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Critic Reviews
IndieWireSep 7, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Invoking the best qualities of David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” and Mary Harron’s adaptation of “American Psycho.” ... While we’re thoroughly embedded in Joe’s point of view from the beginning, the writing and Badgley’s performance do just enough to ensure that it’s not a comfortable experience, even as we get to know him more and more.
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Feb 10, 2023
Season 4 Review:
After four deliciously decadent seasons, the subtly brilliant Penn Badgley (his darkly comic voiceover is perfection) hangs it up as a serial killer who’s only dangerous when he’s in love. Given its viral appeal—even Taylor Swift is a fan—this binge-able addiction is way too good for goodbyes.
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Dec 30, 2019ColliderFeb 9, 2023
Season 4 Review:
This season of You took a risk by moving its tried-and-true narrative in a new direction – and it works. Season 4 of You is bold and unexpected with twists and turns that are simply wicked. Joe Goldberg has managed to conquer an ever-increasingly challenging feat in Season 4 – he finds a way to shock us once again.
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Feb 9, 2023
Season 4 Review:
Because for all its wildness, the series remains fascinating not just as a character study, but what this character in particular tells us about our favorite stories, about the way we as a culture look at the line between love and obsession. The final word on that matter doesn’t feel like it’s been written yet.
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Dec 18, 2019
Season 2 Review:
The second season moves much slower than its predecessor, and the mystery of will-they/won’t-they takes a backseat to vital character development. That being said, the performances are fun, the skewering of Los Angeles should put folks from multiple districts in stitches, plus the soundtrack bangs.
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Mar 9, 2023
Radio TimesFeb 9, 2023
Season 4 Review:
You has always been a series that's terribly addictive to watch but this time round, the classic murder-mystery spin has restored faith in a drama that could have easily continued with many of the seen-before tropes. The result? A season that may very well be more enjoyable than those before it.
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iFeb 9, 2023
Season 4 Review:
Ritchie is excellent as the cold, biting art dealer – the move away from British sitcoms suits her – while Joe’s uncharacteristic vulnerability gives Badgley’s sinister voice-over a new edge. Both elevate middling material to a level of maturity the story doesn’t always demand, turning what could be one of the most unwatchable series on TV to one of the most gripping.
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Oct 18, 2021
Season 3 Review:
Its sharpest slices are reserved for its ongoing dialogue with corrosive masculinity and the demon needling Joe, which is the urge to assert control in a place where he's powerless. ... [Joe's] the wrong kind of man in a sea of them, a principled romantic whose might change, but whose loss of affection can be lethal. The genius of Love is that she's equally dangerous, making it more worthwhile.
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The IndependentOct 15, 2021
Season 3 Review:
It stays true to the expectations it has set in the previous seasons and moves at a delightfully breathless pace. There are a lot of moving parts, but they are dealt with in a clear, energetic way that never allows the plot to meander. Pedretti and Badgley have each perfected the art of embodying their mercurial characters.
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Jan 2, 2020
Season 2 Review:
While illustrating his psyche, the show refuses to minimize Joe/Will’s actions, either. And in this season, as in the last, our antihero desires to be better, even though he can never quite manage it. As his life spirals out of control again, You challenges us with his good intentions, his troubled past, and his endless need to be loved.
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Dec 30, 2019
Season 2 Review:
Rather than simply diving deeper into his psyche, You surrounds Joe with a dynamic ensemble that pushes the story into richer territory. These new characters, especially the women, challenge Joe’s sense of power and control in different ways, at times bringing a much welcome lighter tone to the show in the process.
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Feb 9, 2023
Season 4 Review:
Seeing Joe scrambling and utterly in the dark does make for a nice change of pace after three seasons of watching him direct the lives (and deaths) of so many people. But it also uncomfortably positions him in the role of a victim in ways that the show doesn’t seem particularly eager or capable of looking at too closely.
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Oct 13, 2021Apr 23, 2025
Season 5 Review:
Some of the choices in You’s final episodes are painfully contrived and convenient, but the show does deserve credit for finally (and fully) leaning into the darkness and misogyny that’s always lived at the heart of its story. It’s not a perfect ending, but it’s a generally emotionally satisfying one, and perhaps that’s the most surprising twist of all.
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Sep 10, 2018
Sep 6, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The series' biggest weakness: Often it takes the safest, most predictable option in crafting its narrative, sometimes veering into the cliche. But You is still reasonably captivating, right from its demented beginning, and cliffhanger endings make it an ideal binge-watch. The series really hits its stride in Episode 4.
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Apr 24, 2025
Season 5 Review:
What role Bronte plays in all this, whether she becomes an intellectual or even a physical love interest for Joe, is yet to be seen. It seems that Joe is attracted to her because she provides something Kate doesn’t, even though he loves Kate as much as anyone he’s ever met. That complex dance is going to be interesting to watch.
