You is a vicious thrill of a show whose only flaws are a lousy title and a badly timed premiere date

The New York Times

"Lifetime’s new stalker drama, You, has two major flaws: Its name is near impossible to use in conversation or to Google in any meaningful capacity, and it is premiering Sept. 9 as part of the fall TV season rather than a few months ago, when it could have been the steamy summer show we needed," says Margaret Lyons of the new series starring Penn Badgley. "Other than that, You, based on Caroline Kepnes’s novel, is a vicious thrill; smart and mean in all the right ways, with a devilish sensibility and a clever, inviting pessimism, like the friend who wants you to sit in the back with her and make jokes. You rolls its eyes at trying-to-be-cool people the same way actual cool people do."

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