The fact that we have to worry about the fate of SO MANY women in this show is very telling. Here’s hoping that Love will continue to pop up throughout the remainder of You, however long that might be. While Love wasn’t completely innocent herself, she also appears in a sequence with Beck, who has been relentlessly haunting Joe since he killed her at the end of Season 1. However, we did get a very fun exchange with a ghost version of Love as she chastises Joe and tells him that someone needs to die in order for the madness to end. Even though fans were hopeful that the indomitable Love Quinn might rise from the ashes and exact vengeance on Joe, she did not. Other questions here include: how on earth did Joe afford that cage on a teacher’s salary? How did no one notice him setting it up? Surely someone would have seen him as he built an entire room built out of reinforced plexiglass? Oh, wait, maybe he was just wearing the baseball cap that makes him invisible. Midway through Part 2, we find out that Joe’s alternate personality was very busy imprisoning the poor, innocent Marianne and trapping her in Joe’s trademark glass cage of deathly emotion in the bowels of an abandoned building. Oof.” “Ooo Marianne isn’t dead! All hail beta blockers!” My various notes on Marianne’s fate read: “Marianne killed herself? Nah.” “Marianne did kill herself. In a creeptastic conclusion, we see Joe wander away to admire his reflection during an interview alongside the newly untouchable Kate - and, instead of Joe’s face, we see Rhys is in the glass, smiling back. But, in the end, the show seems to suggest that the fall only killed the “good” portion of Joe, leaving the violent impulses behind. In an attempt to end the cycle of death, Joe attempts to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. (This is the exact plot of seasons 1 – 4, don’t fight me.) But Joe’s suppressed emotions were always there, just waiting to bubble up into something even more sinister and pathological than his already-problematic lifestyle. Joe has always thought of himself as a good man, and he never truly wants to dwell on the past, choosing instead to bury himself in books and stumble into relationships with ultra-wealthy friend groups. Rhys serves to personify the more nihilistic voice inside Joe’s head, the impulsive and violent voice that Joe could never really bring himself to reckon with. He can’t shake the imaginary Rhys that he’s created in his fractured mind. That is, he didn’t know who Joe was until Joe killed him.Īfter burying the real Rhys, Joe fully realizes that he has a problem.
It’s truly chilling when Nadia cracks open the cover to show that Joe, believing that Rhys was sending him secret messages, blacked out all of the words on the title page except for “hi Joe.” However, Rhys didn’t even know who Joe was. It includes an overly dog-eared and pored over copy of Rhys’s book. Because there’s “always a box,” Nadia is able to discover Joe’s secret stash hidden in his apartment. It turns out that Phoebe’s stalker wasn’t the only one with erotomania.
Otherwise, everything we saw Rhys do, including all of the conversations he had with Joe, were all just in Joe’s head. (Cue exaggerated gasp here.) Sure, we saw the real Rhys once at Simon’s funeral, but that was it. In a Tyler Durden-esque reveal, we find out that the Rhys Montrose we know has been Joe the entire time. For example, why did Rhys say he had to intervene to save Joe when Joe had already disarmed Roald during his attempt at playing the most dangerous game in the woods of Hampshire House? Also, as I asked in my Part 1 “Ending Explained” piece: Why on earth would a man who plans to run for mayor of London go on a murderous spree? Now we have answers. It’s to the show’s credit that I didn’t really guess that Rhys was actually Joe for the first half of the season, but I did have some questions. Joe often encounters characters who try to strip the autonomy of others in his orbit, and the juxtaposition between a cool and collected Tom and the violent and impulsive Joe makes for great TV. It was incredibly fun to watch Kinnear go toe-to-toe with Penn Badgley’s Joe and also flex his smarmy muscles as an emotionally abusive villian in Kate’s life. It’s just always an absolute joy and pleasure to see the charismatic Greg Kinnear in anything, anywhere, all at once, so when he made his appearance as the mysterious and powerful Tom Lockwood in the back half of the season, I was excited to see what he might do.
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