TV Show Review - You (Season 1)

Season: 1
Genre: Thriller/ Drama
Number of episodes: 10
Year: 2018
Starring: Penn Badgley, Elizabeth Lail, Shay Mitchell, Ambyr Childers, Luca Padovan, Zack Cherry, Nicole Kang, John Stamos, Kathryn Gallagher, Daniel Cosgrove, Victoria Cartagena, Mark Blum

Description: Clever bookstore manager Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) relies on his savvy Internet know-how to make the woman of his dreams (Elizabeth Lail) fall in love with him.

Review: “You” is a new Netflix show, created by the brains behind “Riverdale” and “Supernatural”, “Arrow” and “The Flash”. After seeing this first season, I can best describe it as “Dexter” meets “Pretty Little Liars” meets “Gossip Girl”.
The show follows Joe, a friendly and charming man who manages a bookstore, restores rare and old books and is friends with the kid next door who is in a problematic realtionshio with his mother and is happy with Joe’s attention. When Joe falls for one of his clients, Guinevere Beck (Beck for friends), we meet the other side of Joe. Because he becomes a psychotic stalker.
From the moment he meets Beck, Joe sees it as his task to make her life better and to save her from the toxic people in her life. It starts by secretly watching her and finding out details about her life via social media.
The first season of “You” is full of tension and is intriguing. It keeps your attention from beginning to end and it’s hard to stop watching. Penn Badgley, who we now from “Gossip Girl”, is very convincing as Joe. Both as the creepy stalker and the charming do-gooder. Elizabeth Lail plays Beck, who does a good job as well portraying the gullible and naïve writer-to-be. What I think is done so well, is that for some reason the ‘villain’ in this show, is not actually the real villain. Even though he does bad things (very bad thing), somehow you can never really hate Joe. But Beck and the people around her are the people you really start to dislike.
“You” is a strong thriller series, that doesn’t let you go while watching it. It’s mysterious and surprising. Season two will be released in 2019 and I can’t wait!