10 ways the 'You' TV series is different from the book

• The Lifetime series "You" that's recently been picked up by Netflix is based on the novel of the same name by Caroline Kepnes.
• In the book, the characters Paco, Claudia, Annika, and Raj don't exist.
• In the TV series, Candace gets a much more prominent backstory and Peach is much more suspicious of Joe. 

If you've been following the buzz around "You," odds are you spent the beginning of 2019 working your way through the 10 suspenseful episodes of the thriller series on Netflix or you've already watched it all when it first aired on Lifetime.

The series stars Penn Badgley, Elizabeth Lail, Shay Mitchell, and John Stamos. But before it was perhaps one of the buzziest shows of 2019 so far, "You" was (and is) a novel written by Caroline Kepnes.

Published in 2014, "You" was Kepnes debut novel — which she followed up with a sequel titled "Hidden Bodies." And due to popular demand, Netflix has picked up the psychological thriller for season two, although it won't follow the second book super closely. 

In any book-to-TV adaptation, there are dozens of minute changes to the series that most people would never catch and "You" the series is no different. Thankfully, Kepnes stayed on as a consulting producer for the series, so the changes made to the overall story were (hopefully) made with her approval. 

Here are a few of the biggest differences between "You" the TV series and "You" the novel.

Warning: Post contains spoilers for both the "You" TV series and novel.

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Joe Goldberg's neighbors do not exist in the book.

Although prominently featured on the TV series, Joe's neighbors Ron, Claudia, and Paco are not present in the book. These characters, let alone their names or storylines, are nowhere to be found in the 425-page book.

Their tragic storyline was completely made for the TV series — in the book, there's no beating from Ron (in fact, Joe gets beat by a former employee, Curtis, in the book on page 259), there are no hospital visits or drug overdoses to humanize Joe, and there is definitely no Paco for Joe to look after. 

In the book, Benji never killed anyone.

On the TV series, Benji is the owner of an artisanal soda company. In the book, Benji is actually the proud owner of an "organic club soda company that symbolizes everything bad about right now."

One thing does remain the same between the book and movie: Benji is a narcissist who happens to really be allergic to peanuts and could care less about Beck. Unfortunately, the TV show does change a significant part of Benji's storyline, having him reveal to Joe that he killed one of his friends and caught the whole thing on tape. This detail was perhaps added to help Benji look like more of a bad guy, making Joe seem a bit "justified" in killing the rival suitor.

In the book, Beck doesn't have to work and she's not financially struggling as much.

In the book, Beck isn't a broke student who really needs a job — at least there's not much of an indication that she is anyway. On the TV show, she's a yoga teacher who has to balance early morning classes with her tough teaching assistant schedule. But in the book, she's none of those things — and there's also no inappropriate mentor threatening to remove her from said fictional vocation.

In the book, Beck lives in an apartment meant for Brown graduates pursuing a graduate degree in New York City. She won the apartment by writing a winning essay for The Brownstone Biased Lottery. And, while she could probably afford curtains, both the show and book maintain that Beck's apartment windows remain bare, allowing Joe to do all of his peeping activity unobstructed.

And, while we're on the topic of Beck's finances, in the book, Peach never offers to give Beck money to hold her over like she does on the show.

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