‘You’ Season 4 Review: Fresh Stalkings
metroweekly.comYou.Maybe it’s the way Penn Badgley looks with or without a beard. Or maybe it’s the show’s funny, yet cutting satire on the people we suffer through every day.But damn, four seasons in, You (★★★★☆), Netflix’s series about a sociopath who obsesses over women, still hits that same perverse spot it did to make it one of the streamer’s best in recent years.Originally a Lifetime Original adapted from Caroline Kepnes’s book series, You was brought to the screen by producing giants Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, who installed former Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley as the lead.After one season aired on Lifetime, the show migrated to Netflix, where it blew up and has remained a permanent fixture since season two.Badgley stars as Joe Goldberg, a troubled sociopath with inclinations for becoming obsessed with random women, ingratiating himself into their lives, and then killing anyone who gets in his way.On paper, this seems like a strange recommendation in the #MeToo era, but You‘s greatest strength has become its humor, focusing on entertainment and sardonic musings on everyday life from a truly messed up man.Over the first three seasons, Joe traveled across the coasts, going from being a bookstore manager in New York to a young dad in suburban California.
After completely setting his life ablaze, season four finds Joe in London, donning the name Jonathan Moore, and becoming an English professor while trying to have a normal life.Joe becomes friends with coworker Malcolm (Stephan Hagan), who introduces him to his circle of very rich socialites.
Among these are spoiled rich kids Adam and Phoebe (Lukas Gage and Tilly Keeper), famous memoirist and mayoral hopeful Rhys Montrose (Ed Speleers), and Malcolm’s girlfriend Kate (Charlotte.
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