TV Review: You (Netflix) – Season Two

Following on from the success of 2018’s first season of Netflix‘s You, developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble and loosely based on the Caroline Kepnes‘ second novel, Hidden Bodies, the second series sees Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) move from New York to Los Angeles to escape his past. Here, he starts over with a new identity and meets avid chef Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti). But as Joe attempts to forge a new love and to avoid the fate of his past romantic endeavours, he soon begins falling into his old patterns of obsession and violence when his ex Candace (Ambyr Childers) shows up and he gets mixed up in helping out his neighbours, Delilah (Carmela Zumbado) and Ellie (Jenna Ortega).

TV Review: You (Netflix) – Season One

Netflix‘s American psychological thriller series, You, which was released in December 2018 and developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, follows a clever bookstore manager, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and is based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Caroline Kepnes. When Joe meets and falls in love with a customer, a graduate student and aspiring writer named Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail), he quickly becomes obsessed with her. Relying on his savvy Internet know-how, Joe will stop at nothing and will get rid of every obstacle in his way to make the woman of his dreams fall in love with him.

Film Review: Love, Simon

Directed by Greg Berlanti and based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, Love, Simon follows Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) who keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates: he’s gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.