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Benjamin "Benji" J. Ashby III is a guest character in the first season of YOU. He is portrayed by Lou Taylor Pucci. He is a local playboy, Guinevere Beck's boyfriend, and Joe Goldberg's first on-screen victim.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
Benji Ashby is the son of Ben Ashby of Ashby Brokerage. After a failed career at modeling and co-creating a dating app, Benji started an artisanal soda brand called Home Soda Artisanal Beverages.
Season 1[]
Pilot[]
Benji makes his first appearance while Joe is stalking Beck outside her apartment. Beck accuses him of cheating on her with a random woman at a party that Beck brought him to, although he defends himself by saying that he didn't even cum. Beck is angry but they end up having sex while Joe watches from outside. Later he sees Beck and Joe arrive in a cab together, and Beck briefly introduces him to Joe before exiting the cab. A company reaches out to him about being interested in his soda startup, so he heads out to meet the company. Unbeknowst to him it's Joe impersonating the company interested in his soda startup and Joe takes him to the bookshop's basement. Benji is knocked out by Joe and locked up in the book vault.[3]
The Last Nice Guy in New York[]
Benji wakes up and pleads with Joe to let him out. He eventually remembers that Joe was the man with Becky in the cab and catches on that Joe kidnapped him because of Beck, though he tells Joe that he's done with her and Joe can have her. He gives Joe his phone password, which Joe subsequently uses to give the appearance that Benji is out living his life. He tries to sow doubt in Joe's mind by claiming that Beck is a gold digger and that Joe is a nobody. When Joe checks on him the morning after the party Beck takes him to, Benji has destroyed all the books in the vault. In a bid for freedom, Benji gives Joe a video where he and his fraternity haze a fraternity pledge to death by drowning as mutually assured destruction, stating that he can use that against him were he to turn Joe in. Joe gives him a coffee laced with peanut oil, which Benji is deathly allergic to, and he dies in the vault.[4]
Maybe[]
Joe looks for what to do with Benji's body, he says that dismembering it would be too intense, so he decides to burn it, and asks Paco to buy the necessary items to burn Benji's body, meanwhile, Joe tries to delay the Benji's decomposition in the basement of Mooney's, where he also pulls out Benji's teeth, so as not to have any dental records. Later, Joe takes Benji's body and puts it in Joe's father's car, where he takes him to what appears to be a local forest, where he lights a huge fire and disposes of Benji's body for good.
Appearances[]
Season 1 (3/10)[]
- Pilot
- The Last Nice Guy in New York
- Maybe (corpse)
Romantic Relationships[]
- Status: Ex-girlfriend/broken up
- Started: Pre-Pilot
- Ended: The Last Nice Guy in New York
Personality[]
Benji, while not outright abusive towards Beck, is arrogant and apathetic. He dismisses Beck as a golddigger and is willing to let Joe date her.
Trivia[]
- In the first book, Joe says that Benji has eczema[5]
- Benji is unable to differentiate his branded soda when Joe forces him into a blind taste test.
Book Comparisons[]
In the book version, Joe uses the name 'Nathan Herzog' to meet Benji, whereas in the series they changed it to 'Jeff Pevensey'.
Quotes[]
"Even in death, Benji is a colossal pain in my ass"
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1x1: Pilot
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 1x2: The Last Nice Guy in New York
- ↑ ("Pilot").
- ↑ ("The Last Nice Guy in New York").
- ↑ Chapter 11 of the first book
