On the other hand, not everyone has firsthand experience with the 5 square miles this show has opted to make its punching bag. I am exactly who You is taking satirical aim at this season, and reader: I feel thoroughly dragged. I happen to be a writer in my 20s living in Silver Lake before that, I was in Los Feliz, the neighborhood where Joe conveniently finds a furnished apartment shortly after touching down. geography, but for You’s purposes that means Los Feliz, Silver Lake, and other environs chock-full of 2010s clichés, also seen in movies like Ingrid Goes West and shows like You’re the Worst. “East side” is a contested term when it comes to L.A. where 20-somethings are hanging out, you have to go east,” cocreator Sera Gamble told the L.A. “If you want to capture the real L.A., especially the L.A. Nevertheless, You bears down on the parts a Hollywood writers’ room knows best-which also happen to be the parts where someone like Joe and the fake-deep women he’s drawn to would spend their time. The Los Angeles of You’s second season is a very particular slice of a sprawling, diverse metropolis that can’t be reduced to a single stereotype. After committing a few murders and running afoul of an ex, however, Joe does what millions of his demographic peers have done before and will since: heads west. The first season tackled the social mores of white, well-off, 20-something New York: MFA programs Brown reunions over brunch an heiress named “Peach Salinger.” With his artfully rumpled button-downs and self-congratulatory obsession with books, Joe could hide in plain sight part of the terror, and the joke, was that he’s an only slightly more psychotic version of a guy you’d swipe right for on Hinge. What has changed, however, is You’s setting.
And, oh yeah, Joe still keeps a human-size cage on hand in case anyone needs imprisoning. There’s still a vulnerable teenager Joe feels the need to protect because they remind him of his abused, traumatized younger self. The beautiful woman in question is still kind of a jerk herself, fueling both You’s indictment of Joe and its indiscriminate contempt for yuppie scum.
Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is still a creepy sociopath who can’t help himself from objectifying, obsessing over, and flat-out stalking beautiful women. Not much has changed in the second season of You, the Lifetime thriller turned Exhibit A of the Netflix bump.
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