Netflix You Recap: Every Insane Thing Joe Did In Season 1 & 2

Meanwhile, Beck has been investigating Joe’s ex Candace, which leads her to discover his secret box of teeth, underwear and stolen murder victim phones. She confronts him, so he knocks her unconscious and locks her in his glass murder cage, telling her it’s the low-tech writers’ retreat she always wanted. She writes a memoir in the cage, which retells everything that’s happened but frames Dr Nicky for Joe’s crimes. Beck offers it to Joe as an escape route, but it’s all a ruse – she just wanted him to let her out, so she could lock him in the cage and call the police. Unluckily for Beck, Joe stashed a key in the cage, so he gets out and – off-screen – kills her, then dumps her body and frames Dr Nicky for her murder. Dr Nicky goes to jail, and Joe publishes Beck’s memoir posthumously under the title ‘The Dark Face of Love.’ It’s a hit. The only person who doesn’t fall for it is the PI hired by Peach Salinger’s family. POSSIBLE RETURNING PLOT POINT: is there any chance that Beck isn’t dead, seeing as we didn’t witness the murder itself? Probably not, but worth keeping in mind. And will the Salinger family PI return?

Will Bettelheim‘s Fresh Start

Season 2! Joe, having made no attempt to disguise his appearance, has moved to LA – the last place on Earth, he thinks, that anyone would go looking for someone as judgmental and uninterested in fame as he is. There, he meets a forger named Will Bettelheim, but unable to wait for his fake documents, takes him prisoner in the glass murder tank he’s built in a storage compound, and steals his identity. Unluckily, his identity owes $50K to Russian gangsters, so that’s a thing, but then Joe murders and dismembers the heavy, so it all goes away. Joe lets the real Will out of his cage, gets a fake passport, and they stay in touch as pals. It’s sort of nice. POSSIBLE RETURNING PLOT POINT: will the other gangsters ever come looking for their colleague and their money?

Delilah, Ellie and Hendy

Joe’s LA neighbours are cynical twentysomething gossip columnist Delilah and her cynical, precocious, movies-obsessed 15-year-old aspiring filmmaker sister Ellie. When Delilah was a 17-year-old stripper, she was drugged and raped by famous comedian and actor ‘Hendy’, with whom Ellie is trying to get an internship. Joe, naturally wanting to protect women from creepy guys, investigates and discovers Hendy’s underage roofie abuse dungeon. Being a good guy, he roofies Hendy and takes him hostage and, after a struggle, Hendy falls down the stairs, hits his head and dies. Joe stages it as a suicide but the cops soon realise it was murder. Ellie – who was drugged by Hendy but not assaulted thanks to Joe – is the chief suspect in the murder, and so Joe gives her money to run away to the East Coast. She sends him classic movie postcards from time to time asking for more cash.

While all that was happening, Joe and Delilah started sleeping together, until her cop fuck-buddy told her that he suspected Joe of Hendy’s murder. Delilah investigated and found Joe’s glass murder tank, so he locked her up in it to buy himself time. When he returned, her throat had been slit and Joe can’t remember if it was him so he does a The Hangover to retrace his steps. It turns out it wasn’t him, it was Love all along. Love who? Read on!

Love and Forty

Using Will Bettelheim’s identity, Joe gets a job at an LA grocery store run by rich twins Forty and Love (their parents like tennis). He obsesses over Love and starts his old stalking tricks, initially trying to restrain himself but eventually giving in when she gags him and initiates sex. Love is a trained chef and young widow whose deaf husband James died of cancer, and whose friends are named things like Sunrise.

Love’s twin brother Forty is a recovering addict who happens to be writing the movie adaptation of Beck Guinevere’s memoir ‘The Dark Face of Love’. The film’s financier is his girlfriend Amy Adam, who is secretly Candace from season one, there to take revenge on Joe. Forty wants Joe to give notes on his script (awkward) so takes him to a hotel, spikes him with acid and tells him that he murdered his au pair when he was a teenager, and that his rich parents bribed the police to call it a suicide. Forty has a brainwave reading Beck’s memoir and realises that Joe/Will killed her and framed Dr Nicky, whom he goes to visit in prison. Dr Nicky confirms he didn’t kill Beck, but says he’s cool with prison because he’s been such a dickhead that he deserves it. It seems like prison’s been good for Dr Nicky.