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The Last 3 seasons had potential. But the terrible writing ruined everything. Since it's a full series review, I'm starting from the beginning.
Season 1: This show starts off really entertaining right from the beginning. A really cool plot with a really cool protagonist made this show really great. However, sometimes, I did have problems with the pacing. And Guinevere Beck's character was not really likable to me. She wasn't bad. But in the end, I wanted more from the character and not always be kinda self-centered. And her friends are also very pretentious (except Peach). They are more like NPCs. But Peach was a great character for me. Despite the problems, Penn Badgley's charisma carries the whole season. It's great. 7.5/10.
Season 2: In my opinion, this is the best season of YOU. It does not really do anything new until the last one or two episodes but it does everything season 1 did, but better. It had genuine likable side characters that don't feel like NPCs. Most importantly, it introduced the best love interest for Joe Goldberg; Love Quinn. And for the first time, I cared about not only Joe Goldberg but the love interest as well. And I remember I had some minor problems with it but I forgot about those anyway. It's brilliant. I love it. 8 or 8.5/10.
Season 3: Okay. Here we go. Things are about to get really messy. I immediately started to hate it but the last scene of the first episode made me hooked. Then it was excellent for a few episodes. To me, Season 3's episode 2-4 was PEAK YOU. The best YOU. And after episode 4. Things got so terrible I was fuming. I absolutely hated episode 5-9. Joe's choices or decisions didn't make any sense and I was only rooting for Love Quinn and not Joe Goldberg for the entire season. This season's Joe can't be from previous seasons. He sucked. I didn't even like the finale even though it was pretty good (the finale). This season hit the rock bottom for me. So 4/10 and not 1/10 only because those three episodes were peak.
Season 4: After season 3 I didn't even want to watch YOU but started the season anyway and hot take- I was liking it very much. Mostly because it didn't feel like YOU and I get that people didn't like it because of that, but not the case for me. It's a completely new show but with Joe Goldberg, the character I generally really like. After the mess of season 3, I finally started rooting for Joe Goldberg again. Which was missing for an entire season. Another hot take, I love Kate. I really don't get why people didn't like her in season 4. She was rude to Joe but rightfully so, and her being rude doesn't drag the show but rather builds her character. I love that she's tough with everyone but really has a soft and warm heart inside. And this is the main reason I was liking season 4 right from the beginning. Joe and Kate's love story didn't feel forced like Marianne's. Their relationship was built gradually. Despite it being very dumb on a number of occasions, I can still give it a pass because I enjoyed their chemistry overall and the whole vibe until that twist. I think the twist was quite unnecessary. The writers must've thought that was a brilliant idea. But it made things dumb more than clever. So, I dunno. Maybe 6 out of 10?
Season 5: Okay this is a weird one. I didn't have any hope from this season as I knew there would be yet another new love interest for Joe. I was expecting disaster, but as things progressed, by the 6th episode I was thinking "oh my god! This season might actually turn out to be very good." I was very much liking it, despite the dumbness of it, but then things got annoying, again. I was pissed, again. And just when I thought that this season will be another mess it surprised me, again. I loved episode 9. So I was again on board that it's coming to a great conclusion. But then episode 10, the last episode added nothing. They should've just ended it with the previous episode and the consequence would've been the same. I would've loved that. But the writers must've thought "oh no! Make the very last episode this way, this will be good." But it wasn't. I can't express how annoying was Bronte oh my god. Her character was just an excuse for lazy writing. And so was Joe's character and his motivations throughout the season. Sometimes I root for him but sometimes his motivation doesn't make any sense. It's just lazy writing to make this or that happen. Overall, this season had some really really great moments. But very annoying throughout. Mostly because of Bronte and sometimes Joe. Another 6/10.
Now that I've finished the show, I'm frustrated. Seasons 3, 4, and 5 all had potential, but the writing simply wasn't smart enough to shine. Netflix should've hired better writers and directors to take this show where it could have gone.
But for what it's worth, Penn Badgley is hell of a great actor. That's I can say for sure.
My Worst-to-Best Season Ranking would be: 3 (worst), then 4/5 (tied), 1(great), and 2 (best).
Season 1: This show starts off really entertaining right from the beginning. A really cool plot with a really cool protagonist made this show really great. However, sometimes, I did have problems with the pacing. And Guinevere Beck's character was not really likable to me. She wasn't bad. But in the end, I wanted more from the character and not always be kinda self-centered. And her friends are also very pretentious (except Peach). They are more like NPCs. But Peach was a great character for me. Despite the problems, Penn Badgley's charisma carries the whole season. It's great. 7.5/10.
Season 2: In my opinion, this is the best season of YOU. It does not really do anything new until the last one or two episodes but it does everything season 1 did, but better. It had genuine likable side characters that don't feel like NPCs. Most importantly, it introduced the best love interest for Joe Goldberg; Love Quinn. And for the first time, I cared about not only Joe Goldberg but the love interest as well. And I remember I had some minor problems with it but I forgot about those anyway. It's brilliant. I love it. 8 or 8.5/10.
Season 3: Okay. Here we go. Things are about to get really messy. I immediately started to hate it but the last scene of the first episode made me hooked. Then it was excellent for a few episodes. To me, Season 3's episode 2-4 was PEAK YOU. The best YOU. And after episode 4. Things got so terrible I was fuming. I absolutely hated episode 5-9. Joe's choices or decisions didn't make any sense and I was only rooting for Love Quinn and not Joe Goldberg for the entire season. This season's Joe can't be from previous seasons. He sucked. I didn't even like the finale even though it was pretty good (the finale). This season hit the rock bottom for me. So 4/10 and not 1/10 only because those three episodes were peak.
