May 20
The first season is so fantastic. Still my favorite. Lail might have only come back for little cameos peppered throughout the remaining 40 episodes, but Beck is such a large part of the narrative until the very end.
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The first season is so fantastic. Still my favorite. Lail might have only come back for little cameos peppered throughout the remaining 40 episodes, but Beck is such a large part of the narrative until the very end.
He steals her phone and then keeps it. Creep.
Beck is and always has been the best character here
Benji is even more of a jerk than I remember
The pilot episode of You is still one of my favorite pilots ever. Creepy as heck, of course, but still great.
I just love how this character is introduced within the first minute of his dialogue saying "Women who wear bracelets are asking to be ogled" and he somehow never stops getting worse from there. Like Walter White at least took half a season before it starts to become clear what a bastard he is. Joe Goldberg is a creepy misogynist right out of the gate, AND STILL fans end up describing his Season 1 characterization as "back when he was likable", because the dead-eyed Machiavellian he became still makes the stinky incel he started out as seem quaint by comparison!
Writing an antihero the audience is supposed to slowly turn against is one thing. Spending five seasons making a character progressively more despicable and terrifying, when the pilot episode already made you want to punch them and it's hard to imagine sinking any lower, that's no easy feat!
They really tried to make Matthew out to be the bad guy at the beginning but honestly, that man was just living his life and the next thing he knew, his wife was dead; Theo was sleeping with a Quinn, and his name being dragged to the dirt followed by a setup with his wife and Gil that obviously was cracked. And he knew that.
The whole time, this man is in pain.
I love how much Theo is so much like Forty, where even Love comments resemblances between them. And then you got Joe who is hooking onto Natalie, then Marianne. And it’s like Love is really out here hooked on a guy who acts like her brother and Joe’s trying to navigate his mommy issues.
No one should have gotten married. What y’all should have done after Forty died was seek grief counseling.