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Not you, you're not having a breakdown.
But we will be going through the third seasons plot, twists, ending and also giving our full
review of the season.
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Breakdown.
Now I feel like we have to talk about the plot of Season 2 and 3 before we dive into
the ending as there are important points that definitely have to be considered as being
influential to how things wrap up. If you wanna skip ahead timecodes will be linked
below but if you do, I'll never forgive YOU...yes you.
Now Season 2 followed Joe or rather Will as he stalked Love played by Victoria Pedretti.
Though she seemed really sweet and innocent and the kind of person you'd never suspect
could be the bent neck lady, there was a darker side to her.
Love was just as obsessed with Joe as Joe was with her and she ended up killing Candice
and Delilah because they were obstacles in the way for her to get to him.
Love wanted a perfect family more than anything and it seemed like she ended up getting it
in the end as the pair settled down in the suburbs.
It was very much a Fresh Tart for them both and it also offered her the opportunity to
move on from the death of her brother won't make it to Forty.
Pregnant with her own potential psychopath it seemed like somewhat of a happy ending
but Joe ended up going back to his old ways once he spotted his next YOU through the fence
at his home.
Not you.
Now that pretty much takes us into Season 3 and though Joe sparks up somewhat of a romance
with the neighbour Natalie it's very short lived after Love kills her.
For the last two years I'd been theorising that there'd be a season of stalking in which
Love would eventually uncover it all but by the end of Episode 1, Natalie and it goes
down worse than when you watch Season 2 again and Chris D'elia comes on screen.
Yikes.
Thus starts a brutal game of the couple attempting to cover up the crime, pin it on everyone
they can and also deal with each others psychotic personalities. There's always been a dark
sense of humour to YOU and early on I found it hilarious how Joe was sure he was gonna
have a daughter and then a son popped out instead. Joe isn't exactly the kind of man
that you want your kids to be like and the sensual psychopath wrestles with how he wants
to raise his son. He of course came to the suburbs wanting to paint himself out as the
perfect person and this series as a whole very much carries with it the idea that everyone
has a shadow self.
Much in the same way that Love revealed hers in the second season we see as almost all
of the characters have a darker side to them that they hide from the world. Whether it's
Love and Joe being serial killers, Dottie's drinking, Gil being the kinda guy that tells
you to do your own research, the mystery surrounding Mathew, or Sherry's proposition to Joe and
Love about opening their marriage, everyone is presenting something to the world whilst
hiding the truth of what's really going on.
No more is this shown in Marianne and her ex, the latter of whom is a public figure
who presents a positive image to the world but really he's a high functioning drug addict
that abuses her. Marianne is played by Tati Gabrielle who you might recognise from Chilling
Adventures Of Sabrina.
Much like Joe she came up through the foster system and the two find common ground not
only in their love of books but also because they want their children to be better people
than they are. They also have toxic partners and it's not too long before Joe is completely
obsessed with her. Love has her own Love interests two and she ends up having a will they/won't
they relationship with their neighbour's teenage son Theo.
In all honesty I thought this plot like kinda pulled the season down a bit and I probably
would've preferred it had Love tried to keep up the image of being the perfect housewife
whilst Joe went slowly off the deepend and turned back to the darkside. I understand
that they need some balance in the season but personally I thought the Theo bits were
a weird inclusion.
I feel like the show is very much a comment on how relationships work and though things
are taken to the extreme, there are a lot of metaphors in the series that you can apply
to a standard relationship.
Much like Joe we all kind of get swept off our feet when we meet someone new that we
like and eventually we become closer and closer. However the world can be a tempting place
and the show very much tackles the idea of whether the grass is greener on the other
side. It never actually is and though Joe and Love become somewhat bored with one another,
they're very much a team that are indeed soulmates due to their personalities being identical.
When you meet someone else it can feel new and exciting but eventually those feelings
will fade and you'll be back to where you were, feeling bored and isolated. Thus it's
better to focus on what you have and make it into something special and I think the
show very much hammers home the idea about growing your own grass to make it as green
as can be.
Feel like I'm giving a marriage councilling video my self her but it's nice that the show
tackles these themes and wraps them in a thriller.
Now whilst most couples have skeletons in the closet, these have literal ones and slowly
their masks start to slip and people's true feelings come to the surface. Dottie at one
point accuses Love of murdering her last husband James and this was a fan theory that was floating
around when Season 2 was released.
