Review: You - Season 2, Episode 10 "Love, Actually"

Sooo, Love is nuts. She admits everything to Joe. She was actually the one who killed the au pair, and then she framed Forty. She murdered Delilah. And Candace.

Joe’s pissed. He’s like, “Only I can kill people!” and “What about Ellie?”

But Love has a plan. She’ll frame Ellie for Henderson’s murder, lawyer her up with the Quinn family attorney, and then plant a suicide note on Delilah. She’ll become a feminist hero for taking down Henderson.

Joe and Love battle it out for Most Disturbed in the Head, and then she leaves because she has to finish making a wedding cake. Lucy and Sunset (or Sunrise or whatever the hell her name is) will be so thrilled that their wedding cake is being made during this moment in Love’s life.

Joe starts to understand what Beck went through when he locked her in the glass cage, and it looks like we might see some character development from this dude. Finally.

Back in the land of the free (for now), Ellie is being taken to the police station for questioning because she was at Henderson’s the night he was murdered. She calls Forty looking for help, but he’s a little busy…visiting Dr. Nicky in jail. Yesss! Forty, yes. Get your hero on, boy.

Dr. Nicky is broken. “I’m exactly where I need to be.” He regrets using Beck and destroying his family. Side note: Uncle Jesse plays Dr. Nicky, and Uncle Jesse has a kid named Nicky. Did they do this on purpose? Anyway, Forty shows Nicky a photo of Joe, and he’s like, “Yeahhh, stay away from that dude.”

Love has Candace in her trunk. This girl is kind of reckless at this whole murder thing, but she sees texts from Forty basically saying, “Stay away from Joe. He’s crazy. He will kill you.” etc. You know, brotherly things.

Back at the glass cage, Joe has concocted an idea involving the time-release handcuffs. Love arrives with muffins and then gets upset when Joe can’t eat them while standing next to a dead body. Fair.

Love opens the door, and then Joe goes after her with the handcuffs. He’s planning to slit her throat until she reveals that she’s pregnant. Is she really, though? I’m not sure if I believe her.

They make up; although, I have a feeling at least one of them is being manipulative, but I can’t tell which one. Then they go to Lucy and Sunrise/Sunset’s wedding, which Forty tries to heroically interrupt but is turned away from.

Lucy and Sunset’s vows make Joe realize that he may in fact love Love, and maybe he can get over the whole psycho murder-y thing. “I can’t protect my daughter if I’m not there, and I can’t be there if I don’t love Love.”

After they turn on their phones, they have tons of texts from Forty. They go to meet him at Anavrin. Love says she’ll go in first and that Joe should wait five minutes to follow. This should end well.

Joe sees Ellie sneaking around outside and goes to talk to her. She’s freaking out wanting to know where Delilah is, and Joe tells her that she tangoed with the Quinns, who are powerful people. Delilah is gone, and Ellie can’t go home. Instead, he gives her money and tells her to leave. “Move to Florida, and I’ll send you money as long as you need it.” Ok, money bags.

Forty tells Love she has to stay away from Joe because he’s dangerous. And then Joe walks in, and Forty pulls a gun. Love tries to use the baby again to diffuse the situation, but Forty holds Joe at gunpoint just in time for Delilah’s special friend to walk in. Gunshot. Forty’s dead.

So let’s take a trip back to recap #2, shall we?

I am calling it now, one of these people will be the hero at the end: 1) Owner’s Douchey Kid, 2) Delilah the Landlord, or 3) Candace. Kind of hope it’s one of the women.

Owner’s Douchey Kid (aka Forty): dead. Delilah the Landlord: dead. Candace: dead. 

I am dumb.

Feeling a bit triggered right now because this is totally taking me back to that time in middle school where we read a passage written by some guy about another guy, and then we had to write down what we gathered from the passage. And I wrote this long thing about how it was clear this guy really respected the guy he was writing about and thought he was great, but it turns out this was a lesson in sarcasm. I completely missed the tone, and the writer actually hated the guy he was talking about.

I did not get a good grade on that essay.

Several months later, we find a very pregnant Love and Joe living happily ever after. Or so we think. Turns out, Joe’s fixated on the woman nextdoor. Of course he is.

Final Thoughts

I liked this season a lot. Honestly, it’s been so long since I watched season one that it’s hard for me to say I liked this one more, but I think I did. I liked the twist at the end. I liked seeing the love interest get one over on Joe (even if she’s creepy and messed up). I liked this setting a little more than New York. There were a couple episodes that dragged a little bit, but I seem to recall the same thing about season one.

Now I guess we just wait for season three.