The second season of YOU was full of surprises, not the least of which was that Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) lastly met his match when his newest stalker sufferer, Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), turned out to be just as dangerous as him. Their twisted dance all through the season proved to be much more suspenseful than Joe’s doomed relationship with Beck (Elizabeth Lail), and there was no scarcity of intense drama within the sequence’ sophomore outing. To have a good time YOU‘s rating as one in every of TV Information’s 100 Best Shows Right Now, we caught up with Badgley and co-creator and showrunner Sera Gamble to look again on a few of Season 2’s standout scenes, beginning with the second Joe and Love’s story first started.
Followers will undoubtedly recall that in their fateful first assembly on the grocery retailer, Love famously struck up a dialog with Joe about whether or not a peach reminded him of a human rump. Many followers perceived the subject of dialog to be a wink to Peach Salinger (Shay Mitchell), who was killed off in Season 1, however any nod to the beloved character was utterly unintended.
When Gamble wrote the scene, the showrunner defined, she was pondering of questions like, “How do folks flirt? How do they strike up conversations with strangers?”
She mentioned, “There’s nothing that deep about it. I simply thought if I used to be within the produce part, what would I say to attempt to be humorous? … Later, folks have been like, ‘Is it due to Peach Salinger? And I used to be like, ‘Yeah, completely. Completely thought of that.'”
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However whereas Love’s memorable flirtation wasn’t a delicate nod to the present’s first season, Gamble did share the true story that impressed the road. “I’ve a buddy, and she or he and I’ve had a long-standing joke about peaches trying like butts, and we generally discover little collectible figurines and lip glosses formed like peaches. So I’ve a bit of assortment of butt-shaped peaches in my house, and that is the precise genesis of the factor.”
Regardless of the origin of the road, it is one Badgley will not quickly neglect. The scene was one of many first ones he learn for Season 2 as a part of his chemistry check with Pedretti. “I bear in mind fascinated about the peaches and butts line greater than any line within the season,” Badgley mentioned. “It is iconic in my thoughts.”
For extra of Badgley and Gamble’s ideas on YOU — together with the what the season’s last moments imply for Season 3 – try the video above.
YOU is offered to stream on Netflix.
