After our anti-hero, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) ostensibly settled down to family life in suburbia, in season 3, the new season gets a shot in the am, as Joe picks up and moves to England – having changed his identity, grown a bead, and scored a job as a college professor.
As Joe assimilates into a group of super-rich, super annoying hipsters, you just know he’s going to have to do away with someone. The new season comes as close to an Agatha Christie mystery as a show like this will ever get – and it’s a device that injects a new energy while keeping the basic premise that we’ve come to love: a hunky and intellectual psycho who only kills bad people, or when he just has to. And with a group of people like this – mostly hanging out together at an estate, the finite number of characters adds that old school mystery vibe to the proceedings.
Two essential components are back: Joe’s constant inner monologues and, yes, that Plexiglas cage – the latter plays, as you’d expect, an important part of at least one or two episodes. And the new element is a cat and mouse set up: someone among his group of socialites knows his true identity (and phone number, lol) so Joe must hunt down the person who is hunting (o at least toying) with him. Fun.
Joe’s love interest for this season is Kate, a wonderfully “over it , cynical Charlotte Ritchie.
And that’s all I’m saying – no spoilers from me. It’s a darn near perfect season and, yes, there will be a season 5, no firm date as of now.
‘You’, all four seasons, currently streaming on Netflix
