has appeared in many other high-profile projects, which are detailed below, explaining why she looks so familiar. 'Doctor Sleep' (2019) Emily Alyn Lind stars as Snakebite Andi in the supernatural horror film Doctor Sleep, a sequel to Stephen King's The Shining directed by Mike Flanagan. Ewan McGregor stars as Danny Lloyd, the grown-up version of the boy with the psychic powers in The Shining. Rebecca Ferguson also stars as Rose the Hat, the mystical leader of the True Knot cult in Doctor Sleep, while Lind's Snakebite Andi is a younger member of the nefarious group. Judah Lewis and Emily Alyn Lind in "The Babysitter Killer Queen." 'The Babysitter' (2017) And 'The Babysitter: Killer Queen' (2020) Emily Alyn Lind plays the Melanie, the best friend and neighbor of Cole (Judah Lewis) in the 2017 Netflix horror comedy The Babysitter, and reprises her role in the 2020 sequel The Babysitter: Killer Queen. In The Babysitter, Cole's parents hire a babysitter for the-then 12-year-old, and it turns out the babysitter, Bee (Samara Weaving) leads a cult of devil worshippers. In The Babysitter: Killer Queen, Cole's troubles spill over into high school — where even Melanie turns against him. Emily Alyn Lind in "Gossip Girl." 'Gossip Girl' (2021-2023) Emily Alyn Lind starred as Audrey Hope in Gossip Girl, one of a group of private school teens in New York City who spread gossip over social media. Gossip Girl is based on The CW's hit series of the same name starring Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley and Chace Crawford, which ran from 2007-2012. Emily Alyn Lind in "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire." 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' (2024) Emily Alyn Lind appeared only in spectral form in the action comedy Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire as the 'Ghost Girl' Melody who befriends and shares a complex emotional connection with 15-year-old Ghostbuster Phoebe Spengler (Mckenna Grace). Unlike other ghosts in the Ghostbusters franchise, Melody is a friendly ghost (or at least appears to be) that means to do no harm to her human counterparts. All eight episodes of We Were Liars, starring Emily Alyn Lind, are streaming on Prime Video.
The Independent
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
We Were Liars is the perfect YA thriller for summer – here's where to watch
E Lockhart's YA thriller We Were Liars (£6.99, was the cult novel of 2014. Now, the twisty tome has been adapted into a TV series by Amazon Prime. The eight-episode series is the latest addition to the canon of rich-people-behaving-badly TV. The series will join the ranks among HBO's The White Lotus and Netflix's recent Sirens, as well as now-perennial classics like Succession and Gossip Girl. Just like the book, it centres around 17-year-old Cadence Sinclair, who is the eldest grandchild in the wealthy Sinclair family. Spending her summers on a private island at the family holiday home, she suffers from chronic migraines and memory loss after a serious head injury a few years before. Part love story and part amnesia thriller, the series follows Cadence's inner circle – dubbed the liars – as they try to piece together what happened that fateful summer. The show stars Gossip Girl's Emily Alyn Lind as Cadence, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping' s Joseph Zada and Esther McGregor as her cousins Johnny and Mirren, and Shubham Maheshwari as her friend, Gat. Fans of the cult series The Vampire Diaries will also recognise Candice King, who stars as Bess Sinclair. Here's everything you need to know about We Were Liars on Amazon Prime, and where to read the bestselling novel on which it is based. How to watch We Were Liars All eight episodes of We Were Liars are now available on Amazon Prime Video, meaning you can binge the whole series this summer. If you're not already a member, you can sign up for a 30-day free trial. After that, a Prime membership costs £8.99 per month or £95 per year. Alternatively, you can subscribe to Prime Video alone for £5.99 per month. Where to read E. Lockhart's We Were Liars We Were Liars became an instant New York Times bestseller upon its release in 2014. A story of mystery and deception, Cadence Sinclair is grappling with a fractured memory two years on from a serious head injury. Back on her wealthy family's private island for summer, Cadence and her confidants – otherwise known as 'liars' – spend the season trying to recall the events. In doing so, family secrets are unearthed, the consequences of actions laid bare and relationships reach a boiling point.
