Oh, So You Conveniently Forgot Everything That Happened in ‘You’ Season 3?
Where in the world is Joe Goldberg? London, it seems. Part one of the fourth and possibly final season of Netflix’s hit thriller You is available to stream now, but if your memory has blurred in the months that have followed since the season three finale, fear not. Here’s everything you thought you forgot about season three of You.
Season 3 saw Joe and his new wife, season two murderess Love Quinn, move to Suburbia, with a brand new baby and wedding bands in tow. They got the big house, the perfectly manicured lawn, and the elitist safety of “the safest city in Northern California.” Which it was, until the Quinn-Goldbergs showed up. Side note: a sociopathic stalker who elects to hyphenate his last name is a real “one step forward, two steps back” type of situation in the name of feminism.
The luckiest stalker in Suburbia, Joe filled his time with a volunteer gig at a local library, while Love used her trust-fund-induced confidence to open a bakery in a gluten-free Mecca. Still, all the trappings of suburban bliss couldn’t keep our Dexter-coded lovers at bay, and soon Joe’s obsessive tendencies returned, feeding Love’s impulsive murderous rage. The Quinn-Goldberg’s racked up quite a body count, both in the bedroom and the morgue, with each of them taking lovers and victims throughout the season’s 10 episodes. Here are the highlights.
Five minutes into his role as suburban dad, Joe found a new mark—his next door neighbor Natalie, who ultimately meets her untimely death at the hands of a jealous Love, who would (literally) kill to protect her marriage. Natalie’s murder begins a string of murders, including a nice but naive anti-vaxxer who Love murders after her baby contracts the measles from his kids.
Joe refocuses his attention on Love for a few episodes, until he is once again distracted by a new face, his boss Marienne at the local library. Meanwhile, Love finds comfort in the arms of the neighbor’s college-aged stepson, Theo.
We learn that Love killed her first husband by accident, attempting to temporarily paralyze him to stop him from leaving her, but ultimately using too much of the paralytic. That same paralytic is used in the final episode of the season, first to subdue a fleeing Joe, then to kill Love.
In the end, Joe and Love play a deadly game of cat and mouse, Love looking to keep her family intact and Joe looking to run away with Marienne. Love temporarily paralyzes Joe, making him watch as he explains to Marienne that Joe is a stalker, convincing her to flee with her child. All of our moving parts seem back in place, until Joe (who was one step ahead of Love re: the paralytic) kills Love with a syringe full of the deadly drug. He then cuts off two of his toes, bakes them into a pot pie, and sets fire to the house. Before fleeing town, he leaves their baby on the doorstep of a loving local couple who struggled to adopt a child of their own, and writes a confession letter from Love, taking accountability for all of the murders in Madre Linda and wrapping the entire season in a neat, blood-stained bow.
At the end of the season, we see Joe in Paris, coupled with a classically creepy monologue that implies his search for Marienne is far from finished. Season 4 sees Joe in England, cosplaying as a university literature professor, trying (as ever) and ultimately failing (as usual) to keep his stalking habit dormant. Season 4 will, however, feature a fun new twist, with Joe as the prey, the hunted, the stalked. After five years of watching him stalk, murder, and ultimately come out on top, it's safe to say this season will be a therapeutic one for all of us.
Part one of You season 4 is available to stream on Netflix now, with part two returning on March 9.
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