Netflix has finally confirmed when You eagerly anticipated third season is set to land on the streaming service.
The thriller series teased what’s to come in the new episodes, too, with an ominously narrated promo that sees – or more accurately, hears – Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg unveil the name of his and partner Love’s new son: Henry.
Let’s just say, I’m hoping you’ll do as I say and not as I do,” he says in the clip, as his aproned self prepares ingredients for a celebratory cake.
Choosing your name is the first of a lifetime of decisions I’ll make to give you the best life possible. To protect you, to shape who you will become. Who are you going to be?”
Based on the 2014 novel by Caroline Kepnes, the show’s first season follows Joe, a New York City bookstore manager who becomes fixated on an aspiring writer named Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail) when she buys something in his shop one day.
Almost immediately, Joe starts to manipulate situations so that the two cross paths, and alters his personality to become more appealing to her. But as his delusional obsession with her grows, his actions get much, much darker.
The show’s second season, which is more loosely inspired by Kepnes’ 2016 sequel, follows Joe having moved to LA in the hopes of becoming a better person and putting his stalker-like tendencies – and let’s face it, murderous – ways behind him. A vow that proves itself all too difficult when he meets charismatic heiress Love Quinn (The Haunting of Bly Manor’s Victoria Pedretti).
Its dramatic final episode saw Love confess to past crimes that would give Joe a run for his money, insist that the pair were meant to meet and fall for one another, and tell him that she’s pregnant with his child.
Putting their problems aside, they move out to the suburbs to start afresh – where Joe soon becomes infatuated with their glamorous neighbour, whose identity is yet to be revealed.
Both Badgley and Pedretti will reprise their roles in the next chapter, as will Saffron Burrows, who plays Love’s mother Dottie. The trio will be joined on screen by newcomers Dylan Arnold (Halloween), Michaela McManus (One Tree Hill), Shalita Grant (NCIS), Travis Van Winkle (Scorpion) and Tati Gabrielle (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina).
You season 3 premieres on Netflix on October 15.