The Review Geek
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
We Were Liars – Season 1 Episode 1 'Tell Me Sweet Little Lies' Recap & Review
Episode 1 Episode 1 of We Were Liars begins with Cady aka Cadence Sinclair washing up on the beach. She is heavily injured and doesn't remember anything. A quick montage shows arguments among her family members. Cady narrates all that she can remember of Summer 16. Her family spends the summers on Beechwood Island. Cady is smart and so her mother, Penny, lets her get away with everything. Penny is divorced but no one is allowed to talk about her ex who cheated on her. Cousin Johnny is a troublemaker but his mother, Carrie, feels a lenient approach is the best way to handle him. Carrie's partner, Ed, is a designer. Cousin Mirren is clumsy but sweet. And as luck would have it, her mother, Bess is snarky. Everyone jokes that Bess is a tradwife while her husband, Brody, is constantly busy with work. While they take their routine family photo, they realise that Gat is missing. A flashback to Summer 8 shows Ed bringing his nephew, Gat, who has just lost his father. Gat is quiet and shy but Cady welcomes him and he becomes an honorary Sinclair. Soon, Cady, Gat, Johnny and Mirren become the best of friends. Courtesy of their antics and the way they get away with it, they are known as The Liars. Back to Summer 16, Gat arrives and The Liars happily reunite. The family has dinner by the cliffside. Penny and Bess argue over which of their estates should be renovated. Ed mentions having a kid but Carrie interrupts. A party boat anchors in their view and while Johnny is excited, Grandfather Harris hates it. We soon see that Gat and Cady are attracted to each other. Penny and Bess constantly argue and throw barbs at each other's marriages. Carrie is the mediator and distracts them by pointing out how hot Dan, the harbour service guy, is. Harris enlists Ed to get rid of the party boat. Ed tells Carrie, who teases him and they engage in PDA, which annoys Bess. Over the next few days, the Sinclairs have fun, swimming and playing tennis. Gat is super attentive and thoughtful, and Cady realises that she likes him. She asks him out to see the meteor shower and he is excited. Johnny notices how cosy they are and indirectly warns them. He reveals that he hooked up with his tennis partner which made things weird and ruined the team. Gat is still excited about the date when Ed offhandedly comments that if one falls in love with a Sinclair, they have to keep up with their messy family. Right on cue, Johnny drags Gat away to get an invite to the party boat. Cady waits alone, only for Gat to show up with Johnny and Mirren so they can all head to the party boat. Gat looks apologetic while Cady is hurt. He keeps looking at her and Johnny and Mirren tease them. To shut them down, Gat joins the two in drinking and dancing. Cady sulks and then leaves. Back on the island, Penny and Bess' usual rivalry turns nasty. Their mom, Tipper, scolds them about decorum and Penny blames her for not letting them talk about their feelings normally. She ends up revealing that her ex has hired a PI to squeeze out every penny. Everyone heads out to watch the meteor shower and Cady joins them. She suddenly spots Gat swimming back to the island to be with her. They are interrupted by Johnny and Mirren who drag them for a swim. Later, Johnny confesses that he was hurt that Cady ditched them instead of telling them the truth. They patch up and after Johnny and Mirren leave, Gat apologises as well. He confesses that he was nervous and that he likes Cady as well. They kiss. Bess is waiting for Brody who never shows up. She ends up ranting to Dan. While heading in, Mirren spots her mother hooking up with Dan. Penny goes on a run and cries. Carrie throws out some wine. Harris is on the terrace and watches everyone. 2 months later, an injured Cady washes up on the beach. On her hands it is written – 'Never surrender to the devil you know best.' The Episode Review We Were Liars Episode 1 is an interesting start to the adaptation of an iconic psychological thriller of the 2010s. While we were mostly obsessed with dystopian books or John Green romances, E. Lockhart snuck onto us out of nowhere with her jaw-dropping thriller, We Were Liars. And while it may have taken a decade to get an adaptation, the wait seems to have been worth it. While the nostalgia remains for us book readers, it is sure to be intriguing for new fans of the Amazon Prime show. The first chapter is essentially Cady narrating all that she can remember about her loving family. But as the other characters start getting their POVs, we see that the Sinclairs are far from perfect. While the kids enjoy their summers, Bess and Penny's rivalry over who is the better sister spills onto Carrie to keep them in check. She has her own problems as she keeps avoiding heavy topics with Ed, even though she seems to love him. Harris sees Ed as his assistant and in return, Ed is forced to keep him happy as his footing in the family seems to be precarious. How will all of this affect Cady and The Liars? Next Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
Telegraph
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
We Were Liars, review: This po-faced YA drama makes me yearn for the fun teen comedies of the 1980s
