Season 2 of You is streaming on Netflix, and Joe's search for love takes bizarre twists and deadly turns. As Joe tries to outrun his past and plan his future, his present becomes increasingly complicated. Making matters worse, the second season introduced a whole new set of characters whose lives intersect with Joe's with disturbing and dark outcomes.
The latest season wraps up most of the major plotlines, so if Netflix doesn't renew the series for another season, fans know Joe is in a prison of his own making. This doesn't mean that there aren't some unanswered questions that could easily drive the storyline moving forward. Here are 10 questions You needs to answer in Season 3.
What Really Happened To Love's Husband?
Love tells Will her husband James got sick, and the doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. Now that Love has revealed herself to be a killer, James' death may not have been of natural causes after all. She's a chef, so it would be easy for her to poison him slowly with something untraceable.
Maybe she even took a more obvious route, and there's another Quinn family secret to uncover. Love disposes of a box of James' things, sending it out to sea for some closure. But what if she was getting rid of evidence? Love isn't a woman who lets men walk away as long as they still have a pulse.
Will Ellie Be The Next Candace?
Ellie takes Joe's advice and is hiding out in Florida. He's subsidizing her lifestyle just as he promised her he would. But she holds him responsible for bringing the deadly and dysfunctional Quinn family into her and Delilah's lives. Joe didn't slit Delilah's throat, but he may as well have. Joe wants to protect Ellie, but Love doesn't share his concern.
Ellie is a loose end, and like Candace, not one who is likely to go quietly. Joe needs a nemesis, and while Love is sure to fit that role, Joe juggles multiple threats during both Seasons 1 and 2. Ellie, like her sister, is someone viewers would root for to take down Joe and Love.
Who Is The Woman Next Door?
Despite Joe's attempts to be a better man for Love, things don't work out as planned. In La La land, almost everyone he encounters is a little crazier than him or has a few more secrets. Just like he scopes out Love when he's supposedly putting his deviant behavior on the back burner, Joe isn't fully committed to fatherhood. How can he be when he's living in a very Gone Girl situation?
He's shacked up with a murderess, so the search for real love continues. Who is this woman he peeks at through the fence? How much does Joe already know about her? Will she be as beguiling as Beck or as duplicitous as Love?
Is The Baby Really Joe's?
Love is a liar. Being pregnant with Joe's baby buys her some time, but is it his? Love proves she'll do anything to get Joe sand to keep Joe. She uses Milo; he's supposed to be collateral damage. She wants Joe to kill him as a test to expose his real self to her.
However, it doesn't matter because Joe would never hurt a child or the mother, and if he has one redeeming quality, it's that he's a champion for troubled kids. That doesn't mean finding out Love deceived him won't have ramifications.
How Powerful Are The Quinns?
Ray Quinn comes from old money -- he doesn't have a job. Dottie is the mastermind behind her family's chain of grocery stores -- Anavrin. How are these entrepreneurs able to buy off the LAPD? They can make two murders go away. This isn't the L.A. Confidential, corrupt Los Angeles of the 1950s.
With everyone living so exposed, and Forty being high-profile enough to sell tabloids, it's a huge plothole glossed over by Joe who simply gets another free pass. Dottie and Ray aren't stellar parenting examples, but there has to be more to this twosome to explain their charmed lives: one where they can make ugly things like murder go away so they can keep selling copious amounts of green juice.
What Happened To Joe's Mother?
Season 2 does a deep dive into Joe's childhood, and it isn't pretty. Season 1 establishes Joe suffered abuse at the hands of Mr. Mooney as well as enough nurturing to become a serial killer. Joe's pathological need to find a soul mate is due to some serious mommy issues.
Joe eventually shoots and kills his father to protect his promiscuous mother, and she either voluntarily ships him off, or she's deemed unfit and has no choice. But there's no mention of what happens to her after Joe goes to a group home. Does Joe try to find her? Does he see her again? Does he pull a Norman Bates? She's in his head in that hotel room, urging him to kill Forty. She's a huge missing piece of the puzzle that is Joe.
What Skeleton's Does Love's Mother Have In Her Closet?
Love's mother isn't nurturing, but she does pass on to her daughter her ability to manipulate others. Dottie comments that she and Love are alike, a revelation that appears to briefly catch Love off guard. Dottie knows Ray is having an affair, and it isn't his first. Her solution is to play a perfect family. The perception of perfection is of paramount importance to Love, Dottie and Joe.
Joe researches Love's parents, and there isn't much about Dottie prior to her becoming a Quinn. The Quinns are deeply dysfunctional, and they don't live by their motto of "transparency and realness." Dottie's relationship with Forty is inappropriately intimate, and how much does she really know about anything? She's all whispers and thinly-veiled threats. Mama Quinn is straight-up creepy, and her hovering around her pregnant daughter can only mean bad news for everyone.
Will Joe Keep His Cage?
The bigger question is will suburbia give Joe the same camouflage living in big cities? He rushes to grab a few belongings and hop in a cab when fleeing NYC, but his cage makes it to Los Angeles. There's no way he holds onto that storage unit after everything that goes down there. Does he tell Love he's going to go back to using the box for rare books, or does he hide it from her? Is it even possible for Joe to hide anything from Love?
There are more prying eyes in a quiet neighborhood. Joe's already one example. He can't bring people in and out for his long time outs. But who is Joe without that cage? The place he impulsively sticks people until he figures out what to do with them.
What Information Did Forty Have About His Sister?
Forty reveals an ugly underbelly to the codependent relationship he has with Love. He knows she murdered the au pair, but there seems to be more to their story. He's convinced his sister shouldn't be a mother.
Forty goes from fearing for Love's life to mocking her for believing she can raise a baby. Love tells Joe she's been doing what it takes to protect the people she loves. She may be referring to taking care of her junkie brother and killing Delilah and the sex-crazed nanny, but it feels inevitable that both Joe and Love's body count is higher than the current tally.
Will Joe Get Caught?
When it comes to getting away with his crimes, Joe is more lucky than smart. Delilah's presumably still missing, and there's no mention of Candace's body ever being found. Will's in the Philippines, and Dr. Nicky believes he deserves to take the fall for Beck. The private investigator Peach's parents hired never turned up any viable evidence, and conveniently, the urine he left behind never tied him to the crime scene. He's got Love and the Quinns covering for him. Will there ever be a reckoning for Joe?
Joe's only punishment may be living his life on a loop. Ghosts from his past show up, send him scurrying just to the brink of accountability and someone or something prevents him from going over the edge.