Top 10 Chilling Moments in “You”

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“You” is the show no one can seem to quite realize is the title of a show. It’s pretty funny watching pretty much anyone try to tell someone who’s never watched it about the show.

But if you’ve never watched You, it’s about a guy named Joe Goldberg, who, at first glance, seems normal.

The more we get to know him, through both his narration of the story and seeing him interact with the characters in the show (and as his backstory unfolds through flashbacks), we start to realize that there’s a lot more to Joe than first meets the eye.

A lot more disturbing things.

Here are the top 10 chilling moments in You (warning: spoilers).

1. When Beck Finds the Box of Teeth

When Beck finds the box of teeth and other miscellaneous items from Joe’s victims, including Peach’s cell phone, her panties, and one of her shirts, among other items.

We just know at this moment that Beck is gonna die. We just don’t know how or when.

But that becomes clear when she’s trying to leave and Joe discovers that she found out about his little hiding spot because she left evidence on the floor (broken teeth).

Beck wakes up in the cage and we know it’s over for her. We know she’ll share a similar fate as Benji. Oh, Beck.

2. When We Realize Mr. Mooney Locked Joe in a Cage

It’s no wonder Joe is the way he is. He was locked in a cage by a former Soviet Union prison guard as a young boy. While Mr. Mooney also took Joe in as a child when Joe had nowhere else to go, he also locked Joe in a cage as punishment.

That explains why he thinks it’s okay to lock people in cages himself.

When we first discover this, it’s certainly chilling, but it also makes us feel for Joe. Poor little Joe.

3. When Joe Says He’d Do Anything for Love (Even Kill)

When we hear Joe say this in his head about Beck, we immediately get chills. We know the premise of the show, but that doesn’t make it any easier to digest.

Saying you’d do anything for someone — even kill — is probably the most extreme level you could take it to.

That’s what makes Joe so interesting to watch.

Seeing the flow of his thoughts, what makes him do the things he does, and how he justifies it all makes for really good, binge-worthy, on-the-edge-of-your-seat storytelling.

And that’s exactly what this show does.

4. When Joe’s Mother Tells Him She Needed to “Start Over” Because She Made Too Many Mistakes

This is chilling in a whole other way. Imagine your mother — the one person genetically programmed to love you — telling you that they made a mistake with you and wanted to start over.

It’s crushing. Chilling. Especially for a kid as young as Joe.

What kind of mother is she?

Would it have been more crushing for him to never have known the reason she left him at the group home? Would his ignorance have been his bliss?

5. When We Find Out Love is a Killer Too

The moment Love returns to Joe’s storage unit after his ex-girlfriend, Candace, locks him in the cage after discovering his neighbor, Delilah’s dead body in the cage with her throat slit surrounded by a pool of blood.

We also find out that she’s actually the one who killed her twin brother, Forty’s babysitter. But she made him think it was him because she knew her family would protect him.

Knowing she could be so cold-hearted likely gave you chills. Killing Delilah for no reason? Just because she thought Joe loved her?

Love is reckless and crazy. Thankfully, Joe stops her eventually.

6. When Joe Reveals He Took Adrenaline and Kills Love

When Love tricks Joe into paralyzing himself put putting a paralytic on the knife he grabs when she leaves the room, Joe turns the tables once the paralytic wears off.

He reveals that he took adrenaline to counter the effects of the Wolfsbane she planned on injecting into him. Joe stabs her with a needle full of the poison and we watch the life slowly leave Love’s body as Joe stands over it, victorious.

It’s a chilling moment for everyone. Joe’s finally stopped love’s reckless killing rampage, but will he really stop killing himself? After he finds Marianne?

7. When We Find Out Delilah’s Dead

Seeing Delilah’s dead body is just as baffling to Joe as it is to us. The last time Joe left Delilah, she was fine. Hell, he planned on letting her out!

But he was drugged by Forty, so he can’t be sure he didn’t kill her.

These are the questions going through Joe’s head (and ours) as we watch him try to go back through the night’s events to figure out what the hell happened to Delilah that she ended up with her throat slit, lying in a pool of her own blood, still handcuffed to the table.

It’s a chilling sight to see and we only want answers for Joe.

8. When Ellie Finds Out About Delilah’s Death

Realizing that her sister’s absence is probably a little deeper than she wants to admit, Ellie confronts Joe a number of times, asking about her sister’s whereabouts.

Joe obviously can’t tell her that he’s got her sister locked in a cage, and he certainly can’t tell her that she’s dead once he finds out himself. She’ll know he had something to do with it.

When Joe finally lets Ellie know that Delilah is gone for good, it’s chilling. We wonder if Ellie is going to accuse Joe of having something to do with it.

9. The Way Joe Fakes His Own Death and Disappears

Similar to the way the Beck story ended, Joe turned Love into a folk tale, writing out a suicide letter for her after killing her, cutting off his toe, and making everyone think they both died in an explosive house fire.

The way Joe just ties up all his lose ends and just moves on is extremely chilling. We can tell he’s going to keep doing whatever he wants under the guise that he’s doing it for everyone’s best interest (when it’s really only in his own).

In the first season, he frames Dr. Nicky to get away, but this time, he frames love — the dead. It’s completely cringey and disgusting.

And we’re dying to see more.

10. When Candace Convinces Forty to Do a Screenplay About Beck

Forty, Love’s twin brother, and the man who becomes Joe’s brother-in-law, is a screenwriter…sort of.

He’s has success with one previous film and now he’s trying to do another great thing, but that’s proving to be quite difficult for him.

When Candace arrives in town under the false name Amy Adam (“what was Britney Spear taken”? — Forty in a later scene 😂), she convinces Forty to write a screenplay about none other than Joe’s dead ex-girlfriend — whom he murdered! Guinevere Beck.

It’s chilling because we just know that Candace is about to blow shit wide open, without doing anything other than pretending to be Forty’s girlfriend. We’re sure he’s just going to find out any second the minute Forty shows him Beck’s book.

It’s great writing and suspenseful watching.

What scenes did you think were the most chilling in “You”? Let me know in the comments.

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