Bailey McKeon ’22
Features Editor
Netflix’s thriller seriesYoustaring PennBadgleyis back withSeason 3. Here’s a full recap of everything you need to remember from seasons 1 and 2 before you start watching.
In Season 1, we meet Joe Goldberg, a bookstore clerk, who begins to stalk a customer of the bookstore, Beck, that he is intrigued by. Quickly, Beck’s boyfriend Benji threatens Joe’s relationship with Beck, so, naturally, Joe locks Benji in a glass vault in the basem*nt of the bookstore and kills him. Joe then begins dating Beck.
Soon enough, Beck’s best friend Peach becomes suspicious of Joe’s intentions and honesty.In an attempt tosave his own reputation, Joe hits Peach in the head with a rock while she is on her morning run. Although she survives, Joe eventually kills Peach and frames it as a suicide by typing up a note on Peach’s laptop.
Joe then begins to suspect that Beck is sleeping with her therapist, Dr. Nicky, and goes to visit the doctor himself. Joe and Beck break up after Joe confronts Beck about his suspicions and Joe begins dating a new woman named Karen. Soon, however, Joe and Beck rekindle their romance. Jealous Karen warns Beck about Joe’s past, which rises suspicions about what happened to Joe’s earlier ex-girlfriend Candace, who mysteriously disappeared.
Beck finds Joe’s collection of victim’s cellphones, including her previous boyfriend Benji’s phone,along with some other horrifying items. Beck thendiscoverstheglass vaultin the basem*nt of the bookstore. Joe finds Beck in the basem*nt and quickly locks her in the vault. Beck tricks Joe into coming into the vault, although Joe eventually escapes and kills Beck. Joe pins these murders of Dr. Nicky. The season ends with Candace walking into Joe’s bookstore.
In Season 2, Joe begins his life in Los Angeles to escape from Candace in New York. He steals the identity of Will, who he locks in a glass vault, this time inside of a storage unit. Joe soon becomes intrigued by yet another woman, Love, and begins working a job at the same department store she works in. Love’s brother Forty is skeptical of Joe.
Love becomes apprehensive about Joe and distances herself from him. After Forty overdoses on drugs and alcohol, Joe is left to take care of him, which brings him back closer to Love. However, Candace shows up in LA and befriends Forty. Love grows suspicious of Candace and Candace comes clean to Love, in the process exposing Joe. Joe and Love break up again.
Joe then has an affair with Delilah, his neighbor. Delilah is attempting to criminalize Henderson, who molested her when she was 17. Joe breaks into Henderson’s apartment to collect evidencein an effort tohelp Delilah butinsteadends up killing Henderson while he is there.
At the same time, Delilah finds the keys to Joe’s storageunit and discovers the glass vault. Joe finds her and locks her in the vault yet promises not to kill her. He grants her time release handcuffs that will open when Joe has fled town.
Before he leaves town, Joe helps Forty with a script. However,Fortydrugs Joe, which makes him late to leave town. When he comes to, Joe goes back to the storage unit and finds Delilah still there, but dead. Candace shows up and traps Joe in the vault with Delilah’s dead body. Candace calls Love so Love can come see for herself Joe’s dirty secrets.
When Love arrives, however, she kills Candace. Joe comes clean to Love and quickly realizes thatheis to Love what Beck was to him, a psychotic infatuation. Although Joe is struck with the urge to kill Love, she reveals to him that she is pregnant with his child. Consequently, Joe and Love move into a new home. The season ends with the suggestion that Joe becomes infatuated with their new neighbor.
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In the season 3, episode 1 opener of You, a popular Netflix show about a serial killer named Joe Goldberg, his wife finds his murder box. Inside it contains a pair of underwear, a coffee sleeve, and a used, bloody tampon, strategically placed in a Ziplock bag, the string wound neatly around it.
Who is Joe obsessed with in you Season 3? ›
This time, Love flips the script to ensure that her dream of having the perfect family will not be torn away so easily by Joe's compulsive actions. However, after Love kills Natalie, Joe turns his obsession to Marienne, a librarian who shares a troubled childhood in the foster system.
Who is the killer in you Season 3? ›
Love, of all of Joe's romantic partners, is his best match because she's just like him: She's also a killer. And in season three, she kills as much as Joe does. Love's first victim is Natalie, whom she kills after discovering a box of Natalie's things that Joe has collected.
What did Love find in Joe's box? ›
While going through some boxes, Love discovers a hidden box of Joe's containing Natalie's panties, bloody scarf, and used tampon. Love sets up an appointment with Natalie to view the space for the bakery.
What did Beck find in Joe's box? ›
Beck has just enough doubts about Joe to go looking, and she finds a box full of evidence that he's been stalking her all along: her stolen phone, diary, tampons; Benji and Peach's phones; a box full of teeth.
What is Joe's diagnosis in You? ›
Joe has criteria that correspond to obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, which is that he is often anxious about himself and the people he loves, so he cannot control his emotions to commit sad*stic actions to kill people who he considers to interfere with the relationship between Joe and Beck.
Why was Joe obsessed with Rhys? ›
Upon arriving in London, Joe develops such an obsession with Rhys after reading his autobiography, A Good Man in a Cruel World, which Joe closely identifies with. Then the hallucinations start. “He's really desperate to see himself as a good person,” says Gamble.
Was Rhys actually the killer? ›
Known for his books, he was revealed to be the Eat-the-Rich Killer, responsible for the murders around Joe. Later on however, it is eventually revealed that the Rhys that Joe had been encountering with is actually an alternative personality of Joe, and that he took over the form of Rhys.
Does Kate know Joe killed her dad? ›
Does Kate have any idea that Joe killed her dad? After being rescued from the river, Joe confesses his sins to Kate, and the pair begin an “honest” relationship with one another.
Is Love Alive in You season 4? ›
So, reality points to Love being dead and her part in this season was only a hallucination. Her appearance in the fourth season serves to exemplify Joe's deteriorating sanity in his search for the real Eat the Rich killer.
Beck tells Joe that she felt as if she was undeserving for his love, and tells Joe that she has loved him more than anything. This calms Joe, and he forgives her.
Is Love Quinn alive in season 5? ›
(L to R) Victoria Pedretti as Love Quinn in episode 301 of You. Gamble confirmed in a 2021 interview with Newsweek that Love really did die at the end of You season 3. "I'm not trying to be, 'Was there a parachute under that seat in the airplane? ' She is [dead]," Gamble says.
What does Delilah find in Joe's box? ›
Delilah goes to the storage unit, where she finds the plexiglass cage as well as plenty more evidence of Joe's many (so many) crimes. The last person who did something like this was Beck, and she ended up dead.
What is the meaning of Joe Goldberg's glass box? ›
Originally, the glass box housed rare books in the basem*nt of the store Joe worked in. The book store's owner, Mr. Mooney, would lock Joe in the cage as a young boy to punish him. As an adult, Joe started using the lockable box as a torture chamber for his own victims.
Why did Joe put Beck in the box? ›
When the cage is introduced, it's clear that the season will only end one way: with Beck in the cage and Joe eventually killing her. The cage represents Joe's need for control and how he feels that he isn't good enough or lovable because of the trauma that he has from his difficult childhood and his mother's neglect.
What was in Natalie's box in You? ›
Although Joe is flattered by Natalie's advances, he can't help thinking about the role model he aspires to be for his son, so he shuts her down and walks away. Although her husband 'technically' didn't fully cheat on his wife, Love finds a hidden box containing Natalie's underwear, scarf and a tampon… yeah a tampon!
