Rowdy Review: ‘You’ shows Joe tasting his own medicine

Rowdy Baribeau Staff Reporter Spoiler Alert

Rowdy review is back.

The first five episodes of “You” season four released on Netflix on Feb. 9 and The O’Colly reviewed the first two episodes last week. This week, I am back to highlight key points from episodes three through five and I would like to give a heads up of spoilers ahead.

Episode Three: “Eat the Rich”

Whoever Joe’s stalker is, he’s good, almost too good.

He’s already beginning to tie Jonathan to Joe, and Joe has to go along with the act… until he doesn’t. Once the first murder went public, the stalker/ killer caught Joe’s attention. He begins to play into the act that the stalker wants him to play. He also doesn’t necessarily have a choice considering he’s being blackmailed using a body part from the second victim.

The stalker wants Joe to kill Kate — who begins to turn into his next love interest. That prompts Joe to believe Kate could be on the killer’s radar and he enlists himself to “protect” Kate. To Joe, stalking and making judgments about others’ lives is protecting them. So, he follows Kate around London, once after a funeral and then after he leaves her apartment.

The bodyguard of one of the people in the inner circle catches Joe. The bodyguard, Vic, believes Joe is the killer and has voiced his suspicions about him to others, and to Joe’s face. The two get into a scuffle and it results in Joe’s first kill in season four.

The stalker picks up on a pattern that the viewer has likely already established at the end of season two. Joe will protect and attempt to save those who he cares for and he’ll kill to ensure their safety or his anonymity. Joe takes a different approach to dealing with the stalker. Joe admits to the killer that he is — Joe. The two plan to meet, but before anything can be said between the two, investigators hit Joe with another impromptu interview and it doesn’t seem to be good for Joe.

Episode Four: “Hampsie”

Joe lucks out. After a build-up from episode three, it turns out that the investigators asked the same questions to everyone. Joe’s special, but not quite that special. So, Joe breathes a sigh of relief. As he walks back into the same room the intercepted him, Phoebe invites Joe to a get-away country house — with her, all her friends and… the killer.

Joe decides to go on the trip with the belief that he will catch the killer when the trip comes to an end. When he arrives at the house (which is really a mansion with a full staff of butlers and chefs) he scopes out the area. There’s also no cell service, which Joe didn’t anticipate. It also throws a wrench in Joe’s pursuit of the killer. Not as big of a wrench as he initially thought, considering he has a conjoined door with Kate.

The majority of the episode of spent with Joe mingling with the group and seemingly assimilating himself and making himself more welcomed. In doing so, Phoebe and Adam open up to him and he gets closer to them, among others in the group.

The tension between Kate and Joe continues to build, especially since they’re directly next to each other in their rooms. Kate gives Joe a little tip that piques his interest. Roald invited Joe when it was initially believed Phoebe wanted him there. Joe reflects on all the connections between Roald, Kate and Malcolm, Kate’s dead ex-husband. It gets Joe’s mind turning and he snoops into Roald’s room, where he finds an interesting discovery.

Roald and Joe then go on a hunt. Joe is not a hunter, nor a shooter. The entire trip with Roald has him on edge. Kate interrupts the two and Roald and Kate go their separate way from Joe. They all reconvene at dinner, but Joe’s still suspicious about Roald. He goes into his room for a minute until Roald sneaks up on Joe and knocks him out of the bedroom window. When he goes back inside to find Kate, he walks in on yet another dead body… with Kate standing over it. She has blood on her hands, but was it her?

Episode Five: “The Fox and the Hound”

Another one of Kate’s friends is dead. This time, Kate found the body and Joe found Kate. Not a great look for a seemingly innocent woman. The two agree to “take care of it” together. The problem is, one is experienced in body disposal and one isn’t. Wouldn’t it be a slight red flag if someone immediately knows what to do in that situation?

Joe has to act as if this is his first time and sells it decently enough until the two are in the barn and Kate con- fronts Joe with a knife, asking him, “Why are you so good at hiding bodies?” Before he can answer, she fires off three more questions in a state of panic. He calms her down and then comes clean about the situation he’s been navigating. He opened up about the murders and how he’s being blackmailed and briefly touched on his past in hopes that Kate would release her grip on the knife held to his neck.

Meanwhile, Roald and Adam are discussing what to do about “Jonathan” after he told Phoebe a dark secret about Adam. A secret — that has come in between Phoebe and Adam, impacting their relationship and leaving Adam with a finger to point, to which he aims at Joe.

Roald finds Joe with the body in the barn and brings him into the house for judgment. The jury? A bunch of drunk, high, exhausted and incoherent friends, who counter Roald’s legitimate questions with facetious, humorous questions. There’s not a bit of serious- ness taken during the interrogation outside of Adam and Roald.

Adam and Joe get into an argument that leads to a physical altercation, leading to a nice stroll in the woods. Joe is running for his life from Roald, who’s carrying the same double-barrel shotgun they went hunting with in episode four. It’s then, Joe meets his foe, and it’s the most unlikely of them all.

He brings Joe and Roald into a chamber underneath the mansion. The chamber is locked, and the killer burns the chamber as an attempt to hide his tracks and kill Joe and Roald. Kate finds the chamber and frees the two.

Joe’s name is cleared among the group, which eases his mind. But he had hoped to end the nightmare in Hampsbridge, where the mansion is. He goes back to London with only the name of the killer. To see what he does next, binge-watchers and television freaks alike will have to wait until March 9, when part two releases on Netflix.