You (TV series)

You (TV series)

You is an American psychological thriller television series developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble. The first season, which was released in 2018, stars Penn Badgley, Elizabeth Lail, Luca Padovan, Zach Cherry, and Shay Mitchell. In December 2018, it was announced that the series would move to Netflix as a Netflix Original title. The second season was released exclusively on Netflix on December 26, 2019. In January 2020, the series was renewed for a third season by Netflix, which is set to be released in 2021. The sixth season will be based on Hidden Bodies, the follow-up novel to You, and will be set in the same city as the first.

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Summary You (TV series)You is an American psychological thriller television series developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble. The first season, which was released in 2018, stars Penn Badgley, Elizabeth Lail, Luca Padovan, Zach Cherry, and Shay Mitchell. In December 2018, it was announced that the series would move to Netflix as a Netflix Original title. The second season was released exclusively on Netflix on December 26, 2019. In January 2020, the series was renewed for a third season by Netflix, which is set to be released in 2021. You is based on the 2014 novel by Caroline Kepnes and follows Joe Goldberg, a New York bookstore manager and serial killer who falls in love with a customer named Guinevere Beck. In the second season, Joe moves from New York to Los Angeles to escape his past, and starts over with a new identity. When he meets avid chef Love Quinn, Joe begins falling into his old patterns of obsession and violence. As Joe attempts to forge a new love in the City of Angels, he strives to make his relationship with Love succeed at all costs, to avoid the fate of his past romantic endeavors. The series attracted a limited audience on Lifetime before becoming more popular and a critical success for Netflix, with over 43 million viewers having streamed the first season after its debut on the streaming service. On January 14, 2020, Netflix renewed the series for a second season and in March 2019, the company announced that it had picked up You for a three-episode third season. The third season of You will be released on January 31, 2021, with the second and third seasons of the series being released on February 1, 2021 and March 1, 2022, respectively.

The fourth and fifth seasons of You are yet to be announced. The fifth and sixth seasons will be announced in February and March 2019. The seventh and eighth seasons will follow Joe Goldberg and Love Quinn as they try to find a way to escape their past and start a new life in Los Angeles. The sixth season will be based on Hidden Bodies, the follow-up novel to You, and will be set in the same city as the first. In February 2015, it emerged that You was being developed for Lifetime. In April 2017, Lifetime gave You a 10-episode straight-to-series order. On July 26, 2018, ahead of the show’s premiere, Lifetime announced the series had been renewed for second season. In November 2018, Gamble confirmed that like Hidden B bodies, the setting of theseries would move from NYC to LA for the secondSeason. On December 3, 2018,. it was confirmed that Lifetime had rescinded its renewal of You and that Netflix had picked. up the series. In a panel at the INTV conference, Berlante stated that Showtime, Netflix, and Lifetime had all tried to sell the show to Showtime but were unsuccessful in their attempts. In addition, both creators had also originally pitched the series to Netflix but were declined twice, prior to Netflix’s head of international non-English originals, Bela Bajaria joining the company in late 2016.