Warning: This post contains spoilers fromYouseason 3.
You’s third season did not mess around.
EW spoke withYoushowrunner Sera Gamble about the rollercoaster of a season, that ending, and whatseason 4might hold.
Penn Badgley as Joe and Victoria Pedretti as Love on ‘You’ season 3.JOHN P. FLEENOR/NETFLIX
How did that change things?
And that’s what happened.
We ran out of book.
Penn Badgley and Victoria Pedretti on ‘You’.JOHN P. FLEENOR/NETFLIX
She was still writing.
We didn’t get to see it.
It’s like the water wings came off for this season.
We’re the side of the family where more people are murderers than her books.
Was Caroline involved at all in season 3?
Yeah, she’s a consultant on the show.
She was very intensely writing her books this season, but she and I talked.
She talked to [executive producer] Greg Berlanti.
She popped into the writers' room to say hello.
And we always send her the material as well.
So if there’s something she wants to flag or ask a question about, she can.
Let’s talk about Joe and Love as a married couple.
[Laughs] Marriage is hard.
And by the way, I’m in a very happy, pretty new marriage.
We talked a lot about what it felt like to be in a serious partnered relationship.
I actually think they have a really great marriage.
What a perfect pair.
But we called that section of the season like Couples Counseling Part Two.
You’re not the first person who has said that the body count seems high.
I think that might be because there’s more than one person doing the killing.
I actually, to be honest, was worried at one point that Joe wasn’t violent enough.
I was like, “Wow, he’s really being successful in pulling it back.”
But I also just don’t really think in those terms.
How do you feel like being parents has changed them, or has it changed them?
Watching a child grow up is very cool, but you’re totally responsible for them.
All of that is coming out.
Love hitting Gil over the head and putting him in the cage came out of a conversation.
I asked the parents in the room, “What scares you the most?”
And I was like, “Let’s translate that through Love Quinn.”
Speaking of Love, what went into the decision to kill her?
We kind of knew this is where it was going from the beginning.
Things can always change, of course, and they do.
We talked about everything.
It’s a good sign that you’re getting something right.
What was it about Joe killing Love that you felt like was the right story move?
We knew for sure that their relationship would end by the end of the two seasons.
But we did talk about other things.
And it’s so funny.
You watch him deliver the lethal dose.
She’s lying there for an entire scene, and then he sets her on fire."
[Laughs] It’s like, “She’s dead.”
So will next season theoretically be in Paris, or is that just kind of like a temporary getaway?
So literally foreign could be very cool.
And it’s a big, wide world out there.
It’s the thing about being in a pandemic.
you could barely go down the street, much less get on a plane.
