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The strange case of the resurgent whodunit

The third season of the Netflix thriller You ended with a red herring. Fresh off murdering his deranged wife, torching their suburban California home, and faking his own death, serial killer and hopeless romantic Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) resurfaced steps away from the Eiffel Tower. Fans joked that Emily “In Paris” Cooper would be his next victim.

Alas, it was a fake-out. The real action of Season 4 unfolds in London, where the bookish Joe, posing as a university literature instructor, falls in with a clique of posh lowlifes and wakes up with a corpse in his apartment. Upon receiving an invitation to “a night to die for,” it dawns on him: “A circle of privileged suspects, a frame job, and now a cryptic invite evoking a

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