In December last year came to Netflix a series that gives you something to say: You, who first aired for Lifetime, but was canceled soon after due to poor audience results, its creators did not give up and decided to leave it in the hands of Netflix, where it was watched by more than 40 million viewers and renewed for a second season (although it was not necessary to have one).
You work a little like those pleasures surrounded by guilt that you refuse to admit, but that you really appreciate. We know that what we see is not one of the best series of the year, but we couldn’t get off the screen. In fact, the series contains many errors and deals frivolously with the world of literature and the studies dedicated to it, but it has an attractive and highly addictive plot.
- Why are you talking? Without this lens.
- It’s almost scariest than any horror series or movie.
- Its protagonist.
- Joe.
- Is a charming man.
- A true Prince Charming who hides a terrifying truth.
- Above all.
- It gives something to talk about because it shows how vulnerable we are and the problems associated with social media overexposure.
You adopt the romantic comedy format only to destroy it later. The beginning follows the theme of the girl meeting a boy in an unusual place, there is a lot of chemistry between them, and then the occasional encounters are repeated until the spark of love arises.
However, at home, meetings are anything but occasional. As soon as young Beck leaves the bookstore with a smile on her face for meeting a handsome salesman, Joe researches her life and develops a plan to convince her.
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You present very different characters that, in a way, seek love, in turn the idea of love and the way it manifests itself differs greatly from one character to another, so we have characters who seek a way to love each other. , characters who seek to fall in love and share life with someone, others who do not accept their homosexuality, etc.
Everything seems to revolve around the idea of love. An idea that, on the other hand, is abstract, complex and very subjective. For Joe, there is love at first sight; he believes in romantic stories and ends up forcing love to unknown boundaries, meets Beck in his bookstore, and from that moment we realize that Joe analyzes his lens in detail, looking at her from the shadows as the predator who evaluates his prey.
Joe has no social media, but controls Beck through his own, presents himself as a mysterious, different, somewhat lonely young man, a prototype that corresponds a lot to the complicated but fascinating man. A man with a dark past that only we can help.
One way or another, Joe produces this fascination, acts like the gentleman Disney wanted to sell us, the one who saves us, listens to us, with whom we will live happily ever after.
However, enchanted princes do not exist, and Joe is nothing more than a set of appearances. Behind his bravery lies a true stalker.
Some viewers have confused Joe’s toxicity with true love, but the actor who plays him, Penn Badgley, has taken on the task of demystifying this idea and reminding us that his character is nothing more than a stalker.
One way or another, telling the story through the thinking of its protagonist generates some empathy for her, or rather a certain desire to see her plans come true. Joe investigates Beck and discovers that he has a toxic relationship with a young woman. Benji, who seems to be using it, in turn discovers that his group of friends is just as toxic and that Beck is constantly struggling to fit in, Joe will be dedicated to eliminating all the people who, one way or another, another, darken Beck’s life and hinder Joe’s rise as a man of his life.
The truth is that their first victims, Benji and Peach, are unbearable and we don’t want them to be with Beck either. The young woman’s life improves considerably when Benji disappears. Joe justifies his actions out of love, for Beck, and his relationship murdered characters of dubious morality, so it can’t be bad.
One way or another, Joe manages to get involved in his thoughts, make us believe that he has a reason to kill and that love can justify everything. At the same time, we see a certain side of humanity in its relationship with Paco. Paco is Joe’s neighbor, a boy from a completely shattered family: his mother is a drug addict and his stepfather is an aggressor. Joe helps Paco a lot, offers him books and makes his life a little less sad.
This humanity contrasts with the atrocity we see in him, leads us to wonder how a person who looks so kind and who shows feelings can be a stalker, Joe cares too much, even getting so obsessed that his duty is to intervene and do everything. to make those who care happy. But this happiness is also subjective, because it is only your own vision of what should make others happy.
Much more than approaching Joe, trying to understand the complexity of his thoughts, you propose something really scary: it’s likely that anyone will be persecuted, harassed and anyone can become a stalker. In a world where we post our lives on social media, isn’t it very difficult to get an idea of where a person goes, their tastes, their environment?So it’s getting easier and easier to fall victim to someone like Joe.
If we add to that the fact that Beck is a very precarious girl, who seeks the approval of others, who has economic and family problems, we will realize that she is the ideal target, there is no longer intimacy, and although the image us The project on the networks is different from reality, the truth is that we leave a lot of information available to be stolen and used against us.
Besides, the line between love and obsession becomes increasingly blurry Who has never been a small stalker with someone?Who has never discovered unexpected things about someone on the Internet?The information is closer than ever and too tempting to resist.
Beck herself begins to investigate Joe’s past when she begins to doubt him. Are Joe and Beck so different? The difference is that Joe goes from being a simple observer to one who uses that information to achieve a goal, knows his preferences, his environment, pretends to have a chance encounter and begins his conquest.
With the power of information, he knows what to say every moment for Beck to enter his network, but the obsession is dangerous and Joe crosses that thin line, becoming the stalker we see on the screen.
Because of the similarities to our own reality, You become a terrifying series that immediately leads us to rething the content we share while dismantling the romantic ideal of cinema, demonstrating that Prince Charming can be, at the same time, someone who will destroy your life.