Exactly a year ago, I wrote an article about YOU’s Season 1 which I had binge-watched over Winter Break last year and at the end of the article, I promised that I would tune in for Season 2. So, I promised and now I am here to deliver – I watched all of the season and here are the questions I have after doing so. Although I am starting to grow tired of this show, I have to admit, I can’t stop watching it. Obviously there are spoilers ahead so please exit if you haven’t watched this new season!
Who names their children Love and Forty?
I must admit that I understand this is a tennis reference and it is meant to be some sort of symbolism of both of the sibling’s relationships with their shared mother (based upon my not so extensive google search) as it’s representative of the scores these two words represent in tennis.. but the question remains… why? Love’s literal meaning of her name is zero while Forty’s is three… there are so many names that these two characters could have been given since we already know Forty is the favorite over Love pretty early on.
Why did it feel at times as I was watching an episode of Law and Order: SVU?
Although I was interested in the whole Delilah-Henderson-Ellie storyline because it added a little more depth to this show that wasn’t there before, it did feel as though I was watching an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit for a good amount of it, especially when the box of photos and the room was found. I get that there needed to be some sort of justifiable reason as to why Joe would kill Henderson and it humanizes him as the audience sees the murder as a-okay because he was protecting Ellie, but did it have to be done in a way that fit the procedural crime drama? Honestly, on second thought, where is Detective Oliva Benson when you need her the most?
If a man kidnapped you, held you in a glass box against your will, and stole your identity, why would you befriend him after he releases you?
I understood that when real Will was in the box, he needed to befriend Joe so that he remained safe and fed, which is smart considering he just wanted to escape said glass box and leave the country to be with his girlfriend, but would you really keep talking to the man who kidnapped you and stole your identity? Real Will sends him postcards and facetimes him.. even asking if Joe wants to talk about everything he’s dealing with (you know… the weight of multiple murders on your conscience, feeling the need to take care of anyone and everyone younger or more vulnerable than you, etc.) – almost as if they are CLOSE friends. Part of me is hoping this is for some reason that will be revealed in Season 3, but I worry it’s just to humanize Joe and make him seem more personable.
Do these storage units not have cameras?
I get that this would be counterintuitive as Joe would be caught committing multiple crimes if these storage units had cameras, but at the same time, how is this realistic? I mean, if I were to believe the plot of this show, it’s safe to assume that Joe did an extensive google search and possibly scoured the area for storage units WITHOUT cameras. However that being said, it is the Southern California area that he is residing in. You want me to believe that there are NO cameras at any of the storage units he chooses (and these are fairly nice storage units too) despite him residing in wealthy areas where multiple people keep items of high value stored. Even if he did manage to sneak in the parts to build his box or the rugs with dead bodies… how would this not look suspicious when caught on camera? See my issue with this?
Did Love kill her former husband?
This is THE question of Season 2. All we are told is that her husband passed away from a “serious illness” and that although Love was adamant about starting a family, that is not something he wanted as we see through flashbacks. However, after she admitted to killing the au pair who tried to sexually assault her brother and after killing Candance, is it not far fetched to wonder if she killed the man she loved prior, maybe because he refused to have a child with her? It would make sense that Joe was spared as opposed to him, as she is now carrying his child (although that paternity is up in the air because of Milo) and gets her dream of starting a family with the man she “loves.”
How many murders can someone so sloppy get away with?
Like I said in the first article, for someone who doesn’t plan ANYTHING when it comes to the murders he commits, how does he get away with so many? We assumed that his first murder was Candance, but through this season, we have learned that his first murder was one of his mother’s boyfriends who abused the two of them when he was a child. So assuming he committed that murder at a young age, presumably one or a couple in his teenage years and now some in his adult life (Peach, Beck, Henderson among many that we know of), how many can he possibly get away with? Especially after people such as Peach’s Family’s hired PI and Dr. Nicky have suspected and pinpointed him in regards to the role he has played in the deaths of Peach and Beck, but somehow, this hasn’t been called into question and he has continued to get away with multiple murders.
Is Ellie supposed to be a replacement for Paco?
Truthfully, I didn’t understand the reason for Paco being in YOU’s first season, I assumed that he was placed in the plot to humanize Joe and/or serve as some childhood representation, but Ellie had me a bit more confused. At first, I thought she was also meant to humanize him, especially because one of the first things he states is that she’s not taken care of and that she is not his problem. However, then I wondered if she was meant to be the reason that justified the murder of Henderson as well as serve as the connecting thread between Delilah and Joe which gets them entangled and ultimately leads to Delilah’s death at the hands of Love (which would make sense as this served as the big PLOT TWIST of the second season). Yet, I still wonder, is she meant to be Paco 2.0?
Did Ellie just give up on trying to get answers about her sister’s death?
Honestly, if someone murdered my sister and I was given some answer that didn’t make any sense and didn’t explain it very well, I wouldn’t leave town. Even if I was offered money and a way to escape from CPS/DHHS (assuming that in this show, minors without guardians are put into the system), I would still want answers and the person responsible brought to justice. However, Ellie is presumably in Florida living off of her payments from Joe and despite her sister being murdered, she doesn’t seem to be too invested in getting the answers as to why and who would truly commit such a heinous act. Although my suspicions tell me she knows Joe is involved somehow, I’m hoping she comes back in Season 3 with a bit more vengeance for the truth.
Would Love kill Joe or Joe kill Love?
After seeing the two in domestic bliss at the end of the season, you can’t forget that you have two toxic and psychologically tortured individuals who are completely okay with murdering a multitude of people for what they deem as reasons well justified. So here’s the question, would one murder the other if it came down to it? Love can only take two people so far, but what happens when that love or even the character, Love, turns south and sees Joe as an obstacle, would she murder him or would he murder her to protect himself?
So there you have it, NINE questions I had while watching and ones that remained after I finished the last episode. I have to admit, I honestly feel as though the first season was better (not that I’m a fan of Beck, but I felt as though it was relatively well-executed), however, Netflix has managed to keep it on track after taking over the series from Lifetime. YOU has already been greenlighted for a third season which will premiere presumably in the winter of 2021, so you have plenty of time to binge the series before diving right back into the dark depths of Joe or Will or whatever he’s going by the next time we see him.