12 details on season 4 of 'You' you probably missed, so far
- Season four of Netflix's "You" shows Joe once again starting over in a new city.
- The first five episodes are filled with callbacks to previous seasons and hidden details.
Joe assigns a reading that foreshadows the end of the first episode.
Joe assigns the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Tell-Tale Heart" to his class.
This classic Poe story features a man who just committed a gruesome murder and is dismembering his victim's body.
Later on, Joe will also dismember Malcolm's body.
At one point, Joe mentions a Hugh Grant rom-com that also followed a bookseller.
While describing his move to London, Joe mentions that he is not Hugh Grant looking for a "Notting Hill" romance.
The rom-com film follows Grant playing a bookseller who falls in love. Similarly, Joe likely also sees himself as a bookseller who falls in love.
The audience's first introduction to Kate hints that she could be hiding something.
Everyone in Lady Phoebe's social circle has popular social media profiles with thousands or millions of followers — except Kate.
Kate has 211 followers. She's the only one who seems to only use social media for work, as Joe mentions, and the few profiles she has link back to the art gallery she works at.
Kate has such a small online presence that one photo on Lady Phoebe's page has a comment from someone asking who Kate is.
It's revealed early on that Lady Phoebe has had multiple stalkers.
While researching Lady Phoebe, Joe comes across an article that mentions she "has another stalker," alluding to the fact she has more than one.
This seems to be another reason she is so eager to leave the city when news about the Eat the Rich Killer breaks.
There are multiple references to American songs on Adam's Instagram page.
Adam is the only American in Phoebe's friend group and there are sprinkles of his roots throughout his socials.
His Instagram page shows a caption with song lyrics from Don McLean's "American Pie," an American hit. There's also a comment referencing another American hit, John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads."
The newspaper Joe is holding has an article about Lady Phoebe on the front page.
While following Marienne at the train station, Joe reads a paper featuring Lady Phoebe on the front page. The headline details an incident where she flashed a camera her underwear while intoxicated.
The art gallery Kate works at is named after a mythological figure tied to death.
Clotho is a figure from Greek mythology who is known as being the youngest of the Three Fates, who hold the threads of human life.
Clotho is also the one who decides when a person is born or killed.
Adam isn't named after his father as other generations of men in his family were.
When Joe is looking up articles about Adam, he finds an entire page that mentions Adam's family.
It appears that Adam's father and grandfather were both named Alexander Pratt, with his father being the fourth person to have the name.
But Adam and his brother, Jace, weren't given the name that had been passed on for generations.
The articles in Joe's apartment show Peach's suicide note and confirm Ellie disappeared after Delilah's death.
Joe's stalker covers a wall in his apartment with articles about people who have been killed or gone missing from Joe's past.
The wall has multiple references to Natalie's disappearance (season three) and the article about Peach features the suicide note Joe forged (season one).
An article on the bottom left of the wall has a headline showing that Ellie and Delilah are both still missing, indicating that Delilah's body was never found and Ellie was successfully able to stay hidden after her sister's death (season two).
Rhys reads Joan Didion at Simon's funeral, an author that Love had recommended to Joe.
Rhys reads a Joan Didion quote about mourning at Simon's funeral.
Joe's ex Love had previously recommended Didion to Joe at the beginning of season two after he said he hadn't read any of her work.
Joe doesn't speak to Gemma at all when she approaches him, which is a habit a few characters have clocked before.
When Gemma attempts to speak to Joe when he arrives at the country house, he is so focused on his internal thoughts that he doesn't say a word for the full minute that she is speaking to him.
Joe's somewhat odd lack of response during conversations where he is internally monologuing has been previously flagged by characters like Marienne and Forty.
Kate holding a knife to Joe's throat mirrors the scene when Joe pressed handcuffs to Love's throat.
While hiding Gemma's body, Kate holds a knife against Joe's throat as she questions him. She only releases him when he mentions he has a son.
Mentioning Henry saved Love's life as well when Joe did something similar at the end of season two. Joe held the sharp metal of a pair of handcuffs against Love's throat until she revealed she was pregnant with their child.
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