Netflix's You has certainly been the talk of TV these past few weeks, especially over the show's lead Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley).
While presented to us as a romantic hero, the character is in fact a monstrous stalker and murderer, which has left some fans conflicted over whether they feel sympathy for him.
Well, the show's co-creator Sera Gamble has opened up about the responses to Joe and the fact that many feel close to him
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"Well, I kind of felt that way when I read the book," she told Vulture. "It took me a surprisingly long time to realise that Joe was not a reliable narrator, because we were in his head and we were in his point of view.
"When you read Caroline [Kepnes]' book, he gets creepy almost immediately. However, it wasn't until I was a fair amount into the book that I realised that I was automatically forgiving him, and that I wasn't even really doing it consciously.
"I was just so interested in him and seduced by the honesty of his inner monologue that I kept finding myself rooting for this couple. When I sat down and thought about that, that is really disturbing."
She continued: "But how could we not, in some way, root for someone who is presented to us as a perfect romantic hero?
"A lot of what the show is about, as a lot of what the book was about, is playing with those expectations and revealing that there's a dark side to that beloved archetype of the male romantic hero who sweeps in to save the day, whether or not you've even asked him to."
Speaking about the second season Gamble teased: "Joe is at the centre of the story, so in that way, anyone who is Team Joe will be richly rewarded for their time watching, because it's a show about him.
"And I can't say he's fully reformed. It isn't like he's getting shelter dogs adopted in season two. He's doing some pretty crazy shit. And the show has never made much of an attempt to condone what he's doing.
"The thing we always remember is that he's not any kind of a professional killer. He doesn't consider himself a killer at all. He actually just thinks he's doing what must be done to be a good man, and for that reason, he's not perfect at it. And these things come back to haunt him."
She concluded: "The second season diverges a little bit more from Caroline's novel than season one did, but does still touch on a lot of the great stuff that she wrote."
You is streaming now on Netflix.
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