YouNetflix showrunner: 'The idea [is] that you have this little jewel box of a romantic comedy structure, and you tell this very dark, horrific story within that structure'
, “You” is based on Caroline Kepnes’ book of the same name , threading the story of an obsessive young man whose pursuit of love takes him to sinister places. Last season saw Joe creeping on social media to follow and woo aspiring writer Beck before his idealized vision of her fell apart; the season finale ended with the return of Candace , an ex-girlfriend whom some were beginning to suspect Joe had killed.
Fans of Joe — and there are many — will again be challenged this season to defend a character who has been known to commit murder, albeit in the name of love. Like its storyline, the show’s path to viewers’ TV screens was twisty. Berlanti and Gamble pitched and sold “You” to Showtime in 2015, developing the script there for about a year. But the premium cabler wanted to go in a different direction , and amicably parted ways with the creative duo.ordered “You” straight to series. That was “fantastic, but always comes with its own stressors,” says Berlanti, “because you don’t really have a pilot to know if something’s working or not.
“You” hit the service the day after Christmas. Berlanti didn’t have any hopes for the first season to do any better on Netflix than it had on cable, and then the congratulatory emails started flying into his inbox. They were from friends feting him on his great “new” show. “I was so shocked by that number. … I just had never seen a number like that before,” Gamble says, though she prefers to focus on the material and not the ratings. “The mind game I play with myself is I just remind myself [that] when I started as a writer, I was in theater, and theaters have 99 seats, and I was really excited when they were all full. [Any]
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