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We Need To Talk About How Love Is The Real Psychopath Of ‘You’

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While we’ve known Joe Goldberg to be the obsessive stalker with murderous tendencies for three seasons of You, Love Quinn proved that she was the true psycho of the series in Season 3.

— obvious You Season 3 spoilers ahead —

In the latest season, we watched Joe and Love move to the picturesque town of Madre Linda to raise their son, Henry.

Moving away from the bustle of LA — and the bloody aftermath they left there in Season 2 — to start a new life in the ‘burbs, all seemed well for the newlywed couple. That was, of course, until Love caught wind of Joe’s attention shifting away from her and onto neighbour, Natalie Engler.

While Joe had already been turned off Love since he learned that she was basically the same person as him at the end of Season 2, Natalie’s murder was what really spelled the end of the Quinn-Goldberg love story. However, while this shift in dynamic started to finally mellow out Joe, it turned Love into even more of a psychopath.

So, let’s breakdown exactly why Love Quinn is way worse than Joe Goldberg You: 

1. Love Acts Purely Off Of Emotion

Now don’t get me wrong, both Joe and Love are murderers and psychopaths. Neither of them are good people. But at least Joe was methodical and careful in his approach to murdering people.

In Season 3 at least, one could argue that Joe killed for purpose (offing Ryan to give Marienne custody of her child and poisoning Love to free himself and Henry), while Love was impulsive and let jealousy and anger control her decisions.

Despite Love thinking that she was killing to protect her marriage and family, she was just needlessly killing with no restraint. Natalie wasn’t a threat to her family because Joe decided to not pursue the relationship, yet Love still murdered her. Henry already had survived, the measles when anti-vaxxer Gil admitted that it came from his children, but Love still bonked him on the head which led to his death.

2. Love Doesn’t Worry About Consequence

Love does not care about consequences or the messes she makes. She relied heavily on Joe this season to clean up her murders and craft stories to ensure that the killings never pointed back to her.

A lot of this comes down to Love having the luxury of family money, which has always helped to bail her out of sticky situations. For example, when she murdered her nanny as a child, the Quinn family covered it up.

In Season 3, the Quinn family-funded bakery is where Love killed Natalie with an axe, knocked Gil unconscious with a rolling pin, and held the Conrads in her underground glass cage. And the only reason she was able to do these things without being disturbed by the public was because Love had the funds to open the bakery alone.

Realistically, if it wasn’t for Joe’s help, Love would’ve been charged with Natalie’s murder in Episode 2.

3. Love Is A Hypocrite

Despite Love always telling Joe that she does what she does to protect their family, Love’s relationship with Theo says otherwise.

When Natalie kissed Joe and he left and told Love, she was so hurt that she murdered Natalie to keep the Quinn-Goldberg family together. But when Love had sex with Theo, she didn’t even mention it to Joe. Instead, she told Joe that she was just pretending to flirt with Theo to get information from his dad.

Then when Joe and Love invited Sherry and Cary over to have sex, Love went beserk when she noticed that Joe was simply fantasising about having sex with another woman. Pretty rich when you consider Love literally had sex with another man but was withholding that information from Joe…

4. Love Is A Loud Mouth

Speaking of the swinger’s night, Love wouldn’t know how to be lowkey if her life depended on it — and it did.

Despite being fully aware that she had two guests upstairs — one of whom literally ran the search party for Natalie Engler — Love loudly screamed about how she murdered Natalie. But Love was somehow surprised that Sherry and Cary heard her very loud murder admission?! Sorry???? What????

5. And Love Wouldn’t Let Joe Change

Joe turned a real corner in Season 3 and made the decision to stop killing people to make life better for his son. Love, however, didn’t give a single shit about that.

Love craves violence and chaos, and that was very clear in Season 3. When one problem had finally been dealt with (thanks to Joe, mind you), Love just had to make a new issue to give her life some purpose.

Think about it: After Natalie’s death was basically all wrapped up, Love decided to capture Gil. Then once they pinned Natalie’s murder on a dead Gil and all seemed sorted, Love decided to open her mouth and let the Conrads know that she was actually the one who killed Natalie. Then when she shoved the Conrads in her glass box and Joe tried to think of non-violent ways to deal with the couple, Love handed them a gun and forced them to shoot each other.

And above all that, when Joe was civil and asked for a divorce like a normal person, Love decided to paralyse him with poison so he could watch her kill Marienne to “save” their family.

Basically, Love is a messy, messy bitch who lives for drama. And it’s pretty iconic.

 

You can stream all three seasons of You on Netflix.