This ‘YOU’ Season Two Fan Theory Suggests Love Is A LOT More Twisted Than We Thought

WARNING: This article contains spoilers for the first and second seasons of Netflix’sYOU.

After devouring YOU season two, we all learnt that Joe Goldberg’s new love, aptly named ‘Love’ Quinn, is just as sick and twisted as he is. And if a new fan theory is to be believed, she’s still hiding a few tricks (read: another murder) up her sleeve.

While the show revealed Love to be the culprit behind Delilah, Candance and her former au pair’s deaths, sharp viewers suspect that she may have been behind one more death that was not clarified in the series: James, Love’s late husband.

Let’s unpack this, shall we? In the show, it’s revealed that Love is a widow and that her late husband James was suffering from some kind of vague illness (the exact nature is never mentioned).

Thanks to the flashbacks, we learnt that James didn’t want to have children with Love (at least, not immediately) because he never wanted Love’s parents’ assistance with money to raise their kids. Soon after? He died.

Now, while Love appeared heartbroken after his death, we all know that Love is not a reliable narrator and has a penchant for murder. Hence, it isn’t exactly out of the realm of imagination to wonder whether Love killed James because he ruined her dream of having the perfect family. And given how far Love will go to protect her family, the Quinns, her husband’s desire to be healthily detached from them may have triggered her killer tendencies.

A new video by Jan Gilbert from Flicks and the City further dissects this disturbing theory about Love, which you can check out below. As for how she might have done it? Read on.

According to the video, Love’s murder weapon of choice may have been a peach, or rather, a peach pit. The pit of a peach contains cyanogenic compounds, which the human body converts to cyanide (a poison) upon consumption. In theory, consuming enough of a ground-up peach pit (as well as the pits of cherries, plums and apricots) could cause someone to fall really ill and potentially even die.

Given that Love is a chef, knows her way around produce and, you know, murder, it seem plausible that Love would know which humble pantry ingredients could be turned into poison. Oddly, in one flashback scene Love tells James that he was “just detoxing” as a possible cover for his becoming sick, when she may have been poisoning him so slowly that doctors never detected what was wrong. And of course, if anything came up in an autopsy, the Quinn family had the police department tucked firmly into their moneyed pockets.

In what might make this theory even ‘curiouser’, Love straight up asks Joe in episode one if the peach she’s holding “looks like a butt”. Since Love’s character is meant to be a sort of strange mirror of Joe (who, incidentally, was scared to eat her muffins when trapped in his glass cage for fear of poison), it’s interesting that she would hand him what might be her preferred poison in what could be a telling form of poetic justice down the line.

Either way? Joe needs to watch his back in season three!