What on earth was Netflix thinking when it commissioned the small-screen adaptation of Caroline Kepnes’ novelYou in 2018 (that is, beyond the obvious desire to boost subscriber figures, given that the streaming platform’s earnings plummeted by more than $24bn in the second quarter of that year?)
Both the initial and many, many subsequent seasons of the show feature farcical, soap opera-like storylines that sensationalise the serial killing of women at the hands of an entirely unsuspected protagonist. So far, so Hollywood cliché. But it’s devastating that Netflix missed out on such a golden opportunity to do something different.
