
I’m not here to glorify our society’s morbid captivation with true crime or explain why we don’t need another Ted Bundy biopic starring “The Marvelous Mrs. Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) and Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) move into the fictional Bay Area suburb of Madre Linda for the third season of "You." John P. “Elon’s decorator is brilliant, but he’s so slow,” Sherry whines, referring to the Tesla CEO.Īnd one episode is fittingly titled “So I Married an Axe Murderer” in a nod to the North Beach-shot comedy. Later, Sherry and Cary lament the fact that they can’t host a party at their home, which is currently under renovation. In another episode, Joe purchases Love a box of donuts from an Instagrammable bakery in Berkeley (there’s no way they taste as good as they look). At one point, Theo gets a DUI on an electric scooter. Though the third season was actually filmed in Los Angeles, there are some undeniably Bay Area-centric moments that provide a bit of comic relief. Matthew (Scott Speedman) monitors Madre Linda with increasing paranoia.

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They document all of their do-goodery on social media and subtly condescend everyone around them. Cary fawns over Sherry’s knack of “hacking” everything, from childbirth to finding a good school for their kids to their sex life. Brilliantly portrayed by Travis Van Winkle (“Friday the 13th”) and Shalita Grant (“Search Party”), they embody the Bay Area influencer culture that’s ruining everything from pumpkin patches to local landmarks and might even go as far as to lie about the attempted kidnapping of their children to go viral.

Of course there’s another vague tech entrepreneur, Cary, married to a mommy blogger, Sherry, who calls the shots when it comes to social standing in Madre Linda. Joe returns home and confesses to his wife where he’s been, but omits the details of the rendezvous.Īs one might expect, the neighborhood is filled with wealthy and insufferable neighbors who all fit well-worn Bay Area stereotypes. She turns them off for Joe’s visit - knowing it will make her husband suspicious - and they share a steamy kiss. Her home is even more closely watched than the rest of Madre Linda, with cameras in every room. Natalie digs up Joe’s phone number online and invites him over for wine, which he gleefully accepts - for once, he’s not the one who has to do the stalking, after all. I wish this Big Brother-like scrutiny felt dystopian - instead, it’s not too far off from something my coworker recently experienced at an Airbnb. She falls into the bored housewife trope and shows fleeting interest, but there’s a snag in their pending affair: her husband Matthew (Scott Speedman) runs the security camera company that monitors the neighborhood’s every move. It doesn’t take long for Joe to find a new obsession - and presumed victim - real estate agent Natalie (Michaela McManus,) who he creepily ogles through a hole in his fence while she sunbathes by the pool.
