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* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Benji is treated as a scumbag for cheating on Beck, although they're only informally together. Joe cheats on Karen with Beck, but this is treated as less bad than [[spoiler: Beck cheating on Joe with Dr Nicky.]]

** Karen Mooney. In the book, she's a kind but completely clueless nurse, who is heartlessly used by Joe despite only wanting a normal life with him. In the TV series, she's Claudia's best friend and co-worker, who, with extreme difficulty, helps Joe to get Claudia clean and takes care of Paco.

* {{Yandere}}: Joe is a rare male example of this trope, and he kill Beck's boyfriend Benji kidnapped in the ''very first episode.''

* AbusiveParents: It's revealed in backstory that Joe's father was abusive to him, while his mom did nothing to protect him.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Gender-switched, but ''Beck'', so much, which makes the negative reaction some viewers have towards her even more noticeable. Beck of the book is cruel about Joe to her friends, telling them he has nothing but her in his life, is a GoldDigger (according to Benji, but she also takes advantage of Peach), admits that she doesn't care about Peach, and intentionally seduces most of the men around her. Television Beck is much kinder to Joe, is never rude about him to her friends, genuinely tries to help Peach, babysits Paco, and most noticeably, [[spoiler:while she does cheat on Joe with Nicky, she also permanently ends the relationship when she and Joe get back together later.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Joe watches Beck masturbate from outside her apartment, which causes him to do the same right there on the sidewalk.
** He does it again in a later episode, when he discovers a picture of Beck in a swimsuit [[spoiler: among the ''hundreds'' of photos of Beck that Peach has on her laptop.]] Joe masturbates to the picture and, when he's 'finished', [[spoiler: resumes snooping through Peach's laptop.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Joe kills Ron in episode 10, right before the man can assault Paco for standing up to him. Absolutely nobody notices he's gone, and nobody cares.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: After [[spoiler: Joe has hit Peach on the head from behind, leaving her almost dead, a recovering]] Peach very grimly tells Joe that for all of his modest BoyNextDoor behavior, it was him [[{{Beat}} ......]] who warned Peach that she might have a stalker.

* CassandraTruth: For most of the show, Joe is a twisted manipulator. But in an ironic twist, the one time he's being totally honest, that [[spoiler: Peach is setting Beck up to fail]], Beck doesn't believe him.

* CovertPervert: Joe checking Beck out when they first meet, which she isn't privy to.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Episode 4 mostly focuses on Beck.

* FriendsRentControl: Played for drama. Beck lives has a ''very'' nice living situation, but struggles to pay rent.
* {{Hypocrite}}: While it's a by-product of his obvious mental issues, it's still notable how countless times, Joe talks of someone being horrible for Beck and outraged by their lying to her when he's doing the same. Notable is his attitude toward [[spoiler: Peach]], citing it as the stalker behavior of "a person who wants her to herself, wants to control her life and not truly loving you at all." That Joe is the biggest stalker of them all never crosses his mind.

** All best summed up in the season finale where Joe goes on and on about all the dangerous people in Beck's life and how they could hurt her...[[spoiler: all while she's locked up in a glass cell, begging to be let out.]]

* {{Misogyny}}: It's made very clear that Joe doesn't respect women who aren't Beck very much, but even then, he still shows some contempt for her her more feminine personality traits and lifestyle choices.

* PsychologicalProjection: Going over [[spoiler: Peach's]] photos of Beck, Joe notes "this is not what love is. Let's call it what it is, this is perversion. She wants to control you, like she controls every inch of your life. Beck...you have a stalker."

** Peach is white in the book, but mixed-race (and adopted) in the series.
** Karen Minty is white in the book, but black in the series.

* VillainProtagonist: The show is very much told from Joe's perspective, and his actions drive the story.

* {{Yandere}}: Joe is a rare male example of this trope.

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Beck cheats on Joe with her therapist, Dr. Nicky. She denies it, but eventually admits it once Joe finds the evidence.]]

* AbandonmentIssues: Poor Beck. [[spoiler: She grew up with an addict father, who then left her mother once he got sober. The result of this is her constantly seeking validation from others, but also panicking and shutting herself off once she gets said validation, because she thinks it's going to be taken away from her.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: The final scene implies that this is the case for [[spoiler:Candace]].

** Played with in Beck's case. [[spoiler: Herfather is more neglectful than abusive, preferring to dote on his new wife and her children instead of trying to repair his relationship with Beck beyond giving her money for her tuition, rent etc.]]

* IHaveNoSon: Inverted. [[spoiler: Beck tells people that her father died of a drug overdose when she was twelve. While the overdose ''did'' happen, he survived it, sobered up and divorced Beck's mother to marry someone else.]]

* ParentsAsPeople: Very much the case for Paco's mother Claudia, who has to struggle with an abusive boyfriend as well as [[spoiler: an addiction to pills and other drugs]], knowing how it's affecting Paco but not knowing how to begin to deal with her own life.

* MoralityPet: Joe's affection for a kid who lives upstairs.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: Paco, who inadvertently reveals to Beck that Joe told him that the best place to hide things is in the tiles above the toilet, due to how the building is laid out. This ignites Beck's curiosity, which leads to her finding the evidence of Joe's murders and obsessive behavior...]]

--->'''Joe:''' How ''dare'' she (Peach) invade your privacy like this?

* ADayInLimelight: Episode 4 mostly focuses on Beck and her inner thoughts.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Both Peach and Joe have this in their conflict. Joe is right that Peach is manipulative, possessive and controlling of Beck as well as very snobby and elitist. Peach is absolutely correct to be wary of [[VillainProtagonist Joe]][[StalkerWithACrush for various]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse reasons]] and all of her accusations against Joe (that he stole her book and her laptop) are completely true.

* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Beck and her friends all went to Brown University

** Notable is when Joe sees [[spoiler: Peach]] peeking in on Beck when the latter is in the bathtub and mentally rants on how perverse it is...while he's doing ''the exact same thing''. "How long is she going to just stand there staring at you?"

* HypocriticalHumor: Joe’s indignation over Peach [[spoiler: (sort of) stalking]] Beck is played for this, compounded by the scene where he furiously questions how Peach dare invade Beck’s privacy by [[spoiler: watching her bath in secret.]] While Joe has [[''''tracked she and Beck down and broken into the house and is also watching Beck.''''

* {{Hypocrite}}: While it's a by-product of his obvious mental issues, it's still notable how countless times, Joe talks of someone being horrible for Peach and outraged by their lying to her when he's doing the same. Notable is his attitude toward [[spoiler: Peach]], citing it as the stalker behavior of "a person who wants her to herself, wants to control her life and not truly loving you at all." That Joe is the biggest stalker of them all never crosses his mind.

** All best summed up in the season finale where Joe goes on and on about all the dangerous people in Beck's life and how they could hurt her...[spoiler: all while she's locked up in a glass cell, begging to be let out.]]