'We Were Liars' is a must-watch for lovers of psychological thrillers

WHEN I stumbled across We Were Liars, a new release on Amazon Prime Video recently, I wasn't expecting to be left in tears and still thinking about this powerful series, long after the credits rolled.

- KARISHMA DIPA

Having not read the young adult novel of the same name by E Lockhart, I was expecting to escape into a teenage summer romance, much like with shows such as The Summer I Turned Pretty and Outer Banks.

But soon into the show, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it resembled Nicole Kidman-esque psychological thriller such as The Perfect Couple and Big Little Liars, while also featuring elements from Succession with We Were Liars also centering around a billionaire American family who are desperate for their patriarch's validation.

But what set this story apart was the devastatingly emotional manner in which it placed family dynamics, greed and racism in the spotlight, forcing viewers to contemplate these and other issues in their own lives.

We Were Liars centres around teenager Cadence Sinclair (played by Emily Alyn Lind), the granddaughter to media magnate Harris Sinclair (David Morse) and one of the heirs to his multi-billion dollar empire.

She appears to be a picture-perfect teen, who is arriving with her newly-divorced mother, Penny (Caitlin Fitzgerald) to summer at their family's private island located off the Massachusetts coast.