
Part 1 of You season 4 has already left us wanting more, and part 2 promises to take the drama to new heights.
The psychological thriller, starring Penn Badgley as the serial killer/stalker/evil protagonist we can’t get enough of, returned to Netflix this month for a fourth installment.
Amy-Leigh Hickman, who plays new character Nadia Farran, an A* student who is outspoken and brilliant, co-stars with Penn.
Nadia meets Joe Goldberg (now Professor Jonathan Moore) in London, where they bond through their love of books and her ambition to become a renowned writer.
However, as is to be anticipated with You, there is plenty more to the tale, and as the episodes go, we discover Nadia has her own troubles, turning to Joe for aid after discovering she was sleeping with her (now deceased) prior professor.
Their ‘friendship’ isn’t one-sided, as Joe wants Nadia’s assistance as well, given her passion for murder mystery books and how the killings reoccur when Joe joins a new socialite group. He also gets a taste of his own medicine when he is the one with a stalker, but Amy believes their bond will be his undoing.

Amy suggests that there will be danger ahead in part 2, which will be released in March, and if Nadia will be the one to figure out who Joe truly is.
‘For the time being, the thing that they have in common is their love for literature and also Joe is looking for her to help, and you don’t see that often.
‘The murder mystery is happening around him in part 1, and no one knows that genre better than her. So, for the time being, he’s looking to her for help.’
She adds: ‘They both need each other, but they’re both very wise and they’re both loners as well, that’s something they have in common.’
So, with Joe’s future riding on identifying and apprehending whoever is targeting his new buddy group of uber-wealthy socialites, would Nadia be the one to come to his aid?


Amy described Nadia as “arguably the most switched-on person in this season,” which she admits may be to her disadvantage.
‘Everyone else has got so much going on and they lose themselves, but Nadia is the most instinctive, she’s the most switched-on, and she’s going to come to a point where she is in danger. For sure.’
She also notes that, because of Nadia’s age and intelligence, she isn’t as ‘weak’ as prior young protagonists, which makes things more ‘hazardous’ when she becomes curious.
‘Because she’s so smart and she’s got great instincts, I feel like she’s the kind of person that would walk into a room and, after one conversation, she’d have everyone sussed out.’
However, as an actor, she believes Nadia’s bond with Joe is crucial for people to observe since it reveals a more ‘human’ aspect to his twisted persona.

‘It’s a credit to him as an actor and the writing and the show, because that part in the wrong hands could’ve gone so differently,’ she says of the fascination we all now have with Joe and his blue cap.
‘But Penn brings such a charming quality to Joe and also every season, they bring someone in or they give him a story which shows he has a bit of humanity.
‘He had his son, he had Ellie and Paco… he’s always got someone to show that he’s got a little bit of heart, deep, deep, down in there. And I think because viewers are so invested in the show and it’s so brilliantly made, that’s what keeps you wanting more.’
‘But it’s important to show his humanity, which he does so well because if they didn’t, we’d just see all the bad stuff,’ she adds.
It remains to be seen how Nadia’s relationship with Joe develops, and whether she learns too much for her own benefit… But we can’t wait to see how it all plays out.
Part 1 of You season 4 is available to stream now on Netflix. Part 2 drops on March 9.