I recently saw the Netflix series You. I went into it literally knowing nothing about it. I think I had just heard people mention it, so since I had nothing else to watch I gave it a shot.

Since I didn't even know the genre of it I actually thought it was going to be some romantic comedy type thing. It actually took me a long time to realise "wow, the main character is a fucking psychopath" because a lot of his behaviour was basically what the main character in 80s and 90s romcoms did. This was the guy that was supposed to have a happy ending. Even when he was literally killing people I somehow kept rooting for him because, at least initially, it's kind of like a "wacky" situation.

I don't consider this a spoiler because this is something that happens in episode one, but the fact that it took me several seasons to truly despise him despite the absolutely depraved, cruel, psychotic shit he did in episode 1 really made me examine this stuff and how I process it. Like, I'm really watching this guy break into a woman's home, go through her shit, take her underwear, then smash her boyfriend's head and kidnap him, yet my inner monologue is going "oh man I hope she doesn't find out about this or she may not want to date him". Bro, what?!