You: 9 Biggest Plot Holes In The Show

Netflix’s runaway hit, You, has continued to enthrall audiences but any fan would agree that plot holes constantly perforate the fabric of the show. Right from season 1, Joe Goldberg seems to be wearing plot armor that protects him from scientific evidence, arrest, and even logic, much to viewers’ confusion.

Even the side characters, like Peach, recover miraculously from fatal injuries, and if it weren’t for these slip-ups, Joe would have been apprehended a long time ago, maybe right when he messed with Candace.

All The Evidence In Peach’s Home

One of the biggest talking points in You was how Joe got away with Peach’s murder. Being incapacitated himself, he was careless when entering the Salinger property, which seemingly didn’t have a single security camera, which is absurd in itself. Besides this, he left fingerprints, hair, and DNA all over the place, not to mention the jar of urine on the shelf.

While this came back to haunt Joe in the form of Peach’s parents hiring a PI to look into her death, this development was conveniently forgotten over the next two seasons and Joe, somehow, got away with one of the worst things he had ever done.

Joe Not Appearing In Beck’s Trial

While Joe may have made himself scarce in the book that he wrote in Beck’s name, it didn’t erase him from her friends’ memories. Except, it did. With Dr. Nicky going on trial and getting a sentence, Beck’s friends would have been called to testify, and they would have definitely mentioned Joe, but Joe somehow got off scot-free, without even being called to trial.

Audiences hated Joe for killing Beck, but the entire trial being based on the book that Joe wrote for her made no sense at all. In fact, he should have been at the trial, where Dr. Nicky would have recognized him as a patient, and his cover would have been blown.

Matthew Not Catching Love And Joe In Any Act

Being a high-level tech guru got Matthew access to everyone’s cameras, so it’s absurd that he couldn’t catch Joe and Love in any incriminating act, especially because he was already onto them. He didn’t see the fight between Cary, Sherry, Joe, and Love on his network, nor did he bother looking at the camera directly opposite to where Natalie’s car was parked (which Theo thought of in an instant).

Matthew’s first thought should have been to check on Gil’s whereabouts, which would have led him to A Fresh Tart, just like Natalie, which would have strengthened his case, but the people of Madre Linda seem to always look the other way.

Love’s LA Friends Going AWOL

In season 2, Love’s friends were her tribe. Sunrise, Gabe, and Lucy were her backbone in LA and in life, but they seemed to mysteriously disappear once Love moved to Madre Linda.

She had moved out of the city, but not to another dimension, so it was strange for them to forget her like that. If her friends had kept in touch, then maybe Love would have felt a little more supported and less murderous in season 3. It was definitely odd that the writers completely left them out of the show when they were so vital in season 2.

How Joe Got Beck Into the Cage

Beck was a reasonably intelligent character on the show, so when she saw Joe’s sick memorabilia, she wanted to leave but Joe knocked her out. When she woke up, she was in the glass cage, but nobody could quite figure out how she got there in broad daylight.

Joe would have had to carry her down his building, out into the street, into his car, and then get off at Mooney’s and take her down to the basement, without anybody objecting to what he was doing with an unconscious girl. All of these logistics were glazed over, and Beck ended up dead in a basement.

Peach’s Miraculous Recovery

One of You‘s biggest twists was Peach surviving the death blow that Joe had delivered while she was jogging. What seemed like the end of Peach wasn’t, but her extremely speedy recovery without bandaging or any adverse effects was just hard to believe.

She was back in Beck’s home, gossiping with her friends and being rude to Joe the same day. In two or three days, she was back to normal. This logic-defying recovery is mind-boggling and so is the fact that nobody connected Joe’s bashed-up face to Peach’s accident when it happened on the same day and at almost the same time.

Joe Taking Adrenaline Pills On The Exact Day That Love Poisoned Him

In season 3, Love was sharper than Joe and her instincts and planning were on point. Everything about her plan to poison him with aconite and kill him had been meticulously drawn out, and Joe should have been dead by all means, but what saved him was his supposed intuition.

However, his intuition couldn’t have possibly prompted him to take the pills on the exact day and time that Love planned to attack him. He had noticed the wolfsbane plants many months earlier, so how he could have pinpointed the day for it is absurd and impossible.

Ryan’s Murder Going Unnoticed

Being a local celebrity and living in a safe neighborhood, it was completely unreal that nobody saw Ryan being stabbed by Joe, who didn’t really take any effort to conceal himself. Just being able to walk away after murdering somebody should not be possible, but it’s Joe’s world and everyone else is just living in it.

Even the police verdict of it being a mugging and not calculated murder made no sense since Joe didn’t really steal anything from him.

The Lack Of Forensic Testing On Gil’s Body

Love’s Machiavellian scheme of using Gil’s already dead body and pinning Natalie’s murder on him was a delightful one for murder-lovers, but it made little sense in the world of modern science and testing.

Even basic testing would have shown that he had been dead longer than the timestamp on the computer would indicate and if he had been moved around. The police just bought what was fed to them by the Quinn-Goldbergs, which wouldn’t really happen in the real world.

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