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Season Recap of YOU: Netflix's latest thriller

Reporter Makenna Keyes

You is a psychological thriller that was developed and directed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble. This television show premiered on Lifetime September 9, 2018 and was streamed internationally on Netflix December 3 ,2018. The show did not do as well as expected on Lifetime, but on Netflix the show had over 40 million views. The first season was such a success that a second season was released just a little over a year later on December 26, 2019.

In the first season the stars of the show are Penn Badgley, Elizabeth Lail, Shay Mitchell, and John Stamos. Going into the second season the new faces appear while the older ones fade away. Penn Badgley remains in both seasons seeing as he is the main character. Added to the talented cast is Ambyr Childers, Victoria Pedretti, Jenna Ortega, James Scully, and Carmela Zumbado.

The first season was full of getting to know the main character, Joe Goldberg, played by Penn Badgley. Badgeley plays a brilliant bookstore manager who crosses paths with a beautiful female writer, Guinevere Beck played by Elizabeth Lail. The sweet innocent crush becomes more and more of an obsession. Using social media and the internet, he uses every tool at his disposal to become close to her. He even goes so far as to remove any obstacle that stands in his way of getting to her by any means necessary.

Throughout the first season of the show Beck and Joe become in a relationship that got really intense. Joe Goldberg did whatever he could to keep Beck happy in his eyes even if it meant him taking a life of a loved one of Beck’s.

In the towards the end of the first season Beck starts to find out and put together the things Joe may have done, and discovers it is not his first time. The things he does towards the end of the season starts to look like everything is over but he “fixes” everything and tries to move on from Beck.

In the beginning of season 2 Joe decided to change his name to Will and starts a new life in California. He is determined that he is a changed man and will not fall for another woman and just live his life. As Joe tries to start off by finding a new job at another bookstore he meets Love Quinn who is played by Victoria Pedretti.

Joe tries his hardest not to fall for Love, but just cannot help himself. Throughout the second season Love and Joe become together, but Joe’s ways have not changed. By the end of the season there is a HUGE plot twist that completely blind sides the audience and captures the audience into staying tune to watch the third season. The release date for the third season is Friday April 9, 2021.