He throws himself into his new LA lifestyle, a world of minor celebs, screenplays, Soho House, beaches, and killing people. In “Hidden Bodies,” which roughly tracks alongside season 2 of the series, Joe has moved to Hollywood to turn a new page from a past that includes four bodies (spoiler alert: This fresh start does not last long.) There, he works in a bookstore and befriends his journalist neighbor, and he has a new girlfriend named Love, who seems to really get him. Penn Badgley and Victoria Pedretti in “You.” Beth Dubber/Netflixīooklist has called Goldberg “the love child of Holden Caulfield and Patrick Bateman,” though we like to think of him as “hipster Dexter,” too. If you’ve already binged your way through both seasons and are hankering for more Joe Goldberg, an unassuming young bookstore clerk who happens to be a serial killer, check out “ Hidden Bodies” (and the first book, “You”) by Caroline Kepnes (Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books), the novels that inspired the series. Wonder has a tendency to love, to covet, but Joe is a believer in the rule of fiction: If you want to write a book, you have to kill your darlings.The second season of the series “You” dropped at the end of last month, a sort of present from Netflix to the rest of us for those long winter days you don’t feel like setting foot outside. If only Wonder could commit herself to the writing life, they could be those rare literary soulmates who never fall prey to their demons.

No college degrees, no pretensions, no stories from prep school or grad school. Thankfully, Wonder Parish enters the picture. Or so he thinks, until he meets his already-published, already-distinguished peers, who all seem to be cut from the same elitist cloth. where intellect is the great equalizer and anything is possible. Glenn Shoddy, an acclaimed literary author, recognizes Joe’s genius and invites him to join a tight-knit writing fellowship at Harvard.įinally, Joe will be in a place where talent matters more than pedigree. Instead of selling books, he’s writing them.

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