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TERRIBLE! Season 4 is so bad. What happened to our beloved, cunning and charismatic show?!

This season is the poorest writing and mostly thanks to incredibly uncharismatic characters! Such a bore and disappointment. Penn Badgley is outstanding as always but even he is lost amongst these terrible boring characters that just don't belong on this show. Bad bad bad direction decision.

Season 3. Incredible! Joe and Love = incredible, electric, exciting, creepy, funny, shocking...allll of the things! We didn't love merienne as his love interest, they could cast someone so much better for him. They have zero chemistry, but nothing could have prepared us for even worse characters in season 4! Blah! Bring back the show we knew and loved!

At what point do we draw the line between storytelling and glorifying harmful behaviors? You is another glaring example of turning a predatory, manipulative, and violent character into someone audiences are encouraged to root for. The series centers around Joe Goldberg, a serial killer and stalker, but instead of presenting him as the monster he is, the narrative often frames him as a misunderstood anti-hero with a charm that trivializes his despicable actions.

The show portrays Joe stalking women through social media, spying on them, and even breaking into their homes-actions that escalate into imprisoning and murdering them. However, rather than treating these as the horrors they are, You frequently injects humor and attempts to humanize him, effectively making him seem appealing or justified. This tone deafness perpetuates a dangerous narrative that not only minimizes the impact of such crimes but also desensitizes audiences to the real-world implications of romanticizing stalkers and serial killers.

The writers also resort to lazy storytelling by making everyone around Joe ridiculously naïve or implausibly forgiving, which only serves to enable his continued crimes. It's frustratingly predictable and entirely in poor taste. While entertainment can explore dark themes, it must handle sensitive issues with nuance and responsibility. The film "The Golden Glove" demonstrates this expertly, delving into the psyche of a killer while maintaining a clear moral stance and never losing sight of the terror and human cost of such crimes.

By contrast, You repeatedly fails to strike this balance. Instead of exploring the consequences of Joe's actions, the show trivializes them for shock value, cheap laughs, or romantic tension. Worse still, it implies that the women he stalks and murders are disposable plot devices, paving the way for new victims each season.

Ultimately, You feels like an ill-conceived attempt to turn serious issues into entertainment without any meaningful commentary, leaving a sour taste for viewers who recognize the dangers of normalizing such behavior. It's time for creators to move beyond these misguided glorifications and approach such topics with the gravity they deserve.

Watched ep 1 season 3 which was terrible enough but gave it a chance and watched ep 2. That was a mistake. Can't watch it anymore. Save yourself and find something else to watch. It bored me to death. Just terrible.

What I enjoyed about You season 1 and to a lesser extent season 2 was its creativity. But season 3 is just a cobbled together mess.

Not only is it clearly pushing several and not particularly well thought through agendas. From vaccinations to white bashing, it can be an uncomfortable watch. Netflix has a history of ruining shows in a similar way and this is no exception.

The character's are hard to connect with, Love's acting is terrible and the whole plot is simply unbelievable.

Give it a miss.

I am a born and bred Londoner and I can tell you American viewers who don't know but London does NOT have a university like the one in S4 of You! I was so incensed with anger whilst watching Joe walking from his place of work in the university to his London flat (with a roaring fire that an unseen Victorian servant must have made for him in the Victorian fireplace!!!) via trendy East London hipster areas all the way to west Or central London on foot!!!!

Let me put you all straight: apart from the fact that London flats are heated by gas central heating and would be way out of his budget to rent, the university looked like Oxford or Cambridge which certainly is NOT within walking distance of London. It would have taken him weeks to get home on foot unless he thumbed a lift on the motorway!! Oh and it would've rained most days!!

Utterly ridiculous!!!

It spoiled the whole season!! 😡

Ok so the first season was good but they had to make more... second season was ok but the third one? OMG... cringe worthy, unbelieveble... why? Just end it please... How many more seasons are you going to make?

So bad, I don't know where to start. The acting and writing is cringe at the fullest. I wasted my time with this. Netflix is getting ridiculous with these kind of series.

Season 3 is so bad I actually fell asleep into the 3rd episode. It doesn't have the same kick 1 and 2 had. I waited for ages for season 3 for nothing. Definitely skip.

