Sera has warned there’s trouble in store for Joe in season 2 (Picture: Getty)

***Warning: Contains spoilers for season one. You’ve been warned***

Joe Goldberg has proven to have a serious streak of good luck during his time on Netflix series You, as his twisted mind games have managed to keep him away from getting caught.

However, writer Sera Gamble has teased that his run of good fortune is about to run out in season two, and maybe the chaser will soon become the chased in his cat-and-mouse murderous games.

Speaking to Metro.co.uk, Sera revealed: ‘We are prepping to shoot season two now, in Los Angeles. Which is also where the second book of the series takes place.




‘We’ve got lots of great stuff from the books, and also some new things that have come about as a result of changing the story for TV, like that (spoiler alert) Candace is alive and kicking and not pleased with Joe.’

You’s twisted love games see Joe completely lure in his girlfriend and the audience (Picture: Netflix)

The second season of You will use the second book in the series, Hidden Bodies, as its basis, and will see Joe – fresh from the murder of his love Beck – leaving New York and heading for a new life in Los Angeles.

However, once he’s there, he finds that his past can’t stay buried forever, especially considering he has a load of skeletons in his closer that are just dying to come out.

Originally a limited series made for US network Lifetime, the series has taken on a new life after being moved over to Netflix, with the streaming service ordering the second season as binge-watchers the world over become obsessed with watching Joe’s obsession goes to extreme limits.

‘We were hoping people would find the show and just so damn gratified that they did,’ Sarah told us. ‘We suspected the perfect way to watch the show was in a big juicy binge– all of us read the books voraciously in a way that sort of felt like bingeing a roller-coaster-ride of a TV show.

Despite Penn Badgley’s protests, fans are falling for the psychopath (Picture: Netflix)

‘We’re grateful to Lifetime for making the first season with us and super thrilled that we are now making this show with Netflix, knowing that their audience is responding to the first season.’

In fact, the show has become so successful that leading man Penn Badgley, who until now was mostly known to play Dan in Gossip Girl, has urged fans not to romanticise his psycho character online.

He also spoke to us about his thoughts on a role such as this post-MeToo, and told us people need to be aware of the difference between romance and the desire for possession.

Sera revealed that it was all a deliberate ploy in order to bring you into the tale.

‘This is all part of the point we’re making with the show, by the way,’ she told us. ‘That as a culture we’re pre-programmed to be intrigued by a character like Joe in a story with some romantic overtones, even if he’s beyond flawed and crossing into unhinged.’



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She added: ‘I don’t expect everyone to take away the same thing. It kind of depends on what ideas about love you came in with. Where you believed the line was between love and obsession.

‘For me, making the show forced me to more deeply confront the illusions I had about the power of romance. I thought I was so independent and immune to the tropes of the classic romantic stories, but I realized that stuff is more deeply ingrained in my psyche than I’d known.’

You Season 1 is available on Netflix now.

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