Actually not a bad pilot episode to a show, has some cringe dialogue here and there but I think some of that is done on purpose, it's also surprisingly more humorous than I thought it would be. Hopefully this show gives a lot more for Penn to be able to do acting wise, they have an interesting premise here and I hope they build on i well. This show could ever become another awful 'edgy teen show' or actually something great given time, we shall see.
Watching this without any sort of idea what this is about kind of gave me that element of surprise. I've never seen Penn Badgley since Gossip Girl so I'm kind of excited to hear he had a new show coming up. A few thoughts about the pilot coming at you in bullets:
-Penn Badgley should narrate something, has he ever done anything like that in his career? because i think he should.
-This girl doesn't have curtains in her apartment, and her bedroom view is across the side walk. it's literally a feast for the eyes of peeping toms and stalkers
-Please stop romanticizing stalkers PLEASE...and a thief.
Hopefully this show gives us Badgley's best performance of his career, knowing it's a mystery, thriller show I hope to see some of that psycho-killer type of acting
While I agree the dialogue was cringey at times, the pilot episode is one of the few pilot episodes of any series that has peaked my interest. The plot, very simplified: It's a hypersmart psychopathic "nice guy" who falls in love with a woman he meets at a bookstore where he works at, and starts stalking her. Of course he has no remorse or emotions, so it was expected that he hurt her boyfriend, because he thinks he is not the right one for her. Overall the episode has me very interested, and I will continue watching - it reminds me a bit of the series Dexter's first episode.
I've liked this first chapter a lot, especially the end. I just can't understand how a girl has those such big windows in her house and yet does everything in front of them, without putting any kind of curtains, and how she does not see him stalking her, it's so unrealistic...
Okay, that was s o g o o d !
Penn Badgley is good at portraying creepy and pretentious. I also love Shay Mitchell. Anyway, I am really into this. I am a sucker for this genre, and the cinematography, direction, and sets are cool (although admittedly, I do not really know a lot about those stuff). Joe's narration addressed to Beck was really creepy ("What if some sicko followed you?"). ((Wish this were only fiction))
Also concerned that that was dedicated to someone's memory.
I thought this would be more 'light' but this Pilot has been very good. I hope further episodes will be as good as this Pilot.
Wow now that's a pilot! I mean watching it i'm thinking this guy can't be that bad, he means well and everything, i kinda want a guy to stalk me like that... uhm yeah watch the whole episode LOL...seriously can't wait to see what he'll do next... creep lvl is awesome XD
Interesting premise, like ‘Fear’ but from the perspective of Marky Mark.
Penn is a snack, but too bad he’s Looney Tunes.
And I think we’re all on the same page about the curtain-free windows. Biggest (silliest) shock of the episode.
Curious to see more.
Oh geez, what a creep. Really good first episode though.
the casting director who saw Dan from gossip girl and said "that man is a psychotic stalker" deserves every award. I'm only at the pilot but Penn Badgley is EATING this role.
Even though I've seen some stuff that happens later (like season 3 or something) I'm still very intrigued to watch more! That's how you know it's a good pilot episode!
another show with masturbation in it for no particular reason. such wonderful options for programming. woman talking about a man having his d*ck in some girl's mouth, followed by fornication, followed by masturbation. you would think somebody could write something without these useless, stupid, ridiculous scenes. you know maybe write something that people could feel comfortable watching with other people instead of sex and masturbation. nobody wants to see that
Late to the game here - I just watched this last night. I enjoyed it. Bit of an Easter egg: one of Beck’s screen names was “BeckdelTest” (maybe with some numbers at the end - it was blink-and-you-miss it on the screen): the bechdel test is a measure of the representation of women in fiction. It asks whether a work features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. Some add a requirement that the two women must be named. A surprising number of works fail. (This episode passed but only due to her interaction with her friends, I think).
I watched this again with my friends just to make fun of it but in the process felt a strong need to figure out what happens not because it's good, because it was fcking awful
The fucking censoring is so annoying... the show is ok :)
This is more than I expected, so good
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- Alla fine della fiera, la gente è una delusione!
- Qualche volta ti sorprendono.
"You" is a story about a man, who works in a bookstore, getting obsessively infatuated with a customer, a self-proclaimed poet. Our hero is a stalker, and as we find out, he's willing to go even further. Joe immediately gets his eyes on Beck, the customer, follows her through her daily routine, and breaks into her apartment to get more information about her from her laptop. Beck is sold as a smart girl who makes dumb decisions, and Joe sees himself as a nice guy who could turn Beck's life around - no more convenience food and no more bad sex. Beck leaves her apartment door unlocked, and her laptop & phone unpassworded. Her friends are not like her, they're heavy partiers while Beck prefers to read and write poetry, and like every stalker - or every guy with a feigned self-esteem - Joe believes he can make Beck's dreams come true. Beck leaves her big glass windows open all day, even during sex, and it's the implausible clumsiness of this sort that is convenient to the plot, but hurtful to the character of Beck that the writers try to sell. It's hard to believe that she would have sex with the windows uncurtained and leave her apartment door unlocked. We learn a little from Joe's background and we learn that mere stalking isn't enough for him - he masturbates outside as he watches Beck masturbate. Joe's (Penn Badgley) narrating works well-enough. He narrates with a normal voice with a whit of cocky self-assurance mixed with it. The last five minutes push you to watch the next episode.
This pilot was good. Really good. having no idea what this was I was left in a lot of suspense on whether it would deliver on the tension that seemed to be ratcheting up. A self narrating bookstore of above average intelligence begins stalking a woman who walked into his store? He uses social engineering to trick people into giving him access to her. It has a strong Dexter vibe but where Dexter was supremely dispassionate here our lead Joe is the extreme to the other end, cold and purely emotional. His narration, and his deadpan give the appearance of flattened simplified emotions. He's in love with her because she's not like other girls, therefore it's his duty to steal her panties and raid her computer to know everything about her. I won't spoiler which way it goes on the Dexter route on this episode review but I was certainly intrigued enough to sign up for the rest of the season and see how this turns out.'
Update::
Upgrading from a 7 to a 10 because this episode all by itself really is an amazing piece of television. We've had villains as main characters before. We've had villains as main characters that I've liked and rooted for. But Joe is something different even right now from episode 1. A lot of anti-heroes speak to the part of us we don't listen to. The dark thoughts we have but have learned to ignore as we socialized. Joe speaks to something else. Joe makes me more uncomfortable than any of the killers or dealer on TV because he speaks to a part of my self that I could see myself giving into to. That part that falls a little bit in love with a waitress if she touches my hand when I give her the tap machine back. I don't give into that voice because I understand how reality works but unlike killers and dealers and serial killers there's a LOT of dudes who DO give in to that voice. There's a lot of dudes that justify the way Joe justifies. The ending gets a little dark but the show goes to great pains to show us it's not a twist. It was the inevitable road that started when Joe took notice of a woman and didn't just observe but presumed. He presumed
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Get some goddamn curtains, Beck. How can anyone have such huge windows on the first floor right next to a busy street and then not add any kind of curtains or blinds. Drove me crazy just watching this.
But I really enjoyed this episode. The first ten minutes already had me hooked. The voiceover reminded me of Dexter, the camera work was nice and I was really pleasantly surprised to see that this show even took a really dark turn at the end.