Some episodes also goes by how Joe stalked Beck outside the city and meet her Dad, almost kill Beck's therapist, broke up with Beck, date the sanest character in this series named Karen Minty, broke up with her, get back with Beck, haunted by his ex-girlfriend Candace (who apparently he killed as well -- and the guy she cheated with), helping his 10-years-old-something neighbor named Paco from his Mom's abusive boyfriend, and all of this just to gave us a damn-real ending:
That he locked Beck the way he did to Benji and finally killed her.
"Sometimes, we do bad things for the people we love. It doesn't mean it's right, it means love is more important."
Joe Goldberg said that in the series. But goddamn, is that even love? Isn't that obsession? This is what annoyed me the most and messed up my mind
Upon the finale of the series, Beck accidentally found out Joe's secret box -- a glory collection of Beck's stolen panties, Benji's teeth, Beck-Peach-Benji-Candace's phones, and more disturbing stuffs. But the clumsy Beck just being Beck, she accidentally broke the glass and then Joe found out that Beck knows everything, smashed her head and locked her in the basement.
Before that happened, Joe was briefly dating Karen Minty and later dumped her to get back with Beck (lucky Karen). Karen, as a grown-up woman was feeling just fine when the broke up happened, and throughout of her relationships with Joe, everything was beyond fine because Karen got it all and Joe felt like she didn't need his help, so he let her go and Karen is the only person that close to Joe that got spared from the drama because she played it smart and being a respectful-independent woman being (ladies: please take note, be like Karen Minty). One night after Beck and Joe got back together, Beck met Karen and Karen warned Beck about Joe's true color (Karen apparently connect the dots and knew who Joe really is and his issue with Candace). Beck ignored it, and it only days after when the truth revealed.
The most disturbing part for me is when Beck woke up in the basement, freaked out and begging Joe to not hurt her which Joe responded with 'I would never hurt people I love' bullsh -- . Then, Beck wrote scripts (with the typewriter) about how HER THERAPIST ABUSED HER, so she basically FRAMED her therapist (whom she had affair with before) with the hope that Joe would let her free because now Joe has a perfect alibi. It almost worked out, until Beck attacked Joe, try to run away, but she SADLY didn't make it. It was a good fight, and she delivered good lines I must say, but at the end of the day, she died.
We watched 10 episodes of this guy 'go all the way' to make Beck's life better, only to kill her. No matter how smart and how we root for Beck's character to win, she lost. She died and gave a perfect alibi to cover Joe's murder to her. So that script resulted in her therapist being caught by the police, framing him to make it like he's the one that murdered Beck. Beck's biggest dream to be an acknowledged book-writer achieved, only after she died.
What about Joe? At the very end of the finale, his ex-girlfriend Candace is back and alive, much to Joe's surprise. But that's it. He faced no consequences of killing Benji, Peach, Beck, that guy Candace cheated with, or even Ron --Paco's Mom abusive boyfriend.
Well, oh well, that was so unfair.
So after I watch the whole series, I feel bamboozled. I spent hours to watch Joe-Beck relationship developed, only to found out Joe killed Beck by the end of it. During the movie, we learned that Joe was raised by an abusive manipulator that owned the bookstore he worked at. We get it, Joe was psychologically bruised since little. But the messed up part is that he believed that he is the good person, the best protector for Beck and manipulate us -- the viewer into thinking he did all of that because of love.
