Sam Bergeson

Writer + journalist // CA to NY // senior news editor, @indiewire // formerly @enews @tvinsider @popsugar

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maybe netflix would be fine with Nancy Meyers' rom-com budget if the film added in Michael Bay-level effects? i'm thinking SIMS 4 woohoo fireworks after each hook up

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@Lavernecox and @CSiriano at the #Oscars is peak awards season commentary

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@PennBadgley 's viral #AntiHero TikTok (partially) inspired the #YouNetflix finale montage soundtrack:
"Sure, go ahead, start that rumor," he joked. "I think they chose the song partly because of what happened, but I’m not sure."

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#SCREAM6 casually having one of the best cold openings in the franchise

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just a reminder that @PennBadgley directed #YouNetflix episode 9 aka the one that might be the best of the whole series

https://t.co/o6cCnLYKDH

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the #YouNetflix @YouNetflix finale had me like

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"because we start from a place of being adults where we now recognize the difference between something that feels unstable in an exciting way [from] something that feels exciting because it has potential." #YouNetflix

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#YouNetflix is one of the smartest shows on TV and yes, every time I talk to @serathegamble I print out a quote and put it on my wall. this was this year's quote

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"Without being arrogant about it, I look at the relationship I’m in now where I’ve married this man and have been with him for a long time and it’s not the same kind of obsessive drama that my earlier relationships were..."

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joe literally has to kill (become?) his shadow self in a fight club twist #YouNetflix
"The show has always been about taking some of our low key toxic tropes about love and relationships and turning them on their head, or following them to their disturbing conclusion."

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the #YouNetflix twist truly left me rattled. here's why redemption is impossible for our dear ol' Joe, especially after his chilling Gone Girl-esque interview in the finale (a thread)

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"You realize it’s not about anyone else. You realize it’s about him. I think it draws you into a definition of 'who I am and what do I want, and can I change? Is that possible? What have I done?' And so I think that’s maybe where we’re at by the end." #YouNetflix

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#YouNetflix twist reveal:
"We were interested in exploring the idea of redemption. The events of the past 3 seasons have worn on this character the same way it’s worn on us as we’ve watched it. The edge that we’re always playing with is, ‘How self-aware can this character be'?

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turns out it's a YOU-dunnit

@serathegamble unpacks the "unhinged" #YouNetflix twist:
"It was a separate idea that we had for longer, that essentially Joe would become more unhinged each season...We thought about it every time we did a hallucinatory episode of any kind."

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"The same way that we were tracking, ‘What is the love history of this character who lives for love, and what is the impact of each failed relationship on him?’ We were also asking, ‘What is just the psychological impact of lying to himself?'"

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"It just felt like it wanted to hold hands with the murder mystery. As soon as we were in relationship territory [with Rhys in Part 2], what I sort of cheekily called the 'serial killer buddy movie' section, I was like, 'Now I’m on familiar home turf.'"