History Series / OneOfUsIsLying

* ManlyGay: Cooper is a muscular baseball star who's secretly gay.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Cooper is more ManlyGay and a jock. His boyfriend Kris is a bit {{camp|gay}}; he's flamboyant and wears earrings.

* ManlyGay: Cooper is a muscular football star who's secretly gay.

* HeteronormativeCrusader: Cooper relates that he was attacked when his ex-boyfriend Kyle's older brother learned about the two, with him defending himself. Kyle's brother had blamed Cooper for making him gay. Cooper couldn't tell the cops what happened without outing himself, which he feared would ruin his career in baseball, and so took the blame when the brother claimed he'd broken his nose him unprovoked. He says you can come back from hitting other guys in baseball, though not kissing them, given how pervasive the homophobia is there.

** Bronwyn, who's a Latina and the series' main girl of color, has a black boyfriend named Evan.

* ComingOutStory: Cooper comes out to his newfound friends Addy, Bronwyn and Nate as gay in "One of Us Is Famous", an InternalReveal with the audience already knowing this. He had been [[ClosetGay firmly closeted]] before. After this he comes out to his dad as well. Some of this was also spurred by being [[ForcedOutOfTheCloset forcibly outed]] though.

* TheSnarkKnight: Janae is always ready with dry, very sarcastic remarks, with their default attitude being cynical and weary of others.

* TheSnarkKnight: Janae is always ready with dry, very sarcastic remarks.

* ComingOutStory: Cooper comes out to his newfound friends Addy, Bronwyn and Nate as gay in "One of Us Is Famous", an InternalReveal with the audience already knowing this. He had been [[ClosetGay firmly closeted]] before.

* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Cooper is forcibly outed as gay when his relationship with his boyfriend gets revealed.

* NeverSplitTheParty: When Bronwyn wants to split while they look for Maeve in "One Of Us Is Dancing" Janae asks her incredulously if she's [[GenreSavvy never watched horror movies]]. It's {{subverted}} though as nothing happens to them.

* ButchLesbian: Janae wears baggy, masculine clothing with her hair up in a grungy style, and bluntly tells Addy she's a lesbian when the latter mistakenly thought that [[MistakenForRomance she romantically loved Simon]] (they were actually just {{best friend}}s).

* TheseGlovesAreMadeForKillin: Subverted by Maeve when the ending of "One of Us Is Famous" shows her putting Simon's hard drive into an envelope while wearing dark wool gloves to cover her prints presenting her as a particularly suspicious suspect. The subversion is that it's later revealed she's not the culprit and had nothing to do with Simon's death.
** She subverts this again in the finale of Season 2 when she holds Addy at gunpoint without wearing gloves in a ploy to trick Fiona into thinking she's on her side. This ends up being a double subversion when Addy points out that Maeve's prints are on the gun only for Maeve to reveal that her prints ''are actually covered'' by a layer of thick wax applied to her finger tips.

* HeteronormativeCrusader: Cooper relates that he was attacked when his ex-boyfriend Kyle's older brother learned about the two, with him defending himself. Kyle's brother had blamed Cooper for making him gay. Cooper couldn't tell the cops what happened without outing himself, which he feared would ruin his career in baseball, and so took the blame when the brother claimed he'd broken his nose him unprovoked.

* TokenMinorityCouple: Cooper is the black main character on the show. He's a closeted gay boy with a boyfriend, Kris, who's also black.

* ComingOutStory: Cooper comes out to his newfound friends Addy, Bronwyn and Nate as gay in "One of Us Is Famous", an InternalReveal with the audience already knowing this. He had been [[ClosetGay firmly closeted]] before.
* CompositeCharacter: Vanessa is still the AlphaBitch she was in the books, but she also appears to take on a lot of Olivia’s stuff. She and Addy are superficially friends before her secret is revealed, and Vanessa is effectively the "second option" for a boy who likes one of her friends more. She still dates Jake after the breakup.

* {{Hypocrite}}: see {{Irony}}.

* BestFriend: Janae was Simon's best friend, and is left devastated after he dies.

* AlphaBitch: Vanessa.

* TheBeard: Keely is a willing one for Cooper.

* TheBigDamnKiss: Nate and Bronwyn has this... about seconds before Nate [[spoiler: is arrested for Simon's murder.]]