The YOU showrunner, Sera Gamble, talked with The Hollywood Reporter about both parts of season 4. There are part 1 spoilers, so read at your own risk!
The YOU showrunner, Sera Gamble, talked with The Hollywood Reporter about both parts of season 4. There are part 1 spoilers, so read at your own risk!
I think it might actually fit pretty well with what we do know if Rhys was a figment of Joe's imagination. In fact, it fits better than Rhys being a real person. There are a few things that are very hard to explain if Rhys is a real person, specifically centering on how well he's stalking Joe. He's putting way too much time into it and doing it extraordinarily well - even planting a weapon on Joe while Joe was being tailed without the tail noticing him. You mention Rhys locking them up as if it might disprove it, but Roald was already unconscious at that point, so it's possible Joe imagined being captured, but actually he was the one to drag Roald to the cellar and lock both of them up.
I admit I don't remember Roald or anyone else mentioning Rhys, but there are two possibilities that would work well with Roald mentioning Rhys and Rhys being a figment of Joe's imagination. One, like you said, Rhys is a real person. The one we see may be entirely imagined by Joe, while there is a real person named Rhys who may or may not look anything like the Rhys we see. Perhaps Joe heard them mention the name and once the drugs took over, imagined that he'd met the person they mentioned. Meanwhile, the real Rhys might never have shown up onscreen. The second possibility is that, while Joe was on the drugs at that first party, he and/or Roald came up with a fictional character called Rhys and now Joe is convinced he was a real person. For example, Joe imagines meeting an author he admires and mentions it to Roald, but there's no one at the party by that name, so Roald recognizes it as a hallucination. From then on, mentioning him could just be a joke at Joe's expense. That's if Roald is the only one to mention him.
All in all, I think it's a very interesting theory.
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