![]() ![]() Joe methodically takes apart two copies of Wuthering Heights so the dedication page from Candace’s copy ends up in the garbage and a different, whole copy goes on the discount pile, for symbolism reasons.īeck follows the Candace bread crumbs first to Ethan, who advises her to let this go (bad advice!), and then to Maddie, the mutual friend from Peach’s Parents Got Divorced Party (#neverforget), who confirms that Candace was having sex with the label guy who signed her and then “ghosted everyone she knew” when she ran off to Italy. Mooney, abusive bookshop proprietor, where he hid out for a week until it all blew over. Joe fled the scene of this whoopsie to the home of Mr. Though I take it we’re to think that what really messed Joe up is that, in a fit of rage, he shoved Elijah - the requisite skeevy record exec who, quite plausibly, says he had no idea Candace had a boyfriend because she literally never mentioned Joe - off a building to his death. This is the woman Joe is still obsessed with?Īpparently! Because as Beck discovers, Joe was wrecked when things ended with Candace. ![]() Her cheating is so flagrant, it’s like she didn’t care whether or not she got caught. She and Joe never seem all that close even when they are together he doesn’t realize she never loved him, as she’ll later shout in his face, but everyone else who ever saw them could’ve clued him into that fact. Being in a band called Heathcliff’s Misery (extreme eye roll) is also not a personality. If we’re supposed to believe she’s got a monopoly on Joe’s psyche, she should at least get a personality, no? “Promiscuous musician” is not a personality. ![]() She could have been anyone! She could have been Joe’s secret half-sister who went insane when she discovered the true nature of their Flowers in the Attic-y relationship! She could have been a criminal mastermind who fleeced Joe for all he was worth and then tore off to Italy to scam a new mark! Make her a descendant of the Romanovs! Instead, she’s just a collection of stereotypes with red lipstick on, which, remember, is the color of HARLOTRY in the world of You. Well, Candace was a LOT more interesting before I actually got to know her. Okay, so I haven’t seen Jaws (I know, I know, also this is relevant, I promise!) but as I understand it, the deal is that the shark is actually scarier before you see it, when you’re just hearing the whole duuuun dun thrumming and your imagination does the rest. So now we finally get those long-awaited Candace flashbacks. Anyway, Stamos tells Joe, “We are the architects of our own dreams,” which is very Ivanka, and that Joe needs to address his unfinished ex-business before it eats his soul alive or whatever. Where did they find this guy? I hope some of this is covered by insurance. While she Nancy Drews it up on Instagram, Joe goes back to his wildly unprofessional therapist, who is taking a volatile personal call while Joe is sitting right there. ![]() A big part of what makes this frustrating is that this information is READILY available, takes almost no effort to find, but still brings Beck to a bunch of (literally) dead ends. After her oh-so-casual breakfast questioning of Joe re: Candace, Beck, duly unsettled by Karen’s warnings, begins her own little Spotlight-style investigation into this mystery of Joe’s past. He screams himself awake thinking of Candace. Joe and Beck are back together, but their snuggles are disrupted by Joe’s subconscious. You technically did what I asked it to do - get Beck and John Stamos to hook up, reveal Joe’s deep dark secret to be something other than “he murdered Candace” - but it did it very much in not in the way that I meant, and so I am even more frustrated than I was before. It was my first lesson in the difference between obeying the letter of the law versus the spirit of said law, and it also comes to my mind now, as I am grappling with my feelings toward You. The gist is this girl was cursed with forever obedience, and one of her ways of subverting the curse was to just take people literally - so if somebody said, “Hold this bowl, Ella,” she’d do it while running in circles around the kitchen. Did any of you ever read Ella Enchanted? It is a children’s classic, highly recommend. ![]()
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