You Goes Full Glass Onion in Its Wild Fourth Season

In each Glass Onion and You Season 4, the precise video games don’t truly take up a lot display time, however their mere existence signifies how wildly out of contact these characters are with their environment. Resulting from their standing in society, they really feel untouchable and due to this fact experience moments of manufactured concern and stress. From the protection of his completely manicured trip spot in Greece, Miles Bron (Edward Norton) even has Gillian Flynn, the fashionable queen of twisty narratives, write the story for his homicide thriller. After which Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) goes and solves the puzzle in lower than ten minutes … which leaves room for an actual homicide to happen. In You, the fake murders largely occur offscreen, however after the sport ends, there’s a really actual useless physique within the larder, and truths are revealed. 

It’s becoming that Loss of life would drop in on these foolish video games. In a world the place many viewers are simply as fed up with the one p.c as Joe is, it feels considerably like justice to look at badly-behaving and obscenely-wealthy characters get picked off, one after the other, even with out figuring out the motive behind the violence. Glass Onion and You deal with the deaths of cartoonishly vapid people as catalysts for the rest of the characters to cycle into spirals of doubt, concern, and chaos. In You, the response is to level fingers on the one outsider on the retreat, with one trigger-happy dude named Roald bringing Joe to a citizen’s trial in a lounge stuffed with hungover brats, unironically sentencing him to demise, then lustfully looking him all through the sprawling acreage surrounding Hampstead Home. 

Even with a shotgun in hand, Roald is bested by Joe, however then they’re each kidnapped and brought to the creepy bowels of the traditional mansion. Within the spectacular cliffhanger that serves because the finale for the primary a part of the season, Rhys Montrose reveals himself to be the killer after which units the dusty basement flooring on hearth. 

Oddly sufficient, an analogous hearth breaks out on the conclusion of Glass Onion. Each the island and the mansion burn as effigies to extra because the visitors bear witness to the destruction, unable to do something however reckon with their very own feelings. But, whereas every thing is revealed by the point the blaze engulfs Bron’s glass onion, the hearth marks the start of a brand new journey in You. Whereas Rhys’ motive and plan are utterly unclear — why on earth would somebody working for the mayor of London go on a gleeful killing spree?! — the dynamic established between him and Joe offers a window into the darkish psyche of this sequence that has by no means been opened earlier than. As we anticipate Half 2, it’s clear that You has set itself as much as grapple with some uncomfortable truths about Joe Goldberg, and it’s unclear what that may imply for the way forward for each the character and the present. 

And, very like Joe, we’ll be watching.