YOU SERIES ON NETFLIX

"What we are now is a reflection of our past."

When I first saw the thumbnail of "You" on Netflix, I ignored it, thinking (from the title itself) that it will just be about 2 people in love who feel the world is filled with butterflies and roses around them. When I watched it, I realized I was wrong because it is not a typical love story. It is a psychological thriller that revolves around the life of Joe Goldberg. He may be the ideal boyfriend any girl would dream to have --- caring, thoughtful, protective, dedicated, to mention a few. When he is in love with you, he will be your slave. But once you get to know his real colors, all your fantasies will vanish into thin air.

Joe is mentally ill. However, you will not notice that just by looking at and talking with him. He is keeping deep wounds that are not visible. Wounds that rooted from his childhood where he's witnessed domestic abuse a lot of times and became a victim of it himself.

As a grown up, he stalks and plots on how to pursue the women that he gets infatuated with and once they ended up in a relationship, he will come to the extent of committing serious crimes to eliminate anything and anyone who will stand in the way. He wants to protect those he loves and is obsessed about it because the people he counted on failed to give him that protection he needed as a child.

I don't find "You" as an ordinary drama. It may have a slow phasing  but each episode will get you glued to your seat, waiting for what the next episode will show. I loved how they weaved the 2 seasons into several episodes. Looks like everything was carefully planned and well thought of. Season 2 welcomed new characters and twists but the story did not lose its focus. Everything stayed clear from the very beginning. Penn Badgley played his role quite well. In fact, I find him perfect for the role and you won't know if you will hate or sympathize with him as you watch the show. The other actors did well, too. I also loved how they ended Season 2. It will make you look forward to Season 3.

"You" is about a good man with dark issues that kept on haunting him from his childhood up to his adulthood. Dark issues that still followed him and made him struggle as he tried to move on and start his life anew. There seemed to be no escape from his past.

Who says The Past doesn't matter? Of course it does. It will always be a part of us that will affect our Present if we leave it grey and unresolved. So there goes the thrilling story of "You".