Love is similarly unconvinced, missing her support net back in Los Angeles and constantly trading verbal blows with her terrible mother, who takes over babysitting duties of their new son Henry, whom she and Love keep calling "Forty," after Love's deceased twin brother, and to Joe's increasing chagrin. In other words, bookish Joe's version of Hell on Earth. Joe and Love have moved into Madre Linda, a Californian suburb populated by the fitspo version of Stepford wives, ruled over by busybody "momfluencer" Sherry Conrad (a fabulously irritating Shalita Grant), who forces the women to vie for her affections while the husbands wear Patagonia vests and grill. And this is pretty much how most of the first episode of Season 3 plays out. We know how this will go: Joe's affections for Love will diminish, as his new "you" takes over his mind, he'll romance her, it'll go badly, and then someone will die. If you've followed You Season 3's promotional material, you know most of it centers around either Joe and his new wife's impending child, or Joe's new object of obsession, sitting, Lolita-like, in a lawn chair in her manicured backyard, book held open in lap and face obscured by an oversized sun hat. What this new season presupposes is: What if it didn't? But even the last few moments of that episode, in which Joe peeks over his new suburban picket fence and zeros in on his next hapless target, tease a version of a familiar narrative for formula of You. Or tries to, in the case of last season's paradigm-shifting finale, where Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) confesses she's pregnant with their child before he has the chance to stick the knife in her throat. Joe Goldberg, the certified creep with a dangerously charming baby face played by Penn Badgley, finds a new waifish young woman to "fall in love" with, stalks her obsessively for a period of weeks to months, enters into a relationship with her, and then when things start to go south, he kills her. If you've been keeping up with You, the sordid Lifetime-turned-Netflix thriller series about a serial stalker who just can't stop himself from murdering people he becomes obsessed with (and other people he simply doesn't like very much), you know what to expect. This article contains major spoilers for the first episode of You Season 3.
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