Spoiler Alert! Let's talk about: season three of "You"
The third season of “You” was released on Netflix on October 15. The plot the show teased in the trailers and in the finale of the second season is thrown out the window in the first episode! There are spoilers ahead, so only continue reading if you’ve finished binge-watching the season.
Beloved stalker and serial killer Joe Goldberg met his match last season when he fell in love with Love Quinn, the only person who could possibly be crazier than the stalker we’ve been following since 2018. In the season two finale of “You,” it is revealed that Love killed Deliliah and Joe’s ex-girlfriend, Candace. Joe was about to kill Love when she revealed to him she was pregnant. The murderous couple moved into a house in the suburbs of Madre Linda with Joe staring through a fence hole at his new neighbor, the woman who viewers believe will become his obsession for the duration of season three.
Shockingly though, they kill Natalie, the neighbor who Joe had begun stalking in the first episode! After Love discovered a pair of panties Joe had stolen from Natalie and realized Joe had become obsessed with her, Love lures Natalie to the spot of her future bakery and kills her with an axe. So, off to a messy start.
It’s comedic that Joe is completely disgusted with Love for being a murderer, seemingly forgetting how many people he’s killed on his own. I guess that’s the mind of a sick serial stalker and murderer though. He truly believes he kills for love or good intentions, while he looks at Love just as a crazed murder.
To be fair, Love is a crazed murderer. It’s a bit hard to keep track of how many people she kills and how many messes she gets herself and Joe into. She even attacks one Madre Linda resident for not getting his kids vaccinated, which got their baby, Henry, sick. They ended up having to stage this guy’s suicide and frame him for Natalie’s murder so they can escape the consequences again after they fed him information that caused him to kill himself.
This season has some really weird stuff going on like swinger couples and a scene of an uncomfortable sex party that ends in Love trying to kill more people – her own friends this time. This season often raises the same question: “What the heck, Love?”
Love does not survive the season. Joe fakes his own death after killing his beloved wife, leaves their son on the doorstep of a co-worker who had been trying to adopt him and runs to Paris to find Marienne, the latest woman to catch his attention.
This season is a must-watch and has the same plot model we love from previous seasons, but with a lot more twists and turns. I’m looking forward to seeing what messes Joe will get himself into next season in Paris.
All three seasons of “You” are available to stream on Netflix.
