10 Times Lazy Writing Ruined Netflix's You Season 2
3. Joe Frames Forty For His Crimes
Once Forty is dead, this seems to be enough for Officer Fincher to drop any past suspicions he had of Joe being a murderer, with Forty immediately becoming the focal point of his attention.
This conveniently sets Joe up for a monologue in which he explains how he was able to frame Forty as the main suspect in the deaths of Henderson and Delilah. With him being dead, there now being no other suspects, and having the Quinn family’s army of lawyers on retainer, this essentially removes the possibility of any consequences for these actions.
This may have come across as cleverer if it hadn’t been the EXACT same plan that Joe had used in Season One. Here, Joe monologued about setting up Dr Nicky for the murder of Guinevere Beck, having had enough circumstantial evidence to point all the suspicions in his direction.
At least in Season One Dr Nicky was still alive and Candace had returned to the scene, leaving some risk to Joe and a good reason to pick up the story in Season Two. This time around, he’s wrapped everything up so neatly that the season may as well have ended with he and Love driving off into the sunset. It’s not as if the show shies away from clichés, after all.