The drama relocates to London, and ends up being a wild ride through bluffs, double-bluffs and its lead’s tremendous performance. After this long, it shouldn’t be so fun
It’s taken me long enough to realise it, but the Netflix series You – now entering its fourth season – is very close to being good. Although we have to be careful, throwing around words with traditional meanings such as “good”, don’t we. It’s not good, exactly, in that it’s good, but it’s very good at what it does, and I think in 2023 that’s close enough to good that we’ll take it. So: despite everything I have said about You since its inception, the Netflix series You is g – I can’t say it. It’s gooooo – I can’t. [Closes eyes, inhales deeply] it’s alright.
Where are we this time? After New York, LA and suburbia, Joe now finds himself murdering about in London, although in a way you may have to turn your brain off for: he teaches on a campus in Egham, exits on to a street in Spitalfields, then walks all the way to the expansive flat in Kensington that he lives in on a professorial salary. (Normally I don’t care too much about US productions taking egregious licenses with London geography and financial reality, but come on.) He sees a beautiful woman for less than 100th of a second through a window and falls utterly and completely in love with her in a way that somehow always ends up with a perspex cage. The point with You, though, is to just let it wash over you without thinking too hard – essentially it’s a soap, just with higher production values and an incredible face and performance at the centre of it – and the schlockiness of it has always been a feature, not a bug. No more is this evident in season four, where Joe – doing the usual growling, menacing voiceover that Penn Badgley so excels at – is faced with a cavalcade of posh English people, all sounding more English than an English person has ever sounded on screen. Obviously, at some point, someone dies. The cogs whirr into motion. Bluffs and double-bluffs. Every character could secretly be a threat. Thrills and twists await. And then, that beautiful woman wanders casually on to screen and – hello, you. Continue reading...
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