![]() Her killings are more intense, more frequent, and more impulsive than last season. We learn that her kills were sparked by reasons both reactive and vengeful. In contrast, the presence of their son doesn’t stop Love from continuing to bludgeon people. Even though Joe also hand-waved his own violence for two seasons, the difference now is his attempt to change for their son, Henry. But in a Joe-like manner, she comes up with circuitous reasons to justify her dastardly deeds in Madre Linda. It begins with her impulsive desire to kill without plan or reason, positioning Love as a true serial killer. But, Season 3 flipped that on its head.įrom the viewers’ perspective, Love’s murderous tendencies and motives shift in Season 3. Surrounded by Joe’s hypocrisy and his feelings of entrapment, she could have been framed as the more sympathetic of the two characters. The Season 2 finale almost encouraged viewers to feel bad for Love, who killed in a reactionary way dissimilar to Joe’s carefully plotted murders. ![]() She seemingly murdered her victims to protect her family-including Joe and her brother, Forty-when they were in danger. Initially, Love’s killings seemed to be within reason (without justifying murder, okay?). Because despite many fans’ harsher judgment of Love post-Season 2, it’s worth noting the mixed reactions to her storyline, including the segment of devoted viewers posting fancams and saying they would give up keto for her. However, what’s fascinating is that Love’s character is probably the most interesting to look at in terms of audience reaction due to that switch up. Like Joe, who immediately turned to disgust over Love’s murder of Forty’s au pair (Brooke Johnson), and then Delilah (Carmela Zumbado) and Candace (Ambyr Childers), some viewers might have been bothered more by her kills than the multiple murders they watched Joe commit. Showrunner Sera Gamble told TV Guide that the show intentionally plays into the phenomenon of people choosing to quickly “forgive men like Joe” and criticizes “how quick we are to judge women,” especially those on the show. But, despite viewers’ desire to “fix” the fictional male serial killer, Love Quinn’s murderous heel turn didn’t get the same reaction from fans after Season 2. And let’s be honest, the bar is very much on the ground when it comes to men. Joe Goldberg is not.” Badgley’s portrayal of Joe-including the “nice guy vibe,” good looks, and constant moral gymnastics-made Joe irresistible to a lot of viewers. Netflix even felt compelled to remind people not to romanticize the character via a billboard that said, “Penn Badgley is hot. From the get-go, fans have expressed an eerie fascination with Joe Goldberg. And as Season 3 reveals, he views himself as someone undeserving of love. But there is also a mirror aspect to his rejection: Joe can’t love her the way he used to because he’d be loving someone like him. Since the possibility of Joe’s death at Love’s hands is now on the table, his revulsion might be due to the shift in power dynamics or an act of self-preservation. How could Joe, of all people, rebuff a killer when he has a body count as well? Joe idealizes this woman, but as soon as she shows herself as his equal instead of a walking dream girl, he loses interest. ![]() His rejection is blatant at first, but it becomes a source of internal revulsion for Joe as he now feels stuck in a suburban purgatory with a woman he calls a “monster.” To many audience members, Joe’s lack of attraction to Love felt like a betrayal of sorts. As Joe tells Theo (Dylan Arnold), she might have fooled us all.įollowing the end of the second season, Joe rejects Love. One of the biggest shifts in the latest season, however, was viewers’ changing perceptions of Love. But the Netflix series somehow still gives viewers reasons to empathize with them, which feels like it should be criminal on its own. They are murderers at the end of the day. If someone presented an elevator pitch of You Season 3 without any identifiers, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) would seem like monsters. This article contains spoilers for Season 3 of the Netflix series You. Victoria Pedretti as Love Quinn, left, and Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in a promotional poster for You Season 3 (Photo credit: Netflix)
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