One of the trickier aspects of You (Netflix) is its inability to reconcile its contradictory sides. On the one hand, it adores Joe (Penn Badgley), its book-loving, supersensitive lead who can disguise himself completely by putting on a baseball cap; on the other, he stalks and murders women who fascinate him, plus any men who get in the way of his obsessions.
In previous series, the show dealt with this tiny personality flaw by pairing him with a woman called Love who was as over the top, shall we say, as he was. By the end of season three, even she was too much of a killer for him, so Love had to go, taking with her the increasingly diluted gag about whether anyone was talking about love or Love.
