
Scripted series · Showtime
House of Lies
Liar, liar...
Who's in it
Cast
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TV DNA
How House of Lies actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
House of Lies reads strongest on Character Depth, Humour and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, and bedrooms of the power elite, corruption is business as usual and everyone's out for themselves first. Nothing is sacred in this scathing, irreverent satire of corporate America today.
The run
Seasons
5 seasons · 58 episodes.
- Poster unavailableSpecials
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
201210 episodes

Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201212 episodes
6.9IMDbMarty and his co-workers scheme to halt an unpopular merger between their firm and a former client. Jeannie struggles to balance her demanding job and her personal life. Marty and Monica spar over who will raise Roscoe.
Best episode · S01E12 The Mayan Apocalypse

Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
201312 episodes
6.9IMDbMarty and the pod clash with Galweather & Stearn's new CEO and Marty decides to open his own consulting firm; Jeannie and Marty wrestle with their feelings for each other; Doug falls in love and gets married; Clyde becomes bitter over the lack of recognition he gets from Marty; Monica attempts to clean up her act to be a better mother to Roscoe.
Best episode · S02E12 'Til Death Do Us Part

Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
201412 episodes
6.7IMDbMarty slowly manages to get his entire pod back together at his new firm, but can they keep the business afloat?; Jeannie takes down Galweather & Stern and joins Marty in more ways than one; Clyde suffers a breakdown after being traumatized by Monica; Doug waffles between Sarah and a new office romance; Roscoe makes a new friend who is trouble.
Best episode · S03E12 Joshua

Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
201512 episodes
7.1IMDbMarty gets out of prison and does everything he can to rebuild his faltering consulting firm; Jeannie is pregnant with Marty's baby and trying to get back in his good graces after causing his downfall; Clyde and Doug fall in love with the same girl, and Clyde tries to reconcile with his father; Doug gets divorced from Sarah; Roscoe demonstrates that he is his father's son after all.
Best episode · S04E07 The Next Olive Branch Goes Straight Up Your Ass

Season 5 · Complete
Season 5
201610 episodes
7.0IMDbMarty Kaan and his slick team of management consultants are at the top of their game and taking corporate America for all its worth. But when faced with the prospect of the ultimate buyout, Marty must decide: is it worth cashing in his chips and walking away -- or doubling down for the chance to pull off the deal of a lifetime.
Best episode · S05E08 Tragedy of the Commons
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
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S01E12
The Mayan Apocalypse
With the help of Greg Norbert, Marty and the Pod fight to pull off an eleventh-hour reprieve and stop the MetroCapital acquisition from happening; Jeannie makes a decision about marrying Wes; Marty's son Roscoe makes a life-altering choice of his own.
- Directed by Matthew Carnahan
- Written by Matthew Carnahan

S01E08
Veritas
Marty and the Pod participate in Galweather-Stearn's annual recruiting event, where the best and brightest from Harvard Business School are wined and dined. Marty takes the sole black recruit in the predominantly white affair under his wing; Doug tries to prove to Clyde that he can coach any of the potential candidates onto "the list;" Jeannie grills a sexy, flirtatious recruit to see if she's all style and no substance, but a secret of Jeannie's is revealed that makes her stance somewhat hypocritical.
- Directed by Stephen Hopkins

S02E12
'Til Death Do Us Part
Doug pops the question to his girlfriend, Sarah (Jenny Slate), who plans a shotgun wedding in Las Vegas on the eve of the Pod closing a major business deal. Marty's backhanded dealings lead to increased tension and unintended consequences for everyone.

S01E09
Ouroboros
Marty and the Pod are put through the ringer by their arch-rival firm Kinsley-Johnson as part of the due diligence performed by MetroCapital for the pending merger; Jeannie does her best to keep Wes and the marriage at bay but fails to keep it a secret from Marty; Monica and Roscoe bond but Marty learns about Jeremiah's secret and receives shocking news from Monica.
- Directed by Stephen Hopkins
- Written by Matthew Carnahan

S01E10
Prologue and Aftermath
Jeannie embarks on a gig to establish her own legend in the consulting world when she leads the Pod to her hometown on a mission to resurrect an ailing church; Marty enters into custody mediation with Monica but her powers of manipulation are in full force, threatening Marty's relationship with April.

S01E03
Microphallus
Marty arrives at the offices to find Greg Norbert there to announce the possible acquisition of Galweather by MetroCapital; the Pod flies to Indiana to consult for a beverage company, where Marty applies his management skills to turn a loss into a win; Clyde questions whether Doug really hooked up with a transvestite; Roscoe struggles with the confusing feelings of liking both a boy and a girl.
- Directed by Seith Mann
- Written by Matthew Carnahan
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Behind the series
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The craft
Key Crew
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Executive production
- Don CheadleExecutive Producer
- Matthew CarnahanExecutive Producer
- Matthew CarnahanProducer
- Stephen HopkinsExecutive Producer
- Jessika BorsiczkyExecutive Producer
Writing
- Matthew CarnahanWriter
- Barbara NanceWriter
- Jessika BorsiczkyWriter
- David WalpertWriter
Direction
- Adam BernsteinDirector
- Matthew CarnahanDirector
- Stephen HopkinsDirector
- Uta BriesewitzDirector
- Miguel ArtetaDirector
- John DahlDirector
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