Your best friend is using her immense wealth to try controlling your every move because she’s in love with you? Check. Your boyfriend is actually your stalker with a knack for murder? Check. I should add that, despite her mundane personality, you can’t help but feel sorry for her during the season. Beck is just an overall stale character who lacks much of a personality outside of her daddy issues. She does have her fair share of problems, I’ll give her that, but she uses them as crutches or excuses to treat the people in her life like objects. Beck is a lost puppy looking to be picked up by a stranger and given everything that the world has to offer. On top of that, she’s the type of person to create problems out of thin air and have everyone around her clean up the mess she’s made. She seriously lives in the middle of Manhattan with no curtains and her bed right next to the window. My main problem with You is with Guinevere Beck - because dear God is that woman insufferable. I hope it’s just a coincidence, and not Penn Badgley playing roles that are closest to his own personality.īeck doesn’t get a gif, instead she gets this tweet. I mean seriously, both of them are stalkers (Dan being being a more mild stalker than Joe) with a passion for literature and an obsession with blondes. Oddly enough, Joe Goldberg is very reminiscent of Daniel Humphrey from Gossip Girl - both of which are portrayed by Penn Badgley himself. We see this in Episode 1 after he kidnaps Beck’s boyfriend, and later on in the season after he’s killed a few more people. He believes himself to be above everyone around him, thus it is his job to cast judgement on their fate. You easily understand Joe’s justifications for his insane actions as he has no true moral compass due to the psychological trauma he carries with him. What You does right with Joe is making him more than just some creepy stalker, but instead into the perfect anti-hero. Joe is obviously not an easy character to resonate with, but you do sympathize with him at times due to the abusive environment he grew up in. He even constantly has to remind himself that he’s ‘not a killer’ - usually right before he brutally murders someone. His narration adds a lot of depth to the series, as in his world he thinks he’s some good guy doing all these terrible things for the greater good aka Beck.
Joe serves as both our protagonist and narrator, thus we are constantly in his head listening to his thoughts. Aside from a sometimes predictable plot - the story of You is engaging because you find yourself wondering the lengths Joe will go to in order to make Beck “fall” for him.
You has an amazing cast that does a great job in bringing some of the character’s stories to life in their own unique way.
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These hurdles include, but are not limited to: removing toxic people from Beck’s life (in this show removing is code for killing them off by the way), following her everywhere she goes, and again, monitoring her private messages. From this point on, the show follows the hurdles Joe must overcome in order to have Beck all to himself.
By the end of the first episode he’s masturbated outside Beck’s window, broken into her apartment to keep tabs on her private messages, and casually kidnapped her on-again, off-again boyfriend. You wastes no time in letting us know that this dude is absolutely obsessed with her. You is a new psychological thriller on Netflix that follows our anti-hero Joe Goldberg (portrayed by Penn Badgley) on his quest to make Guinevere Beck (portrayed by Elizabeth Lail) - a first time customer at the bookstore he manages - fall in love with him by any means possible.
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