Tell Me Lies

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of mental illness, death, disordered eating, emotional abuse, animal cruelty, substance use, and sexual content.

Jackie convinces Lucy to come with her to a keg party hosted by her tennis team captain, Ella. During the party, Lucy comforts Jackie, whose boyfriend, Stuart, recently broke up with her, while secretly dealing with her own heartbreak about Stephen dating Alice Edwards. Jackie mentions that she is taking a Shakespeare class taught by Lucy’s advisor, Mr. Levy. At the party, she sees Billy Boyd, a junior whom she kissed at the ’80s party a month earlier. She finds him attractive but struggles to feel something for him because she is still in love with Stephen. She leaves early and binges on pizza and soda crackers before taking a shower and vomiting the food, disgusted with her body. She then goes to bed and masturbates while thinking about Stephen before having a vivid dream of them embracing on the Kiss Me Kate.

Jackie learns from Mr. Levy that Lucy turned down the Writers on the Riviera trip. Jackie is surprised, as Lucy told her that she did not get into the program. Jackie then calls Lucy out, telling her that she has become a shell of herself and that she does not know who Lucy is anymore.