For Hidden Bodies, Kepnes had thoughts for a potential direction before its conception, stating that before "I was even finished with the first book I knew what my second one was going to be. It was loosely adapted in the second season of the Netflix thriller series, You. In 2016, Kepnes published a sequel to You, Hidden Bodies.
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In October 2021, ahead of the third season premiere, the series was renewed for a fourth season. The third season was released on October 15, 2021. On January 14, 2020, You was renewed for a third season by Netflix. The second season was released exclusively on Netflix on December 26, 2019. On December 3, 2018, it was confirmed that Lifetime had passed on a second season and that Netflix had picked up the series. On July 26, 2018, ahead of the series premiere, Lifetime announced that the series had been renewed for a second season. Two years later, it was announced that the series was purchased by Lifetime and put on fast-track development.
In February 2015, it was announced that Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble would develop a television series based on the novel at Showtime.
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It’s very strange to realise you have written a serial killer." I argued 'he’s not a serial killer, he meets these terrible people and has these awful thoughts, but he’s very sensitive'. The author then clarified her position on the matter, citing that "I remember when I wrote You and someone first referred to Joe as a serial killer.
Later, Kepnes was initially hesitant on labeling Joe, as a few readers argued that his actions classified him as a serial killer. Kepnes explained the darkness of You, which deconstructs the romantic-comedy tropes highlighted in many films and shows by making the protagonist a violent stalker and serial killer, saying it was written in a dark period of her life, the year her father died of cancer, and in which she experienced several other personal challenges. In 2014 Kepnes released her first novel of the thriller series, You. In addition to her work as a writer, she performed as a background character in the television series The $treet. In an interview with the Boston Globe Kepnes said her first paid writing gig was an article on boy bands, for Tiger Beat magazine. Later, she obtained an undergraduate degree in American Civilization and worked as an entertainment reporter for Entertainment Weekly.
After graduation, she commenced her studies at Brown University. Her father was Jewish and Kepnes identifies as " half-Jewish." During her formative years, she attended Barnstable High School. Kepnes was born November 1976 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She is best known for her novel series You, consisting of You (2014), Hidden Bodies (2016), You Love Me (2021), and the forthcoming For You and You Only (2023), writing for the 2018–present Lifetime/ Netflix television series adaptation of the same name, and the stand-alone novel Providence (2018). But if she ever finds out what he’s done, he may not have a choice ( From the publisher.Caroline Kepnes (born 10 November 1976) is an American writer, screenwriter, author, and former entertainment reporter. He doesn’t want to hurt his new girlfriend-he wants to be with her forever. They re-emerge, like dark thoughts, multiplying and threatening to destroy what Joe wants most: truelove.Īnd when he finds it in a darkened room in Soho House, he’s more desperate than ever to keep his secrets buried. The problem with hidden bodies is that they don’t always stay that way. He eats guac, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor.īut while others seem fixated on their own reflections, Joe can’t stop looking over his shoulder. In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. Now he’s heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him. In the past ten years, this thirty-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. Hidden Bodies marks the return of a voice that Stephen King described as original and hypnotic, and through the divisive and charmingly sociopathic character of Joe Goldberg, Kepnes satirizes and dissects our culture, blending suspense with scathing wit. In the compulsively readable follow-up to her widely acclaimed debut novel, You, Caroline Kepnes weaves a tale that Booklist calls “the love child of Holden Caulfield and Patrick Bateman.”
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