WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for season two of YOU
The new season of YOU was released on Netflix on Boxing Day and was quickly gobbled up by viewers who had been waiting over a year for the second installment.
Starring Penn Bagdley (Gossip Girl, Easy A), the creepy show follows serial killer and stalker, Joe Goldberg.
Having left a string of dead bodies behind in New York, including that of his ex-girlfriend Beck, season two saw Joe move to Los Angeles and assume a fake identity as Will Bettelheim.
In LA, his new life worked out about as well as his previous one, as he found himself unable to shake his murderous ways.
Fast forward through the episodes and the final two found Joe caught up in a shocking plot twist as his new girlfriend, Love (Victoria Pedretti), confessed her own penchant for killing people.
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Love's big secret came to light during the final episodes, after Joe's first love, Candace, trapped him in his cage and prepared to turn him over to the police.
But before he could be brought to justice, Love surprised them all by murdering Candace to save Joe. She then confessed to also having killed Delilah to protect him.
Joe was horrified to learn that Love wasn't the good person he thought she was and considered killing her – until she announced that she's pregnant with his child and he ultimately decided to give their relationship another go.
The episode ends with the pair moving into a new house as they prepare to grow their twisted family, but before the baby has even been born, Joe appears to start stalking his next-door neighbour, leaving the show open for a chaotic third season .
This ending was very different from the one originally written in the book that the show is based on.
In Caroline Kepnes' novel, Hidden Bodies, the sequel to YOU, Candace doesn't even exist as she was killed by Joe in the first book.
As Candace wasn't there to meddle, Love wasn't written as a killer and instead it was Joe who killed Delilah.
In the book, Joe's murder count also includes Forty, who he drowns in the hot springs in the Nevada desert.
All of these crimes add up and thanks to a tip-off to the police, the original story sees Joe locked away behind bars for what he's done.
Despite all this, there is one big similarity between the book and the show – Love does learn about the people Joe has killed and decides to stay with him anyway.
YOU season two is now streaming on Netflix.
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