You Season 2: Everything We Know So Far

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.

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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.

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