Review: You - Season 2, Episode 7 "Ex-istential Crisis"
Who’s the slacker of the year?
This girl!!!
Let’s power through these recaps, shall we? Episode 7…
Sad Joe is sad. Not only did Love dump him for, you know, lying about who he is, but she has also put up curtains so he can’t creep on her anymore. Also, she’s banging a new guy. Well, turns out he’s not actually new. His name is Milo, and he was James’ BFF. (Not gonna lie, it took me a minute to figure out who James is. It’s Love’s late husband.)
Forty hates Milo because he thinks he’s a creepy little sneak who shows up when his sister is vulnerable. Joe, on the other hand, gives Forty good vibes. Because Forty is an awful judge of character.
Does anyone else think it’s kind of weird that Forty calls him Joe now? Disregard all the stuff we know about Joe. If Love and Forty really believe that Joe moved to LA and legally changed his name to Will to escape Candace, wouldn’t they continue to call him Will? It’s not that weird to change your name…unless you’re a sociopath who’s lying about why you did it. But they don’t know that!
Anyway, I guess I’ll call him Joe now. This is so damn confusing.
So Joe’s getting a quick lesson on dating apps so he can make Love jealous, and all I can think about is how thrilled I am that I never had to deal with this bullshit and instead just did things the old-fashioned way: seduced my friend and got him to marry me.
Ellie is helping because she doesn’t want Delilah banging Joe anymore because she likes Joe and knows things will blow up if he keeps seeing Delilah. Oh, honey. You have no idea.
Joe joins Sonnet2Me, a dating app for readers, and goes on a series of unsuccessful dates. One is into creepy shit, one chugs wine (she’s ok in my book), and the other is just in it for an Instagram Boyfriend because the “You” writers needed another opportunity to poke fun at LA.
Milo tells Love that he wants to be together and asks her to be his girlfriend…officially. Naturally, Joe goes into creepy stalker mode. Turns out, he’s not in quite as good of shape as Milo and can’t keep up with him. Love’s BFF sees Joe chasing Milo and decides it’s time for a heart to heart. They go back to his place, and shit gets real.
We need to take a moment to talk about how good Penn is at acting. This is a talented man. So talented, in fact, that if I saw him out and about, I would not chase him down for a selfie, but rather run in the opposite direction because I would be afraid of him.
Anyway, Joe has a flashback to his childhood and leaving his dad with his mom. He’s incredibly emotional and at risk of revealing everything about his true self to what’s-his-name, but manages to keep it together.
Later, Ellie shows up at Anavirn because she wants to work with Joe and Forty on D-FOL. Joe is drinking some gross ass celery juice, which he later vomits all over Delilah right after she tells him that she wrote her story, and it’s being published. Yay, Delilah!
Milo has found a place to live, but Love isn’t feelin’ it. He asks her to let him fall in love with her even if she’s not ready because he is a stage five clinger who can’t give a girl some room to breathe.
Later, Delilah and Joe get drunk and bang in public, which lands them in jail. Delilah’s special friend shows up to save the day, saving Joe from having to give fingerprints.
I might be screwing up the sequence of all of this, but I’m pretty sure we’re back at Anavrin now and Forty and Milo are fighting. Milo accuses Love of not realizing James was sick because she was too focused on Forty. So basically, Milo is the devil incarnate. Joe gets a murder-y look in his eye, and I can’t help but wonder if shit is about to go down, but Milo ultimately lives to see another day…sans Love.
Delilah’s special friend calls her up and is like, “Sooooo, I confiscated some super nice headphones from Will the night Henderson died. Connection??” And we’re all yelling at the TV, “YES!”
Delilah breaks into Joe’s place to do some investigating and discovers the storage locker keys. She heads to the storage locker and finds the glass cage.
This is where my notes say, and I quote, “GET THE FICK OUT OF THERE.” (Apparently autocorrect doesn’t work when you have caps lock on.) My sister called me the other day to talk about season one, and we discussed how silly Beck was for not G-ing the F O the minute she found a box of teeth, her dead boyfriend’s phone, etc. in Joe’s ceiling. I can’t help but feel the same way about Delilah right now. Homegirl is so busy taking photos of everything when she should be RUNNING AWAY.
Yep. Heeeeeere’s Joe. He has a nanny cam and saw Delilah snooping. Delilah, I love you, but why did you have to pull a Beck here?
Another flashback. Joe’s ready to leave with his mom, but she’s picked up a new dude and wants all three of them to run away together. Baby Joe is sad.
Delilah wakes up in the glass cage with a head injury, and Joe asks her to trust him and that everything will be fine. How, Joe? How is everything going to be fine?