Joe Goldberg is back
and he hasn't changed one bit.
You know the drill by now.
We'll be explaining all you need to know
about the ending of You season 3.
So, go make sure you're all caught up
before you continue watching.
The very final scene of season 3
teases Joe's next steps,
but before we dig into that we need to rewind
and take a look at how he got here.
Starting with his new and unfamiliar environment,
suburbia.
Which, as we well know, is Joe's idea of hell.
We're in this fake, plastic suburban hell.
We moved here for the baby.
Two extra things come with his personal nightmare
in the aspirational neighbourhood
of Madre Linda.
His wife, Love Quinn Goldberg
and new born son, Henry,
also known as Forty after Love's deceased twin,
much to Joe's annoyance.
Welcome home, Forty.
Maybe we can use his real name.
New parenthood may be exhausting
for Madre Linda's new murderous couple,
but Joe still finds the time to develop a new obsession
with their attractive
and flirtatious neighbour, Natalie.
You're nervous.
Got a chequered past you're trying hide?
While some habits die hard,
suburban Joe, it seems, is not as prone to murder
as Joe in New York and Joe in LA,
AKA the Joe's of previous seasons.
In fact, he doesn't kill anyone
until the last episode but one.
More on that later.
The same, however, can't be said for his wife.
As a result,
suburban Joe spends most of this season
covering up his wife's murders and misdeeds.
Love starts with murdering Natalie
shortly after finding a box
full of Natalie-related trinkets
collected by Joe.
She later attacks mild-mannered
local geology professor, Gil,
when he admits his unvaccinated children
gave Henry/ Forty the measles.
When he kills himself in the now infamous cage
after she and Joe dig up dirt on his son,
they pin Natalie's murder on him,
successfully throwing
Madre Linda's nosy neighbours
off their scent,
as well as, crucially, the police.
All that is undone
when, during a swinging party gone array,
Love let's Natalie's murder slip
within earshot of Madre Linda power couple,
Sherry and Cary.
-I killed Natalie for you! -Shut up!
Go.
In the box they go
where they're discovered by Natalie's stepson, Theo,
a lovesick teenager fixated on Love
who's been more than happy
to encourage that attraction.
Despite seeming to care about him,
she attacks him to protect her secret,
leaving him for Joe to deal with.
So, it is safe to say
Love Quinn Goldberg is more than a match for Joe
and with a murderous wife, and obsession of Joe's
is faced with a double threat,
being stalked by him or killed by Love.
I think we need to go to couple's therapy.
Enter Marienne,
Joe's boss at the local library.
Their relationship is initially frosty,
but thaws over of the season as the two get closer.
We learn she's a divorced single mother
and a former addict.
Part of the reason Joe fixates on her so much
is because he believes
they have shared similar struggles in life,
and with that, he has a new target.
Aside from the homicidal wife,
there is another man standing in the way
of what Joe wants.
Local reporter, Ryan, is Marienne's ex-husband,
gaming the system to prevent her from getting
full custody of her daughter.
Marienne makes it clear
any relationship between the two of them
cannot happen
because he would use her being with a married man
as a reason to withhold her daughter.
And this is where
Joe decides it's time to kill.
Not for Love, not for his son,
but for Marienne.
It's for her.
With Ryan out of the way,
he decides it's time to ask Love for a divorce
so he can run away with Marienne and Juliette.
But Love isn't going to let him leave that easily.
And it turns out, she too has form
in the whole killing romantic partners area.
Remember her deceased husband
in season 2?
The official story was he died of cancer,
but Love confesses
that the truth is much more sinister.
I did kill him.
But I didn't mean to.
It was my first time using it
and...
the dosage was too high when ingested.
What dosage was too high?
Aconite.
-You wanted to paralyse him. -You don't have to worry.
This time I'm letting it
absorb through the skin.
Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no.
Paralysing Joe
with aconite farmed from a wolfsbane plant
she's been tending whole season,
Love plots to kill her rival, Marienne.
When he's obsessed with someone,
he'll do anything for them...
I should know.
He was obsessed with me.
Until he met you.
Mum?
...but she has a change of heart
after seeing Juliette
and it's here, it seems, Joe's time is up.
I'm not the problem.
My husband is the problem.
Unfortunately for Love,
Joe has been one step ahead of her
the whole time.
He injects her with his own lethal dosage of aconite,
admitting he knew she would attempt something like this,
taking some adrenaline tablets
to fend off the effects of the poison.
Love dies
still insisting the two are a match made in heaven.
We're perfect for each other.
And, well, she's probably not wrong.
Thanks to his staging of the scene,
everyone believes Joe is dead at Love's hands.
He cuts off his own toes,
leaving one baked in a pie
at the charred remains of his family home.
All of the attacks and murders
around Madre Linda,
including that of reporter Ryan,
are pinned on her, leaving Joe free and clear.
Sherry and Cary survive the cage
by finding the spare key inside
and make a killing out of their experience.
Theo too survives
when Joe decides to take him to a hospital,
instead of killing him and clearing up Love's mess.
And little Henry is given a new home
with Joe's library colleague, Dante.
So, where has Joe gone next?
He can't return to New York or LA,
two places filled with his skeletons
and where people would likely recognise him.
So, a new country and city it is.
As that skyline makes clear, Joe ends season 3 in Paris.
Why Paris?
Well, if you remember earlier in the season,
Marienne tells Joe she grew up there
and dreams of taking Juliette there
away from Ryan and away from Madre Linda.
I was born in Paris.
Once again,
Joe Goldberg follows a woman to a brand new city
with a brand new name and identity.
Will he find Marienne?
Well, that's a question for another time.
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