DEFINITION January 2022 – Newsletter

YOU PRODUC T I ON .

GUIDING THE AUDIENCE Getting viewers to like the show’s murderous main character is no easy task

DOP Byron Shah tells us how anamorphic lenses and a telescoping crane help lure us into a false sense of security for Season 3 of You WORDS. Emily Williamson Distorted perspectives

W hen the much-anticipated and psychological messiness. Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) faces many new challenges – most notably, marriage and fatherhood. We follow Joe and his wife Love (Victoria Pedretti), as they do their best to settle into suburban family life and move on from less-than-stellar pasts. third season of You premiered last year, fans were treated to characteristic high drama

You is a thought-provoking, nuanced show. To have an audience empathise with a psychopathic stalker and murderer – even one as charming and handsome as Joe – seems like a big ask. But the writing and production has always done this deftly, and Season 3 is no different. Following the revelations at the end of Season 2, Joe and Love’s complicated relationship makes for a journey that breaks many of the show’s

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