You (season 4, episode 1) ★★★★
Creators: Sera Gamble and Greg Berlanti
Address: John Scott, Shamim Sharif and others
Distribution: Penn Badgley, Tati Gabrielle, Charlotte Ritchie, Lukas Gage
Country: United States of America
Duration: 41 and 52 min. (5 episodes)
Year: 2023
Gender: Thriller / Drama / Comedy
Premiere: February 9, 2023 (Netflix)
Let’s admit from the beginning that the first season will always be the best. Because modern TV had us accustomed to antiheroes or lovable assassins (Dexter Morgan), but nothing really prepared us for this one-of-a-kind romantic comedy, a boy-girl-dating story, or rather a psycho-girl-dating story. that he died at the end (‘spoiler’).
But ‘demonstrative’ greenhouse gambling (“The Wizards”) and producer Greg Berlanti, Joe Goldberg’s (Penn Badgley), the infatuated killer by Caroline Kepnes in successive seasons; each more satirical than the last, but never too far from the emotional truth.
At the end of the third, let’s remember, Joe survived a nightmare called Love (victoria pedretti Taking advantage of her vulnerable appearance), she faked murder-suicide and disappeared from the Madre Linda community after leaving her son with a good wife. (“For now,” says Joe in these episodes, as if advancing another generational adventure, ‘Dexter: New blood’). Last time we saw him in Paris (hundreds) he was searching for his romantic obsession, Marienne (Taty Gabrielle), our hero, who, despite everything, has fled to the city of love to get away from our lover, is a bright white knight.
In the first of the new episodes, we learn what happened to Marienne, but first of all, we enter the new life of Joe (the tenth), now an academic in London. With you is Jonathan Moore, a cool literature professor who introduced Ted Chiang to ‘The American Iconoclasts of the Story’ and gifted Joan Didion’s books to beat the duel.
Through his colleague Malcolm who went to the party (stephen hagan), Joe/Jonathan possibly discovers a new obsession, violent and independent Kate (charlotte ritchieFrom ‘Feel Good’), the girlfriend of a relative’s friend, for sure and finally getting involved. social circle of privileged snobs as tabloid favorite Lady Phoebe (Tilly Keeper) and her boyfriend, Adam (Lukas Gage), who owns the elite club they meet frequently. “If a bomb had fallen on the building, Britain’s GDP would have fallen by ten percent, but it’s still worth it”Joe tells himself that the hatred of the rich is eating away at him. The first secret to ‘You’ success has to be that inner voice that reveals antisociality beneath the friendly surface. Should we be worried if we agree too much with his point of view? Maybe, but it’s also comforting.
When a murder is committed, Joe assumes it was his work, although he can’t remember it now (absinthe fault). But the reality seems different, and our anti-hero delves into the subject like (or more) like a sociopathic Sherlock Holmes. Few things more British than that The classic ‘whodunit’ or ‘who made it’, a subgenre where Gamble and Berlanti add an ironic and class-conscious twist here Much more effective than recommended by Rian Johnson in ‘Glass onion’. A student, Nadia (Amy Leigh Hickman), encourages Joe to leave his own snobbery behind and learn to appreciate Agatha Christie-type mysteries, breaking his mechanisms and thus perhaps solving his new vital crisis more quickly.
There’s nothing missing in this round of episodes, at least in the first half (we’ll have to wait until March 9 for the second one), healthy moments of shock That Gamble and the crew couldn’t afford Lifetime, that the cable channel “You” was born but was never allowed to grow on it. Netflix can be criticized for a variety of reasons, but among other things, it’s worth celebrating its enthusiasm for rescuing valuable property and allowing creators to develop them with apparent freedom.