TV’s most charming psycho has returned to screens this month in the final season of You, writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL. 

His name’s Joe Goldberg and he’s back at his creepy antics for 10 last episodes of You on Netflix.

It’s kind of like if Baby Reindeer were told from the stalker’s perspective.

Each season a new target becomes the object of Goldberg’s obsession and viewers get to live in his head right alongside his unnerving inner monologue that tries desperately to rationalise his behaviour to those watching.

Penn Badgley has made this character utterly his own over seven years in the role.

Viewers love to hate him and hate to love him. It would be very easy for Joe to devolve into a character that made people switch off, but Badgley gives him this bizarrely endearing and often goofy sense of malice that makes him hard to look away from.

On the surface he’s a charming bookshop manager, a gentleman at first glance that people can’t help but be drawn to. Beneath the surface though things are far more sinister.

It mirrors the audience’s own fascination with this character. They know he’s bad so why can’t they look away?

Each season of You has managed to up the ante and do new things with its core concept, but season four did dramatically slow down the pace.

It feels like this is a good time to pull the plug and here’s hoping its ending can live up to the beginning that intrigued audiences worldwide.

It’s a bitter-sweet goodbye. Joe Goldberg is a character that I’ll personally be happy to see go but like many, some part of me is definitely going to miss You.

THE world’s greatest detective is getting another reboot. No, not Batman (surprisingly). This time it’s Sherlock Holmes.

The iconic sleuth is now the feature of yet another screen production, the tenth in two decades if my counting is correct.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr, Ian McKellen, Henry Cavill, even Will Ferrell have all offered their own depictions of the detective on screen in recent times and that’s just to name a few.

Now its David Thewlis’ turn to wear the deerstalker hat in Sherlock and Daughter, which is streaming on SBS On Demand.

The weirdly-titled British series sees the famed detective meet Blu Hunt (Amelia Rojas), a tenacious young woman from America searching for her mother’s killer. 

The twist? It just so happens Holmes might be the father.

It’s an interesting gimmick to try and revive popularity in Sherlock Holmes, given only a few years ago audiences were offered the two “Enola Holmes” movies, which cast Millie Bobby Brown as the detective’s younger sister and covered similar familial territory.

Perhaps the biggest appeal with this new series is the casting choice.

David Thewlis is a spot-on choice for an older, even more bitter Sherlock Holmes and the man who played the reclusive and mysterious Professor Lupin in the Harry Potter series certainly brings his magic to this role.

It’s a shame some lacklustre writing holds the casting back from being something truly standout.

Still, this is a serviceable slice of entertainment for those who are keen fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s enduring creation.

To this day, the BBC’s modern adaptation of Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman feels like the most authentic and true to the original works.

The shelf life of the man who lives at 221B Baker Street is rather remarkable.

Recently, even his sidekick Doctor Watson got his own television spin-off focusing purely on the life of the doctor without his iconic companion.

Give it a few more years and we’ll probably see every character created by Conan Doyle milked for their own spin-off series. First it’ll be Sherlock’s arch enemy Moriarty, then the landlady Mrs Hudson. Maybe the dog that occasionally appears in the stories to help sniff out the mysteries will be next.

Better stop before I give Disney ideas.