You: Season 2 Kills It! (A Spoiler Free Review!)

I was trying to nail that pun in the title. Hope it really resonated with you reading this right now. Okay, so after binging the first season of You I couldn't wait to see what Joe was going to do next. With the return of his thought-to-be dead ex-girlfriend Candace, showing up to his book store after the manipulation of Beck's death and Joe turning their twisted story into a best selling novel, the roller coaster of tensions went up and down and all the way back up by the end of the series. So this brings us to season 2 of You. What is Joe going to do about Candace? I thought. Is he going to lock her up in the glass box he had in the soundproof basement? It surely couldn't be that easy.

Joe takes up a new name in Season 2, Will Bettleheim to hide from Candace, as you'll soon find out why when you watch the show. So forgive me, I'm going to keep calling him Joe because it keeps it simple. In this season Joe is really just hiding out from Candace in LA, hoping to stay low while scraping up enough money to move somewhere else. That is until he sees Love, the new "love" interest. (This post may or may not have more puns beyond this point, I haven't decided yet.)

Season 2 takes place in Los Angeles as opposed to New York in S1. While I did appreciate the scenery of New York more, the LA tropes the show deals with, while at times are insanely cliche, are somewhat believable if you think about the craziest things you've seen if you're from the LA area. The tropes can be a little distracting and take a little away from the believability of it all, but Joe locks people up in a glass box because he loves someone and wants to protect them, so really it might be the most believable part of the show after all?

Some of the characters this season are insanely funny, just inanely funny. Shoutout my boy Forty, after making the most obnoxious entrance of any character I've ever seen, you get this feeling of "damn this guy's gonna be ANNOYING HUH?!?" And he quickly turned into one of my favorite characters of the whole show as a whole, he's absolutely hilarious. Other characters, specifically Candace, I really just wanted to go away. I wanted her to stop with her vendetta against Joe, so that Joe could fall in love with Love. But he has committed murder in the past and tried to kill Candace specifically so... I can understand where she's coming from. Even Penn Badgley, the actor who plays Joe, said You is really "about how far we're willing to go to forgive an evil white man." And that really nails the entire message of the show. It's not just, "oh he would kill for love."

This season brought so many twists and turns I wasn't sure what was going to happen in the next scene. Plus, knowing what I know now, having finished the season. Let me just say, throw out every possible scenario you have about what's going to happen, because it's not right. And if you somehow have an idea of what's going to happen with Joe and Candace and Joe's new love interest Love, (yes that's her name, and yes it did get confusing when Joe would talk about the concept of love and Love herself) then you're just sick.

If you're one of the ones who hasn't seen You at all, I highly recommend this show to you! It's a fantastic thriller show that will have you on the edge of your seat after every episode. Go watch the show in entirety, it's all on Netflix, so you have no excuse not to!