You

You is a crime, thriller series released on Netflix on 26th December 2018. Peen Badgley (previously in Gossip Girl) plays Joe Goldberg, a bookstore worker in New York.

Guinevere Beck (played by Elizabeth Lail) enters Mooney’s bookshop and Goldberg becomes infatuated with her. As soon as he returns home he finds her on every social media, and finds her address, the college that she attends, and all of her personal details.

He often visits her flat, dressed in all black and lurks in the shadows behind trees, opposite her flat window. He appears to be prying on her every move, and even the most intimate moments. He watches her have sex with her then boyfriend, and when she is getting undressed in her bedroom.

He pretends to bump into Beck in a bar, and helps her when she is intoxicated in the subway, where he phones a taxi and drops her home. They exchange phone numbers.

Joe makes it his aim for Beck to become his girlfriend, and he decides to remove any obstacles that may stop Beck falling in love with him, no matter what it takes. He kills multiple people, and holds them hostage for days in the glass box in the basement of the bookstore. Originally intended to be at the correct temperature in order to preserve first copy editions of books, yet Goldberg uses this to his advantage in order to preserve the bodies.

Joe follows Beck as she goes for a weekend away with her bestfriend Peach (played by Shay Mitchell), and constantly hides in different corners around the house in order to not be caught. He makes a comment after urinating in a bottle and leaving it on a shelf, saying “I’ll come back for that later.” He forgets; and this is the first sign that he is not as clever as he seems.

He kills Benji, Beck’s ex boyfriend and uses Benji’s phone to text Beck to say that he was “going away for a while.” He kills Peach’s, who always had suspicions about Goldberg. Although he kills more people throughout the season; these two are of the most significance. He frames Peach’s death as a drug overdose.

You is a thriller that highly emphasises the dangers of modern day society, and the impact that technology has on privacy. Guinevere’s personal details and address were all easily accessible online for a complete stranger to find. This had a huge impact on the viewers of You, and Netflix amassed a whopping 40 million views of the season in the first month. Many people were much more aware of their online social media presence, and changed their privacy settings.

The series concludes where Beck, who discovers an item from each of the people killed by Goldberg in a small box, hidden in the ceiling in the bathroom. She screams, and realises that her boyfriend is a serial killer, and is instantly knocked unconscious after Goldberg hits her over the head. She wakes up in the glass box in the basement of Mooney’s. She manages to convince Goldberg to open the door and walk into the box with her. Luckily, she escapes and locks him in. She shrieks in delight, and begins to climb the stairs to get out of the basement.

Goldberg appears out of the box and in the basement, revealing he had a spare key in the box.

Beck runs up the stairs, but is greeted with bars over the door, and she cannot escape. She begs Paco (Goldberg’s neighbour) to let her out. He idolises Joe, and just walks off, fully aware that she was going to be killed, yet he seemed so unfazed by it.

She screams, and is dragged into the basement.

Four months later, Beck is dead but her published book is shown being placed onto the shelves in Mooney’s, by Joe Goldberg. The end credits roll, and we still have no idea where Guinevere Beck is.

Netflix have promised that You will be returning for a second season, which began filming in early 2019.