Penn Badgley Shares Thoughts on 'You' Season 2's Big Twist!

The second season of You is now steaming and lots of fans have already discovered the many twists that are featured in the new episodes.

Penn Badgley has opened up with his thoughts on what happened to Joe Goldberg in season two.

The rest of this post is going to contain spoilers, so click away now if you don’t want to know the big twist from this season.

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Click inside to read Penn Badgley’s thoughts on the twist in season two…

So, want to know what Penn thought about the big twist? Just as a reminder, Penn‘s character Joe finds his new “you” when he gets to Los Angeles and this is Victoria Pedretti‘s Love.

We end up learning that Love has a dark past as well and she’s also killed before. When she was a child, she killed a predator who was going to molest her brother and then in the current day, she killed multiple people who were going to reveal Joe’s murderous acts. At the end of the second season, Joe Goldberg and Love Quinn are expecting a child together and they have moved into a house in the suburbs. Joe has also set his sights on their next-door neighbor, who we haven’t yet met.

“It seems to me that the brilliance of the ending of season two — to me the twist isn’t so much that Victoria’s character is also a murderer, but is that we’ve given Joe exactly who it seems like would be the only person who could be with him, the person he could be happy with, the person he is happy with,” Penn said in an interview with THR. “The revelation should mean, ‘oh, she can accept this about me.’ Because that’s what he keeps saying — ‘if only I could show you who I really am and you could accept me then I would know true love.’ Well actually he does, and her name is Love on top of that. And then he’s met with another universal truth, and he doesn’t understand — happiness and love don’t come from external circumstances. They come from within. It’s a decision. It’s a perspective. It’s a perception. It’s not this magic thing that visits you because of some happy accident. And we often treat it like that in stories. We completely objectify women and men, and we really do believe that we’re just going to meet the right person.”

“And I mean, yeah, compatibility is important, but it’s certainly not the thing that’s going to actually uphold a relationship once it’s exhausted the initial chemical infatuation with each other. And that always happens. There’s a lot of science behind this. It’s anywhere from six months to two years, and after that you’ve got to deal with the reality that everyone is going to disappoint you because no one is perfect, and you have to mature and grow and sacrifice your personal preferences in order to have a functional relationship. That’s a positive thing because that means personal growth,” he continued.

Penn concluded, “Joe is completely incapable of this because he’s a narcissist. But I think the reason Joe is an interesting portal is because we often tell stories about narcissists. We often ennoble narcissists. We let narcissists become leaders and we love to tell stories about them. So we see narcissists falling in love with each other. Romeo and Juliet is a story of narcissists falling in love and being so immature and unable to deal with it that they do the unthinkable. And we kind of all wish that we had a love that was worth that level of sacrifice. Because when you think about it, it’s in a lot of our love songs, a lot of our stories. So I think in a way, the second season is continuing to explore that in ways that actually really do get at an even subtler level, which I think is really rewarding because it’s a real thing that we can keep looking at.”