We'll talk about whether it ties into the end later on or not but it's important to
bear in mind.
Now after Sherry's proposition Love starts to wonder whether they should try polygomy.
Whilst this is initially put in place to bring Love and Joe together, it allows the latter
put his plan in place to be with Marianne.
In the series it's said that his type is pretty much a sheep that's attracted to wolves and
she becomes somewhat the person that he must save and fix much like Beck and Love. This
was of course mirrored in his mother who stuck with someone abusive which led Joe going into
foster system after his violent streak was born.
This idea of an abusive husband/partner is of course reflected in Marianne who pretty
much has her future ruined when her ex Ryan carries out revenge porn. He sends her nudes
to everyone in her contacts list and the way that abuse is now carried out has of course
evolved with technology.
It's now possible to ruin someone when they're not even with you and Marianne becomes a motherly
figure that he must once more save. Throughout his life there's been things like his Mother,
the nurse at his foster home and now Marianne who all fit this archetype, convincing him
that the latter is his true soulmate.
Joe's darker side starts to get brought to the forefront once Homeland...sorry Mathew's
operation unearths him losing his temper and punching a wall. Though Gil was framed for
the murder of Natalie, Matthew just doesn't buy it and he becomes somewhat a stalker too
as he hacks all of the security cameras in the city to spy on people. His son Theo also
becomes obsessed with looking over the evidence they've collected and it leads to a shocking
revelation that we'll talk about later on.
Now I love this idea of everyone kind of watching everyone and it of course leads to secrets
being exposed.
During their polygamous hook up with the Conrads, Love has an outburst that reveals to them
she killed Natalie and we kinda head into the You formula where people are trapped inside
a cage that know the secret.
Where things change though is now Love is solely in charge of looking after the pair
and Joe goes after Ryan to end Marianne's misery.
It leads to the latter part of the season being much better than the middle part and
the walls start to close in when Theo unearths the secret in the basement. No more Stifler's
mom fantasies for this kid and Love ends up smacking him over the head which leads to
him being left on deaths door.
He confesses to Joe about his and Love's relationship and she overhears the story behind Ryan's
death and puts two and two together.
The season kinda comes to it's logical conclusion with somewhat of a Love vs Joe finale that
very much decides their futures.
Now whilst the couple have pretty much shared their murderous streaks and infidelity, here
we see the major difference between the two.
Theo told Love that the pair should run away together and she turned him down whereas Joe
clearly wanted to leave with Marianne. It leads to a last supper between the two where
Joe reveals that he knows about James and Love confirms the fan theory that she killed
him.
Turns out that she injected a paralytic drug into him but the dose was far too high. She
of course wanted to control him and it's revealed that she actually drugged Joe too. Through
the season Love had spent a lot of time in the garden and she managed to grow it for
herself meaning there'd be no paper trail.
Now you might have questions over how she managed to do it and it's very quick in the
scene. Your first thought might be that it's the chicken but Love also eats it too so that
rules it out. Love says it's absorbed through the skin and the only thing that Joe interacts
with that Love doesn't is the knife. Now though she does cut the chicken with it we can see
that she's wearing a glove when this happens so it wouldn't rub off onto her.
Joe grabbing the knife very much seals his fate and she clearly positioned this in front
of him during the meal as bait.
After Love leaves, Matthew comes across Joe and discovers the location of his son and
Marianne arrives which is when Love reveals the big fascade to her including the death
of Ryan. She tells her to leave whilst she still can and inspired by her being a single
mother Love decides to kill Joe which is when we get a big twist. It turns out Joe was well
aware of Love's plans and using elements of Cary's cocktail he injected it as a counter
action.
Pretty funny as these are two people who normally can't think more than five seconds ahead when
it comes to a murder but here they are playing fourth dimensional chess.
Now this once more shows the difference between the characters as Joe measured out a lethal
does whereas Love didn't because she wanted to try and make things work to some extent.
Love's final words are that they're perfect for each other but bad for Henry and that
he will find out what his father is.
Realising that he has to protect his son from himself, Joe very much follows in his mother's
and the nurses footsteps and puts the child on a path where they won't have an abusive
influence in their life.
Joe cuts his toe off, puts it in a pie and stages things to look like Love killed him
before ending her own life. Matthew and Theo will somewhat co-oberate this and she becomes
more famous than Beck.
