[PREVIEW] 'You' Is Full Of Bloody Gender-Role Play

We’ve been obsessed with — fixated on, really — “You” since it premiered on Lifetime in 2018. Three years and three seasons later, the thriller has taken Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), the sensitive, intellectual stalker/murderer at the center of the show, from a single bookseller in New York City to a married dad in the (fictional) tony NorCal suburb of Madre Linda. It’s been a journey littered with one true loves, heartbreaks, betrayals, hope, and, of course, heaps of dead bodies. Now that Joe has started a family with Love Quinn — a woman he adored until he learned at the end of season two that she would ALSO kill to protect her loved ones, thus ruining her virtuous feminine image — he would seem to have everything. But Joe loathes the lush suburban hell where they now live, an enclave saturated with athleisure-wearers, bio-hackers, and anti-vaxxers, and he also loathes his new wife. Soon he’s finding new women to receive his attention, and new complications arise.At long last, we have a podcast outlet to have the long, juicy conversation about this show that we’ve been longing to have. This week, we chatted about season three and all the themes it brought to the fore: stealth toxic masculinity and the Nice Guy, the constriction and seduction of gender roles, girlboss feminism as a weapon of affluent women, wellness and mommy influencing, and the agonies and ecstasies of modern marriage and parenting.We hope you enjoy this chat! xoShareMore reading about “You” which we mention in the podcast:“Netflix’s New No. 1 Show Found Something Worse Than Serial Killers,” Julia Craven, Slate“Penn Badgley Gets Meta About His Return To TV As A Very Charming Stalker,” Emma Gray, HuffPost