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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Why the stalker boyfriend in the TV show ‘You’ is appealing to women

    You is a Lifetime production that first aired in September. It became popular after Netflix picked it up. The thriller centers around psychotic stalker Joe Goldberg as he’s pursuing his love interest, Beck.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Feb 20, 2019 • 1 min read

    You is a Lifetime production that first aired in September. It became popular after Netflix picked it up. The thriller centers around psychotic stalker Joe Goldberg as he’s pursuing his love interest, Beck. It builds on a romantic comedy trope of a persistent man winning a woman. But the persistence, in this case, becomes a form of troublesome stalking.

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    2 of 4
    Will free medical school make health care more affordable?
    1. 0:00Will free med school help lower America’s health care costs?
    2. 11:20Why the stalker boyfriend in the TV show ‘You’ is appealing to womenYou’re reading this
    3. 24:34In ‘Of Fathers and Sons,’ what it’s like living among terrorists
    4. 39:35Political candidates are learning a lot about you -- thanks to your phone tracking you
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