History Series / You2018

** The cop that Delilah dates, Fincher, has his closest book counterpart in a ScaryBlackMan cop who - at least in Joe's estimation - is a creepy fame whore behind the mask. He's actually a kind, heroic cop in the series who genuinely cares for Delilah and tries to reveal the truth about Henderson's perversity.
** ''Forty''. In the book, [[spoiler:he finds out the truth about Joe and is happy to keep it quiet]] providing that Joe writes screenplays for him for the rest of their lives, on top of being a sleazy manipulator. In the series, he is genuinely devoted to his sister Love's wellbeing [[spoiler:and when he finds out the truth about Joe, he takes a gun to Joe in an attempt to [[{{Irony}} protect Love from him]].]]

* ChickMagnet: Even during his brief break-ups with Beck and Love, Joe has immediate rebound hookups with Karen Minty and Delilah. He's also subjected to [[PrecociousCrush light flirting]] from Ellie and multiple women coming onto him during his online dating attempts.

** Joe, while still nowhere close to a hero, is toned down severely from the novels, especially after the first season. Joe is a remorseless killer in the novels with no redeemable traits. The series works harder to turn him into a SympatheticMurderer by reworking most of his killings, such as making his victims even worse ([[spoiler:Henderson]]), changing them into accidents/self defence ([[spoiler:Henderson again]]), changing it so that other people kill them ([[spoiler:Delilah, Candace]]), or omitting them entirely (Fincher). His most heinous action -- [[spoiler:Beck's murder]] -- happens offscreen, since it probably would have been impossible to sympathise with him if it was shown. The series also expands on his tragic backstory from a broken home more, makes his narration less vulgar and vitriolic, and adds one child character per season who acts as his MoralityPet.

** Victoria Pedretti once again plays a [[spoiler:mentally ill]] young widow who supports a twin brother who is a drug addict despite multiple relapses, much like her character in ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse''.

* PerverseSexualLust: Joe is only really into people he wants to kill because they remind him of his mother.

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** After Beck has a [[SpeedSex quick]] and [[LousyLoversAreLosers unsatisfying tryst]] with Benji, [[ThePeepingTom Joe watches]] Beck masturbates from outside her apartment. It inspires him to do the same ''right there on the sidewalk'' hidden in the bushes, but he's interrupted when [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown an old lady walks over.]]
** He does it again in a later episode when he discovers a picture of Beck in a swimsuit [[spoiler: among the ''hundreds'' of photos of Beck that Peach has on her laptop.]] Joe masturbates to the picture and, when he's 'finished', [[spoiler: resumes snooping through Peach's laptop.]]
** Beck attempts this while waiting for The Captain in her motel room. She’s interrupted however, when he turns up early.
** Joe attempted this during his first day at work with an illusion of Love. However, in trying to break himself out of his habit, he stops midway and doesn't do it again during the season.
*** Joe does this with the pictures of Marianne he found in Ryan's house.

** Beck [[RelationshipRevolvingDoor on-again-off-again]] cheating boyfriend Benji is terrible in bed, something that Joe smugly notices when he's [[StalkerWithACrush stalking Beck]] and [[ThePeepingTom happens to see them having sex]]. Benji not only [[SpeedSex finishes quickly]], but he's uncaring about making ''her'' climax and leaves instead, leaving a frustrated Beck to relieve herself via ADateWithRosiePalms. In a later episode, she also says that he used to nod off when trying to go down on her.

** Benji can't satisfy Beck due to this, and she has to resort to ADateWithRosiePalms.

* OutDamnedSpot: During an acid trip in season 2, Joe keeps seeing blood all over his hands.

* PoliceAreUseless: More implied than explicit, but there are numerous occasions when a minimum of investigative effort into Joe's crimes or background would rumble him pretty quickly.

** Season 4 has a nod to ''Film/{{TheShining}}'' when [[spoiler:Joe has a conversation at a bar lit from below with bright white light, with a man who isn't actually there]].

** Very slight one. Joe [[spoiler:is immediately remorseful after he kills Beck in the book (albeit having killed her very brutally and sadistically) and breaks down in tears (though he gets over by the next chapter). In the show, his guilt is replaced with a sinisterly calm and wistful monologue about how he helped her, although he does break down and apologise while hallucinating her in the next season.]]

''You'' originally aired on Creator/{{Lifetime}} in late 2018, but it moved to Creator/{{Netflix}} for its second season. The second season dropped in December 2019, adapting the source material's sequel, ''Literature/HiddenBodies''. A third season launched in October 2021, with a fourth greenlit before the third's premiere. After sticking to the broad plots of the first two novels for the first two seasons, the third season of the series departs completely from the narrative of the books and bears almost no resemblance to the third novel, ''Literature/YouLoveMe.''

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Before Joe confronts [[spoiler:Rhys, the latter can be seen arguing with his ex-wife, being uncharacteristically animated and open. Moments later, he is revealed to have nothing to do with Joe.]]