Suspicions that teenage dramas aren't what they used to be are confirmed near the end of We Were Liars, Amazon Prime Video's glossy adaptation of E Lockhart's bestselling YA novel. One of the characters strips to his shirt, underpants and socks and dances around the house to Old Time Rock'n'Roll by Bob Seger. It's an homage to Tom Cruise in Risky Business, and an unfortunate reminder that dramas aimed at teenagers were once fun but are now a humour-free zone. Risky Business, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Footloose – in the 1980s, all of these took seriously the business of being young and overwhelmed by feelings, but they also made you laugh. We Were Liars, on the other hand, is a po-faced thriller about characters who are privileged and bland, soundtracked by the kind of acoustic dirges that used to blight John Lewis Christmas adverts. The Risky Business scene is so out of place that I had to rewatch just to check I hadn't imagined it being there. The central mystery concerns Cadence Sinclair, who hails from a super-wealthy family and is suffering from amnesia after being found half-drowned on the beach. Oddly, her family knows what traumatic event caused this, but refuses to tell her. The setting has promise: the Sinclairs are 'American royalty' who summer at their Kennedy-style compound, a private island near Martha's Vineyard, where they vie for the attention – and largesse – of Cadence's domineering grandfather. Unfortunately, it takes itself far too seriously, and reaching The Big Twist at the end will require you to sit through hours of angst and switching timelines. We are introduced to the characters through a pretentious voiceover, and I've no idea if the lines are taken from the original book or are the work of scriptwriter Scarlett Curtis (daughter of Richard), but they're pass-the-sick-bucket awful: 'My name is Cadence Sinclair Eastman. I was once strength and promise and spun gold.' Cousin Mirren is 'sugar, effort and constant curiosity'. The romantic hero starts out as 'fireflies, mischief and old books' but grows into 'contemplation, enthusiasm, ambition and strong coffee'. Argh, make it stop! References to King Lear and fairytales are laid on thick. At least it's pleasant to look at, like a Duchess of Sussex moodboard come to life. At one point, I'm pretty sure I saw a rainbow vegetable platter. The details of their Succession -lite lifestyle are the only enjoyable aspect. The family pose for colour-coordinated photoshoots wearing 'ocean hues and neutrals' from Ralph Lauren. They organise lemon hunts – like Easter Egg hunts, but the adults and kids look for hidden lemons, and whoever collects the most wins a multi-million dollar house. Harris Sinclair (David Morse) tests the loyalty of his three daughters, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy clones who are variously planning a 'divorce cleanse', recovering from drug addiction through meditation, and sleeping with Salty Dan, the local boathand. As everyone in the Sinclair family is sun-kissed and blonde, it may take you a couple of episodes to differentiate between these people, although one of the actresses, Mamie Gummer, is better than the others; perhaps it's genetic, because Gummer is the daughter of Meryl Streep. The focus is not on these three but on their offspring. The novel was a hit when it was published a decade ago but has found a new fanbase on TikTok, where readers swoon over the love affair between Cadence (Emily Alyn Lind, a dead ringer for The White Lotus's Aimee Lou Wood), and Gat Patil (Shubham Maheshwari), an outsider who has been holidaying with the family since he was eight. The romance between them is sweet and intense, and you can see why a young audience would get swept up in it. But here's how po-faced it is: Gat is short for 'Gatwick' yet there isn't a single joke about airports.
The Independent
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
We Were Liars is about to drop on Prime Video – and it features a popular Vampire Diaries actor
E. Lockhart's young adult novel, We Were Liars, was one of the most popular books of 2014. Now, the psychological horror has been adapted into a TV series by Amazon Prime. Arriving on the streaming platform this week, the eight-episode series is the latest addition to the canon of rich-people-behaving-badly TV. The series will join the ranks among HBO's The White Lotus and Netflix's recent Sirens, as well as now-perennial classics like Succession and Gossip Girl. Just like the book, it centres around 17-year-old Cadence Sinclair, who is the eldest grandchild in the wealthy Sinclair family. Spending her summers on a private island at the family holiday home, she suffers from chronic migraines and memory loss after a serious head injury a few years before. Part love story and part amnesia thriller, the series follows Cadence's inner circle – dubbed the liars – as they try and piece together what happened that fateful summer. The show stars Gossip Girl's Emily Alyn Lind as Cadence, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping' s Joseph Zada and Esther McGregor as her cousins Johnny and Mirren, and Shubham Maheshwari as her friend, Gat. Fans of the cult series The Vampire Diaries will also recognise Candace King, who stars as Bess Sinclair. Here's everything you need to know about We Were Liars on Amazon Prime, and where to read the bestselling novel on which it is based. How to watch We Were Liars All eight episodes of We Were Liars will be available on Amazon Prime Video from tomorrow (Wednesday 18 June). If you're not already a member, you can sign up for a 30-day free trial. After that, a Prime membership costs £8.99 per month or £95 per year. Alternatively, you can subscribe to Prime Video alone for £5.99 per month. Where to read E. Lockhart's We Were Liars We Were Liars became an instant New York Times bestseller upon its release in 2014. A story of mystery and deception, Cadence Sinclair is grappling with a fractured memory two years on from a serious head injury. Back on her wealthy family's private island for summer, Cadence and her confidants – otherwise known as 'liars' – spend the season trying to recall the events. In doing so, family secrets are unearthed, the consequences of actions laid bare and relationships reach a boiling point.
