Guinevere Beck Known throughout Season 1 as Beck, she met Joe in the bookstore where he worked. His obsession with her quickly began.
Guinevere Beck was Joe Goldberg's first obsession in You season 1.
Joe Goldberg stalks his first obsession, Guinevere Beck. He convinces the audience that he simply cannot help himself, though he tries many times to stop his obsessive thought and stalking fixations.
Joe's new mantra is “No love. No people. Just books.” Then he looks out his window and his resolve to be an introvert is gone. All that remains is his crush on Kate Galvin, portrayed by Feel Good dream girl Charlotte Ritchie.
Marienne Bellamy
For Joe, this translated into killing and traveling great distances. Joe removed her arrogant ex. He killed Love when she couldn't accept that Marienne was his true love. Season 3 ended with us following him to Paris so he could escape his past.
The real father is Milo.
Yes, Love told Joe that Milo wasn't the baby's father, but Love could have been lying and desperate, knowing that Joe would not have stayed (or may have even killed her) if he knew that she was pregnant with someone else's child.
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. Then the hallucinations start. “He's really desperate to see himself as a good person,” says Gamble.
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.
The latest season finally gives main character Joe Goldberg's condition a name—erotomania. It's a delusional disorder in which someone has an unfounded belief that a person of a perceived higher social status (like a famous musician or actor) is in love with them.
According to Psychology Today, serial killers actually can be a combination of more than one kind. So, Joe is most likely a cross between an organized and a disorganized killer.
Just as Love decides to end Joe's life and approaches him with a knife, Joe stabs Love with a needle containing the same poison she used on him. Turns out, Joe had figured out what Love had been growing in the garden all along (wolfsbane) and had kept some of it on hand.
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.
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.
All 18 Of Joe Goldberg's Murders From "You" Ranked From Awful To Absolutely Horrifying.
Joe Goldberg (INFJ)
Joe is an unhealthy INFJ, the rarest personality type. He has an idealized perception of who he is. He kills people because he thinks he's doing it to protect his loved ones and to make the world a better place. He has a combination of strong morals, idealisms and a focus on the future.
Early life. At the story's outset, it is revealed that Joe was orphaned at a young age. From flashbacks, it is revealed that Joe's biological mother, Sandy (Magda Apanowicz) was abused by his biological father and that he was subjected to neglect and abuse by his father.
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.
The first part dabbled with the idea of Joe Goldberg, or his newly adopted alias Jonathan Moore, trying to redeem himself by protecting a bunch of hyper-privileged British delinquents from the dreaded 'Eat the Rich' killer.
Nevertheless, the Rhys who's a central character of Season 4 of You is actually an alter of Joe, a representation of every dark thought and impulse the killer has. Rhys is the part of Joe willing to kill anyone who crosses him and who lies to get what he wants.
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Henry "Forty" Quinn-Goldberg is the newborn son of Love Quinn and Joe Goldberg. He is named after Love's brother, Forty Quinn. Joe is insistent on calling his son, "Henry". Whereas, Love and Dottie Quinn are more eager to call him "Forty".
But what happens to Love and Joe's baby Henry in Season 3 of “You”? Before he jets off to Europe, Joe leaves his son in the care of his colleague at the library, Dante. Dante and his husband Lansing had been trying for a child, and Joe writes them a letter saying he hopes that together they will raise Henry.
Joe asks her what's wrong with him for her to leave him, if it was him killing his father, to which Sandy replied that she made too many mistakes and was hurting, in need of starting over completely. With that, she and Jakey left Joe, never to be seen again.
The 'You' Season 4 Finale Finally Proves Joe Is a Villain, Not a Hero. After spending much of Season 4 convincing fans that the murderous Joe Goldberg is a tortured hero to root for, its finale (refreshingly) makes it explicit: This is one bad dude.