Hidden bodies1/1/2024 The kind of book you put your life on hold for' Glamour 'Clever and chilling' Elle 'A brilliant tale. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious' Lena Dunham 'Hypnotic and scary' Stephen King 'Brilliant thriller with attitude, guts and true insight into the nature of obsession' Sophie Hannah 'A fantastically creepy thriller. Praise for You: 'THRILLER OF THE YEAR' Daily Mail 'I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED you name it. The problem is, hidden bodies don't always stay that way. She doesn't know about his past and never can. But in a darkened room in Soho House everything suddenly changed. Joe came to Los Angeles to start over, to forget about what happened in New York. ***Now the major Netflix series is back for SERIES TWO, based on the even more twisted HIDDEN BODIES*** JOE GOLDBERG IS BACK. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.We all binged on YOU when it became a major hit Netflix series last Christmas. I turn on Netflix and Netflix is like ‘You should watch ‘You’ ’ and I’m like ‘Yes, Netflix, but I’m supposed to be writing “You 3.” ’ It is heaven.” Kepnes describes the experience of seeing her books be adapted to TV as “exciting and weird in the most wonderful meta way. He’s a reader like ‘Good Will Hunting’ but he has no Affleck brothers to ground him and obviously it never seems to work out with his relationships. He can’t quite take human life seriously and his defense mechanism is. Joe is his own best friend in this way that sort of dooms him to be an enemy of the people. It also made me feel less guilty about watching ‘Pitch Perfect’ so many times. “Bringing him to life helped me cope with losing my father’s dark sense of humor. “Creating his inner world was a cathartic exercise where I’d send pages to friends and my mom and our family and we’d laugh and cringe,” says Kepnes. ![]() The character, played wonderfully by Penn Badgley, as if his character on “Gossip Girl,” Dan Humphrey, had taken a wrong turn somewhere along the way, is the imaginary friend Kepnes created to process her father’s death. 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. ![]() 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.
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