'You' Boss on Joe Being Threatened with a Reflection in Season 2

Season 2 of Netflix's You has arrived and everyone's favorite stalker, Joe is in focus yet again.

For all the viewers who has seen the second season already, they know how Joe has been threatened with a reflection in this season.

Sera Gamble and Greg Berlanti's adaptation of the novel of the same name has Joe all set to be a dad soon but that's not even the biggest moment of the second season.

The girlfriend everyone assumed Joe had killed was actually alive and looking for a bit of revenge of her own. Joe headed west from New York, landing in Los Angeles, where he promptly met a new object of his affection.

“She’s not a cold-hearted sociopath; she’s feeling everything really deeply, and she’s doing what she feels she needs to do. She probably sleeps a little better than Joe does, actually, but she’s not doing anything because she loves the taste of blood; she’s doing what she has to do to protect her family,” Gamble tells Variety.

“We asked ourselves a lot of questions about how to construct a character who would ultimately be OK with it, and then we started realizing we were making a season of TV that’s really about Joe being threatened with a reflection,” she says. “Candace is saying, ‘I’m going to show you who you really are, and you’re not going to like it.’ So we wanted to bury in plain sight a perfect reflection for him that he would really recoil from when he saw it.”

Gamble admits that she never wanted to play with Candace as being that reflection for Joe. Instead, she wanted Candace to be a threat to him and the new life he was trying to build — a life that included being a protector to another young neighbor, Ellie (Jenna Ortega), as well as a reluctant but still budding friend and writing partner to Love’s brother Forty (James Scully).

That is not to imply that Love is not still special to Joe — especially now that she is carrying his child, but “I think he got exactly what he wished for with Love, and be careful about that,” Gamble continues. “At the end of the second book, he’s going to jail, and so we all were like, ‘Are we going to send him to jail?’ And we kind of feel like we did, in a certain way.”