Netflix’s dark stalker thriller dramedy heads across the pond to encounter a new strain of awful rich people. Joe Goldberg, played by Penn Badgley, is our resident serial killer with a penchant for baseball caps and pretentious literature, and he is back for the newest season of You. However this time, he’s got a new name, new city, and new objective. Surprisingly and thankfully, Joe’s newest target is not yet another poor, unsuspecting woman. Instead, season four of You finds Joe actually being the one on the defense as he frantically tries to figure out the identity of the “Eat the Rich Killer,” a mysterious stranger who kills off members of the Oxford circle of wealthy snobs with whom Joe finds himself surrounded. Oh, and the killer also happens to know Joe’s true identity and murderous past.
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Badgley essentially has gone ahead and said out loud how Joe is not meant to be romanticised and that it is only a certain section of fans the kind that find "bad boys" (yes, including serial killers!) attractive, who romanticise the character.
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How much longer can we go on watching this extended act of misogyny?
How much longer could we go on watching a relatively average white man get away with literal murder? The show is about a dangerously obsessive young man who goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of the women he is transfixed with. You sent the wrong message about love from the start, but viewers were more than glad to buckle in for the ride.
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An endless series of misogyny continues…
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For four seasons, Joe Goldberg has travelled from coast to coast, and now across the Atlantic, terrorising women and those in their proximity all in the name of a sick, twisted obsession he believes qualifies as love. But his pursuits have nothing to do with love; it’s all just a maniacal fixation.
In season three, we see him living in the suburbs with his wife Love Quinn played by Victoria Pedretti, and their child. We start the season off thinking he has finally broken away from his killer past after he has found someone he can live his truth with, but it is only a matter of time before he is staring out the window fascinated by their next-door neighbour and then falling in love with a librarian named Marianne. For him, even Love’s deranged love was not enough. He wanted more. It is evident that having a family won't stop Joe being who he is, a psychotic killer who preys on vulnerable women, and that further proves that he is a predator with a condition and predisposition that should not be romanticised.
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Put an end to the misogyny already
Regardless of how Joe’s story ends with the murder mystery plot in season four, and whether or not he pays for his crimes, let’s hope that this tale of misogyny and violence against women culminates here. There’s no need to show more women being tortured unnecessarily the way they were on You just for entertainment. We don't need more shows that glamourise on-screen violence against women.
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We also need to explore if Netflix’s You actually does underline or promote the "I can change him" uwu vibes in disturbed individuals. This attitude and its projection in mainstream productions is actually nothing short of disturbing and dangerous. Because let us face it, there are real men who are just like Joe out there in the world, so real life is scary enough for us as it is.
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