You Season 2: Everything We Know So Far
Netflix's latest binge-worthy series has been renewed, but what's left to cover?
Netflix have yet again knocked a new series out the park with the perfectly binge-able You, this time telling the story of a psychopathic man stalking a young woman and manipulating her into dating him. Because, y'know, that's the best way of getting a girlfriend nowadays other than straight up kidnapping. Then again, there's plenty of that in here too...
With Joe's own special brand of investigation, murder, and sketchy 'accidents', he creates his perfect reality with Guinevere Beck, a struggling New York writer with her own share of secrets and mismatched friends. Every character comes out pretty terrible by the end of it, to be honest - but that didn't stop the first season finishing on one whopper of a cliffhanger.
For as much as the threads seemed to be neatly tied together into a beautiful tapestry, that tapestry turned out to be a rug, and that rug was then firmly pulled out from underneath us.
You has been absolutely dominating the conversation when it comes to Netflix's finest releases, so of course has been confirmed for a second season. With the first firmly out the way, let's take a look at what a second run could bring to life: whether it's ghosts of girlfriends past or old crimes coming back to haunt us...
5. What's Happened So Far?
We've had ten episodes of You so far, and been introduced intimately to Elizabeth Lail's Guinevere Beck through the eyes of bookstore manager and general creep Joe, played by Penn Badgeley. Along the way to securing Beck's everlasting love, Joe kills the suitably obnoxious Benji Ashby III, Beck's ex-boyfriend and recurring f*ck-buddy, as well as her emotionally and financially manipulative best friend, Peach Salinger.
Peach is especially interesting because of her similarities to Joe: she's enamoured with Beck and co-dependent on her struggling writer lifestyle. But aside from framing the Salinger suicide and killing a man via peanut, Joe also has a heart, taking out his killer tendencies on the abusive boyfriend of his neighbour and her son, Paco, resulting in them moving away after his death.
Most importantly, Joe kills Beck when she discovers this trail of stolen phones, her own underwear, and literal pots of teeth, murdering her in his glass box in the bookstore basement and then writing up her memoirs as a novel that frames her therapist as the criminal.