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Mar 10, 2023 · The second half of You’s fourth season completely casts a new light on Netflix’s hit thriller, and maybe for the better. Here’s the ending explained.
- If something doesn’t grow, it rots – and You is as fresh as ever.
- What We Said About You Season 3
- Score: 7
- What season of You has been your favorite (so far)?
- Verdict
By Francesca Rivera
Updated: Feb 10, 2023 10:38 pm
Posted: Feb 10, 2023 10:32 pm
This is a spoiler-free review of the whole season. Part 1 premiered on Feb 9, 2023, and Part 2 will arrive on March 9, 2023.
I am always giddy whenever there’s a new season of Netflix’s You. It’s an unhinged, unpredictable, very unserious show that has me sadistically curious to see just how much more delusional Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) can become in pursuit of a woman’s love and place in her life, and what bodies he’ll leave in his wake this time. What dangerous, outrageous thing will he do to “protect” her? Season 4 provides us with another great round of all of that and more, giving Joe a complex new situation that challenges his sense of duty, while still telling a story that’s a bloody good time.
Season 3 ended with Joe faking his death so he could follow Marienne (Tati Gabrielle) to Paris, but season 4 takes a sharp right, sends Joe to London, and makes him an unsuspecting Hercule Poirot in the middle of an Agatha Christie murder mystery with an overt “eat the rich” slant. Definitely not what anyone was expecting, but it’s an exciting direction that puts Joe in a new and complex position that will test his patience and restraint. Whereas he’s had to simply survive among the New York Peach Salingers, the Los Angeles Quinns, and the mommy bloggers of Madre Linda, he now has to thrive among the generational wealth and status of London society – a culture of classism that has been bred for centuries and beyond American understanding. Here, the murder-mystery genre conventions efficiently enrich You’s own tradition of non-linear storytelling.
Some viewers want to see good people doing good things. Others want to see the worst of the worst – truly despicable people wallowing in their destruction. You has always done the latter well, and it continues to do so with Season 3. Joe and Love, seemingly perfect for each other before, have become something so disgusting and revulsive that you ca...
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You is good at upping the ante of dynamic complexity with each season, with Joe as the evolving (devolving?) constant from season to season. We’re now four seasons into a show that takes on an almost entirely new supporting cast every year and Badgley is consistently able to hold it down as the straight man to the bigger characters. He’s great at subtly reacting and giving his scene partners something to bounce off of, knowing that his wry narration supplements that performance. Under a new identity as a professor, Joe’s made a quiet life for himself discussing American literature with young minds at a local college. He’s particularly good-natured with one of his students, the jaded Nadia (Amy-Leigh Hickman), who’s playing the younger sibling role to Joe, reminiscent of his relationship with Paco from season 1 and Ellie from season 2. Ed Speelers plays the mayoral hopeful Rhys Montrose with an easy balance of cheekiness and tough love that disarms a desperate Joe looking for redemption.
It’s new for Joe – and new for us – to see that he may actually have a mature match that accepts his past.
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Season 1 - Beck
Season 2 - Love
Season 3 - Marienne
Penn Badgley carries Joe’s accumulated weariness from stalking, stabbing, and hacking so naturally in his physicality and presence this season. He’s tired and not looking for any trouble, and there is a lightness to him (after literally burning everything down and fleeing the country last season) that is more controlled, mature, and open. Yet when things don’t go his way, we’re reminded of the controlled rage that resides deep inside Joe, never fully gone. This season gives Badgley a lot to work with and great scene partners to bounce off, giving a truly complex performance that reflects on his past, his failed romances, his traumas, and what is next for him.
Just like Joe Goldberg himself, Netflix’s You is able to reinvent itself in little ways to keep things fresh season after season while still staying true to its storytelling thumbprint, year after year. Supplemented this season by side-stepping into the murder-mystery genre, You effectively uses a split season in order to pull off some truly shocki...
Feb 9, 2023 · ‘You’ season four part one is streaming now on Netflix. Posh people dominate this reinvented whodunnit cum satire of the British class system. Should you watch You season 4 on Netflix?
- Nick Levine
Feb 9, 2023 · Verdict: You season 4 part 1 smartly adds mystery elements to the murder soap and explores more overt “eat the rich” themes. Interesting new characters inject energy and flair, while Penn...
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Feb 9, 2023 · You season 4 part 1 on Netflix review: this schlocky, murdery drama as awfully good as ever. The fourth installment of Penn Badgley’s turn as his old Gossip Girl character gone bad is the...
You season 4 part 1 ending explained: Did Joe survive? You season 4 part 1 is out now on Netflix , while part 2 will land on 9th March. Seasons 1-3 are streaming now.
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