YOU Season 2 Review: 7 Ups & 4 Downs

2. Penn Badgley Is Incredible (Again)

When Season 1 was consumed by viewers in the U.S. on Lifetime and by international fans on Netflix, there was widespread debate about the way in which the show presented Joe Goldberg - and, perhaps more importantly, the way in which audiences received him.

But the truth is that the positive reception towards this troubled and troubling character all lay in the charm of Penn Badgley - who brought Joe to life with such ease, making him seem like the most approachable, kind-hearted and considerate neighbour, employee and person you could ever meet, and yet effortlessly switching to unnerving, cold and terrifying right when he was required to.

Badgley does all of that again in Season 2, and so much more. He's enigmatic in his attempts to awaken different nuances of Joe's personality - quickly capturing all of that charm in a heartbeat. He's even scarier as the character still finds himself in places he so desperately tried to stop finding himself in. And he's intoxicating as the unreliable narrator who we know just can't be trusted and yet we find ourselves travelling down the rabbit hole with him anyway.

Joe Goldberg is the personification of an oxymoron; two different sides of two different coins that audiences know they shouldn't be intrigued by and still find themselves compelled to see the end of his story. And all of that intrigue is down to the lengths to which Badgley goes to in order to bring him to life.

He's surrounded by a remarkable cast and he still manages to steal the show. That's how damn good he is.