Plot: Starting anew in London, Joe vows to bury the past and be his best self. But on the rocky road to redemption, a new obsession starts to take hold.
Season 4 of You was Really Good.
Pros: I’m glad I waited for the full season were all together in one. It really started having kinetic tissue from the previous seasons. The murder mystery was quite comparing throughout. Rhys were interesting as Joe’s mental conscious. Kate was a solid love interest and it’s tried to change up the formula of the series a bit.
Cons: I didn’t believe into the relationship with Joe and Kate at first. I didn’t like a lot of the rich people in this season except from Lady Phoebe. Marienne wasn’t used that much. All that transpired at the end left me scratching my head and I find this season pretty weak compared to the previous seasons of this show.
Genre: Psychological thriller
Developed by Greg Berlanti, Sera Gamble
Showrunner: Sera Gamble
Based on You by Caroline Kepnes
Starring: Penn Badgley, Tati Gabrielle, Charlotte Ritchie, Tilly Keeper, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Ed Speleers & Lukas Gage.
Composer: Blake Neely
Executive producers: Marcos Siega, Gina Girolamo, Les Morgenstein, Sarah Schechter, Sera Gamble, Greg Berlanti, Lee Toland Krieger, Silver Tree, Michael Foley, Azalea Brooke, David Madden, Justin W. Lo, Neil Reynolds, John Scott
Producers: Ryan Lindbum, Adria Lang, Jason Sokoloff, Jennifer Lence, Wayne Carmona, Hillary Benefiel, Carl Ogawa, Penn Badgley, Stephanie Johnson
Production locations: London, United Kingdom
Cinematography: David Lanzenberg, W. Mott Hupfel, Seamus Tierney, Cort Fey, Byron Shah, Milos Moore, Stijn Van Der Veken, Minka Farthing-Kohl
Editors: Harry Jierjian, Gaston Jaren Lopez, Troy Takaki, Rita K. Sanders, Felicia M. Livingston, Erin Wolf, Becca Berry, Patrick Brian, Piper Kroeze, Alexander Aquino-Kaljakin, Hovig Menakian
Production companies: Man Sewing Dinosaur, Berlanti Productions, Alloy Entertainment, A+E Studios, Warner Bros. Television
Distributor: Netflix
Casts & Characters:
Main:
- Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg, a university professor under the alias Jonathan Moore[1]
- Tati Gabrielle as Marienne Bellamy, Joe’s former love interest
- Charlotte Ritchie as Kate Galvin, an icy and adversarial gallery manager in whom Joe takes an interest
- Tilly Keeper as Lady Phoebe, a notorious but kind-hearted socialite hailing from an aristocratic family, and Kate’s best friend
- Amy-Leigh Hickman as Nadia Farran, a literature major in Joe’s class
- Ed Speleers as Rhys Montrose, an author whose memoir lifted him out of poverty, got him into Oxford and helped him launch a political career
- Lukas Gage as Adam Pratt, an American expatriate who is the wealthy, playboy son of a prominent East Coast family, and is dating Phoebe
Recurring:
- Stephen Hagan as Malcolm Harding, a literature professor and partying, drug-loving bon vivant who lives in the apartment across from Joe.
- Adam James as Elliot Tannenberg, a fixer working for Love’s family who gives Joe his cover identity in London
- Aidan Cheng as Simon Soo, an aspiring artist and son of a Chinese tech mogul
- Niccy Lin as Sophie Soo, a social media influencer and Simon’s sister
- Eve Austin as Gemma Graham-Greene, a pompous socialite in the Oxford friend group
- Ozioma Whenu as Blessing Bosede, a successful Nigerian princess with multiple university degrees from Oxford and a member of the friendship group
- Sean Pertwee as Vic, Phoebe’s personal driver and bodyguard
- Ben Wiggins as Roald Walker-Burton, an aristocrat and Kate’s childhood friend
- Dario Coates as Connie, a sportsman who is a part of the Oxford friendship group
- Brad Alexander as Edward, a student in Joe’s class. He has a fierce academic rivalry with Nadia, who he goes on to date.
- Alison Pargeter as Dawn Brown, a paparazzi photographer who is obsessed with Lady Phoebe
- Greg Kinnear as Tom Lockwood, Kate’s estranged American father who is a powerful activist shareholder in a number of shady business dealings
Guest:
I recommend this season on Netflix.
Rating: 7 out of 10 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
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