The explosive third season finale of You has everything, from roast dinners to die for,
to extreme cage therapy, and a big twist setting up Season 4.
Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers!
I'm Jan and in this video I'm breaking down all the things you might have missed in the
ending of You Season 3, the clues that predicted the shocking conclusion, and what the future
holds for Joe.
We'll be talking spoilers, so take care if you're not all caught up.
The fact that Joe would end up permanently severing his and his son's ties with Love
in the finale was foreshadowed all the way back in the opening scene of the season where
he cut the umbilical cord between Love and baby Henry.
And, just an episode later, it was also hinted at by the couple's therapist who had no idea
of the serial killers she had for clients.
Neither one of you is gonna kill your spouse.
You're many things, but you are not murderers.
The problems in Joe and Love's marriage come to a head in the final episode when she serves
him roast chicken, which she figured out was his favourite meal on their very first night
out together.
Perfect bite?
Perfect.
That was also the night Joe found out about Love's dead husband and when they both discovered
how alike they were.
Fast-forward to now where it's the dying days of their relationship, and roast chicken and
dead husband discussion are back on the menu, with Love admitting to killing her first spouse
by accident when she tried to temporarily paralyse him with aconite to stop him from
leaving her.
And now it's Joe's turn as he unwittingly grabs a poison-laced carving knife that Love
set to trap him!
This time, I'm letting it absorb through the skin.
None of this would be happening if you hadn't grabbed a weapon.
In their twisted obsession, Love and Joe are almost mirror images of each other, so she
realised he'd go for the knife.
Love knows me better than anyone ever has.
I'm starting to understand why that's so terrifying.
By the way, notice how Love used a glove to handle the carving knife before this so she
wouldn't get the poison on her own hand.
Love's choice of aconite, which is commonly known as wolfsbane, has an extra level of
meaning in this show because the word "wolf" used to be part of her and Joe's special love
language.
I love you.
Is there another word we can use?
I wolf you.
I wolf you too.
And in Season 3, when Joe and Love are struggling to enjoy sex together, he bemoans the fact
they don't say "I wolf you" any more.
We've been domesticated.
I wolf you.
Wolf?
Or dog-on-a-leash?
There were also a few possible hints in Season 2 towards Love's eventual use of wolfsbane
on Joe when she playfully attacked him with a toy wolf, a gesture that also signalled
her penchant for slashing her victims' throats; and, there was also the real wolf the Quinns
brought to the wellness weekend which snarled aggressively at Joe.
Interestingly, after Marienne's advice to listen to the 'tiny voice' in her own head,
Love realises how many things are wrong in her relationship.
I mean, you gaslit me so hard.
I'm not the problem.
My husband is the problem.
And she decides to cut her losses and goes to kill Joe with the same cut-throat MO she
used on most of her previous victims.
But Joe's already turned the tables on his mirror-image wife;
she just doesn't realise she's been hoisted by her own petard until he stabs her in the
leg with a syringe full of her own deadly wolfsbane.
Our love language is violence.
And in a little visual gag, the jar of poison Joe pulled the wolfsbane from was labelled
'Dye Sample'.
Oh, and despite Joe's unfavourable views of the Madre Linda dads when he first meets them..
the haze of narcissistic delusion that just the right biohack, you'll live forever.
..it's actually biohacking that saves his life in the end.
By the way, notice that Joe didn't eat anything before he saw Love eat because he was already
worried about being poisoned, a call-back to when Love brought him muffins after trapping
him in his cage in Season 2.
Is this what you're afraid of?
No poison, Joe!
Given their one-upmanship with poisonous wolfsbane, Love and Joe have certainly brought very literal
meaning to the term 'toxic relationship'.
Joe's recipe for a successful getaway involves cooking up a salacious story to keep everyone's
minds occupied with juicy details, the aim being to stop them asking awkward questions
about how true it is.
And he certainly knows his audience because the people of Madre Linda love to gossip and
are more interested in manufactured reality than reality itself.
For the public, the brand is conventional monogamy.
So, Joe sprinkles just enough believable information into the tale he concocts.
Cue him preparing a Chicken Pot Pie, using against Love the fact that she's a "trained
pastry chef" and well-known as the town's baker.
And it's all somewhat ironic that part of Joe ends up in Love's chicken pie given chicken
was his perfect bite in their early loved-up days and their wedding vows even included
pastry: You said you would always share a bite of
your pastry with me, no matter what.
Intriguingly, Joe's final plan was foreshadowed in the opening episode:
This isn't some German fairytale where a witch keeps me locked up till it's time to eat me.
That's a shout-out to Hansel and Gretel where the witch who plans to eat the children is
outwitted by them and ends up dying in her own fiery oven.
On top of that, the way Joe turns Love into a legendary figure akin to the baker who made
murder victims into meat pies in Sweeney Todd.. the Mrs Lovett of Madre Linda
..is especially apt because in the musical version of that story, Todd burns the baker
Mrs Lovett to death after shoving her into an oven, while in the original story he kills
her with poison.
And let's not forget the little box of gruesome mementos that Joe leaves at Love's side.
As well as Gil's driver's license, there's a bunch of teeth, probably Natalie's.
We know Joe removed them to avoid dental records, as he did with Benji, and remember he wouldn't
tell Love what he'd done with them.
