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Guinevere Beck is one of the two overarching protagonists (alongside Louise Flannery) of the Netflix thriller series You, serving as the titular deuteragonist of the first season and the overarching protagonist for the rest of the series.
She is an aspiring writer and a university student in New York City, as well as the second love interest of Joe Goldberg.
She is portrayed by Elizabeth Lail.
Biography[]
She was a regular woman, often hardworking and somewhat determined, who was the previous love interest of Joe Goldberg. She first met him at the Mooney’s bookstore, where he began his interest in her, as suggested when she prefers for Paula Fox, as she purchased her item, she introduces herself to Joe, while he does the same. Unknowingly to Beck that Joe had been stalking her, even getting her belongings from her apartment, and kidnapping Benji for information about her. She later encounters Joe at the train station, where she fell off the train tracks after, until Joe saves her life. As she was about to get inside her apartment with Benji, Joe steals her phone to look at everything she is connected to. Over the course of the story, Beck began an on-and-off relationship with Joe, not knowing of his true intentions after killing her best friend Peach, who is also a stalker, and obsessed with Beck.
Beck becomes suspicious of Joe, due to the disappearance of his former girlfriend, Candace Stone, as she finds information of her whereabouts, including talking to her friend Maddie Johnson. She confronts him about her, in which he denies. She also had an affair with her therapist, Mr. Nicky, which Joe angrily confronts her for, and says it was over. She then learns the truth about Joe: he was in fact the one who creepily stole her belongings, killing Benji and Peach, and possibly caused the disappearance of Candace Stone (before the reveal she was in fact alive). She tries to escape, only to be confronted by Joe, who learns that she discovered his personal secrets.
Joe kidnaps Beck and takes her to the bookstore down the basement, where he put her in the cage. She becomes frightened by Joe, and yells at him, after learning his horrible actions. Joe tries to convince her that he did all of this to protect her, but she refuses to believe it. Later on, she then writes down something for Joe, making him believe that she trusts him. As Joe opens the cage, Beck stabs him and locks him in the cage, as she threatens him and will take him to jail for his actions. As she attempts to escape, the door had a cage, screaming for help until Paco comes by, asking him for her help and telling him about Joe. But Paco instead closes the door, leaving her to die due his loyalty towards Joe. Because to this, she rushes down to the basement, only to find that Joe had escaped the cage, in which he reveals there was a spare key hidden. She tries to escape by hitting Joe with a hammer, and gets the keys for the door, as she runs back upstairs. She struggles to find the right key to open the door, until she was grabbed and possibly strangled to death by Joe.
Personality[]
Beck is nice, affable, hardworking, and cares very much about her friends. She's also flighty, can be somewhat self-centered, sometimes resents her friends for their wealth and success, and has a dubious relationship with the truth. Likewise, Beck is no saint, but her friendly nature makes her stand out from most other characters. She's shown in the first episode trying to give her friends gifts outside her price range, is basically polite and friendly to everyone, worries for Benji when he goes missing despite knowing what a jerk he is, and is a genuinely good friend to Peach to the point that even when she's had enough of Peach's toxic behavior, she runs right back to her after Peach makes a fake suicide attempt. In other words, Beck is not a bad person, but she's still very realistically flawed.