The following contains major spoilers from a whole bunch of literary classics and Netflix’s You Season 2.
When he’s not elbows-deep in a rotting corpse, Joe Goldberg loves a good book.
In You Season 2, viewers followed Netflix’s foremost word nerd-turned-serial killer as he chased a woman to the City of Angels, and racked up a body count that would make Agatha Christie blush. Along the way, there was stalking, maiming, dismembering, killing, and heaps of classic novels.
Joe’s love for literature was well-established during his New York days, but in Season 2, You‘s creators took special care in curating the works within Joe’s orbit. When he wasn’t celebrating Bisexual Pescatarian Week at Anavrin or suffering through another Great Gatsby “Old sport!” quip, Joe was slowly unveiling — through the books he was reading — the exquisite twists and turns that would befall him and his victims. Read more…
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