Well, this binge worthy serial killer perspective story is complete madness. YOU.
Every episode you are confronted with a really sick persons view, who thinks what he does is for “love”. His obsession.
You come to see his past in flashbacks. But the fact that he is an orphan and being abused by the only person who took care of him: a the book store owner, is never an excuse for all the disasters he will commit.
Like every good story, it is based on a book.
Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is the main character, and he is contorted and obsessive. Does he fall in love? Who will be the next victim?
He is not a killer from the start, or is he?
How does he become who he is?
We enter his point of view and it is a maddening ensemble.
Especially, because you feel for the person he loves and you kind of like and hate him, but you are also shocked. How can you love someone, try everything to protect this person, but then ends up to be a killer?
Is this how serial killers operate?
Often killers are ex lovers, family members, people who are really close to the victims.
We don’t know why they act in the way they’ve acted.
How they became so contorted.
A person that is charming and loving on the outside, could still be a killer?
This is the deep sinister overwhelming feeling the author and also the series give to you.
Ron (Daniel Cosgrove), the abusive boyfriend of Claudia (Victoria Cartagena) and a parole officer, sees Joe for who he really is, but since he is abusing his girlfriend and overtly aggressive as a person, no one believes him.
How could sweet Joe, who gifts the neighbor girlfriends Paco, (Luca Padovan), books and helps him during these abusive episodes, be a killer?
Well, he is damn good at hiding in plain sight.
Have you seen it already?
Which is the your favorite episode?
Is it when Goldberg falls in love with the wild student, Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail) in season 1?
Or is it season 2 when he confronts his obsessions and is faced with Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti)?
Is he really a master mind, who knows how to manipulate others?
He imprisons and kidnaps whoever is in his way.
Many surprises await you in this series.
Let me know what you think in the comments.