Candace Stone
The original love interest returned in Season 2 to get closer to Joe to reveal his twisted past and present. She finally confessed to Love in the finale who she really was and everything Joe did to her.
Joe Goldberg is seeing dead people. Netflix released the official trailer for the second half of You season 4 on Wednesday, revealing the return of Joe's very dead wife, Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), from the second and third seasons.
Joseph Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is a bookstore manager at Mooney's who stalks and dates Guinevere Beck in the first season. In the second season, he goes by the name Will Bettelheim and works as a bookstore clerk at Anavrin, and stalks and dates Love Quinn.
Like the women in seasons past, Joe had formed an unhealthy obsession with Rhys that escalated to a boiling point. And though Joe's sanity was virtually non-existent by this point, Badgley liked the Rhys and Joe dynamic.
Joe's relationship with Love spanned You seasons 2 and 3. He will always be haunted by what he experienced with Love as she surprised him, and he realized that they had more in common than he originally thought. The couple had a shocking romance filled with passion, violence, and shifting power dynamics.
Upon arriving in London, Joe develops such an obsession with Rhys after reading his autobiography, A Good Man in a Cruel World, which Joe closely identifies with.
In later seasons, currently being season 4, Joe is a murderer on the run and it was revealed that he has erotomania although it was obvious in the earlier seasons that the character is troubled, more so for his troubled childhood and his need for affection.
She made him his favorite meal, roast chicken, and confronted him about his affair. Joe in turn revealed that he knew about Love's affair and asked for a divorce.
Joe hates everything about this because he did not want a boy for a child (boys are evil, damaged garbage people); he wanted a girl (girls are holy, purehearted sparkle-angels).
Realizing that he might have to protect Henry from himself — or a life in the foster care system should Love and Joe both be revealed as murderers — Joe drops his baby off at the home of co-worker Dante (Ben Mehl) after Love's death.
Joe cheated on Karen and let Beck call her "little Karen Minty". When it came time to end the relationship, Karen gathered her things and left Joe to his shenanigans without another word. Now THAT is a smart woman capable of assessing the situation.
That particular true love? Love Quinn, Joe's better half for Season 2 and 3, played by the amazing Victoria Pedretti. Unfortunately for Joe, he completely rejected Love when it turned out that she was perfect for him—meaning she was also a manipulative murderer with a huge ego and a short temper.
She says that she had become somewhat obsessed with Joe herself and had used her parents PI to look into him after Candace left. She had devoured Beck's book front to back and everything else she could find about it and decided that Beck hadn't deserved him.
But Joe has managed to hold onto a shred of his old self: He's become obsessed with his gorgeous, bookish next-door neighbor Natalie Engler (Michaela McManus). And now Joe can pop Henry into the car seat, stroller, or Baby Björn and head out on his stalking expeditions.
Candace Stone, an ex-girlfriend of Joe's whom he unsuccessfully tried to kill, later reveals Joe's past to Love, who later confronts him about the accusations, but he states that he left New York to get away from Candace.
He then faked his own death before fleeing to Paris to search for Marienne. Joe and recovering drug addict Marienne, who has a daughter called Juliette, met while working at the local library together. They eventually slept together, despite Joe being married to Love.
She shared a series of dates with Joe but their short-lived romance ended when he cheated on her with Guinevere Beck, who he was obsessed with.
From the outset, it is clear Theo is significantly younger than Love and towards the end of the season, it is revealed he is 19-years-old. Unfortunately, Love's exact age has never been revealed in YOU, however, in the book Hidden Bodies which serves as the show's inspiration, Love is 35-years-old.
Scott did say, though, that the closest clinical diagnosis to a "psychopath" or "sociopath" is antisocial personality disorder, and that Goldberg does indeed show some hallmark traits of the disorder. He also demonstrates characteristics of narcissistic personality disorder, experts say.
That's further complicated by Love's trajectory throughout the season. Seen mostly through Joe's first-person perspective as a lovable, if not a bit naïve, young woman longing for love after experiencing her own trauma, she is revealed to be suffering from severe PTSD.
It comes down to the empathy that Joe evokes, according to Neo. "Empathy is really about how we are compelled to understand why things are the way they are. And we try to do that for other people, especially if we are very understanding of other people.
Joe ends up killing her dad. He then tells Kate the truth about his identity, and somehow, she's fine with it?!
Joe hates men, and he has a history of wanting to protect women. But, of course, he'd prefer a daughter over a son. Also, Joe doesn't want to raise a son to become like him.
Is Rhys in-charge? The final episode of YOU Season 4 part two shows Joe jumping off a bridge to rid himself off Rhys, aka, his murderous alter-ego.