Joe a handsome yet creepy bookstore Manager begins stalking a beautiful struggling writer who goes by Beck. She, unfortunately, landed into his place of business where he believes it’s love at first sight and must find ways to be with her.

The first episode leaves you feeling violated for her, yet the story is told through Joe and his inner dialogue, and as we watch, things he points out kind of make a little sense. She’s addicted to her phone and various forms of social media. Joe points out she wants attention she seeks it. I mean she doesn’t even have curtains on her windows for crying out loud.

As the story progresses we learn she’s kind of terrible. She likes men that are wishy-washy, she has snobby frienemies, and she sleeps around a lot. She lies to everyone. Joe is clearly not perfect either and has serious secrets of his own, including one with a missing ex-girlfriend Candace and his mysterious childhood. 

Sooner or later the two finally come together due to Joe saving her drunk ass after she was so inebriated she fell into the subway tracks. Fortunately he was stalking her and was able to save her life, and in doing so stealing her phone.

He now had even more access into her life, stalking, stalking stalking, then kidnapping her booty call and killing him.

They end up getting together, yet everyone in the story has secrets. In fact they are all pretty terrible people. With the exception of Ethan who is Joes employee. Even little Paco has his moments of crazy.

One frenemy, in particular, has it out for Joe and that is little miss Princess Peach. Played by the beautiful Shay Mitchell. She didn’t like or trust Joe from the get-go. Jealousy, status and serious manipulation on her part bring an interesting curve to the story.

Eventually and pretty predictably, all the secrets come flooding out.

My take away from this show was that we really don’t know people. Everyone has secrets some darker than others, but the hard truth is even our friends and family hide secrets from us. Who is the person that is sitting behind you at the movies? or the cashier at the grocery store? or even your neighbor? That part of the show is what really got under my skin. This generation is too trusting, posting everything so publicly for all the world to see. That we really don’t know who is watching.