YOU Season 3’s Biggest Victim Breaks Down Their ‘Emotional’ Finale Death
Spoiler alert: We’re about to break down the Season 3 finale of Netflix‘s YOU. Haven’t watched yet? You’ve been warned.
We all figured that Joe and Love’s marriage was bound to go down in flames eventually — we just weren’t expecting it to happen so literally.
The final episode of YOU Season 3 brings the couple’s suburban nightmare to its climax, with Joe cutting off his own toes and baking them into a pie, then burning down the house and framing Love for the whole shebang. It’s a tragic end to a twisted tale, one that was apparently as difficult to play out as it was to watch unfold.
“It was incredibly challenging dying as this character,” Victoria Pedretti tells TVLine. “I’ve never inhabited a character like this for so long. It was very emotional.”
That said, Love’s untimely demise didn’t come as too much of a surprise to Pedretti, who says, “I knew [Love] was going to die at the end of this season pretty early on. I knew I wasn’t going to be on the show past two seasons, so I assumed that she would die.”
And while Love’s death may not come with a side of justice, at least her story gets some closure. For starters, we find out exactly how Love “accidentally” killed her first husband. Say it with us: Too. Much. Paralytic.
“From the flashbacks last season, we knew that he died and that she played some role in it,” Pedretti says. “But I didn’t know the specifics until seeing her tell the story at the end, and I do believe that she’s being honest when she says that it was an accident.”
Love is also now reunited (in the spiritual sense) with her late brother Forty, whose death at the end of Season 2 affected his twin in ways she didn’t even quite process. That’s why it was so special for the siblings to share some scenes together in Episode 6 when Forty came to Love in a hallucination.
“It was amazing,” Pedretti says of the unexpected reunion. “A lot of the ways in which [the season is] written, Love isn’t really talking about her grief or dealing with it very much. She certainly hasn’t found much solace in her husband, so we were reminding the audience that this is a woman who is in grief. She’s dealing with the loss of her twin, who she was extremely close with and extremely devoted to. It was also great to work with [James Scully] again, because he’s the best. We just got to hang out in a bath tub all day, you know? It’s not an experience you expect to have on set.”
Your thoughts on the end of YOU Season 3? Hopes for Season 4? Grade the finale and season in our polls below, then drop a comment with your full review.
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I really hope season 4 is the last. There is only so much “Joe killing people and getting away with it” that we can take. Like Dexter it needs(needed) an end point
Personally liked season 3 more than 2. If they have a good story to tell, I will keep watching.
I think that’s why they hop cities. It makes it more believable.
Didn’t Dexter run for many seasons and is being rebooted?
Two different scenarios. Dexter was killing bad people and he worked for the police, so it made sense and could go on with various stories. But Joe and Love were killing innocent people that got in their way.
Hats off to Victoria Pedretti as Love Quinn. Penn Badgley has always been great as Joe and was great even in this season but Victoria even outshined him numerous times for me. What an actress. Limitless storage of expressions in her arsenal. Sad we won’t see her the same amount in season 4 but I hope to see whatever she would do next.
Overall I thought the season was very interesting and better than the second one too. Waiting for 4th a lot now.
Let me put it this way, she was so excellent in this role that I would have been totally fine with her killing Joe in the season finale and we just follow Love from now on. Not saying I would have preferred that happen. But I would have been totally fine with it, and looked forward to season four as much as ever.
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This season was so much better than season 2. Which was also excellent, but I didn’t think it was up to the standards of season one (not that I expected it to be–that’s a tall order!). I would say this season quite topped season one, but it was definitely close, and a lot of that is on Pedretti’s shoulders. We really got to understand her character this year, as opposed to last year when she was a bit of a cipher for plot reasons re: the big twist at the end.
It was an amazing season. So we’ll written and acted. So much good stuff and it has so me to re-watch and think about. The development was great. Definitely bittersweet there at the end and I also am curious to see what they come up with next season
With Love’s death, my interest in You has died too.
Makes no sense. The character wasn’t in season 1 so I assume you watched that. Now because a character is killed after 2 seasons (on a show where death is as common as going to the bathroom), you’re finished with it?? Weird.
I still don’t get why Jo had to cut off his toes if his plan was to burn the house down. I doubt there’d be any evidence of cut toes left.
They stopped the fire before everything was a total lost and found his DNA to “prove” he was dead
Made sense to me. Neither one of them was going to leave Henry unless one would kill the other and that’s exactly what happened. Their victims showed a stronger side of marriage and the fact remains Joe left his baby to a couple rather than a single parent, so he still believes in “the one” himself.
I was relieves for Theo and Matthew because they needed a win, even if it was as bittersweet as proving they were right. Natalie’s death affected both of them.
This just wasn’t as strong of a season, a bit disappointing.
I agree. Victoria Pedretti was excellent, though frankly I was kind of disappointed with the very contrived ending
I’d say it was the strongest season yet. Very sad how it ended but their marriage was twisted in ways that bring out the worst in what human beings are capable of. Henry deserved better and he got that in two loving parents with Dante and his partner. I think eventually Joe needs to meet the same fate because he has caused so much pain in his pursuit for the ‘one’. I don’t believe in that concept and we can’t have a show about chasing Leprechaun‘ forever. Too much destruction with very little justice. A fourth season needs to be karmic. Don’t get me wrong, I love the show and the premise. But Joe needs to meet his maker eventually and answer for what he’s done.
Did I miss something? Love put the paralytic on the knife handle so it would be absorbed through Joe’s skin when he grabbed the knife, but she also handled the knife when she was cutting the chicken. How is it that she wasn’t paralyzed as well? Was she wearing gloves that I didn’t notice?
Yes, I believe she was wearing oven mitts.
The show is amazing