![]() Her name is so improbable, it actually serves as a bit of flirty dialogue between the two characters when they first meet - she goes by Beck because even she knows being named Guinevere in a year that is not 1487 is pretty absurd (again, apologies to the Guineveres of the world it is not your fault your names wound up in 2019 pop culture), but she promises her siblings have equally literary names. Then, there’s Guinevere Beck, otherwise known as Beck, otherwise known as the object of Joe’s desire. I will also note that I have four middle names because my parents could not agree on one so for me of all people to take issue with the names in the You-niverse is really saying something. In an interview with Refinery29, You’s author Caroline Kepnes called Peach a “third cousin, maybe a fourth cousin.” But looking beyond the ridiculousness of that … Peach? (Apologies to the Peaches of the world.) As in, the emoji … and sure, okay, also the fruit, but go with me here Kepnes said she wanted her character’s name to be “kind of annoying,” and by combining a notoriously reclusive and allegedly abusive author’s name with the emoji we use to symbolize our butts, she has achieved her goal. The inconsequential aspect of You that I would like to discuss with you is this: I am really expected to believe that someone is named Peach Salinger ?!?įirst, there’s the Salinger bit. But if the show is so outlandish and absurd that you begin obsessing about the fringe details in order to make sense of it all, come, sit by me. (This theory was borne a few minutes ago, when I started writing this post.) If you, like most people, were horrified at the stalking, the masturbating-in-bushes, the gaslighting, and the murdering that Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg considers romantic gestures for his one true love, congratulations! You, like most people, are normally calibrated. On this show? That’s practically hero material.I have a theory that what you found most abhorrent about You reveals a core truth about you as a human being. Looking at you, Joe.) And she knows that just because someone says they don’t want to be with you romantically, it’s not grounds to murder them. (She decides to sleep with Raj after Beck pulls away from her kiss, for example, rather than throw anyone in a basement death cage. Neither of those things are great, but at the end of the day, she respects some boundaries. Fine, she has a laptop full of stalker photos of Beck, and spends way, way too much time trying to manipulate and control her best friend. Truly, in the grand scheme of things, in the world of You, she’s really not that bad. Peach is terrible, to be sure, but so is everyone else on this show. There’s so much story going on in the background here, and it’s a shame we never get to see it. Actor Penn Badgely has even taken to Twitter to remind people that his character on You is, in fact, a dirtbag who kills people, even if he does have an oddly adorable demeanor a lot of the time, but the real downside to everyone’s Joe crush is that it’s distracting us all from properly appreciating the true and best breakout character of the show: Peach Salinger.īut Peach is clearly someone who just doesn’t know how to express her feelings in a real way, which is why she ends up using a drug-fueled house party to make a pass at Beck instead of a conversation, and needs her friend to run away to Paris with her in order to feel like a special and valued part of her life. Reams have already been written about Joe and the way that many viewers have reacted to him. ![]() Joe is a complete psycho who presents as a considerate, nice guy, and the character exists at the center of an uncomfortable nexus of charming romcom tropes and utterly toxic masculinity-not to mention he’s a straight up murderer. The series follows the story of Beck, a graduate student who doesn’t have sense enough to buy curtains for the gigantic windows in her first floor New York City apartment, as she is stalked and manipulated into a long-term romance by nerdy book dealer Joe Goldberg. There are many things to love about You, the utterly ridiculous Lifetime-series-turned-Netflix-binge that’s one part romantic comedy, one part social media cautionary tale, and one part slasher flick, all blended together into the absolute best of guilty pleasures.
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