YOU (From Gold to Bronte, the testament of wokism damage to entertainment media.)

12/22

"Is she actually reading The Lonliest Girl in the Universe? No way.." - Joe Goldberg

 Utterly surprised by this series, which shunned me at first with a terrible title and a vague synopsis, surprised by its depth, by its intensity, by its brilliance, and constant renovation. The series go three seasons (so far) in which we get to know Joe Goldberg, an obsessive serial killer, or in anime terms, a male yandere.

 The basis of the series did have potential, but it could have gone awry in many ways. The first good thing is that because the tale is told by Joe himself, that by the way has a charming voice, the series manages to make the Lolita effect in which we viewers know that Joe is a psycho killer, but we empathize with him. We understand him, in a way. I have confirmed this with other viewers.

 The second good thing is that even if Joe is the main character, he's not the only character that gets development. As the name suggests each season is mainly about three characters, Joe and two others (no spoiler), and we get to know those two others just as well as we know Joe, engagingly. That's very difficult to handle. The third and very important thing is that the series doesn't repeat itself. The first season was amazing, with the gorgeous library in NY and Beck, the lit-student low-class poet. Some would be tempted to repeat that, stay at the library, somehow making the characters go back to where they began and create a formula, like Dr. House or Bones.

 But that's not what happens: the series surprises us over and over in the second and the third season. The ending was a bit intense, and it wasn't what I was expecting, but the series remained faithful to what I pointed out earlier. 10/10 (with season three being a bit lower in score)

3/2023 YOU (update season 4) and 5/2025 You (Update season 5)

PR (Yes, spoilers): After the tragic demise of our beloved character that should've gotten a spin-off series of her own, Love, the one and only, the literal best girl that perfectly matches Joe had he shut his trap and enjoyed being a house husband...

The series pick up after an ellipsis of Joe going around the world chasing the negro woman, whose name is not worth recalling, but we shall henceforth refer to her as the home breaker, who is evil and should be destroyed, harbinger of plot demise and ultimatly not canon (I've checked)... Moving on, Joe goes to france (where else would you find something like that?) and tracks her to a fair, chases her to a building and pretends to let her go, only to knock her out from behind and tossing her in the cage. 

Yes, I hate every other girl character that isn't Love, and I'm tired of pretending that I don't.

This is mostly narrated to us from the home breaker's perspective with her demeaning, patronizing "child story" and her two-cent drawings here and there. And it isn't fully narrated until the end, because most the season is Joe having "moved on" to teach literature in England. You know it's a series when it's the american doing the stabbing in London.

Then, he forms part of a snobbish circle of brits and tries to blend in, all the while a killer known as the "eat the rich killer" is, well, killing rich people. Notably in his circle. The plot leads us to believe that some politician/writer dude that looks a lot like Stilson from Dead Zone is the perpetrator, but it's actually Joe and his newfound resentment towards the rich. This resentment surges now out of nowhere, if I may add. 

Part of the plot he tries to protect this Kate woman from the "eat the rich killer" and develops his thing for her. Kate is a thoroughly boring character, Ice Queen sort of style but with no substance behind it other than "the rich also suffer", which coupled with the killer and the indian student that gets locked up for a crime she didn't commit gives the new You series a very socio-economical critique, modern style that's very unlike what we had going before.

The taste of their food, etc. Can we bring Love back now? Please?

  Well, after a lot of social comments and actuality references, like the Van Gogh vandalism thing, comes the plot twist where Home Breaker is locked in the cage and Joe has suddenly and for absolutely no reason develop some kind of DID/Schizophrenia thing that makes him dissociate his killer self from the also killer self but less self-aware. 

I would like to say that Rhys Montrose which is the "evil" side of Joe carries the entire season along with Kate's dad, that doesn't really do much but the rest of the plot is so generic at least is fun to get a breather. Well, they make Home Breaker trick Joe by feigning an overdose, he doesn't confirm the kill or chop her into pieces like he does with literally everybody else, so she escapes. A bad penny always turns up, doesn't it? 

Joe foresees that next season is going to pass from being slighly below average to out-right shit-tier, so he tries to kill himself. He doesn't succeed.

"My ending was way worse than I expected" Joe Goldber, end of season 5

S05 PR: As it was foreseen, Kate Gavlin or whatever her last name is, doesn't keep true to her promise of tolarating Joe's darker side, so she cuts all ties with him only leaving a small pension to keep him quiet. This is after she uses him as cheap hitman, by the way. He, then "falls" for some red haired woman that somehow manages to make Kate look pretty and employs her in his library (he got it back) after finding her stealing books. I'll give you a minute to assimilate that. 

Turns out, the red haired woman was part of a tiktok group that has the goal of incriminating, sorry, get "proof" that he's a serial killer. They succeed, but it costed the life of the one male in the group. Yes, the remaining two are fat lesbians. Yes. No, I don't know why would they do that. Yes, it got the same treatment as Joker.

Then, a series of poorly constructed events of Red Hair "falling for Joe" but actually not, but actually yes, but wait, not really, follow and ultimatly ends on Joe getting shot in the dick and thrown into jail. Yes, they've included memes for Joe getting shot in the dick during the finale. It's a conspiracy. 

So you don't leave with the nasty sensation of that thing they call an ending, I'll put a GIF of Best Girl Love here at the bottom. 

The face Love makes when she sees the series went to shit after she dies. No wonders she is so adamant with Joe loving only her.