"Tell Me Lies" follows a tumultuous but intoxicating relationship as it unfolds over the course of 8 years. When Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White) meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. Although their relationship begins like any typical campus romance, they quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will permanently alter not only their lives, but the lives of everyone around them.

该剧改编自丹尼尔·P·曼尼克斯的同名非虚构小说。 　　年迈的罗马皇帝维斯帕先（安东尼·霍普金斯 饰）被那些争夺皇位的贵族所鄙视，一有机会就想取代他的继承人登上王位。