I just don't wanna find them in a hidey-hole in my house.
You won't.
It's safer if you don't know.
Given that earlier in the same episode, Love refused to tell Joe what she'd done with Candace
and Delilah's bodies...
It's safer if you don't know ..I imagine Joe kept the teeth in case Love
tried pinning those Season 2 deaths on him.
After all, he admits to hanging on to another of Natalie's possessions for similar reasons
and suggests using that to frame Matthew for her murder.
With all the evidence in place to frame his dead wife, Joe sets the house on fire to ensure
the crime scene is damaged enough to make the faked murder-suicide more plausible.
He leaves the burning building to go in search of Marienne, exactly as was foreshadowed several
episodes earlier.
For you, Marienne, I will walk through fire.
There were also some other early hints that telegraphed how Love would end up getting
the blame for torching the house.
All you ever showed me was to get the prince, build a castle, and then burn it all to the
f!$*%@# ground.
Then there was Love's mother Dottie who set light to her own vineyard during a bitter
divorce, which would doubtless lead the town gossips to say, "Like mother, like daughter".
And at the library gala when Joe was panicking about Love and Marienne meeting up, his inner
monologue predicted the events of the final episode.
I should orchestrate a disaster in the kitchen truck, turn up the oven, scorch the quail.
It's like I'm watching my own execution.
Perhaps influenced by Love's dying words...
We're perfect for each other.
But bad.. for Henry.
..Joe realises he might not be a good father and if he stays he'll be locked up as her
accomplice, setting his son off on the same damaging path as himself.
So, he tearfully leaves his baby with Dante and Lansing.
And Henry's in safe, caring hands instead of Dottie's unstable, sozzled ones or the
lonely, potentially bullying hands of a group home.
So, hopefully for Henry, Joe's broken the harmful cycle set in motion by his own parents.
At the start of the finale, Love told Kiki & co they were a "bunch of scandal-hungry
crows"..
No amount of feasting on other people's sorrows is gonna make your lives less hollow.
But by the end of the episode, those same people are having a really good go at proving
Love wrong as they dine out on her misery, building businesses profiting off her death.
From the jokey pseudo-feminist rebrand of her bakery targeted more at selling Insta-worthy
t-shirts than good quality food like Love's; Yelp suggests the scones are just okay.
to the at-home test for poison inspired by her use of toxic wolfsbane;
to a self-help bestseller about kidnapping and caging.
Caged: A Radical Couple's Therapy Technique.
As for Marienne, she takes Love's advice to get away from Joe, leaving no phone number
or address behind.
Due to her ex-husband, she already knew the dangers of toxic relationships.
I promised myself, my next relationship would be aboveboard and honest.
And, though she'd pushed it aside, she'd had a bad feeling in her gut about Joe.
Something in me knew that it was too good to be true.
In fact, her words in that moment echo Beck's view of Joe in the Season 1 finale:
And you knew, somewhere deep, it was too good to be true.
Unlike Joe, who believes in fairy tales..
How do I make you see I could be your happily ever after?
..Marienne doesn't believe in damsels in distress.
Instead, her favourite fairy tale is Jack And The Beanstalk.
Jack was a little badass.
I wanted to be him.
Screw princesses.
So, given all that then, when Joe wonders: Did you pity me when you read what happened?
Did it erase the fear she planted?
Do you still think about us?
I imagine Marienne's answer would be a big fat "no"!
The season ends with Joe taking his creepy stalking act on the international road..
I have to believe our paths are destined to cross again.
Paris is his destination of choice as Marienne's originally from there and she told him during
her custody battle that's where she'd run to with her daughter if she thought her ex-husband
wouldn't find them.
And spend our days drawing outside Sacré-Coeur.
Though Marienne mentions the famous basilica of Sacré-Coeur, he's actually here as it
has fantastic views of the Eiffel Tower, which immediately signals to viewers where Joe is.
The name of the café is "Le chasseur solitaire", which translates into English as "The Lone
Hunter", brilliantly fitting for Joe Goldberg and his continued solo predator activities.
I think I'm meant to be a lone wolf.
It does feel kind of ironic that after Joe lied about his ex, Candace, leaving him and
running off to Europe, that's what seemingly has actually happened with Marienne.
This isn't the first time that Paris has popped up on the show as a place to get away and
start fresh either.
Peach wanted Beck to move there with her and live at her parents' flat.
Paris could be a new beginning for the both of us.
And, after caging Delilah in season 2, Joe suggested the French capital to Love as a
place to wipe the slate clean: What if we leave together?
Start over.
You could finish cooking school in Paris.
By the way, those jingling bells on the café door are meant to make us think of Beck, Joe's
first main infatuation in the series, which in many ways indicates he's right back where
he started.
Yes, he's in a new city, a new country even, but he's still the same old Joe.
The barista may call him "Nick", a sign that he's taken on a new identity for this next
chapter, but Joe already has form for this.
In LA, he kidnapped Will Bettelheim and stole his identity;
though he did eventually free him and they kept in contact, so maybe Will helped him
out with a fake passport to get out of the US.
And perhaps Joe picked the name Nick, subconsciously thinking of Dr Nicky, the man he falsely framed
for the murder of Beck in New York.
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So, what did you think of Season 3 of You and how it ended?
And what's in store for Joe next?
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