Season 4: After season 3 I didn't even want to watch YOU but started the season anyway and hot take- I was liking it very much. Mostly because it didn't feel like YOU and I get that people didn't like it because of that, but not the case for me. It's a completely new show but with Joe Goldberg, the character I generally really like. After the mess of season 3, I finally started rooting for Joe Goldberg again. Which was missing for an entire season. Another hot take, I love Kate. I really don't get why people didn't like her in season 4. She was rude to Joe but rightfully so, and her being rude doesn't drag the show but rather builds her character. I love that she's tough with everyone but really has a soft and warm heart inside. And this is the main reason I was liking season 4 right from the beginning. Joe and Kate's love story didn't feel forced like Marianne's. Their relationship was built gradually. Despite it being very dumb on a number of occasions, I can still give it a pass because I enjoyed their chemistry overall and the whole vibe until that twist. I think the twist was quite unnecessary. The writers must've thought that was a brilliant idea. But it made things dumb more than clever. So, I dunno. Maybe 6 out of 10?
Season 5: Okay this is a weird one. I didn't have any hope from this season as I knew there would be yet another new love interest for Joe. I was expecting disaster, but as things progressed, by the 6th episode I was thinking "oh my god! This season might actually turn out to be very good." I was very much liking it, despite the dumbness of it, but then things got annoying, again. I was pissed, again. And just when I thought that this season will be another mess it surprised me, again. I loved episode 9. So I was again on board that it's coming to a great conclusion. But then episode 10, the last episode added nothing. They should've just ended it with the previous episode and the consequence would've been the same. I would've loved that. But the writers must've thought "oh no! Make the very last episode this way, this will be good." But it wasn't. I can't express how annoying was Bronte oh my god. Her character was just an excuse for lazy writing. And so was Joe's character and his motivations throughout the season. Sometimes I root for him but sometimes his motivation doesn't make any sense. It's just lazy writing to make this or that happen. Overall, this season had some really really great moments. But very annoying throughout. Mostly because of Bronte and sometimes Joe. Another 6/10.
Now that I've finished the show, I'm frustrated. Seasons 3, 4, and 5 all had potential, but the writing simply wasn't smart enough to shine. Netflix should've hired better writers and directors to take this show where it could have gone.
But for what it's worth, Penn Badgley is hell of a great actor. That's I can say for sure.
My Worst-to-Best Season Ranking would be: 3 (worst), then 4/5 (tied), 1(great), and 2 (best).
Rewatched after a while.
The review: Wow! Okay. So first of all- Iron Man Three still slaps! If this had come out today people would loved it. This is definitely one of the coolest Marvel movies ever. Pretty much everything here is just so cool and fun.
I don't need to talk about RDJ. You know it. Let's talk about others. This is probably the only movie where War-machine / Rhodes is awesome. I normally don't really like Pepper but she's good in this. Guy Pearce is a great villain. Still I feel like Rebecca Hall's character was underutilized but that's fine. She was good. And also, that kid's subplot was great. Such a shame they didn't make him the next Iron Man rather they gone for what? Iron Heart?! Ugh! Bloody hell Marvel.
Anyway, I love the Mandarin twist very much. However, people hated it because they said that was not "comic accurate". But in this movie's context this twist fits perfectly well. I think criticizing something for not being accurate to the source material without trying understand the context of the adaptation is pretty dumb if you ask me.
Movie's humor was on point. Except some few moments which are just meh. And some serious scenes felt too over the top. But that's it. It's not big of problem.
And one of the things people don't give credit that this movie had the coolest action scenes possible with Iron Man.
One of the few drawbacks in this movie is that it just doesn't have that big emotional impact. Which is still fine, it has enough emotion and heart to make me care about the characters. Overall, It's a stylish Tony Stark movie with awesome actions and characters which makes a great ending to the Iron Man Trilogy.
The review: Wow! Okay. So first of all- Iron Man Three still slaps! If this had come out today people would loved it. This is definitely one of the coolest Marvel movies ever. Pretty much everything here is just so cool and fun.
I don't need to talk about RDJ. You know it. Let's talk about others. This is probably the only movie where War-machine / Rhodes is awesome. I normally don't really like Pepper but she's good in this. Guy Pearce is a great villain. Still I feel like Rebecca Hall's character was underutilized but that's fine. She was good. And also, that kid's subplot was great. Such a shame they didn't make him the next Iron Man rather they gone for what? Iron Heart?! Ugh! Bloody hell Marvel.
Anyway, I love the Mandarin twist very much. However, people hated it because they said that was not "comic accurate". But in this movie's context this twist fits perfectly well. I think criticizing something for not being accurate to the source material without trying understand the context of the adaptation is pretty dumb if you ask me.
Movie's humor was on point. Except some few moments which are just meh. And some serious scenes felt too over the top. But that's it. It's not big of problem.
And one of the things people don't give credit that this movie had the coolest action scenes possible with Iron Man.
One of the few drawbacks in this movie is that it just doesn't have that big emotional impact. Which is still fine, it has enough emotion and heart to make me care about the characters. Overall, It's a stylish Tony Stark movie with awesome actions and characters which makes a great ending to the Iron Man Trilogy.
