'You' Season 2 Episode 10 Review: War of sociopaths gets Joe to taste his own medicine as he begins to see Beck's perspective
Contains spoilers for 'You' Season 2 Episode 10
The title of the season finale 'Love, Actually' depicts the shades of Love's psychotic side. She confesses to Joe that she is the one who slit Delilah's neck to protect Joe. Not just her, but Candice as well, to relish whatever is left of her relationship with Joe.
Love locks Joe in the same cabin as Delilah and confesses to him about everything she has done. At this point in time, Joe feels exactly what Beck felt throughout the time she was locked in that very cabin. He is literally in Beck's shoes right now as Love holds him hostage and unleashes her inner demons on him.
Love is so desperate to be with him that she accepts Joe with all the excess baggage. In a flashback, she reveals to Joe that she killed the au pair, Sophie to "protect" Forty. She also claims that Sophie was a rapist trying to take advantage of a rich and entitled Forty.
Although it is all about Love, Joe and she are the same people. Remember how Joe used to stalk his targets? Love did something similar by sending out a personal investigator behind him to track his every move. She's a spitting personification of Joe from season 1. She is equally obsessive and protective of him and she cannot afford to lose him at all. Not after how she lost the first love of her life, James to an illness.
Doused in love with him, Love has been following Joe's every move and retracing his history by devouring the book written by Beck, following up on the articles and the personal investigator's notes.
She even thinks that Beck was nothing but a mediocre toxic person and that Joe deserved so much better. Considering the messed up personalities and the deeply rooted psychological issues, Love and Joe complete each other because they're so terrible and messed up in the head and that particular thing makes them soulmates.
A twist of fate turned the stalker into a stalkee as we see Love in Joe's position as the obsessive lover. Joe finally acknowledges the way Beck felt about him. Now that he is in her shoes, he tries to think from her perspective. Basically, Joe understands that Love wants him to really see her and love her for who she is.
Love's master plan was on point as she had it all planned out. She is going to portray Delilah's murder as a suicide who died a feminist icon trying to get back at her abuser. Joe is kept hostage inside the glass cage and Love on the outside is in his place.
When the two psychos have a head-on, Love reveals to her that she's pregnant with his baby. Joe breaks off midway and we learn the reason why he has a soft spot for kids. Like Candice said to him, one day he will have to face himself, and towards the end of this season, he experiences it.
Looks like Joe and Love are going to start a family soon!
Could this mean that this is the beginning of the end and or the end of deceiving?
Watch 'You' Season 2 premiere on Netflix on December 26.