It’s a fascinatingly grim tradition the show is developing, having Joe kill women who become iconic in their death for faux righteous reasons. “More famous even than Guinevere Beck,” Joe says, reminiscing on his season one object of obsession-who, in death, becomes a bestselling author. Love, in true crime circles, has become posthumously famous. “Driving past the foundation of the now-demolished Quinn-Goldberg ‘butcher house’ in Madre Linda, I’m struck by how normal it all looks…” the pitch-perfect lede by journalist “Neil Ronald” begins. The show follows that reveal up by showing a mock feature story in The Cut of the chilling Madre Linda murder-suicide. “Once the nausea passed, people were ravenous for her,” Joe narrates, noting that her murderous ways and the “quasi-feminist” way he framed her made her something of a folk hero. (“We’re not idiots - we know that Victoria is amazing!” show-runner Sera Gamble told Variety, defending the choice and noting that Love was only ever destined for a two-season arc.)īut Pedretti’s real-life popularity aside, Love has become an object of morbid true crime fascination, a fitting end for the bloodthirsty character. He’ll trade his baseball cap for a beret and then back to a baseball cap when he realizes no one does that.īut while Joe morphs into the living embodiment of a winking “Paris is always a good idea” poster, it seems inevitable that the ghost of Love will haunt him over the course of the next season-in part because Victoria Pedretti was one of the highlights of the show. He’ll dodge American tourists in the Latin Quarter, and quietly linger by murderinos killing time at Père Lachaise. Let’s just imagine what his life will be like there for a moment, shall we? He’ll stroll past bakeries that will remind him of his once-beloved Love, a pang in his chest every time he sees a fresh tart. But it makes sense that Joe would head to the city of love after losing Love, indulging in all his sick romantic whims. Apparently his true crime infamy back in the States wasn’t big enough to reach the French papers. The finale doesn’t give away too much about Joe’s new life, except to reveal that he goes by Nick now and he’s comfy enough in the city to go to a buzzing cafe without a baseball cap on.
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