He cared for him but also was abusive to him believing that he was guiding him. He would often lock Joe in his glass cage in the basement to teach him various lessons, telling him that he is doing it out of love and to make sure Joe does not end up like his father.
Joe confessed to Beck, in what seemed like an emotional moment at the time, that Mr. Mooney had a debilitating stroke that left him paralyzed and mute. And that's where things get murky: It's pretty convenient for Joe that the man who knows so many of his dark secrets can't walk or talk.
Mooney (Mark Blum) adopted Joe (Gianni Ciardiello), took care of him and gave him a job at the bookstore.
Originally, the glass box housed rare books in the basement of the store Joe worked in. The book store's owner, Mr. Mooney, would lock Joe in the cage as a young boy to punish him. As an adult, Joe started using the lockable box as a torture chamber for his own victims.
Biography. Mr Mooney adopted Joe and got him to work with him in his book store. He trained Joe to grow up and be the manager of the store once he retired. Mooney would frequently lock Joe in a cage in the basement when annoyed by him and physically beat him many times.
Immediately struck by her beauty and interest in literature, Joe has one clear target from that point forward: Beck. From stalking her online, locating her residence, to manipulating situations until they finally meet again, Joe is relentless in his romantic pursuit.
His father was abusive to him and his mother. His mother frequently cheated on his father, often leaving Joe alone in public areas while doing so. His father would physically abuse him, such as putting cigarettes out under his arms, trying to force him to confess his mother's infidelity.
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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.
Later, Love takes Candace's body to Anavrin where she presumably disposes of it.
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg who has erotomania in the Netflix hit 'You'. (Image: pennbadgley/Instagram) Erotomania is a rare and often misunderstood psychiatric disorder characterized by a delusional belief that someone is in love with the affected person.
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.
Joe Goldberg
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.
Her abandonment of Joe caused a lot of physiological issues for him and a possible reason that caused Joe to behave the way he does. In season 3, when Marienne was yelling at Joe, he thought of all the women that have yelled at him and pieced together that he has "mommy issues".
When Paco later goes to the bookstore and finds Beck attempting to escape the basement, begging Paco to find the key and insisting that Joe is crazy and dangerous, Paco runs away leaving Beck to be murdered by Joe. Paco and his mother Claudia moved away from New York to start fresh.
Joe left Los Angeles—where he faked his own death, blamed it on Love (literally and figuratively), gave his son Henry to their neighbors, and fled to Paris in search of Marienne, his one true love (this time for real).
Candace Stone (Ambyr Childers) starts off the storyline as the original love interest of Joe.
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. Call it father-son bonding.
In the season finale, it is revealed that Love has been stalking Joe and was researching him behind his back. She has also been manipulating many of the things he experienced throughout the season to happen, such as killing Delilah Alves.
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After her boyfriend is killed, she cozies up to Joe... which is never a good idea. To make a long story short? Joe ends up killing her dad. He then tells Kate the truth about his identity, and somehow, she's fine with it?!
But according to mental health experts, Goldberg's mental health is more complicated, especially since the term psychopath doesn't hold much meaning, clinically speaking. Goldberg shows signs of antisocial personality disorder, narcissism, and codependency in season 1.
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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. So when we have empathy for someone, it hooks us in."
Henry "Hen/Forty" Joe Quinn-Goldberg is the newbornson of Love Quinn-Goldberg and Joseph Goldberg as well as the older-twin brother of Josephine Quinn Goldberg. Henry is the grand-son of Dottie and Ray Quinn, Sandy Joe's mother and Joe's bio father.