Advance Preview: Get Ready For One Wild Ride With Lifetime’s New Series You
Lifetime is set to premiere their new series, YOU, based on the novel by Caroline Kepnes, this coming Sunday, September 9, and fans are in for a wild ride. This new series follows Joe, a sociopath who finds himself enthralled with a young woman, Beck. As the episode progresses, Joe takes the audience through his thought process as his obsession with Beck increases.
The most frightening thing about this episode, and series, is not the violence, but how easily Joe is able to learn about Beck’s life. In the span of an episode, Joe is able to track Beck’s every waking moment due to her public and very active social media accounts. What makes this so frightening is that this is the reality of the world we live in today. People are able to decipher someones’ entire life based on what they have shared on the internet. It really rings home the reasoning behind private social media accounts.
Penn Badgley does a wonderful job of playing the charming, sociopath Joe. Penn’s ability to switch from those two very different emotions effortlessly make things a little easier to digest when Joe goes from sweet book-keeper to a crazy stalker. Elizabeth Lail plays the series’ leading lady Beck, the young graduate student looking to make a career in writing. Beck could potentially be a very unlikable character, based solely on her sheer stupidity, but Elizabeth does a great job of displaying Beck’s need to be accepted, even if that means being too nice. Shay Mitchell rounds out the cast as Beck’s rich friend, Peach, whom is not seen much in the episode.
Lifetime’s new series YOU can honestly be described as a more mature Riverdale. Both shows have a narrator, both shows have an intriguing twist, both shows have a good-looking cast, and both shows are produced by Greg Berlanti. However, what YOU does have, unlike Riverdale, is the ability to take things up a notch due to Lifetime’s less restrictive censoring. Because of this, YOU caters more to the audience that is looking for something a little more of than a dash of darkness in a one stop soda shop town.
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