50 Fun Facts About You (TV Series)

Who plays Joe Goldberg in You?

Penn Badgley, Gossip Girl's Dan Humphrey, also narrates the show as Joe, and stepped behind the camera to direct an episode of season four.

You is based on a series of novels by which author?

Caroline Kepnes, once a writer for Entertainment Weekly, began the first novel after moving home to care for her dying father; Stephen King called it 'hypnotic and scary'.

On which network did the first season of You originally premiere in September 2018?

Netflix had passed on the show twice, and Showtime turned it down too. Lifetime renewed it, then rescinded the renewal when Netflix picked it up.

Which two producers developed You for television?

Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble built it, in Gamble's words, as a 'little jewel box of a romantic comedy structure' with a 'very dark, horrific story' told inside.

After averaging about a million viewers on its first network, You reached roughly how many Netflix households in a month?

40 million households, Netflix said, against about 1.1 million viewers an episode on its first network; the count took in anyone who watched most of a single episode.

What is the name of the bookstore Joe manages in season one of You?

Mooney's is named for its owner, Joe's father figure, who shut the boy in the basement book vault as punishment, the same cage Joe later puts to use.

In You, what substance does Joe use to kill Beck's boyfriend in the cage?

Peanut oil: Joe stirs two tablespoons into his captive's latte to see if the man's peanut allergy is real, then burns the body in the woods.

Which Pretty Little Liars star plays Beck's wealthy best friend Peach Salinger?

Shay Mitchell plays Peach Salinger, Beck's wealthy, possessive best friend; Joe shoots her at her family's Greenwich estate and stages the death as a suicide.

Which Full House alum plays Dr. Nicky, Beck's therapist, whom Joe frames for her death?

John Stamos plays Dr. Nicky, the therapist Joe frames for Beck's murder; in season five Nicky's son Clayton seeks revenge for his father's wrongful imprisonment.

In the pilot of You, how does Joe first learn Beck's full name?

From the card she pays with: she had the cash, he notes, so she must want him to know her name, and that night he finds every one of her accounts set to public.

In You, which of Beck's lovers does Joe cage in the bookstore basement and kill?

Benji, a trust-fund soda entrepreneur, is knocked out with a mallet and wakes in the glass book vault, the first captive viewers see Joe keep there.

To which city does Joe move at the start of season two of You?

Los Angeles is his hiding place precisely because he can't stand it: 'the best place to hide is a city they think you hate,' he narrates.

In season two of You, what alias does Joe use?

Will Bettelheim is a real man, a seller of clean identities whom Joe locks in a storage-unit cage and, unusually, sets free; he keeps his word and vanishes to Manila.

What is the name of the trendy high-end grocery store where Joe works in season two?

Anavrin is 'Nirvana' spelled backwards, a joke on upmarket health-food stores; Love's family owns it, which is how a job among its bookshelves brings Joe to her.

Which Haunting of Hill House star plays Love Quinn?

Victoria Pedretti first auditioned to play Beck and lost out; the producers came back to her for Love after seeing her in The Haunting of Hill House.

In You, what is the name of Love's troubled twin brother?

Forty Quinn, played by James Scully, leans on his twin Love through addiction and mental-health struggles; he is shot dead in the season-two finale and returns as a vision in season three.

Who plays Joe's 15-year-old neighbor Ellie Alves in season two of You?

Jenna Ortega, three years before Wednesday, plays Ellie, a would-be filmmaker; when Love murders her sister Delilah, Joe sends the girl away with money.

Which stand-up comedian plays Henderson, the famous comic Joe targets in season two?

Chris D'Elia plays Henderson, a star comic who preys on teenage girls; he dies when Joe knocks him down the stairs of his secret room, and the death is first ruled a suicide.

In season three of You, Joe and Love settle in which fictional California suburb?

Madre Linda exists only in the show: a wealthy suburb near San Francisco where a neighbour's tech firm tracks residents through their rings, nearly undoing Joe and Love.

In season three of You, which next-door neighbor does Love kill after Joe becomes fixated on her?

Natalie Engler dies by Love's axe in the season premiere; her husband, a tech mogul played by Scott Speedman, turns the town's own surveillance on the hunt for her killer.

In season three of You, what is Marienne Bellamy's job when Joe meets her?

Librarian Marienne Bellamy, played by Tati Gabrielle, lets Joe restore rare books at the town library, and it is there that he begins to fixate on her.

Tati Gabrielle, who plays Marienne in You, also played Prudence in which streaming series?

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina cast her as Prudence, who leads a trio of witches; in You, her Marienne escapes Joe's cage by faking her own death.

Which 'momfluencer' and her supplement-company husband end up locked in the cage in season three?

Sherry and Cary Conrad, played by Shalita Grant and Travis Van Winkle, find a spare key hidden inside the cage and free themselves, their marriage stronger for it.

In which city is Joe living at the start of season four of You?

Joe is living in London at the start of season four, teaching literature at a university under a new identity and falling in with a circle of wealthy socialites.

In season four of You, what alias does Joe use while teaching?

Joe teaches under the alias Jonathan Moore, an identity set up by Elliot Tannenberg, a fixer working for Love's family who had been hired to get rid of him.

Which Call the Midwife actress plays Kate Galvin in You?

