Season four of Netflix's "You" sees Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) begin a new life in London, far away from the juice detoxes and yoga pants he found himself surrounded by in the fictional town of Madre Linda, California, where he lived with his wife Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) and his young son, Henry.
As Joe reveals in his inner monologue in episode one, his apartment is located in South Kensington, which is in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
The area is one of the most affluent in London and home to the Prince and Princess of Wales, who reside with their three children in the royal residence, Kensington Palace, which is just a 10-minute walk away from Joe's home.
Joe lives on a mews, which is a type of street found in the UK and other European countries made up of a row of houses that have been converted from stables or built to look like former stables.
These streets do not typically have sidewalks and they are often too small or narrow for cars to drive down, meaning that, in general, they tend to be a lot more charming and well-kept than your average street. As Joe says himself, it's very "Hugh Grant movie" (for the record, Notting Hill is also just a stone's throw away).
I was surprised to find that the entrance to Kynance Mews wasn't tucked away down a secret side street, but accessible from a main road that London buses, ambulances, and delivery trucks frequent.
I realized that the directors on "You" had been a bit sneaky by only showing the entrance to Kynance Mews from one angle. As a result, viewers didn't see that to the right of the 19th-century archway entrance is another road, which when I visited, was blocked by an open-topped waste container. I thought it looked a lot better on screen than it did in real life.
Interestingly, though, "You" isn't the first time audiences might have seen Kynance Mews on screen, as more than half a dozen films have used the street, including the Julie Andrews musical "Star!" (1968), neo-noir classic "The Big Sleep" (1978), and the Jeremy Irons-starring psychological drama "Damage" (1992).