He can't control what has to happen then! It's his victims' own fault, really, for sticking their noses where they don't belong (sorry Delilah, though, technically, she's Love's victim as a byproduct of Joe's self-improvement). If external circumstances drive him to murder, so be it. Plus, in the second season, he makes it very clear that he's working on himself! As you said, he doesn't want to be a killer - though he will kill, if he absolutely needs to. He's obsessed with his girlfriends - who doesn't want a boyfriend like that? He's the perfect encapsulation of what makes men like him so dangerous and so alluring: He's very smart (intelligence is hot), he's charming and knows a lot about books (the thinking man's movies), and he would do anything for the people he cares about, including and not limited to stalking them, their friends, their former lovers, their employers, their family members. If you've ever hung out with me in a bar after a couple glasses of wine and heard me talk about my no-good, dirty rotten exes, you'd swear I had already dated Joe Goldberg.
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| NetflixĮMMA: I think going on the record and saying that the serial killer from Netflix's Lifetime-iest show is TV's most perfect boyfriend is a great way to kick off the next 12 months, so that's what I'm going to do.
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As a boyfriend/husband, how do you rate Joe? Joe is the hottest, baddest, best boyfriend on TV. But! This is the internet! We don't like obvious answers for content reasons. IS Joe a good partner? The obvious answer is: No, he's a serial killer. Online, though, the debates and the memes rage. When it became clear they were actually going to start a life together, I immediately thought they embodied the ideal recommended by a Psychology Today blog from 2016 that I for some reason have stored away in the temperature-controlled glass cage of a subconscious - it recommends unconditional love on the order of a loyal dog to make a marriage work! So this is going to work, despite Joe's obsessions… I think. They've both murdered, but they don't really want to hurt anyone, except when they get really, really mad and/or they risk having their secrets exposed. Not only do they accept and embrace the other's faults, but there's a true parity. Carefully.īut for Joe and Love? They're practicing unconditional love and radical acceptance on a level never before seen. We should offer a caveat here that murder is bad, since we don't want to get canceled on the third day of 2020, and if your partner is a murderer - ESPECIALLY a serial killer!! - you should strongly consider breaking things off. What do you think? Given what we've learned about Love's secretly psycho personality, do she and Joe deserve each other?ĪNTHONY: They might be the most perfectly matched, deserving couple of all time, fictional and non-fictional. Because, as we learned from Candace, it's not just the objects of his obsession that drive Joe to do the things he does - it's also the ones he left behind.
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THAT's what excites me the most - not that Joe will inevitably go on another obsession-induced killing spree, but that he'll also be tangling with Love, a woman just as (if not more) messed up than he is.
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But then, in the last moments of the finale, we learn that Joe is nowhere close to done, even if he's moved to the comfy suburbs with his femme fatale: Through a crack in his fence, he glimpses his next target, faceless and reading a book in the sun, the perfect blank canvas for Joe to project all his fantasies on. When the reveal finally happened, when Love locked Joe in his own aquarium of death, I couldn't help but feel like I'd just witnessed a bit of a shark jump to have Joe meet his match so early. Was this the kind of satisfying ending you were looking for?ĮMMA: Yes, this is exactly what I was hoping for from this show, if not from a Season 2, then certainly further down the line. But the ending to Season 2 was a bit of a surprise if you didn't see any of the glaringly obvious foreshadowing along the way: Love is also a stalking, obsessive, lovesick killer, which makes her perfect for Joe. ANTHONY: Emma, you and I agree that YOU is the perfect show, and I suspect that Joe Goldberg will go down with Don Draper and Tony Soprano as one of television history's greatest male antiheroes.