Madre Linda returns to somewhat the way it was before, Theo starts to heal and Matthew
goes back to focusing on his son with thee mystery now somewhat solved. Henry ends up
growing up without a toxic influence unlike the baby Toxi and Shery and Cary go onto developing
a radical couples therapy technique after escaping the cage. This is because they find
the one left inside that Joe and Love put some in place incase they ever got trapped
there and it's a nice call back to the setup from before.
Turns out that Marianne left the city too and much like Joe she managed to escape marriage.
We catch him going under the name Nick in Paris which may be a reference to Dr Nicky
who he of course framed in the first season. Paris is of course the city of Love, Marianne
is a French name and it's very much a new beginning. I actually believe that the character
will continue on his quest to find Marianne as we see someone enter the cafe in Paris
that looks a lot like her. Whereas every season so far has ended with Joe being besotted over
a woman, here things are different as he doesn't become obsessed over this new figure and he
travels out into Paris on his own.
This is very symbolic as Joe is now back by himself again in a new city after successfully
evading his past once more. Whether he catches up to Marianne remains to be seen but personally
I think that he'll become obsessed with someone new and then he'll end up crossing paths with
her once more.
I'd actually love to get somewhat of a time jump at some point and see him come face to
face with his son which would finally make him realise that he needs to take responsibility.
I kinda feel like next time that they need to do something different as the show is sort
of going in circles at this point and I hope it's not too long until Joe's past catches
up with him.
There's also potential that he has a half brother floating around out there as his mother
is clearly looking after a child. I'm not sure exactly what's going on in this scene
but something could be happening in the future and I'd love to hear your thoughts below.
Even before the release of this series, Netflix announced that the show had been renewed for
Season 4 and I will be back next week at some point to talk about more of my predictions
for next time.
Now as for my thoughts on the series I think if I had to rank them from best to worst I
think the order of release is pretty much the order I'd put them in. Season 1 was a
show that I'd never really seen before and it was fascinating watching the mind of a
murderer as he hunted and stalked his pray. The inner monologue and narration really brought
a lot to the show and it was super tense wondering if Joe would ever get caught. Season 2 was
sort of more of the same but a big twist came when we learned the truth about Love and saw
that she wasn't just another Beck.
Now Season 3 very much deals with the themes of normality and how relationships can lose
their spark after a while. It hurts to say it but I feel very much the same about the
show and though there were a lot of good moments in it, overall I just didn't find it as gripping
as the ones that had come before. For the most of it it very much feels like Joe's past
will never catch up to him and they're rarely put into a situation where it seems like the
characters have almost no way out.
That was what I loved about the first season especially but here it feels like they pretty
much had a five star wanted level on GTA and just hid under a bridge for 10 minutes until
it went away.
I would've loved to have seen the pair planning murders out and stalking their own people
and though there is some of that there, it doesn't fully come across in a way that I
think would've been really good.
I actually almost feel like Love is getting stalked by Theo as he's pretty much the only
customer she ever has and he sticks around until she lets him in like Venom when he joined
the MCU.
Also now that we're getting less narration from Joe it's occured to me that I dont really
know why people like him that much. If you completely remove the characters thoughts
from the show he just stands around not really saying anything to anyone yet everyone is
falling over to try and be friends with him or to get him in bed. Probably a big nitpick
from me but just something I noticed.
Now saying all that, the main issues I have with the series lie in the middle part and
I think come the end of the season that everything is pretty much rectified as it's arguably
the highest point in the series so far.
Those last 3 episodes are a killer and though it pretty much sets things back to the status
quo, I think that it really hits it's stride and becomes an easy binge.
Penn Badgley has absolutely taken on the role and pretty much made it part of his personality.
He's completely nailing this charming but sadistic stalker and though he's doing a lot
of bad things, you can sympathise with him at points which shows how good of an actor
he is.
Victoria Pedretti also does a really good job with what she's got and she's slowly becoming
one of Netflix's best actors after this and Haunting Of Hill House.
Overall I still think the series is worth watching, it just takes a while to get going
and there is a lot of filler in the middle.
I will of course be back to see what happens next time and though it is somewhat of us
being back to square one I did enjoy the outcome of this season.
In the end You Season 3 is a pretty good ride and it gets an...
8.5/10
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