First, we missed Addy’s older sister Ashton. One aspect of the show we noticed immediately was that some of the characters were missing. Plus, with Maeve’s different personality in the show, she and Bronwyn weren’t as close as in the books. It made no sense for the show writers to change Maeve so drastically. He actually posted something pretty terrible stuff about her on About That and mocked her. In the book, Maeve is girl next door and never spent time with Simon. She’s portrayed as goth and reveals that she was friends with Janae and Simon. We mentioned that our least favorite casting choice was Maeve and that’s because the show missed the mark on the character. Now, detention does have the same outcome for Simon in both….which leads to all eyes on the Bayview Four! 3.

Avery leaves the classroom when she spots students in Halloween masks streaking. He does run out of the classroom when he sees two cars get into a fender-bender. Avery in the books and he doesn’t have that big of a role in the story. In the show, they all were in detention for different obscure reasons. All four had random flip phones in their bags and had no idea how it happened.

First of all, in the book Nate, Bronwyn, Addy and Cooper are all detention for the same reason: their phones. However, there were a few significant changes. Simon, the creator of the school’s gossip app About That, ingests peanut oil and nobody can figure out how.īoth the book and TV show start out with the detention scene. There’s the brain: Bronwyn, the jock: Cooper, the beauty: Addy, the criminal: Nate and the outcast: Simon. The plot of the book is that five students enter detention and only four make it out alive. We’ll go further into her character later on. Honestly, we felt that she looked and acted nothing like how Maeve is described. However, we did disagree with one casting choice: Maeve Rojas, who is Bronwyn’s little sister. Despite the different appearances, we felt both did an excellent job making Nate and Cooper come to life. However, we actually really liked the actors for both roles.

The casting was completely spot on.įor Nate Macualey and Cooper Clay, the actors look different than the characters were described. When it comes to the two female leads, Bronwyn Rojas and Addy Prentiss, they looked exactly like we imagined.

The Appearance of Some CharactersĪs expected when a book is adapted, not all the characters will look how they were described by the author. Warning: Spoilers if you haven’t read or watched One of Us is Lying. Below, check out the biggest differences between the book and the TV show. However, we’re always nervous that the TV show won’t stay true to the book. We were so excited when we heard that Peacock was turning it into a TV show. Her debut book, One of Us is Lying, turned into an over-night bestseller. Karen McManus is one of the biggest names in YA.

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