Straight from your Gossip Girl nightmares, Dan Humphrey is back again in the first trailer of You, the Lifetime series based off of . Penn Badgley plays a bookstore manager, Joe, who may or may not have become so obsessed with a writer that he started stalking her by using her social media. Elizabeth Lail plays his blonde, Serena van der Woodsen-like love interest while Shay Mitchell lurks in the shadow as the girl's best friend who's onto Badgley's character.

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As Lifetime itself describes the plot, "'What would you do for love?' When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring writer, his answer becomes clear: anything. Using the internet and social media as his tools to gather the most intimate of details and get close to her, a charming and awkward crush quickly becomes obsession as he quietly and strategically removes every obstacle–and person–in his way."

The trailer starts with every New Yorker's worst nightmare: Lail getting pushed off the subway platform and nearly being run over by a train until Badgley miraculously saves her, so prepare yourself. It just gets creepier from there:

You premieres on September 9 on Lifetime.



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