You 5 Times We Felt Sad For Joe (& 5 Times We Hated Him)
You: 5 Times We Felt Sad For Joe (& 5 Times We Hated Him)
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Joe makes audiences love him with his good looks and nice guy ways, but when he starts his spree of murder and lies, audiences can’t help but hate.
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Joe Goldberg is a unique character, and there have been very few like him in television history. As the serial killing lover on Netflix’s You, he manages to capture fans’ affections as well as make them uncomfortable with his murderous tendencies.
Joe became a violent human being obsessed with finding the one because of his tragic childhood and upbringing, which is why there are times when viewers sympathize with his bad luck and life, but his actions as a grown-up are reprehensible and unforgivable, making him easy to hate too.
Felt Sad For Him
He Found His Mother With A New Family After Being Abandoned
As a child, Joe had watched his mother get verbally and physically abused by his father. He used to accompany his mother to the supermarket as she left him alone for hours at a time while she went off with unknown men, leaving him scarred emotionally. When he shot his father, it was to protect his mum but she was repulsed by him.
He was abandoned at a foster home, where he waited for her to return. When he did get to New York to see her, she found her with a new child and family, which was painful to watch for little Joe. He couldn’t even understand why he was left behind, and it wasn’t his fault either.
Got Imprisoned In The Cage By Mooney
As an orphan, Joe had nowhere to go but Mr. Mooney took him in. Unfortunately for him, Mooney was a violent man who taught him that people deserved to die. Mooney often locked Joe in the glass cage for days on end to punish him, and this behavior clearly got ingrained in Joe as he grew up.
He had already been through terrible times, and his “savior” was intent on punishing him which became a part of who he was. It was heartbreaking to watch someone impressionable go through that.
Henry Wouldn’t Connect With Him
Despite being one of You’s smartest characters, Joe had a hard time connecting with his own son. At the beginning of season 3, he found himself as a father to a boy instead of a girl, which unsettled him, and then Henry would bawl every time Joe would touch him, which was heart-wrenching for a father to experience.
In addition to everybody claiming Henry was “Forty, reincarnated,” the baby wouldn’t give Joe the clear-cut answers he needed nor could he forge a bond with him, even though Joe wanted to protect and love his son.
Saw Delilah Dead In The Cage
You season 2 saw some real character growth in Joe as he tried to be fair to people, letting Will out of his cage and setting up Delilah to be free as well, so her death was one of the biggest twists on the Netflix show. Joe was intent on letting Ellie’s sister survive and was ready to give up his own happiness to leave LA for it, so her inert and bloody figure in the cage dealt him a big blow.
Audiences couldn’t help but feel sorry for him as he tried to work out just how Delilah had wound up dead, wondering if he had done it and how he could have messed up something so crucial to his vow towards being better.
He Left Henry At Dante’s Doorstep
Even as Love lost consciousness, she told Joe that neither of them were good for their son, and that melancholic observation stayed with him. He, too, knew that he couldn’t be fair to Henry nor could he raise him well, so he left his son at Dante’s doorstep with tears in his eyes.
Joe’s character was about to do some terrible things and audiences knew that, yet the teary goodbye between father and son, and Joe’s promise to come back made them feel sad for him.
Hated Him
Pushed Elijah Off A Building
Through flashbacks, audiences found out that the worst things Joe did started a while back and weren’t a new development. His presumably first crime of passion was finding Elijah, whom Candace had been hooking up with while still being with Joe, and confronting him.
Even though Elijah told him very honestly that Candace hadn’t mentioned him, nor did he have any intention of hurting anyone, Joe pushed an innocent man off of a building, which was really unnecessary and upsetting.
Kidnapped Candace And Buried Her Alive
Joe’s brutal ways with love came about in his relationship with Candace. She was conniving and not fair to him, but none of that warranted the trauma that he put her through. Out of control and incensed by her cruelty to him, he knocked her out, took her to a forest and tried to bury her alive.
In fact, he didn’t even flinch when he realized he had killed her (though she miraculously survived) and carried on with his life. Even when she reappeared in season 2, he painted her out to be the villain and felt no remorse, which led to her very believable death at the hands of Love in You.
Killed Beck With His Bare Hands
Joe and Beck were a great couple… but only if one skimmed past the stalking, scheming, and his plans to kill off all of her friends. Beck may have been a flawed character with good and bad traits, but Joe’s actions of keeping her locked in the cage and justifying it were just awful.
It was horrifying to see him try to make her believe that he was doing it for her own good, even though everyone knew he locked her up because she found his box of mementos. Her end was painful, as audiences found out in season 2 that he had choked her to death, making him less likable than before.
He Started Acting On His Obsessions In Madre Linda
Once he had forged a relationship with a very pregnant Love and married her, fans thought that Joe may have found The One and would give up playing his dirty games. They were wrong. While moving into their home in Madre Linda, Joe was already peeking through fences at Natalie and preparing to meet her the way he had with Beck and Love earlier.
In season 3, he started stalking Natalie instead of working on his marriage, and then later began an obsessive pattern with Marianne, which angered fans because he wasted the one good thing he had in his life: his wife and child.
Injected Love And Framed Her
The last straw for audiences was when Joe killed the mother of his child, and framed her for killing him too. While Love had poisoned him first, it was because of a web of twisted lies and secrets that he had built and trapped her in, ignoring all of her attempts to revive their marriage. She was at fault too, but she had tried very hard to be a good wife and mother, which Joe didn’t.
His final act of killing the one woman who understood and accepted him as he was, and cutting off his toes while setting the house methodically on fire was truly terrible, especially because his motivation to do so was to follow Marianne to Paris.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/you-times-sad-for-joe-hated-him/
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