Season 1 and 2 is in fact quite good, you get to put yourself in the shoes of a creepy stalker turned killer who tries to excuse his behavior, we can tell it's not an innocent story and all his actions are not acceptable. However Season 3 takes a bizarre turn, first episode of Season 3 was good, then 2 and 3 just went off the rails...The writers for Season 3 just didn't have the motivation to create a compelling story so they went to what Hollywood does best, jump onto political issues.

I don't often post reviews but after watching season 1 I just have to. Although the story hooks you up from the start, I just can't believe the makers let Joe get away with everything he did. Not only is that highly unrealistic but it also does not provide a sense of fairness to viewers. Of course, the show has to continue for seasons, so the main character has to stay in it, but the fact that Joe can kill, drag bodies, fool everyone, and not even a single camera catching him just bogs my mind. What is even the point of portraying a villain like he is and seeing him enjoy it and get away with it? I just feel like I wasted my time and would not recommend this series to anyone!

Can any show now a days just not bring in all the crazy political crud we have to hear everyday???? I watch shows to get away from it and this show brought it in. Vaccine pushing and white woman syndrome? Like just stop. Create an actual issue. Done watching this show I guess, just hops on the bandwagon instead of being original like it originally was!

The show is insulting to the audience's intelligence. The storyline is full of holes and it's like the writers don't care. They try to explain it at one point and it is still horribly not going to make sense. It's not good to just assume that the audience is completely without any intelligence. It's almost as if you need a lobotomy to enjoy this, but then again, some people might like it. Seasons 1 and 2 were really good and I enjoyed them. But 3 and 4 were amazingly terrible. I am gonna be real: if you like the fact that it makes no possible sense and the fact that they try to explain it to you, then I can say that I thought there were people who cared about what they watched. I guess I should write movies or series that insult the viewer's intelligence and maybe I can get really rich. Or maybe that's what happens when you have 4 main writers and a total of 13 in season 4. How are you going to tell a story if you have 13 different people trying to tell it? I mean it worked in the first 2 seasons but it is just not good after that. I feel like I am owed time back, however long it took to watch this. There were 5 executive producers for season 4. How many EXECUTIVE producers do you need? There were 22 total producers for the season. You would think one of them would be able to see the storyline was not making sense at all. I mean you are telling me that NOBODY who worked on a show of this magnitude, has the sense to say anything to the writers or what? I mean I would have taken my name off the credits. I would not want MY name to be associated with writing something that I knew insulted the audience. It's not good and if you are that desperate for writers, you can get in touch with me.

I believe that the last episode was the worst scenario I have seen before,,,

Although there was a good plot and good dialogue in all episodes of the season, the last episode is completely far from the rest of the episodes and I think that the end is stupid and does not contain professional work at all. The director was unable to gather his ideas and did not make an effort to end the season in an interesting way so that the viewers eagerly awaited the next season. Unfortunately, the last episode was trite, as if the director tried to end the season in a provocative way, thinking that it would attract the viewers for the next season, and I do not think that the next season will meet any success.

I strongly advise viewers who have a cinematic sense and have never seen the third season, not to waste their time watching it, because the season is full of contradictions and there is no literature on dramatic works and does not respect the minds of viewers, especially American families that maintain morals, as the season does not carry the simplest standards of respect for the social fabric and the family unit that is a cell Building high-end societies, as there are no guidelines and no respect for the minds of viewers,, I finally regretted watching the third season because of the last episode.

, In addition, there is a mixture of overlapping and conflicting feelings in justifying the killing of the husband actor compared to his wife, who tried with all her efforts and capabilities to preserve her family and her husband.

First season wasn't bad, with some forgivable annoyances. Then it started going downhill, with season 4 being the abominable rock bottom. The characters, millennial rich kids, are absolutely uninteresting and boring. There's no chemistry between Joe and anyone. The dialogues are either dull or cringe. I kept falling asleep - in fact that's what it's good for, works like a sleeping pill. I didn't see all of it because I slept so much and because some bits were so cringe I had to forward them. Really, really bad.

The main reason I watched such a fair bit of season 4 was to justify my writing this review. Conclusion: it doesn't get better.