and our daydreams.When Netflix saved Lifetime’s little-seen thriller series from cancellation, You became a hit, introducing audiences to the creepy stalker Joe Goldberg. The thing is, he’s played by former Gossip Girl hunk Penn Badgley, an actor so charismatic that many fans have fallen for Joe by extension.
Speaking to VICE, Badgley shared his confused feelings on the matter: “Every one of my greatest fears and hopes for people’s engagement [with You] came to be fulfilled. There were the reactions of overlooking all of Joe’s faults, which is the whole point of the show, and just being really into him.
… It was both gratifying and troubling.”If you don’t know about serial killer Ted Bundy, this Netflix movie’s title says it all. In the ’70s, he terrified the country by taking a suspected 30+ victims across multiple states.
And yet, during his trials for the murders, he met and fell in love with a woman named Carole Ann Boone, a relationship that plays a significant role in the film. Not to make light of the situation, but it’s a little easier to see where Boone is coming from in Extremely Wicked, considering the fearsome Bundy is played by hearthtrob Zac Efron who, well, looks like Zac Efron!Related: Netflix urges people to stop thirsting over Ted Bundy, reminds them he was a serial murdererThe ninth season of Ryan Murphy‘s horror anthology played it especially fast and loose with reality, making the real-life Night Stalker Richard Ramirez a part of his fictional slasher tale at Camp Redwood.
A campy genre pastiche, 1984 is not at all concerned with the details of Ramirez’s grisly true crimes, but instead uses him as an agent of chaos. Murphy employs the handsome actor Zach Villa (of the upcoming Hypochondriac) to play
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