She wants the world to hand her things she feels entitled to, rather than really try.
She’s a bit careless, selfish, and lets men use her (often to her advantage). Beck, like most everyone else on this show, is pretty quickly revealed be sort of insufferable. And yes, they mean that Salinger, but more on her later. She’s got a fantastic apartment (university housing has gotten luxe) with no curtains, a teachers assistant gig, and a bunch of rich friends to help her escape consequences - including her well-heeled bestie, Peach Salinger (Shay Mitchell).
Beck, as she’s called, is a free-spirited part-time yoga teacher who lives in the 30 Rock-described “bubble,” where attractive people just seem to have everything go their way. Play The new apple of his eye? Aspiring, coquettish writer Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail), the personification of what every ideal girl’s “supposed” to be. He just wants someone to see him and love him, particularly after being rejected by the love of his life, Candace. He knows he’s a good guy, he’s a protector. Joe is a good white boy with a hard childhood who was raised by - we later learn - a real manipulative SOB.
His is the story of pain and obsession and toxic masculinity (which, for context, as noted by, "is derived from studies that focus on violent behavior perpetrated by men, and-this is key-is designed to describe not masculinity itself, but a form of gendered behavior that results when expectations of 'what it means to be a man' go wrong" Y'know, like murdering people who are interested in the object of your affection). Enter: Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), our Nice Guy With Issues protagonist.
#You netflix series series#
The series plays with extremes, upending the way we look at relationships and modern dating. You is a horrifying love letter to all those romantic ideals and expectations that have permeated our society, for both men and women. The formally-on-Lifetime, now-on-Netflix (and renewed for a Season 2!) series based on the Caroline Kepnes novel of the same name, is so insane, you’re bound to be riveted and engaged, if nothing else.
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