YOU Moving to Netflix for Season 2
Joe Goldberg apparently will find his next obsession at Netflix: The Lifetime drama YOU will move to the streaming service for its second season.
Though Lifetime initially had renewed the Penn Badgley-led series for a second season, before Season 1 had even premiered, the cable network has opted not to air the sophomore run. According to our sister site Deadline, low ratings were a major factor in the network’s decision.
“Lifetime had an incredible experience working with Greg Bertlanti, Sera Gamble and the entire team on YOU for Season 1,” the network said in a statement. “We wish the cast and crew the best as the series continues on at Netflix and can’t wait for the opportunity to work with the creative team again.”
Based on Caroline Kepnes’ novel of the same name, YOU stars Badgley as Joe Goldberg, a bookstore employee who instantly falls for, then obsessively stalks, a customer-turned-love interest named Beck (Elizabeth Lail). In the Season 1 finale — Spoiler Alert! — Beck ultimately died at Joe’s hand, and Joe’s ex-girlfriend Candace showed up in a cliffhanger ending.
Season 2, which will loosely follow the events of Kepnes’ follow-up Hidden Bodies, will move the action to Los Angeles.
“There’s a lot of great story in the second book that we’re going to be able to do, but in our way,” executive producer Sera Gamble told TVLine in November. “Los Angeles is a completely different vibe… We started the writers’ room for Season 2 by being like, ‘Joe moves to L.A. and he completely hates it. Let’s talk about how much fun that is.'”
This is not the first time a Lifetime series has jumped to a different platform during its run: The fourth and final season of UnREAL was dropped on Hulu, instead of its original network, earlier this year.
Well thank goodness it’s heading to Netflix and not cancelled. Loved this show.
Or, you know, let this show stay where it is and use the money for a certain recently cancelled Marvel show instead?
YES!
I don’t think money was the only reason…
I think You is probably a lot cheaper to make than any Marvel show. Also, Netflix cancelling Marvel shows was probably less about Netflix actually wanting to cancel them and more about Disney wanting all Marvel properties back for their own streaming platform. I’m assuming that Jessica Jones will also be cancelled in the lead up to or just after its new season airs as well.
It’s Lifetime though.
Lifetime is where has been actors go wait or is that hallmark channel…
lol
Being an actor is a job so as long as they get roles, they’ll always stay on as actors.
agree
Bye bye.
They pick up this POC, but can’t do anything about ‘Timeless’?
Timeless is not a Netflix original.
Penn Badgeley is white
Oh my goodness this tea is scalding
Hasn’t started airing in the UK on Netflix yet. I think this could be popular when it does! I’ll be watching. Makes sense for Netflix to blag it outright. Lifetime does seem an odd network for this type of show
thank god….show was awesome but found the whole censorship of cuss words irritating
Seems like a good move. Being on Lifetime always felt limiting to the show
Of course Lifetime dropped it because I liked it lol Oh Well
Very happy Netflix saved this show! I can’t wait for season two.
So let me get this straight. netflix cancels what is probably the best superhero TV show of all time and instead saves……this ?!
Are you f….. kidding me ?
If you think that canceling a Marvel show went through the same channels as canceling or saving any other show, you’re misunderstanding how businesses work on some fundamental level. Yes, it sucks they cancelled Daredevil (or other Marvel show of your choosing), but don’t rain on the parade for people who like this show. The decisions were entirely unrelated.
Yeah, I’m sure Daredevil doesn’t cost something like 3 times to produce it either. Yeah ok. Netflix are probably not even on the hook for the entire cost of YOU. I kinda have to laugh when I’m watching Bodyguard and it says “A Netflix Original Show”.
I agree with citizen and also this show looks interesting for me but let’s see if it is good.
Sidenote: I think it is great that season 1 will be on Netflix on December 26.
Is Elizabeth Lail returning for season 2? Since her character is dead I guess probably not except for some ghost apparence…but I will really miss her she was the best part of the show.
Agreed. The fact that they resurrected Candace and not Elizabeth Lails Beck was a hard pill to swallow. I mean if they had to change something why not keep Beck alive instead? It would’ve been easy enough too. Instead of having Joe go through three love interests like in the novel Beck, the con artist, and Love Quinn. Simply have Beck take on those roles. She survives Joe, and takes off to LA under a fake name. Joe tracks her down. Invades her life again. This time. Like Love Quinn, their relationship works out. It’d be more interesting and it’d fix the one part of YOU that I hated. Beck dying.
It has much better potential to reach more people on Netflix. No one watches Lifetime anymore.
That may be true but to say that no one watches Lifetime anymore is quite an assumption on your part. I know a lot of people who do.
Yes!!!! I loved YOU. Both the show and the novel. Easier access and if we’re lucky, the whole season will drop. Plus, no more censorship. And they won’t have to limit themselves anymore as far as graphicness goes. AKA actual n*dity. Hopefully they do something good. I hate how beck died yet Candace lives? Where’s the sense? Either change the part that people care about or stick to the story. And to the numerous people complaining that we’ve got this instead of Timeless and Daredevil I feel your pain. I loved both shows dearly. But YOU has nothing to do with that. Nor Netflix themselves entirely. Blame the people who own the property, *cough *cough, Disney.
Sounds like an awful premise for a series where a stalker kills his victim. I’m surprised that this ever made it to air.
YOU obviously have never seen it.
Here we go again. Another high-profile show abruptly dropped by it’s network & given away to Netflix. I wonder if Lifetime ever really had any faith in “YOU” at all. The CW did the same thing to “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” killing any possibility of a crossover with “Riverdale. “It makes you wonder if these networks had any real faith in these shows to begin with. Unfortunately, I don’t see these two shows going beyond their second seasons.
CW didnt “drop” anything; Netflix offered a sweet 2-year deal to CAOS.
I’m so glad Netflix picked it up for season 2. I’m not usually a fan of shows that are this dark, but You was fantastic. Penn Badgley was so outstandingly amazing that I kept coming back for more every week. Penn Badgley did exactly what he said in an interview that he wanted to do with Joe: made you scared but intrigued by him all at the same time. I agree with another comment on here that it always felt like Lifetime was holding it back somehow. Now, with it moving to Netflix, there’s no end to what they can do. I do agree, though, that not having Beck as his love interest is sad(although I did read where Elizabeth Lail is not leaving the show). I’m curious to see where it goes next. I love this show, I love Penn Badgley & am glad Netflix is willing to take a chance on it for season two.
I know YOU will do great on Netflix it really is one of the best shows of 2018 and I’m sure it will get all the buzz it deserves once its available for streaming I never missed an episode
Am I the only one who thinks that the person he saw wasn’t Candace, but just an expression of how far Joe’s delusions flew off into the deepest end? I can’t imagine him leaving Candace alive. It must be that the rationale he uses to justify the murder of Beck is on overdrive. If he merely attempted to kill Candace and failed, who would confront Joe alone without law enforcement?
great news! since netflix > lifetime