Candace Stone being alive was a good twist. She was Joe's original love interest and coming back from the dead was a good move from the show's creators. Joe buried her in a shallow grave, thinking he killed her. Candace's character actually slayed the game.
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.
Goldberg details obsessions with Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail, series one), Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti, series two and three) and Marienne Bellamy (Tati Gabrielle, series three and four), believing each time that they are his romantic soulmate.
Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) fall in love in season 2 of You, and their relationship spans two dark and intense seasons of the Netflix show.
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.
Love broke all of her vows—she was unfaithful, not there in sickness or in health (remember when Joe had measles?) and also was A MURDERER. Love's kills were out of passion, less calculated and therefore messier.
Joe becomes firmly committed to Marienne, neglecting his marriage with Love. In true Joe fashion, he demonstrates his love for Marienne by killing someone close to her — like a cat dropping a dead bird at its owner's feet.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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Guinevere Beck was Joe Goldberg's first obsession in You season 1.
No longer haunting the bookshops of New York, Joe now lives in sunny California with his wife, Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), and their infant son Henry, who has to contend with having murderers for parents — more on that later.
Candace Stone, played by Ambyr Childers, is the original love interest of Joe. But she only appeared in the first season through flashbacks, up until the last episode when it was revealed that she was actually alive.
In Episode 1 of the new season, Joe cheated on his wife with his neighbor Natalie (RIP) and in Episode 2, Love set eyes on her teenage neighbor, Theo Engler (Dylan Arnold).
6 The Truth About Joe and Rhys
A series of flashbacks revealed that Joe had become obsessed with Rhys shortly after reaching London and reading his novel.
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. Love revealed everything about Joe's murderous past to Marienne before she left for Paris and Love was killed.
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.
Eventually Love realizes it isn't that she's not a "good enough" wife. It's that Joe is a terrible husband. She commits to killing him with a sharpened knife, just before Joe stabs her with a poisoned needle. Love dies, uttering the words, "We're perfect for each other."
Later, when Love catches Joe in his lie about missing brunch, he sees a hallucination of Beck (Elizabeth Lail). As much as he's drawn to Love, he's afraid he'll hurt her like he did Beck and Candace. Back in reality, Joe ventures to a drug-fueled pool party in the Valley to track down Rufus.
So why did Joe kill Love? Because he wanted to break up with her, tired of living with a killer and keep hiding the bodies she killed, because he wanted to start a new life with Marienne, and ultimately because Love attempted to kill him.
While Joe has plenty of reasons to hate his alter Rhys, he never meets Rhys Montrose in Season 4 of You until their deadly encounter. The two men only make acquaintance when Joe knocks on Rhys's door, ties him to a chair, tortures his genitalia, and kills the writer.
As Part One showed, Joe did track Marienne down in London. However, instead of simply stealing her necklace and letting her go, he drugged and kidnapped her. While holding Marienne hostage, Joe became obsessed with the real Rhys and the redemption story he penned in his memoir.