‘Dare Me’: What That Season Finale Twist Means for Where the Show Turns Next

[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for the “Dare Me” season finale, “Shock & Awe.”]“Dare Me” was always going to end its first season with a surprise.

Even after a midseason episode that unexpectedly switched up the show’s narrative format and the appearance of a dead body a few weeks later, “Dare Me” saved one of its most shocking twists for last.After guiding Addy (Herizen Guardiola) through the discovery of Will’s body, the season’s farewell moments hint at the idea that Colette (Willa Fitzgerald) knew more about the circumstances of the Army recruiter’s death than she previously let on.

When Addy confronts her about a nagging detail surrounding her alibi, the audience sees a flashback to that fateful night, indicating that both Coach Colette and her husband might know how and when Will died.For co-creator Megan Abbott, who wrote the novel the show is adapted from, she wanted those final images of

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