Mooney locked teen tearaway Joe in the climate-controlled glass cage he keeps for rare books in the basement under his store, and then him bullied into becoming his apprentice and adopting his book-based moral code.
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( You isn’t just a serial killer show, it’s a literary snob serial killer show, so you can’t go five minutes without encountering the kind of Raymond Chandler or Dostoevsky quote you’d find printed in typewriter font on a craft beer mat). We don’t yet know what made Ivan Mooney into the person he was, but chances are it involved his mother and a rare First Edition of The Count of Monte Cristo. When Joe was a teenager, he got into trouble with the wrong man – NYC bookstore owner Ivan Mooney. He’s also a serial obsessive and stalker of women, whom he idealises while fearing being abandonment by them and being extremely paranoid that they’re going to cheat on him, which – to be fair to Joe’s instincts – they usually do. He’s a traumatised man who does terrible things for which he absolves himself because deep down, he thinks he’s a good boy. In the ludicrous and high-colour world of You, the above is all the explanation you need for Joe’s peculiar psychology. POSSIBLE RETURNING PLOT POINT: Is Joe’s mother alive? Could she come back? What happened next isn’t totally clear, but it seems that Joe’s mother ran out on him, which left him to be raised in a Group Home where he was in and out of trouble. Aged nine, Joe shot his father dead to protect his mother, who told him that the murder wasn’t his fault because deep down, he was a good boy. Who is Joe Goldberg? He started out as a bookish kid with a violent, abusive father who put cigarettes out on him, and a serially adulterous mother who regularly abandoned him to meet her lovers, whom she thought would save her from her brute of a husband. That’s right, in a poetic ‘HA’ twist, after two seasons of stalking and murder, Joe ended up trapped as the object of someone else’s twisted obsession. Love just wants to keep Joe safe, you see, because he’s family now that she’s having his baby. True to her name, Love turned out to be every bit the psychopathic serial killer that Joe is. In season two, Joe ( Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley) actually met Love (played by The Haunting of Hill House’s Victoria Pedretti). He’s just a romantic who does what he does out of love. Granted, he’ll do it with a hammer, a glass murder tank, and a shallow grave, but that’s not the real him. He’ll save you from your terrible friends and your terrible exes and your terrible self and from this whole terrible world. He’s a good guy who wants to keep you safe. Warning: contains major plot spoilers for You season 1 & 2
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