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ColliderApr 23, 2025
Season 5 Review:
Ultimately, You Season 5 is a welcome back-to-basics conclusion. It isn't reinventing the wheel, which is good considering how last season's shakeups were received, and it doesn't leave any glaring plot holes for us to ponder. There's still a lot of TV logic about how things happen, but nothing outside the realm of the show.
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Mar 9, 2023
Season 4.5 Review:
Season 4 dangles a tantalizing moment, featuring a couple of really fantastic guest star cameos, that feels as though it’s finally ready to see Joe truly answer for his dark misogyny, but the show ultimately returns to the safe narrative ground that means it’s almost certainly getting renewed for Season 5.
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TV Guide MagazineJan 6, 2020
Season 2 Review:
By the bloody end, with twists I promise you won't see coming, Joe has a new appreciation for the insanity of this thing called love. [6-19 Jan 2020, p.9]
Dec 24, 2019
Season 2 Review:
I'm sure many people who loved Season 1 will grouse at Season 2, which reboots the series to Los Angeles and delves deeper into Joe's psyche/trauma. You true believers may have glommed onto its shadowy New York City setting and Joe's erudite mystery, but Season 2 will appeal to viewers who will love to see a snob like Joe get eaten alive by Angeleno hollowness, like a cadaver dissolving in lye. In other words, viewers like me.
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TV Guide MagazineSep 13, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Joe's warped wit, honed by Badgley's sensitive-guy panache, sets You apart from Lifetime's woman-in-peril formula. [17-30 Sep 2018, p.25]
Sep 7, 2018
Season 1 Review:
You may not be great. It may at times even be bad. ... But it is undeniably magnetic. It’s fast and fearless, and its plot dodges and weaves in a way that suggests the death knell of an exhausted premise looms large on the horizon. In the meantime, though, You is running for its life, sprinting through story and sense as fast as it can before it either exhausts itself or gets clobbered over the head with a conveniently placed rock.
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Aug 27, 2018
Season 1 Review:
You has sharp ideas, if sometimes expressed with thudding lack of subtlety, about social media; it has an interesting premise; it gets the hip-young-literary-Manhattan setting as satisfyingly almost-right as did “Gossip Girl,” in the manner where its departures from reality end up feeling refreshing and fun. But it doesn’t quite have the courage of its convictions.
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TV Guide MagazineFeb 9, 2023
Season 4 Review:
His new clique of “aristo-brats” is so toxic, it's hard to care when anyone gets knocked off. Wisely, Netflix is breaking the season into halves, with a midpoint reveal setting up a cool new cat-and-mouse game. Still, I can’t say I’m counting the days until the March 9 return. [13 - 26 Feb 2023, p.6]
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The IndependentFeb 9, 2023
Season 4 Review:
You succeeds in giving the audience the shocks and gore that we’ve come to crave, while Badgley is as compellingly sardonic as ever as the sullen leader of this ensemble cast. ... But that’s not enough when so many of the characters feel like ciphers floating around a hilariously unrealistic depiction of London.
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The GuardianFeb 8, 2023
Season 4 Review:
It has another go at reinvention by turning itself into a Cluedo-esque Agatha Christie whodunnit, although it is arch enough to feature a discussion about whether or not the whodunnit is the lowest form of literature. It is fun, although it suffers a little under the weight of comparison. ... When it works, it works because Badgley is charismatic and the show is brash enough to drop a decent number of plot twists into every episode.
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The TelegraphFeb 8, 2023
Season 4 Review:
The way that Joe can turn a corner in east London and suddenly be in Piccadilly will give geographical pedants conniptions. But barbed wit means You gets away with such implausibilities and the odd tasteless flourish. ... I don’t usually agree with the notion of “guilty pleasures” but if they do exist, this ludicrously enjoyable romp is certainly one.
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The GuardianOct 15, 2021
Season 3 Review:
As always, it is defiantly tasteless (one thorny “dilemma” is resolved by a character’s suicide, and there is a romantic subplot involving a teenager and an older woman), but in turning up the mockery of “the obscene one per cent-er bubble” that Joe and Love now inhabit, it at least finds more space to explore its better themes.
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Feb 9, 2023
Season 4 Review:
“You” has already wrung an impressive amount of mileage out of its concept, getting the audience to identify with – if not necessarily root for – a suave, murderous stalker. Yet while the fourth season begins in characteristically twisty fashion, before it’s over the Netflix hit feels dangerously close to jumping the shark, having become a bit too cute for its (or Your, if You prefer) own good.
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The TelegraphApr 24, 2025
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