Charlotte Ritchie, Barbara in Call the Midwife and Alison in Ghosts, plays Kate Galvin, a gallery director who marries Joe between seasons four and five.

Which Downton Abbey actor plays Rhys Montrose, the memoirist and mayoral hopeful, in season four?

Ed Speleers, Downton Abbey's Jimmy Kent, plays Rhys Montrose, the rags-to-Oxford memoirist running for mayor; the Rhys Joe befriends turns out to be his own hallucination.

Which of Joe's season-four students does he frame for murder?

Amy-Leigh Hickman plays Nadia Farran, an outspoken student of Joe's whom he frames for murder in the season-four finale; she returns in season five to help bring him down.

Which White Lotus actor plays Adam Pratt, owner of the Sundry House club, in You?

Lukas Gage, of The White Lotus and Euphoria, plays Adam Pratt, an American playboy dating Lady Phoebe who keeps begging his father to bail out Sundry House.

How did Netflix release season four of You?

In two parts, a month apart: the first half ends by unmasking the killer, and the second reveals that the man Joe has been chasing lives in his own head.

Where is the fifth and final season of You set?

New York City closes the circle: now famous as Kate's husband, Joe has his old bookshop from season one back, and a playwright named Bronte comes to work in it.

Which Handmaid's Tale actress plays Bronte in season five?

Madeline Brewer, Janine Lindo on The Handmaid's Tale, plays Bronte, whose real name is Louise Flannery and who has a hidden connection to Beck.

Which actress plays identical twins Reagan and Maddie Lockwood in season five of You?

Anna Camp plays both: Joe means to cage ruthless Reagan but grabs her twin Maddie by mistake, and Maddie ends up killing her sister and taking her place.

How does the series finale of You leave Joe?

Serving life in prison: Bronte shoots him as he tries to flee, and a string of murder convictions follows, each one carrying life without parole.

In the closing narration of You, who does Joe finally suggest is the real problem?

You, the audience: reading a letter from an admirer, he muses 'Maybe the problem isn't me. Maybe it's you', turning the show's title on the people watching.

Which British actress plays Love's domineering mother, Dottie Quinn, in You?

Saffron Burrows plays Dottie Quinn, who loses what she calls her 'second-act vineyard' to her ex-husband in their divorce, a blow that sends her spiralling in season three.

In which novel of the You series does Joe start over on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle?

You Love Me, the third novel, sends Joe to the island determined to win a local woman the honest way, with no stalking and no bodies; the resolve does not last.

In For You and Only You, Joe joins a writing fellowship at which university?

In For You and Only You (2023) Joe wins a place in an exclusive Harvard writing fellowship, where he fixates on a fellow writer.

Which former Once Upon a Time actress plays Beck in You?

Elizabeth Lail, a Frozen princess in Once Upon a Time, plays Beck, and keeps coming back after the character's death as a vision that haunts Joe in later seasons.

Which ex-girlfriend, long presumed dead, walks into Joe's bookstore at the end of season one of You?

Candace tells a stunned Joe they have unfinished business: he had buried her in a shallow grave believing he had killed her, and she crawled out.

Which As Good as It Gets actor plays Kate's estranged, powerful father Tom Lockwood in You?

Greg Kinnear plays Tom Lockwood, who uncovers Joe's real identity and uses it to make him kill a political rival; Joe later kills Lockwood too, and Kate inherits everything.

What is the name of the bakery Love opens in season three of You?

A Fresh Tart opens in the very shop where Love has just killed a neighbour: 'You signed a lease for our crime scene?' Joe asks, before they build a cage beneath it.

After the events of season three of You, Marienne moves with her daughter to which city?

Paris is where Marienne takes her daughter Juliette after season three; her new life is upended when Joe tracks her down and kidnaps her in season four.

Which poison does Love use to paralyse Joe in the season-three finale of You?

Aconite, grown in her own garden: she lets it soak in through his skin, but Joe had noticed what she was planting and taken an antidote in advance.

What forced the third season of You to shut down production partway through its shoot?

The COVID-19 pandemic: with cases surging across the county, the studio stretched the show's holiday break into January 2021, and the season reached Netflix that October.

In season four of You, what nickname does the press give the serial murderer in Joe's circle?

The press dubs season four's murderer of wealthy socialites the Eat the Rich Killer; Joe tries to unmask him before discovering the killings are his own.

Which former EastEnders actress plays Lady Phoebe in season four of You?

Tilly Keeper, four years an EastEnders regular, plays Lady Phoebe, the kindly aristocrat who is taken hostage by an obsessed fan and ends the season teaching children in Thailand.

The police officer who shoots Love's brother in season two of You shares his full name with which film director?

David Fincher, played by Danny Vasquez, is the officer who had been seeing Delilah; he fires just as Love's twin is about to shoot Joe.

What does Joe leave in the burning house to fake his own death at the end of season three of You?

Two of his toes, which he cuts off himself and leaves for investigators to DNA-test: 'RIP, me,' he narrates, before slipping away under a new identity.

In the season-one finale of You, which character hears Beck's cries for help and walks away to protect Joe?

Paco, the boy next door, owes Joe a great deal: Joe has lent him books, looked out for him and killed his mother's violent boyfriend, so he leaves Beck locked in.