Apparently Joe’s type is “20-something woman with a name so distinct, Google search results yield no confusion as to who she is”? I challenge him to obsess over a Jane Smith instead.Īccording to a Kirkus review of Hidden Bodies, the sequel to You on which Netflix’s adaptation will be based, Joe moves to Los Angeles. And it seems that he is destined to remain the only one with a pedestrian name this week we were made aware that the lead female character of season two will be called Love Quinn. To the show’s credit, it is extraordinarily self-aware about its characters’s names, to the point where they serve as material for dialogue and are all so ridiculous that Joe’s name starts to seem weird, too. (It’s six of one, half dozen of the other when it comes to their fates, because, y’know, murder.)
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Fair enough, but if forced to choose between the full names Peach Salinger and Guinevere Beck, I’d choose the latter name in a heartbeat. Her name is so improbable, it actually serves as a bit of flirty dialogue between the two characters when they first meet - she goes by Beck because even she knows being named Guinevere in a year that is not 1487 is pretty absurd (again, apologies to the Guineveres of the world it is not your fault your names wound up in 2019 pop culture), but she promises her siblings have equally literary names. Then, there’s Guinevere Beck, otherwise known as Beck, otherwise known as the object of Joe’s desire. I will also note that I have four middle names because my parents could not agree on one so for me of all people to take issue with the names in the You-niverse is really saying something. In an interview with Refinery29, You’s author Caroline Kepnes called Peach a “third cousin, maybe a fourth cousin.” But looking beyond the ridiculousness of that … Peach? (Apologies to the Peaches of the world.) As in, the emoji … and sure, okay, also the fruit, but go with me here Kepnes said she wanted her character’s name to be “kind of annoying,” and by combining a notoriously reclusive and allegedly abusive author’s name with the emoji we use to symbolize our butts, she has achieved her goal. The inconsequential aspect of You that I would like to discuss with you is this: I am really expected to believe that someone is named Peach Salinger ?!?įirst, there’s the Salinger bit. But if the show is so outlandish and absurd that you begin obsessing about the fringe details in order to make sense of it all, come, sit by me. (This theory was borne a few minutes ago, when I started writing this post.) If you, like most people, were horrified at the stalking, the masturbating-in-bushes, the gaslighting, and the murdering that Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg considers romantic gestures for his one true love, congratulations! You, like most people, are normally calibrated. Or was.I have a theory that what you found most abhorrent about You reveals a core truth about you as a human being. When Benji tried to paint Beck as the real villain in their relationship, the contents of his phone revealed exactly what type of guy he is. Joe really didn't think things through, did he? After whacking Benji on the back of the head and sticking him inside that convenient climate-controlled chamber (which, by the way, does anyone else ever use?), he then had to put up with the artisinal soft drink purveyor's stream of BS. Maybe there's hope for her yet.īenjamin Ashby Jr. But by the end of Episode 2, she'd shown some backbone. She has terrible taste in boyfriends and friends, spends way too much time online and hanging out with said terrible friends instead of getting on with writing her awful poetry, and lives outside her means. Up until her showdown with her professor - more on him later - Beck came across as pretty lame. But is Joe actually the worst person in You? Would it be wrong to suggest that a lot of what he says about the other characters rings true? Or is he just so eloquent that he has even us buying his shtick? And by the end of Episode 2 (possibly earlier, since ex-girlfriend Candace is apparently missing), he's also a killer.
Sure, he's an obsessive stalker who creeps outside windows, steals phones and holds people hostage.
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