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You is based on Caroline Kepnes' best-selling novel of the same name, You is a 21st century love story about an obsessive, yet brilliant twenty-something who uses the hyper connectivity of today's technology to make the woman of his dreams fall in love with him. In addition to Berlanti and Gamble, Sarah Schechter, Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo serve as executive producers.
Badgley is still immensely watchable as Joe, who has the heart of a rom-com hero and the mind/lack of impulse control of a creepy stalker. The actor juggles the dual duties of on-screen performance and voiceover narration with unrelenting charm.
The stakes have been raised, the body count is higher and you soon become as obsessed with this story as Joe is with love. We are starting to feel a lot less guilty about this particular guilty pleasure.
It is every inch the Lifetime show it began as, and just as wickedly sharp or thoughtful as another show with loftier goals. This makes You feel dangerous. Like it shouldn't work so well.
For all its ecstatic turns and arch, sometimes operatic nature, You is ultimately an unnerving, complicated portrait of male violence - how it begins, whom it targets, and how its effects ripple outward.
Perhaps the intent is to shock us into awareness of quite how rotten is this fellow for whom we feel so much, but that's a magic trick that could really only work once.