2020 had been less brutal to the psychotic-thriller lovers since Netflix’s American series You has been renewed for its third season in the month of January which is set to release in 2021, delayed due to the pandemic. The series developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble and produced by Warner Horizon Television, in association with Alloy Entertainment and A&E Studios. The first season, which was released in 2018, the second season released exclusively on Netflix on December 26, 2019. The book adapted series (inspired from the novels You and Hidden Bodies, written by Caroline Kepnes) has got a rating of 7.8 on IMDb and 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, with a total of 20 episodes over 2 seasons and is pumping up for the third one.
The official description on Netflix goes like this, “A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by.” The story starts around a man named Joe Goldberg, a book store manager in New York City, who falls for an aspiring writer named Guinevere Beck and starts stalking her over the social media platforms and using other technologies, in order to keep a track on her existence and eliminating the unwanted and upcoming obstacles, thus feeding up his toxic obsession with a person. Season 2 starts with a tough encounter with Joe’s former lover, Candace, and he escapes to Los Angeles, taking up a fake identity as Will and manages to get a job in a book cafe of a trendy family-owned grocery store, Anavrin, and befriends his 15-year-old neighbor Ellie. Yet again, he grows an infatuation on a woman named Love Quinn, and as usual waters his obsession for her and resumes stalking, seeping slowly into her privacy.
You even got nominated for the 2019 Saturn Awards and 2020 Casting Society of America. It stars Penn Badgley as Joe, Elizabeth Lail as Beck, Shay Mitchell as Peach, Ambyr Childers as Candace, Victoria Pedretti as Love, James Scully as Forty, Jenna Ortega as Ellie, Carmela as Delilah and many more.