Eventually, “Will” makes it out alive, but he stays in touch with Joe for some dopey reason. “Will” is good at hacking and Joe keeps him alive for a while so that he can aid and abet in some stalking and other such crimes. Not-Will begins the season locked inside Joe’s special homicide aquarium, which Joe reconstructed in a storage locker here in his new city of residence. There was never a Will! Everything is artifice, all of humanity is a performance: This is our thematically on-the-nose introduction to life in Los Angeles. The thing is, Joe doesn’t have ten years to invent and nest inside a fake identity, so he just kidnaps and traps “Will” so that he, Joe, can become “Will.” But remember: There is no Will. “Will” is actually an alias that this other guy (Robin Lord Taylor) made up and spent ten years creating and fortifying, so Joe’s fake identity is someone else’s fake identity, like matryoshka dolls of deception. before him, Joe uses this move as an opportunity to reinvent himself.

So he moves to what he decides is the least romantic city in the United States: Los Angeles. Given all of this, Joe concludes he has no choice: He must flee his vengeful ex and swear off love. He even buried her! But she crawled outta that dirt and lived to tell the tale, be deeply fucked up by it, and attempt to exact revenge in the most convoluted way imaginable. (He killed a bunch of people and also kept some of their teeth in a little box, for memories!) When last we saw Joe, he saw a ghost: Candace (Ambyr Childers), an ex he is VERY surprised to see because, as is his standard operating procedure, he thought he killed her. Joe Goldberg’s ( Penn Badgley) last relationship ended badly (he strangled her to death), and even though he’s prone to romanticizing things, probably if he thinks about it he will acknowledge the course of that love didn’t exactly run smooth.

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