I subscribe to the Netflix channel on YouTube, and so, I see their daily parade of teasers for new shows. The SNL skit wasn't too far off about them buying anything and everything.
Well, they had a teaser for "YOU", in which a bookstore salesman becomes enamored of a female shopper and then does whatever he can to insert himself into her life. Is it a horror story of a stalker? a psychological thriller? a romcom? Can't tell.
What I could tell was just how incredibly awful the writing was from that teaser. They're talking to each other and the girl gets an email. Her classmate submitted her short story for their mutual school assignment and our heroine is bummed that she didn't start hers yet and it's due tomorrow. And incidentally, she looks at her phone for 5 seconds and Ugh! She's even more bummed that her classmate's story is so good and she summarizes it for her unbeknownst stalker/friend. The summary is a heavy handed foreshadowing of their relationship, BTW.
But... she read it in 5 seconds. She shows her stalker/friend and he reads in 5 seconds.
This is like a freshmen film project. I was so angered by how bad it was, I got out of YouTube, fired up Netflix, found the show, and gave it a thumbs down.
