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Major spoilers ahead forYouseason one and season two.
But Love is hardly the sweet and quirky object of affection that she seems to be.
Naturally,YoubeingYou, Love and Joe end the season married with a baby on the way.
(Relationships have been built on less.)
The seed for Loves character really started inHidden Bodies, the second Joe Goldberg book by Caroline Kepnes.
We took that to a much crazier place.
We always knew where we were ending.
We worked backward from there.
Coming up with her character and arc over the season was a slow process.
We tried all these different combinations to see which flavors worked together.
She just matches a lot of parts of him that he doesnt want to see.
We wanted to walk Joe right up to the hairy edge of truly looking himself in the eye.
So everything about his relationship with Love really sprang from that mission.
How Joe feels about Love says everything about how he feels about whathereally does.
A huge point of season two is that Love is very different from Beck.
When he meets Love, Joe is in a place of heartbreak.
It is the kind of relationship that is born out of shared loss.
Were not really a show thats interested in cold-blooded, psychopathic killers who derive pleasure from violence.
This approach really fit with a broader idea that she is self-possessed and confident.
She has the kind of confidence that comes from her extreme privilege.
Shes a free spirit, but shes responsible.
She was raised to understand that you protect family at all costs.
Those characteristics could all be good things, but Love takes them far.
We couldnt make it work, though.
But we certainly did try it.
Weve all spent time with her.
Love needed to be a woman of privilege because women of privilege get away with more.
Joe walks the world in the ultimate disguise: a nice bookish white guy.
On the totem pole of privilege, a rich lady like Love is just a hair beneath that.
By the end of the season, shes gotten everything she wanted.
I dont think shes 100 percent happy about it.
She also had the most tragic loss of her life.
But all shes ever really wanted was a family of her own.
Theres a pure desire at the center of that.
Shes just taken terrible steps to get there.
Hes just got it very twisted about how youre supposed to go about getting them.
Murder is a metaphor for getting everything very, very wrong.
Is it a strange new emotion we need to find a name for?
At the end of the second book, Joe goes to jail thats the cliffhanger.
And that provides us with this new avenue for a possible season three.
Now its not so easy for Joe to just be like,Wheres the next girl?
