Greg Berlanti on You's move from Lifetime to Netflix: "This just feels like a really great story to tell with the Netflix model"

Vulture

"It was always built to be extremely binge-able," executive producer Berlanti says of the Penn Badgley-led psychological thriller that Lifetime renewed before reneging on a second season. Berlanti says the move makes sense since You is considered a Netflix original outside of the United States. When did he find out that Lifetime was backing out of You? "A little before it became public," he tells Vulture. "But I think the stars have aligned for the show in that there was no pause for us creatively. We had been full steam ahead for season two. We just switched tracks to Netflix, and I think that’s healthy and good for the show." Berlanti doesn't expect changes now that You is no longer on a cable network with commercials: "The show will stay fundamentally the same. Yeah, we can take a few things to the next level, but I do think that we have been telling the story we set out to tell. This is the exact level of crazy we want to be at going into season two."