New details from the highly anticipated second season of Netflix's hit thriller "You" were recently revealed!
The show will once again follow Joe Goldberg, the psychopath who stalked and murdered people in season 1, with Penn Badgley reprising the role.
Since Guinevere Beck, the female lead in the first season played by Elizabeth Lail, was killed off, a new love interest of Joe's is slated to enter the scene.
(MORE: 5 shows to watch if the Super Bowl is not your thing)Netflix recently announced "The Haunting of Hill House" actress Victoria Pedretti will take that spot.
"She plays Love Quinn, an aspiring chef who doesn't care about social media," the company said in a tweet. "She's also tending to a deep grief — so when she meets Joe she senses a shared knowledge of profound loss."
Haunting of Hill House breakout Victoria Pedretti landed the female lead in @YouNetflix Season 2. She plays Love Quinn, an aspiring chef who doesn't care about social media. She's also tending to a deep grief — so when she meets Joe she senses a shared knowledge of profound loss. pic.twitter.com/XN0IdPjdKb
— See What's Next (@seewhatsnext) January 30, 2019
"You" showrunner Sara Gamble told Entertainment Weekly about Pedretti's character.
"Like her name, she’s very warm and there is a carefree aspect to her spirit that really comes from the fact that she has constructed a life for herself that’s about being in the moment and doing what she loves every day," she said.
"She’s very very different than the woman that you got to know in season one, Beck, who was ambitious and driven as a writer and also as a young person in a social circle that had a certain kind of status," she continued. "Beck had been quite aware of her social media presence, and Love is extremely disinterested in all of that."
"Heathers" star James Scully and "Jane the Virgin's" Jenna Ortega also set to star in the show's second season.
(MORE: Daniel Radcliffe loves 'The Bachelor' and he's not ashamed to admit it)Another change you should expect in the second season? Goldberg will move to Los Angeles from home in New York City.
"He’s a New Yorker and he has bought the party line on how terrible L.A. is and when he gets here, very little dissuades him from his initial opinion," Gamble told EW.
"This show is an opportunity to illuminate an L.A. that maybe a lot of people haven’t seen that goes beyond the Hollywood sign and Love is part of that," she continued. "She’s a Los Angeles native. She has really absorbed the best of the city and she’s really artistic with the way that she lives her life.”
(MORE: What's new on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon for February)The drama, originally a Lifetime series before it hit Netflix in Dec. in the United States, has received a lot of buzz from viewers since its premiere.
The 10-episode first season generated large streaming numbers. Netflix estimated in its quarterly earnings report that the thriller would be watched by more than 40 million member households in its first four weeks on the streaming service.
Joe isn't the only one watching: @YouNetflix is on track to be viewed by more than 40 million members in its first four weeks on Netflix! pic.twitter.com/W4jZ3nYTdQ
— See What's Next (@seewhatsnext) January 17, 2019
The show's second season premiere date has not been announced.
