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*WARNING: This review of the new hit thriller Netflix series, You  will include spoilers. Don't read if you're still planning on watching the show."

"Well hello there....who are you?"
Gossip Girl's lonely boy Penn Badgley is finally starring in a new hit show on Netflix that everyone is obsessed with, literally. Badgley plays Joe Goldberg, a manager at a book store in New York who becomes unhealthy engrossed with a women who walks into his store one day, Guinevere Beck, played by Elizabeth Lail.

At the start of the show, we automatically are revealed to the dangers of social media. Beck's social media accounts, like Instagram and Facebook, are completely visible to the public eye. That's what makes it so easy for Joe to find her after their encounter at the book store. He even goes so far as to find her address, and watch her outside her apartment and even break IN. Most unrealistic part of the show? Beck has no curtains.

Slowly, Joe finds out more about Beck's life, like her current fling with Benji Ashby as well as her group of friends; Peach Salinger, Annika Attwater, and Lynn Lieser. And along the way, he even saves her life. After an unsuccessful poetry reading at a local bar, Joe pulls a drunk Beck from the subway train tracks. And thus, this is where their relationship begins.

Joe vows that he will do everything, and anything to keep Beck safe- because that's love right?

The show brings up a LOT of ethical issues. Particularly with the main protagonist Joe, being an insanely charming and good looking character. Throughout the first season, Joe realistically plays two characters; the Joe with demons and a body count of murdered victims, and Joe- the man that Beck has fallen for.

After the show premiered, Penn Badgley was quick to tell fans to stop falling in love with Joe.
Fans wrote to Badgley saying things like "I can't help but fall for him," and "kidnap me" were all over social media.  Penn quoted a tweet on his Twitter that wrote "the amount of people romanticising Penn Badgley's character in You scares me," and he wrote back, "Ditto. It will be all the motivation I need for season 2."

The creators of You and the original writer of the book Caroline Kepnes, wanted the character Joe to be perceived as good looking, smart, charming, and loving as a method to pull the audience in, like Beck was pulled in AND the rest of the world. And this is happening in other shows and movies.  Zac Efron, who was casted to play serial killer Ted Bundy in a new movie, also received backlash and criticism about being cast in a movie about a serial killer. But that was the entire point to begin with; Bundy was the last person you would think could be a serial killer.

After watching Season 1 of You, I am extremely hesitant to pursue online dating, let alone dating in general. And I think any fan of the show has become fearful. Imagine falling in love with someone only to find out that they're not the person you fell in love with? And that they're going to kill you? Scary. The show is an extreme wake up call, but also real life- this stuff HAPPENS.

Poor Beck, if only she had known.