(Vague spoilers ahead, don't read this if you want to go in blind, but it won't ruin any specific plot points.)

I wonder, if in your pretentious style, you would write something this contrived, Beck. It's entertaining, for what it is,but at the same time, it isn't believable. I mean, the main character sounds like a ransom note made of equal parts red pill and white knight, and a sprinkling of serial killer manifesto. He gets a little more smoothed out, Beck, but the writing... It's the worst parts of how the world views mental illness, romanticization, mixed with the reminder that 'unwell' people are secretly dangerous.

It's sad, Joe would be an almost charming character... In fact, he is. He's a layperson's idea of what a serial killer is, Beck. The idea that the kind of sociopath that becomes a serial killer is a charmer, so much so that he'd go out of the way to save an abused kid... But what this really is, is the story of a charming, bookish guy who would make for a great protagonist, except then they stapled on the fact that he's an obsessive stalker, Beck.

There are two Paul Browns (that's a joke that requires watching pretty far in to get it, Beck), and that unsubtle cut to _The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_, I saw that Beck. How droll, haha. But that's the thing, that's what this is, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, because Joe is our protagonist so he needs to have lovable bits somewhere, he needs to be romanticized, so we'll have him save a kid and make sure everyone he kills is just an awful enough person to never make you hate him; except that he's secretly 'Hyding' something. No one went into this asking 'what makes a stalker', they wrote a charming protagonist, and then asked 'how can we make this _dramatic_?'

I'll admit, it's not the worst, Beck. It's kind of fun to watch, in a bad Soap Opera kind of way. But in the end, it leaves a sour taste, the reminder that so much media cares nothing about doing its due diligence with mental health. They just want to make it sexy...