He calls her 'candy girl' because she has cotton candy pink hair, breasts like 'two scoops of ice cream, soft and creamy' and legs like 'caramel' - yes, Joe is a psychopathic creep in YOU but in Hidden Bodies he's a psychopathic creeeep. Just like with Beck, he's instantly smitten with Love, who he first sees at a bar and thinks she's the most attractive girl he's ever met.

His horrible plan gets derailed when he meets affluent twin siblings Love and Forty though, two central characters in YOU Season 2 whose parents own a chain of high-end grocery stores. In typical Joe fashion, he's not going to LA to win her back - he's going there to murder her. In contrast, in Hidden Bodies, Joe heads west to pursue his ex-girlfriend Amy, who broke his heart and stole his rare books. On the Closer Weekly podcast Classic TV, Kepnes said that while Joe's drive for coming to Los Angeles is different in the show, 'it's the same Joe in the sense that he gets to LA and it doesn't feel like home.' In the show, Joe chooses the much-despised LA because he thinks it's the last place Candace would expect him to be.

This post will obviously contain major spoilers, so consider yourself warned!

Though the show changes key details from Hidden Bodies, curious readers can still turn to the YOU Season 2 book ending to learn more about Joe's fate ahead of the finale. It's a nesting doll of murder and deceit, adapted directly from Caroline Kepnes' novel Hidden Bodies. As YOU returns to the small screen, one major question looms: will Joe Goldberg ever actually get caught? The second season kicks off with Joe in LA on the run from Candace, the ex he thought he killed and buried, who knows the truth about his other killed and buried ex, Beck.

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