YOU Season 3 Review: A Much Better Outing than the Previous!

The hit Netflix series You returned over the weekend for its third season and it wastes no time getting underway. This season, our favourite murderous duo Joe and Love (played by Penn Badgley and Victoria Pedretti) have put up their white picket fence in an exclusive suburban hell in order to give their son the best life possible. Their efforts to give him the childhood neither of them had would be admirable if this were any other couple… As predicted, it doesn’t take long before old habits begin to creep back in.

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Stuck in his suburban nightmare, I can definitely see where Joe is coming from when he gives his laborious monologues about shallow, self absorbed people. However, in doing so he becomes the very thing he loves to criticize. Elitist and condescending. The irony. I couldn’t help feeling while watching that he and Love should probably just stay together to keep the rest of us safe.

Joe’s problem is that he not only needs someone to save but he also builds these women up in his head to the point where reality cannot compete. When they inevitably don’t live up to his expectations…things quickly sour. Victoria Pedretti delivers an outstanding performance as Love and even though people hated her this season, I actually began to like her. The character gets more development and we see things a bit from her perspective. The interactions between her and Joe are also more entertaining and organic.

One thing the show focuses on is uncomfortable family dynamics and the effects of broken homes and childhood trauma. How it inevitably shapes the adults we become. Which begs the question…are you destined for specific outcomes the more damaged your childhood is? It’s weird to me that Joe keeps meeting all these beautiful women who’ve read all these classical works….let’s be honest, in this day and age you’ll probably only meet a few people like that especially by chance.

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Episode 8 was a madness though the finale was a bit too contrived for me but then again, that’s Joe’s M.O… Overall, I found this season to be better than last and I enjoyed the side characters a lot more. I question where the story could possibly go from here but yet somehow, they keep finding ways.

‘YOU Season 3’ Rating – 4/5

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