The most analog princess in all the land

I promised you musings and ramblings, and now I’m ready to deliver. I will be posting reviews of the show “You” that’s available on Netflix. I’m watching season 1, and will be reviewing all the episodes, publishing one review a day. I will be posting my ramblings just as they are – one proof-read for errors, and then off they go, no internal editor. Let’s see how it goes. And obviously, SPOILER ALERT!

SEASON 1 EPISODE 8

• Three months after the break-up and things are looking up for Joe. He hasn’t killed or kidnapped anyone, he has a (mostly) great relationship with his neighbor’s sister, he is hardly even cyber-stalking Beck and not at all stalking her in real life. And if all this sounds too good to be true it probably is, so I can’t wait to see a twist where none of this is happening, and Beck has been locked in Joe’s book dungeon for the past three months.
  Speaking of Beck, she’s also doing amazing. She’s the hot new writer with a strong online presence and a book deal, she has a new pretentious pushy friend to rival Peach, and she’s still being a selfish ass-hat to her existing friends. Can’t wait to see how terrible her book turns out to be! I’m sure it will be on par with Dan Humphrey’s horrible book – and no, I can’t forget that character, even though I don’t call Joe Dan Humphrey anymore.
• And would you look at that, Ethan (the sweet teddy bear of a book salesman has a name!) and Blythe are moving in together. Cause when you know you know, and also apparently you find an affordable apartment on Manhattan at a drop of a hat. Which reminds me, the fact that Beck is still living in her old curtain-less apartment means that she’s still working at the university? Cause that was the whole deal with trying to keep her TA job by any means necessary – without it she would have lost her housing. Yet we never see her working or even attempting to work on anything but her awesome first book. Oh well, these show runners haven’t applied logic to any of Beck’s living arrangements – those bloody curtains are giving me nightmares – so why would they even try to justify Beck living in the same apartment despite clearly not working at the university anymore?
• John Stamos is great in this role! And the way that they’re framing the shrink sessions is kind of exciting. Joe and Beck talking about the same relationship, echoing each other, only Joe is talking about “Ronaldo” and it’s so funny every time I hear it. Not to mention that Joe is sticking with the same therapist that he thought about killing before. I suppose it keeps him close to Beck and despite all his protestations that he’s fine without her, he likes to stay connected to Beck, if only through a shrink.
• BECK IS THE WORST! Stop coming on to Joe, you bench! He has a kick-ass girlfriend who’s not bringing out the worst in him, and you are a parasite who uses people – Peach was so right about you.
• On top of having zero curtains, Beck also has the flimsiest windows in all of New York City. Joe barely threw that tiny rock and the glass is shattered, wtf?! How does she deal with strong wind or rain? At this rate she should have zero curtains and zero windows. Oh how I hate her apartment, and also her…
• Oh stop it, Paco. It’s not Joe’s fault that your mom is an addict. He was really trying to help, in fact he was helping. Even before offering his book dungeon up for free rehab facilities. He used to buy you books and sandwiches – don’t you remember that, Paco? I guess you don’t.
• And good for Karen to have that talk with Beck. It won’t do her any good, but I’m glad they’re bringing up Candace again. I’m dying to know what happened to her! The easy answer is that Joe killed her. The boring answer is that she moved somewhere far away from him. The twisted, demented answer is that Joe is keeping Candace in another book dungeon somewhere, but that’s far-fetched even for this show.