When the first part of You season 4 dropped last month, it was an enjoyable, albeit shaky, status quo change for Netflix’s twisty drama about Joe Goldberg, a former bookseller trying to turn a new leaf in London after some “stateside whoopsies” where he just couldn’t stop stalking and murdering people. Turns out that the show had so much more in store.
Part 2 of the season, now live on Netflix, takes such an outrageous turn that it’s hard to talk about without spoiling. So, taking a cue from Netflix, this review is in two parts. The first is for people who have seen part 1, leaving part 2 unspoiled. The second goes into the big twist but ultimately leaves the ending unspoiled.
And thankfully, you don’t have to read them a month apart.
[Ed. note: This will have spoilers for part 1.]
The first half of season 4 was largely a murder mystery centered on the Eat the Rich Killer, a serial killer that targeted members of London’s wealthy young socialite community that Joe has fallen into thanks to his new alias as Jonathan Moore, a well-to-do English professor at a prestigious university. This killer also knew Joe’s past somehow and was anonymously tormenting Joe about it, inspiring a paranoia that he might be next.
At the end of part 1, the killer was revealed to be Rhys Montrose (Ed Speleers, also of Picard’s third season), a rags-to-riches author whose disdain for the elite caused him to find kinship with Joe — that is, until Joe found out Rhys was the killer and had intended to frame him. Instead, he settles for attempting to murder him by trapping him in a cellar set ablaze, which Joe survives — only to find that his new nemesis is running for mayor, and he might be the only person who knows the truth about him.
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