That last one is especially highlighted when it comes to the Joe-Candace situation as he continues to cling to the falsehood that he’s not the bad guy here and she is. The Candance storyline is where “You” makes it clear just how terrifying Joe actually is. The more the audience likes Joe - and likes Joe with Love - the more “You” makes sure to tip the scales with all of the terrible things he does, whether it’s kidnapping, murdering (the body count keeps getting higher this season), or gaslighting. The direction “You” goes with Love and her relationship with Joe proves that showrunner Sera Gamble knows exactly what she’s doing. This new dynamic throws Joe’s confidence into crisis mode and allows Season 2 to dismantle Joe in ways Season 1 did not. The same goes for her circle of friends, too. As observant as Joe is, he’s often genuinely surprised by Love because she isn’t so easy to predict. Love is upfront about her baggage, and despite Joe’s instincts, she doesn’t “need” to be “saved” by anyone. Unlike Beck, Love isn’t searching for and questioning what she wants. Love is such a fully-developed and straightforward character that there’s no mistaking who she is and what she wants. While both Season 1 love interest Beck and Love are clearly archetypes for Joe to latch on to, the difference is that Beck was written in an intentionally blank way. Season 2 succeeds here largely because of Love’s characterization. Since we’ve seen Joe’s greatest hits in the first season, the second season has to be able to play around and poke fun at them even more than they originally did. The key for the season is to subvert those established expectations - even if Joe doesn’t subvert them on his end - without betraying what made the show work in the first place. With the blueprint for Joe set in Season 1, the audience comes into Season 2 knowing that it has to now worry about Love and everyone in her orbit. Fall into the same patterns he does, albeit reluctantly. It’s all torture for a snobbish New Yorker like Joe, even though he’s quoting Nora Ephron movies and drawing Wes Anderson comparisons in his inner monologue.Īt the center of this season and its new locale is the appropriately-named Love (Victoria Pedretti), a chef who catches Joe’s eye at a time when he claims to want to do anything but fall into the same patterns as his life in New York.
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Los Angeles means there’s too much sun, there’s too much movie talk, and there’s too much green juice for Joe’s liking.
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It’s far less wacky than it sounds, but “You’s” sly sense of humor continues to make the series pretty funny. So now Joe Goldberg - going by the name “Will Bettelheim” in his attempt to lay low - has to navigate being a fish out of water. The more drastic change is the show’s setting, which moves from New York to Los Angeles.Īs “You” Season 2 begins, Joe has moved to Los Angeles in an attempt to get away from his very-much-alive ex-girlfriend, Candace (Ambyr Childers). The most notable change from the movie to Netflix is that “You” can now drop f-bombs. While many “You” fans are wondering how the shift from Lifetime to Netflix might change the series, no one has any reason to worry as the streaming giant doubles down on the show’s addictive tone and doesn’t attempt to fix what ain’t broken. ‘Succession’ Review: A Provocative Series Finale Hammers Home Hard Truths - Spoilers Season 2 forces Joe to really look at himself and places himself in a metaphorical room of endless mirrors. In fact, it’s in those moments of self-defense where the mirror focused on Joe is at its largest, even though he refuses to look into it. As much as Joe paints himself as a good guy who’s not a murderer (despite the number of murders he’s done), “You” never pretends to be on his side.
“You” is now a Netflix original in its second season, and it makes those aforementioned facts even harder to digest as Badgley’s Joe Goldberg falls deeper into his denial that he is a bad guy and the villain of his own story. “You” star Penn Badgley tried to do as much on social media during the show’s first season on Lifetime, reminding fans to mixed results that his obsessive, controlling, and violent character was, in fact, all of the above and not a handsome charmer who deserves to be a love interest. There is just something about “ You” that makes it hard to look away, even as it forces viewers to really feel uncomfortable for thinking about “rooting for” the series’ handsome-but-deadly protagonist.
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