On January 14, 2020, You was renewed for a third season by Netflix. The second season was released exclusively on Netflix on December 26, 2019. On December 3, 2018, it was confirmed that Lifetime had passed on a second season and that Netflix had picked up the series.

On July 26, 2018, ahead of the series premiere, Lifetime announced that the series had been renewed for a second season. Two years later, it was announced that the series was purchased by Lifetime and put on fast-track development. In February 2015, it was announced that Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble would develop a television series based on the novel. Kepnes explained the darkness of You, which deconstructs the romantic-comedy tropes highlighted in many films and series, by making the interested male a violent stalker, saying it was written in a dark period of her life, the year her father died of cancer, and in which she experienced several other personal challenges. In 2014, Kepnes released her first novel of the thriller series, You. Later, she obtained an undergraduate degree in American Civilization and worked as an entertainment reporter for Entertainment Weekly. After graduation, she commenced her studies at Brown University. During her formative years, she attended Barnstable High School.

Kepnes was born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She is best known for her books You, Hidden Bodies and Providence: A Novel. You, Hidden Bodies Caroline Kepnes is an American writer, screenwriter, author and formerly, an entertainment reporter.

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