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- Why does Beck's ground floor apartment not have any curtains? Indeed, if she's having sex or masturbating in her front room, she might want at least some privacy.
- This is exactly what a Friend of mine and I thought the first time we watched the show. The chances are that it has some psychological reason. Beck seemingly wants to be famous and desired. Having herself exposed is a way of being that. Either that or she could be a slight Level of an Exhibitionist.
- There could also be an element of naivety to this behaviour. Beck seems to have certain blind spots and misses some red flags with Joe and Peach both. Her aspiration to...live a particular lifestyle or appear to live a specific lifestyle might have made those blind spots worse. She may desire to be seen, especially perhaps, to be seen writing, having this 'interesting' writer lifestyle, and she's not registered how vulnerable that might make her. That said...it could also be a generational thing. Millennials hate curtains; they collect dust!
- This is exactly what a Friend of mine and I thought the first time we watched the show. The chances are that it has some psychological reason. Beck seemingly wants to be famous and desired. Having herself exposed is a way of being that. Either that or she could be a slight Level of an Exhibitionist.
- Beck is a millennial and a writer. Her life’s work is contained on her phone and laptop. Why does she not have a password on either? She must be the only millennial in the world who doesn’t.
- Beck is a little, well, dumb. And naive. She probably didn't want to have to remember a password.
- Did Candace move to Italy, or did Joe maintain a false Instagram account to make it look like she was there?
- Joe thought Candace was dead. So Italy was simply one of his inventions.
- When Love killed Delilah, was it really about the protection of Joe and their baby? Or more like Love's jealousy? Think about it. In flashback, we saw Love sitting in a cage while she was reading Beck's book. What if she secretly hoped that Joe would lock her there too. To get her on the same level of his "love" as Beck. Love seemed to like the fact that Joe took her panties for his collection. But then, one day, she walked in and saw Delilah there instead. And considering that she stalked all her brother's girlfriends... did she kill Sophia because she wanted to protect Forty? Or because she always wanted Forty for herself?
- How did Candace deduce that Joe even knew Beck, let alone dated and killed her, just from seeing her memoir in a bookstore?
- Judging from what both Love and Forty say about Beck's book, a boyfriend who is either directly mentioned as Joe or is a thinly disguised version.
- Lucky guess, seeing that a mysterious murder happened with him in town.
- I'm not glassologist of anything and it probably wouldn't have worked, but why didn't Beck try to smash the glass cage with a lamp while Joe was away? There should have at least been some cracks from her attempts.
- Beck quickly gives up on smashing the glass and goes for manipulating Joe into letting her out.
- Also on the not-escape. Why didn't she double-triple-quadruple-tenfold tap Joe with the hammer after knocking him out? Smash half his face off?
- She's too squeamish of blood and gore.
- Why did Joe and Love leave a rope in the cage with Gil?
- It's their storage unit, they just kept it in there for murdery reasons and forgot to take it out.
- Where is Joe getting the funds to keep building his glass cages?
- He probably has money from Mr Mooney which tides him over when he's not working. Also, he probably just buys the materials and has the tools and stuff already.
- How did Joe drag Beck's body all the way from his apartment to the library?
- Why did Dottie bring Henry along on her vineyard arson?
- She was drunk and thought it'll be hilarious to annoy Love.
- Why didn't Joe and Love free Gil right after they revealed their blackmail material to him?
- They weren't entirely sure that he would still have went to the cops and wanted to let him have time to consider the effect that it would have on his family and his reputation. Too much time, clearly. Joe was also planning to convince him to move away from Madre Linda, and may have been searching lodgings in other states.
- Why did Joe pull his mask off while stabbing Ryan when anyone could have walked through the door?
- For dramatic effect, damn the consequences. Joe also pulled his mask off for the same reason when Henderson provoked him.
- What kind of stupid nickname is Henderson?
- Could be the surname of his mentor or his mother's maiden name.
- How did Benji not recognise Joe at all when meeting him for the second time?
- Benji is supposed to be very self-absorbed. He apparently just didn't take it in. However, this is also an Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole because in the book, Joe does disguise his appearance the second time.
