From the get-go, fans have expressed an eerie fascination with Joe Goldberg. And as Season 3 reveals, he views himself as someone undeserving of love. But there is also a mirror aspect to his rejection: Joe can’t love her the way he used to because he’d be loving someone like him. Since the possibility of Joe’s death at Love’s hands is now on the table, his revulsion might be due to the shift in power dynamics or an act of self-preservation. How could Joe, of all people, rebuff a killer when he has a body count as well? Joe idealizes this woman, but as soon as she shows herself as his equal instead of a walking dream girl, he loses interest. His rejection is blatant at first, but it becomes a source of internal revulsion for Joe as he now feels stuck in a suburban purgatory with a woman he calls a “monster.” To many audience members, Joe’s lack of attraction to Love felt like a betrayal of sorts. As Joe tells Theo (Dylan Arnold), she might have fooled us all.įollowing the end of the second season, Joe rejects Love. One of the biggest shifts in the latest season, however, was viewers’ changing perceptions of Love.
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But the Netflix series somehow still gives viewers reasons to empathize with them, which feels like it should be criminal on its own. They are murderers at the end of the day.
If someone presented an elevator pitch of You Season 3 without any identifiers, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) would seem like monsters. This article contains spoilers for Season 3 of the Netflix series You.
Victoria Pedretti as Love Quinn, left, and Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in a promotional poster for You Season 3 (Photo credit: Netflix)
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