Penn Badgley Reminds Fans His âYouâ Character Joe Goldberg Is the Worst
Former Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley is now playing a stalking, murderous boyfriend on You, a thriller that recently moved to Netflix from Lifetime. Now that You is gaining a whole new audience, fans of the show on Twitter are seemingly having a bit of difficulty with romanticizing Joe Goldberg, who letâs repeat, is literally a murderer.
Luckily, Penn is here to clear things up. In a series of tweets on Jan. 9, he addressed fan commentary on the series, including one person who wrote, âKidnap me pls.â Pennâs response? âNo thx.â Another fan tweeted, âSaid this already but @PennBadgley is breaking my heart once again as Joe. What is it about him?â And Penn readily answered: âA: He is a murderer.â
If you havenât seen season 1 of You yet, Penn plays Joe, a bookstore manager in New York who sees a stranger in his store one day and decides to follow her, steal her cell phone, stalk her friends (including Shay Mitchellâs character Peach Salinger), and more to make her fall in love with him. The show aims to turn romantic comedy tropes on their heads, reminding viewers at every turn that Joeâs relationship with Guinevere Beck is anything but healthy. Part of the trick, of course, is that at times Joe and Beck seem cute together (isnât it great how weâve been conditioned to believe stalking can be flattering?) â until you remember Joe is actually a violent, obsessive dude who entraps women under the guise of being a woke, sensitive, literary-minded boyfriend.
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