- Might have also been the “three bars of Xanax, some Adderall, and half a sheet of acid” Benji had on him at the time.
- When Jasper was stabbed, why didn't he attempt to strangle or shove Joe?
- The sudden pain took him by surprise and he was too confused to do anything else.
- Why doesn't Love pull a "Go Through Me" for Joe in the Season 2 finale?
- Forty's clearly unstable and while he loves Love, he is at least somewhat aware that she is a horrible person. Nothing says that he won't shoot her, accidentally or not. And Love may not love Joe enough, or at least not more than she loved her brother, to sacrifice herself in his stead.
- Why didn’t Joe just pass the finished script to Dimitri after Forty ran off?
- "See, if either of us tries to leave, Dimitri will shoot us."
- Why did Joe consider killing Forty after learning he thinks Beck’s unnamed boyfriend is her killer?
- Candace recommended Beck's book to Forty in the first place so that he would figure out that Joe was the killer. Joe thinks Forty is about to crack the case when he reaches for the glass shard in the hotel room.
- In Joe's Creepy Souvenir box, there's a bag of what looks like three crushed Pepto-Bismol tablets. What were those things?
- Benji's a drug addict. It may be his stash.
- When Joe chases her through the art fair, why doesn't Marienne scream "Help! That man's chasing me!" or something?
- Marienne may have thought that Joe had a gun and could have shot up the place, or that alerting others would make him kill her to shut her up.
- Where did Marienne shit when she was stuck in the cage?
- Why the ever loving hell didn't Marienne let Nadia call the cops and why didn't Nadia do so anyway?
- It's possible she was Improperly Paranoid and thought that Joe paid off the cops with the Quinn money. She has already been established to regularly get screwed over by the legal system, so she might hate and distrust cops so much that she won't call them to save her life.
- Joe is Born Lucky and Marienne thinks that he will escape them, track her down and kill her and/or Juliette.
- For Nadia, she was overwhelmed by the situation and blindly followed Marienne's orders despite having no prior experience with Joe.
- What did Joe say to Phoebe at the party in Sundry House?
- Considering that the cop was not looking at her, why did Nadia attempt to sneak through the gateway? It wasn't a metal detector, she wouldn't have gotten caught.
- Nadia was visibly nervous. The longer she stayed, the more likely cop may have noticed her, gotten suspicious and asked to search her.
- Why did Joe tie Lockwood up instead of just killing him?
- Because the original plan was to pass of his death as a suicide. That takes time to stage, and you need the victim alive for part of the process.
- Considering that imaginary Rhys is also a sexist prat and treats Marienne in a way that could be generously described as "like shit", why was he so offended by Malcolm's statements that he killed him?
- Presumably it was the Joe personality that killed him, and that provided the catalyst for the Rhys personality to be able to come out and do the rest.
- Joe (and by extension, Rhys) is a hypocrite. He kidnaps and kills women whenever they reject him, but still hates other misogynists who do a tenth of what he does.
- Rhys may have murdered Malcolm out of boredom or For the Evulz.
- What prompted imaginary Rhys to reveal himself at Hempsie?
- Roald nearly killing Jonathan and outing him as the ETR killer to the group.
- Why didn't anything happen with Juliette while Marienne was away for weeks?
- Joe's Rhys persona used her phone to text Beatrice that Marienne had relapsed and asked her to take care of Juliette. Beatrice was a really good friend so she kept Marienne's secret, took care of Juliette and pretended that everything was normal until Marienne returned.
- If Tom Lockwood is really such a big shot, why didn't Joe learn anything about him being Kate's dad or at least him being Kate's mom's (ex-)husband?
- He might be adhering to his daughter's wishes to distance herself from him or simply wants privacy for his family (especially if Kate's siblings are as screwed up as he says) and using his connections to scrub mentions of his wife and daughter online.
- Even if Rhys was real, ratted on himself and Joe was able to record something incriminating on him, how would he have prevented Rhys for telling the police about Joe's actual murders?
- He may intend on using the footage to blackmail Rhys into leaving him alone or lure him somewhere he can murder him quietly.
