Review 'You'

E. de Escarlata.

Title: You

Gender: Drama

Country : USA 

Year: 2018-

You is a serie that I have liked quite a bit because I find that it breaks with the canons set in the traditional movies  wich are about true love. I'll try not to make spoilers, but I promise nothing.

Synopsis.

Joe, who has not had an easy childhood, is works in a book shop, lives in New York and is apparently a good man who cares about a teenager who lives in his building who must endure his stepfather's ill-treatment and the disdain of a drug-addicted mother. He has a dark secret: he's an obsessed man with his couples and toxic. He distrusts them. When his relationship ends, he leaves his city and goes Los Angeles to change his life but there lives similar tessituras to the Big Apple.

Season one (2018)

The story begins at the bookstore where Joe works when, a few months after breaking up with his girlfirend, Candance, he meets a beautiful young woman who is pursuing her doctoral studies, Guinevere Beck. She pays for the books she bought by credit card so he discovers her name and starts looking for her on social media. She, from a humble background, posts several photographs every day appearing to have more purchasing power than she has and uploads stories rubbing shoulders with the New York elite who takes advantage of her to get fast sex. Joe soon finds out where he lives and draws up a plan to conquer it, so he does. They start a stormy relationship and it doesn't go well like all relationships like all relationships like all this kind.

Season two (2019)

With the failure of this relationship, Joe decides to put an end to his life in New York and goes to California. There, he works in an ecological shop ruled by two twins, Forty and Love, two rich siblings, whose parents figures have never acted as parents but have done so as walking chequebooks generating various traumas and complexes in their children. Joe, falls for Love and they begin a toxic and insane relationship. On the other hand, as in New York, he tries to care for a 15-year-old girl who has no parents and lives with her older sister.

Review.

Two warnings are issued in this serie. The first, the hidden face of Social Media. We do not realize that the smallest detail of our life can reveal information to any stalker (this does not understand genders). The second, You denounce all the "romantic" relationship that the Hollywood industry tries to spread about the conception of love and relationships that are mostly times toxic.

If this serie would have continued the same mainstream line of this topic that has been central in the cinema for decades the plot would look like this: A boy falls in love with a girl and cares so much for her so he decides to "watch" her for no one would harm her. When the story really is this: A shitty stalker becomes obsessed with a girl, the spy, tries to take her away from all her loved ones in order to become the center of her attention. Obsession is not love is toxicity and generates dependence.

Joe has shaped his personality with distrust, with constant abandonments of his attachment figure and for that reason he blames all people of his miseries. He is an obsessive narcissist who never consider that the cause of his misery is himself. To victimize himself, he employs a puerile resource that is basically self-convinced that all his actions are conditioned by love. Apart from his narcissism, you can see certain misogynistic traits in his character because for him, the woman is always to blame for all his misfortunes, always abandons him for another because the female gender always tends to promiscuity. Throughout the first season, his obsessive and controlling makes him stalk his partners on social media as well as in real life. One of the phrases that struck me most (probably not literal) was when, after briefly breaking up with Beck, he said "I'm already getting over it, I only look at their nets three times a day."

In the second season, we see how he tries to fight his nature episode after episode but he fails. It has behaviors very similar to those of the first season but do not focus so much on social networks but predominate in everyday moments. For example, he buys a telescope to observe his new girlfriend from his home.  From my humble opinion, this new season is a refried of its predecessor: boy becomes obsessed with a girl with trauma, they begin a relationship of dependence, there are friendships and also secondary plots similar to those that occurred in New York which makes i'll take a look if this initiative is going to stretch like chewing gum or it's going to continue to the same level as it has so far.

My review of the series is positive. I think the setting is good, the direction is good, the script, although somewhat predictable in the second season, does not disappoint because it offers a new approach to the traditional toxic love stories that we are used to seeing. I found the cast very successful because the actresses and the actors fit perfectly into their characters. I love the characterization of Joe, Candance and Love. Maybe, from the latter, i'll make an entry in the future because psychologically she is quite interesting.

I strongly recommend  watch the serie because it will not disappoint anyone.