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Spoilers ahead for tonights episode ofYou.
What do you get when you mix modern love, social media, and some sociopathy?
A few people get hit in the head in this show, but theyre okay.Theyre not okay though.
My father was a neuropathologist.
That was just dinner table conversation for my whole life so its really a go-to for me.
I really enjoy exploring what happens to your character when they get knocked upside the head.
It worked famously onSupernatural.
We probably knocked those guys out 100 times.
Hes in that cage.
Benjis dead now, though.
We shot most of the scenes in the cage in order so that he could have that momentum.
That was something he and Lee Krieger, the director, really protected.
After all he goes through, death by peanut oil is brilliant.Thats from the book.
Caroline has a really funny, sick sense of humor, I must say.
Joes craftier than he thinks.
I think Joe surprises himself with how good he is at it, right?
What do you do when theres a body in your house?
Joes not a professional expert.
Hes notDexter.He doesnt know what to do.
I dont wanna give it away.
Will we see his backstory this season?
Theres so much ground to cover in ten episodes.I love it busy and jam-packed.
I like to have a little too much story.
Its that sort of smoke em if you got em feeling.
Youre not saving anything for later.
I think audiences can kind of smell it if youre toying with them.
Just hang in there for six more episodes and itll get really good.
Thats not how we do it.We want it to be really good, and in your face right away.
I feel like your first episode has to plant a flag, you know?
But theres a lot that was very plot-driven and clear in the book.
There are so many things about the show that on their own are ridiculous likewho would do that?
but somehow it all works together because of the tone youve struck.
Theres a long list.
We watched them all.
All theMaid in Manhattans, right?
Were leaning into those.
Theyre very familiar to us.
We all saw those from very early in our lives, I think.
So, part of what were playing with is the idea that this is completely acceptable storytelling.
I think the tone of the show is certainly irreverent and, at times, its very funny.
At times, its absurd because love is absurd and because toxic masculinity is absurd.
I mean, all of these things are absurd.
Were not trying to make light of the actual subject matter.
This is a way of talking about this subject matter.
Im grateful that theres so many very serious, on point conversations happening around this stuff right now.
I think its a time when we wanna talk about that.
you’re free to hold a lot of different mirrors up to this conversation.
Maybe if she had curtains!I like the way Elizabeth Lail bristles when people ask her about that.
Shes like, How about theres a guy outside the window, jacking off?
I didnt have money for shit when I was Becks age, trying to make it in Los Angeles.
Its a quiet street, you know?
I might never be hired again at a lot of those places cause I really freaked some people out.
But Greg and I did that.
We walked out of one of those meetings to the lobby.
Its a pain in the ass.
And hes like, Youve learned nothing.
And Im not 22.
I have plenty of money for curtains.
Im just not thinking about it.
Shes also not stupid.
And its just not that.
And when people ask me these questions about why doesnt she have curtains?
Does that make sense?
It does.Im naturally kind of a private person.
So Ive always struggled with how much of myself I should put out there.
That you have to share, live tweet, give behind the scenes looks.
So thats a tension thats real too.
How much of myself do I keep private?
How much do I need to put myself out there for my career?
Beck is also dealing with that.
You gotta put those namaste things on your Insta if youre gonna be a yoga teacher.
Shes kind of in an impossible situation.
We kind of all are.
On the one hand, yeah, it’s possible for you to look someone up.
you might look on their Instagram.
you might see what they look like, at least, with a filter on.
it’s possible for you to see what they like, at least that theyre admitting to.
You know, this iteration of the #MeToo movement happened when we were in production on season one.
I was reading a lot of peoples opinions online.
And again, were very quick to say,Well, why was she there?.
Why would she have put herself in that situation?
Beck is as well-equipped as anyone.
She is as deserving as anyone.
It is really fucking hard to maneuver through something like what shes dealing with, with her professor.
And what is the alternative?
No goddamn graduate degree?
Everyone has a story.
Was finding the right tone to strike the most challenging part of the series?
Sometimes Joes thoughts are amusing.It was something we had to find.
And also really telling the thriller story of what he is doing behind the scenes.
Every scene as much as possible had to serve both plot masters, if you will.
There was something so absurd about it.
It was a little too much likeSix Feet Under.
It was one of the worst days of my life and I was on the floor laughing.
So, that is just how I process pain and stress.
So it probably infects a lot of my characters.
I dont have a great pitch for how we as a culture should deal with it.
I just think its a really big shift.
Im not the smartest with it always.
Im destructible and I dont always think it all the way through.
ButI would say there is one other thing that I was really confronted by, when making this season.
I cant believe those thoughts are going through my head!
