By Abigail Alzogaray

While you are home, cannot go out and are looking around all the streaming services trying to find something new or interesting to watch, may I suggest the Netflix series “You.”

The series was created Greg Belanti and Sera Gamble and launched on September 8, 2018, but season two was just launched this past January 14. A popular choice, it has now been renewed for a third season. So, once you get addicted, you can watch the next season in 2021. (Maybe we will be out of quarantine by then).

The story is about a shy, but brilliant, bookstore owner Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) who meets a beautiful aspiring writer, Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail). Their relationship is charming, but it is also awkward. He becomes obsessed with her and uses his brilliant mind to get her attention. He uses every tool he can think of to be closer to her, including social media and the internet. The awkward romance becomes a little more sinister when he not only tries to get her attention, but also removes any obstacle that would prevent him from getting to her.

So, what would Joe do for love? It appears that he would do a lot of creepy things. That is the draw of this show. Actually, season one ended with a certain ex-girlfriend, who Joe thought he had killed, returning. That is a really bad breakup.

This is your fair warning though. This show is pretty risky. Joe commits a lot, and I mean a lot, of acts of violence against all kinds of people, but especially women. This is not the series to watch if you are turned off by violence against women. However, that is the draw of the show, to see just how much he can get away with.

This show is loosely based on a novel by Caroline Kepnes. There are some major differences, but the show does a great job of keeping the viewer glued to their device. Not that any of us are so picky right now. With the quarantine going on, we are all desperate for entertainment. Right now you can binge watch seasons one and two on Netflix, then you will be waiting for season three with me.