In a dramatic atmosphere, this television series drama follows a bookstore manager, who falls in love with a beautiful girl, who knows nothing about, so inspired by a talented writer, he uses social media in order to know more and more about her personal life, hoping to get closer to her, as he is ready to do anything in order to win her heart.
In all, it's a bit dark for binge viewing, and can't quite decide if it wants to be a campy, creepier Gossip Girl or a genuinely troubling social media-age thriller.
You stays grounded by supplying a measured amount of dry humor, often at the expense of its sociopathic lead. Joe is scary, for sure, but he's also absurd, and the writers never forget that.
The series not only explores one particularly misguided mind but the very notion of privacy, and the perils of not safeguarding it in an age where practically everyone seems to be oversharing.
Creepy, addictive and full of dry humor about social media, millennials and dating in the age of Tinder, You twists the usual victim-perp plotline - she's terrorized, he's sickeningly aroused - by placing them both squarely in the #MeToo era.
You is a terrible television show and you absolutely should not watch it - but it does have one single redeeming quality: it peels the Freeform/CW filter off Ezra Fitz/Dan Humprhey and lays their psychotic stalking and gross-ass misogyny bare.
You gets pretty intense.The producers knew what they were doing when they cast Badgley as Joe (Gossip Girl is produced by Alloy Entertainment, the same company behind You), and it's a brilliant critique.
