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A Love Scorned: What “You” Season 3 Says about Fans’ Obsession with Male Killers

Standing in a kitchen, Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), left, smiles menacingly while wearing a blood-spattered apron and holding a bloody hand mixer and Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) looks serious while holding a black trash bag
by Alani Vargas
October 29, 2021 at 12:03pm
Despite viewers’ desire to “fix” the fictional male serial killer, Love Quinn’s murderous heel turn didn’t get the same reaction from fans after Season 2.
Victoria Pedretti and Penn Badgley star as Love and Joe, a white couple standing together in a kitchen, in You

Sinister Niceness: On “You,” Killers Don’t Change their Spots

by Evette Dionne
January 8, 2020 at 1:35pm
If Season 2 is any indication, we have no choice but to overlook the obvious in favor of granting white men an inherent innocence; it’s a default. Read more »
a white man in a blue apron stares at a white woman with blond hair as she reads a book

“You” and the Excuses We Make for Traumatized Men

by Nooreen Reza
January 30, 2019 at 1:17pm
Joe Goldberg, with all his deadbeat dad-inflicted burns and memories of living on the streets of New York, is a special kind of fiction, but he has real-life brethren the world over.  Read more »