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When is You season 2 released on Netflix? Trailer, cast and plot details revealed

Tyler Golden/Netflix
Tyler Golden/Netflix

The second season of hit Netflix show You is just days away from landing on our TV screens, and judging by the recent trailer we can confirm Joe is still as creepy as ever.

But this time the super pretentious killer is now living in Los Angeles and going by the name of "Will", having seemingly left New York at the end of the first season.

Based on the 2014 novel by Caroline Kepnes, the psychological thriller became an international success after airing on the streaming site in late 2018.

In the trailer, "Will" reflects on everything from social media to screenplay writers, saying "everyone is pretending to be someone they're not" before giving his false name at what we assume is a coffee shop.

"Love has taken me to some pretty dark places, but Los Angeles has got to be as dark as it gets," he tells us.

But is Joe/Will Goldberg going to get away with his crimes? Is Beck really dead? And what the eff was his ex Candace doing in the bookstore?

Here's what we know so far. And yes, there will be season one spoilers ahead...

When is You season 2 released on Netflix?

In November it was confirmed that season 2 of You would drop on the streaming site on Thursday December 26 - aka Boxing Day.

While it's not exactly festive, it will help you get through those post-Christmas blues.

As was the case last time, the new season will be made up of 10 episodes, lasting around 40 minutes each.

(Tyler Golden/Netflix)
(Tyler Golden/Netflix)

Who's in the cast for season 2?

Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley is reprising his role as creepy bookshop-manager-turned-murderer, Joe Goldberg.

Also returning this season is Ambyr Childers, who plays Joe's ex girlfriend Candace, who has been MIA but returned at the very end of season one.

Now, you may not remember, but we did also catch a glimpse of Joe's new obsession at the end of season one; she is named Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti IRL) and is set to play a big part in the second series.

Others joining the cast this year include Charlie Barnett as Gabe, Jenn Ortega as Ellie, Robin Lord Taylor as Will and Chris D'Elia as Henderson.

Sadly, it looks as though both Shay Mitchell (who played Peach Salinger) and Elizabeth Lail (Beck) won't be coming back for season one, even in the form of flashbacks.

What happened in season 1?

For those who haven't yet watched the first instalment of You, it's about a seemingly charming bookshop manager who has a crush on a customer named Beck. So far, so good.

However, as the pilot progresses, Joe's stream of consciousness turns into a horrifying play-by-play of his creepy AF obsession with her - he even masturbates on a doorstep across from her apartment (let's not go into the lack of curtains sitch).

(Tyler Golden/Netflix)
(Tyler Golden/Netflix)

Joe begins to stalk Beck to the nth degree, before trapping her on-off boyfriend Benji in a glass cage (because who doesn't have one of those?) in the basement of the New York store. Joe then tortures him, before Benji eventually becomes the first victim (or so we think) to Joe's jealousy and sadistic nature.

With Benji out of the equation, Joe manages to muscle his way in and starts dating Beck (at this stage she's blissfully unaware that her ex has been murdered by this dude), but she's still consumed by the disappearance of Benji, much to Joe's annoyance.

As if that wasn't enough, her best friend Peach, a rich New Yorker who is far from impressed with Beck's new bf, sees through his act and tries to catch him out.

But just when we thought Joe would get his comeuppance, Peach then becomes the next victim in Joe's twisted plan to have Beck all to himself *throws shoe at TV*.

(Beth Dubber/Netflix)
(Beth Dubber/Netflix)

Finally, when Joe randomly appears everywhere she goes and all her friends are dying off, Beck starts to suss out things aren't what they seem with her weirdo boyfriend. She even suspects something sinister happened to his ex Candace, who inexplicably disappeared.

It doesn't help matters that Joe becomes extremely jealous of Beck's relationship with her therapist (who is helping her negotiate Peach's death).

Verging on breaking point, Beck decides to cut things off with Joe and he, too, moves on with another woman. But before you know it, Beck is back in Joe's arms and he is as obsessed as ever - he's determined to fins out whether she cheated on him with the therapist. She did.

Beck then finds some disturbing evidence in Joe's flat that confirms her suspicions - and she races against the clock to get away from his evil clutches.

Skip forward through a pulse-racing sequence and Beck winds up in the very same glass cage her ex Benji was trapped in.

Is Beck really dead?

After what seems like an eternity of watching Beck eat, drink, sleep and pee in the glass cage, she eventually devises an escape plan.

She first writes a Bluebeard-inspired story about her therapist - not Joe - and his obsession with her, hoping to convince Joe she'll let him off the hook and pin it on the doc instead.

Joe is convinced to let her out the cage and she launches at him with some keys from the typewriter, before locking him in the cage.

Celebrating too soon, Beck starts hurling abuse at Joe (which is obviously warranted) and telling him he's a pathetic excuse for a man and she could never love a psychopath like him.

When she gets to the top of the stairs, she's trapped, and Joe's neighbour Paco is at the door. Scared by Beck's frantic cries for help and on Team Joe, Paco runs away instead of helping Beck.

Joe, naturally, has a spare set of keys and has let himself out of the cage and drags Beck back down into the basement.

(Beth Dubber/Netflix)
(Beth Dubber/Netflix)

The next thing we know, he's published her story, pinned her 'death' on the therapist and has gone completely undetected.

Now, while we're left to assume Beck is dead, we don't see her lifeless body - we only see a body bag.

Having said that, it'd be a bit of a stretch for Candace and Beck to still be alive.

Actress Elizabeth Lail also does not appear in any of the teaser trailers or images, so it looks like Beck is well and truly dead.

What's going to happen in season 2?

As was touched on at the end of season one, Joe has a new love interest in the form of Love Quinn.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Love is "an aspiring chef working as a produce manager in a high-end grocery store."

She's also "uninterested in the world of social media, branding and self-promotion, focused instead on leading an interesting life.

"She is also tending to a deep grief, and when she meets Joe Goldberg, she senses a shared knowledge of profound, life-changing loss."

We also know that the new season is set in Los Angeles, as opposed to New York.

In the final episode of season one, we also saw Joe's ex Candace arrive back on the scene, so we'll definitely be seeing more from her.

Plus, the PI investigating Peach's death is hot on Joe's tail - so here's hoping Beck's murder will be avenged.

Series two of You arrives on Netflix on Boxing Day.

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