The Netflix project has become even more absurd and ridiculous. The creators are stepping into dysfunctional marriage territory in a devastating glossy province.
Married to the mentally unstable Love (Victoria Pedretti), the main character, the deadly stalker-librarian Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), is forced to lay low and accept the rules of the new game. The couple move from Los Angeles to a mythical suburb where they plan to start life from scratch. But manic instincts cannot be hidden for a long time: the spouses do not hold back and begin to kill even here, at the same time trying to get out of the crisis in relationships with the help of a family psychologist and manage to raise their son at the same time.
After the first two seasons, Ty, which started in 2018, has moved from the cable, infamous Lifetime channel to the diocese of Netflix, making every soap a real event. The story of the maniac stalker Joe Goldberg either struck a nerve, or became an escapist consolation in difficult times, where Trump's presidency, the economic crisis, and the coming pandemic fit into. Still based on the book series by Caroline Kepnes, the third season entered the phase of everyday cataclysm, disinfected madness, although neither New York nor Los Angeles was at hand, just the fictional Madre Linda (from Spanish "beautiful mother", how ironic) ...
At the end of the second season, that same mom Love became for Joe a blessing and a curse at the same time. Having a clear history of mental disorders, the girl turned from an object of persecution into a dominant, jealous force, showing Goldberg: I attacked the wrong one, I also know how to dig into the past of my "crashes", cold-bloodedly butcher corpses, if necessary - say goodbye to my own brother, who threatened to reveal the true motives of both. "We are made for each other", - says Love Joe, he realizes how deep he got, prescribing for himself a voluntary internal self-isolation. Theoretically, to understand what is wrong with them (about everything), sessions of an insightful therapist (Ayelet Zurer) can help, but the main front of the showdown will still fall on the home kitchen and other household locations.
“You” cannot be blamed for the lack of drive or fascination - no matter how illogical, predictable, and implausible the storylines and character lines may seem, the creators put all their efforts into them, not sparing clips, cheap impressions, trouble-free twists with situational comedy. Joe's offscreen voice has never sounded so insistent and tiring: for each line in his head, ten more will sound, adding nothing to the context. For the first time, viewers will also be able to get into the mind of Love (the script will turn out to be much more inexpressive) and will appreciate the satirical and bloody dynamics of marriage by the end of the first episode, when Love will not hold back and put an end to Joe's next passion.
A separate piece of luck is to designate the entourage and the qualitatively presented suburbia - with due diligence, it can be flawlessly scared and ridiculed in the same way. Love opens his bakery and becomes the local Mrs. Lovett, except for adding toes to cupcakes. Joe, as an active citizen who has lost his head, gets a job in the library and, of course, falls in love with the boss with an abusive experience, Marianne (Tati Gabriel). The protagonist will succeed in reaching out to his inner male "I": together with a company of local white-toothed and high-protein businessmen, he will go on a forest hunt, where he will catch himself, almost kill one of his comrades, arrange a mini-vacation in the style of "Solstice" bursting into tears in the style of Florence Pugh.
Opponents of vaccination will also have a hard time: spouses will take care of them, especially when it comes to the life of their child. The story does not directly speak about the coronavirus, replacing it with measles, but righteous anger is rightly experienced. Actors also try, with the exception of Badgley, who either walks with an impenetrable mine, or depicts something terribly indistinct, painfully theatrical in tense moments. You can, of course, be glad for the person who once turned out to be a real "Gossip Girl" - he does not starve, again inscribes himself in pop culture - but somehow it was clearly not working with the acting technique. At the same time, completely unnecessary flashbacks from Joe's childhood interfere: outwardly similar to Badgley, a young actor Jack Fisher from series to series is marking time, trying to tell how the character came to such a life.
Badgley, known from Netflix's Haunting of the Hill House, is devoured by Victoria Pedretti. The actress urgently needs big projects, given all the energy shown here of a deceived, unhappy girl torn between a marital tale and flirting on the side with a wealthy student Theo (Dylan Arnold). Of the actors, special attention is paid to the forced friends of the main characters, the "ideal" couple Sherri and Carey (Broadway graduate Shalita Grant and typical playboy Travis Van Winkle), who by the very end of the season will show themselves from a different, hilariously truthful side, which will never succeed do Joe and Love.
You will officially be back with a fourth season. Whether this is good news or sad news, the Netflix algorithm will solve it. In the finale, Joe exiles himself on a new journey to the perfectly matched song Exile by Taylor Swift and Bon Iver. I really want the series to be renamed "I" - it's time for Joe Goldberg to start carefully pursuing himself, and not to flee from past injuries. With or without a therapist, the attempt will be torture, but clearly justified and sucking in an already impressive audience. Judging by the recent interview with Badgley, it is Joe's self-digging that will be engaged in the next chapter, against the background of an ironically chosen Paris with boring romance.
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