50 Fun Facts About You (TV Series)

Who plays Joe Goldberg in You?

Badgley was previously Dan Humphrey on Gossip Girl. In 2022 he launched the podcast Podcrushed with Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari.

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

Kepnes, a former entertainment reporter, published You in 2014 and followed it with Hidden Bodies, You Love Me and For You and Only You. A prequel, You First, came out in 2026.

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 Lifetime renewed it, then rescinded the renewal when Netflix picked it up.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?

Berlanti was set to direct the pilot from the start. Gamble, a Supernatural and The Magicians veteran, served as showrunner.

Roughly how many people were reported to have watched You in its first month on the streaming platform?

The figure dwarfed the Lifetime audience and turned a modestly rated cable show into a global hit almost overnight.

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

Ivan Mooney, the owner, was Joe's adoptive father figure, and the soundproof glass cage in its basement becomes the show's signature set piece.

What is the name of Joe's obsession in season one?

Beck is a broke NYU graduate student and aspiring writer. Elizabeth Lail plays her and returned as a special guest in later seasons.

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

Peach harbors her own obsession with Beck and grows suspicious of Joe, who kills her at her family estate and stages it as a suicide.

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

Dr. Nicky's son Clayton returns in season five seeking revenge for his father's wrongful imprisonment.

How does Joe first find Beck's name and online profiles in the novel?

He then steals her phone for deeper access. The novel is written in second person, addressed to Beck as 'you.'

Which of Beck's lovers does Joe imprison in the bookstore's basement cage and kill, staging an overdose?

Joe lures the wealthy, pretentious Benji in with a fake business opportunity. It is the first of many cage occupants.

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

He is fleeing Candace, the ex-girlfriend he buried alive who survived. The season follows Kepnes' sequel Hidden Bodies.

What alias does Joe use in season two?

He steals the identity from a real hacker, played by Robin Lord Taylor, whom he keeps in a storage-unit cage for much of the season.

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

Read it backwards. Love Quinn is the store's resident chef, and Calvin is the manager.

Which Haunting of Hill House star plays Love Quinn?

Pedretti played Nell Crain in Hill House and Dani in Bly Manor before joining You in 2019, cementing a scream-queen reputation.

What is the name of Love's troubled twin brother?

James Scully plays him. He relies on Love for support through addictions and mental health struggles and returns as a guest in season three.

Which future Wednesday star plays Joe's 15-year-old neighbor Ellie Alves in season two?

Ellie's older sister Delilah is an investigative reporter who leases Joe his apartment and ends up dead in the cage.

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

Henderson is exposed as a predator, and his death is one of the season's turning points.

What is the name of the fictional California suburb where Joe and Love live in season three?

They are raising newborn son Henry there. The season was filmed after a two-month COVID shutdown and premiered in October 2021.

Which next-door neighbor does Love kill early in season three after Joe becomes fixated on her?

Her stepson Theo then falls for Love, and her husband Matthew Engler, played by Scott Speedman, starts digging into her disappearance.

What is Marienne Bellamy's job when Joe meets her in season three?

Tati Gabrielle plays her. Marienne flees to Paris with her daughter, is kidnapped by Joe in London in season four, and returns for revenge in season five.

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

She also played Gaia in The 100 and Nora in HBO's The Last of Us.

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

Shalita Grant and Travis Van Winkle play the couple, who survive and turn the ordeal into a self-help brand.

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

He works as an English professor under the alias Jonathan Moore after following Marienne from Paris, and gets pulled into a circle of wealthy socialites.

What alias does Joe use while teaching in season four?

A fixer working for Love's family, Elliot Tannenberg, sets up the cover identity for him.

Which Call the Midwife and Ghosts actress plays Kate Galvin?

Kate is a fearsomely intelligent gallery director whose estranged father Tom Lockwood, played by Greg Kinnear, is a billionaire. She marries Joe before season five.

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

Rhys's memoir about prison lifted him out of poverty and into Oxford. Joe feels an instant kinship, which turns out to be more literal than he realizes.

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

Amy-Leigh Hickman plays the outspoken genre-fiction fan, who is still in prison for Joe's crime when season five begins and comes back seeking revenge.

Which White Lotus and Euphoria actor plays Adam Pratt, owner of the Sundry House club?

Adam is an American playboy dating Lady Phoebe and constantly begging his father to bail out his failed businesses.

How was season four released?

Part one arrived on February 9, 2023, and part two on March 9, a schedule Netflix had begun using for its biggest series.

Where does Joe return to for the fifth and final season?

He is now rich, married to Kate and running the Lockwood Corporation's philanthropy when a playwright named Bronte walks into his bookstore.

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

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

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

Reagan is the cutthroat CFO who wants the family throne, Maddie the thrice-divorced socialite whose job is 'vaguely PR.'

How does the series finale ultimately punish Joe?

Vulture's Nicholas Quah called the ending symbolic but insufficient given how far Joe's character had gone over five seasons.

On what date was the fifth and final season released?

Netflix had announced the renewal for a final season in March 2023, weeks after season four's second half.

Which streaming service had passed on You twice before a cable network bought it?

Berlanti later said Ted Sarandos admitted Netflix wished it had taken the show the first time. It finally picked up the series ahead of season two.

In Kepnes' third novel, You Love Me, Joe relocates to which quiet spot in Washington State?

He is trying to prove he can love someone the 'right' way. The book was published in 2021, between the show's third and fourth seasons.

Into how many languages has the original You novel been translated?

Kepnes' fourth Joe Goldberg novel, For You and Only You, arrived in April 2023 as the show was airing its fourth season.

Which former Once Upon a Time actress plays Beck?

Lail played Anna in Once Upon a Time and later Vanessa in the Five Nights at Freddy's films. Beck returns as a ghost of Joe's conscience in later seasons.

Which company co-produced You alongside Berlanti Productions and A+E Studios?

Alloy, the book packager behind Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars, is a natural fit for a series starring alumni of both.

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

Lockwood turns out to be pulling strings behind the season-four murders, and Joe kills him, which is how Kate inherits the family corporation.

Which premium network bought You first, then freed the creators to take it elsewhere?

Berlanti later joked that they sold it to Showtime 'of all places' before the show ended up on Lifetime and then Netflix.

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

Her fresh start does not last: Joe kidnaps her in London in season four, and she returns seeking revenge in season five.

Why did You move its production from New York to California for season two?

The state's 'Program 2.0' incentive lured the show west, and season three later earned $7.2 million in California tax credits.

Why was filming of You's third season paused for two weeks at the end of December 2020?

Shooting resumed in February 2021 and wrapped that April, with the season released in October.

Penn Badgley made his directorial debut on which episode of You's fourth season?

The London-set season shot from March to August 2022 at locations including Royal Holloway and Knebworth House.

Which London railway station was among the filming locations for You's fourth season?

Other London locations included Lincoln's Inn Library and Grant's Quay Wharf at Old Billingsgate.

You's early directing team drew on Darius Khondji's look for which David Fincher film?

Lee Toland Krieger and David Lanzenberg also cited Khondji's work on Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris.

Netflix said how many viewers watched You's second season in its first month on the service?

Netflix's metric at the time counted anyone who watched at least two minutes of one episode.

Who plays Paco, the young neighbour Joe protects from an abusive stepfather in season one?

Padovan's casting was announced in July 2017 alongside Elizabeth Lail's, and Paco returns for a special appearance in the final season.