History Series / You2018

* WhamLine: "Looking forward to getting to know you...Joe" - [[spoiler:Tom Lockwood]]

* RightThroughTheWall: When Joe and Love bang for the first time, Love mentions that Forty's in the next room and that they need to be quite… but they disregard this once they get into it. Forty overhears.

** Becky [[RelationshipRevolvingDoor on-again-off-again]] cheating boyfriend Benji is terrible in bed, something that Joe smugly notices when he's [[StalkerWithACrush stalking Becky]] and [[ThePeepingTom happens to see them having sex]]. Benji not only [[SpeedSex finishes quickly]], but he's uncaring about making ''her'' climax and leaves instead, leaving a frustrated Beck to relieve herself via ADateWithRosiePalms. In a later episode, she also says that he used to nod off when trying to go down on her.

** Tom Lockwood takes this to a whole new level, mentioning that there is no crime so heinous that his wealth and influence can’t wash away. [[spoiler:This proven true in the season 4 finale, where Kate, using the Lockwood empire’s resources is able to completely rehabilitate Joe's image and even turn hin into a hero]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A common bit as what Joe thinks will be typical rom-com antics run into reality. When Joe runs to Beck's apartment to win her back he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how it's a scene right out of a romance, [[BalconyWooingScene he then throws a pebble at Beck's window to get her attention]]...only to scare her when he breaks the window.

** Generally speaking the show has been on a lighter and softer arc since its first season, which is admittedly kind of an amusing thing to say about an erotic murder thriller. The first season was a fairly piercing deconstruction of the NiceGuy trope and toxic masculinity, with a healthy amount of TakeThatAudience, with the show asking the audience to examine why it was rooting for a character who was consistently behaving in crazy and loathsome ways. Every season since then has softened Joe a little bit more and placed more emphasis on crazy murder shenanigans, to the extent that, in the first half of season four, Joe is often the least loathsome person on screen.

** While Joe is still firmly a VillainProtagonist, two changes help him to appear ''much'' more heroic: Paco and Claudia, his neighbors. Claudia is abused by her boyfriend, Ron, and Joe is the only person who takes care of Paco while this is happening. He's constantly shown to be looking out for Paco's best interests, and no-one is sad when [[spoiler:Joe finally has enough and kills Ron.]] The Joe of the book, on the other hand, is incredibly unsympathetic to kids or anyone except his infatuations and maybe Mr. Mooney.

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

* TheBeautifulElite: Most of Beck's friends are beautiful and glamorous, with Peach a particular example. Beck ''desperately'' wants to be one too, but she's constantly broke just from trying.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: At least in Paco and his mom's case. After spending so much time being stuck under the thumb of Ron, Joe finally kills him and Paco and his mother move to California once they're free from his abuse.]]

* ZipMeUp: Knowing that she has a lot of sexual tension with "Jonathan", Kate asks him to untangle her necklaces. There's a lot of focus on Joe touching her neck (complete with soft music), followed by a quick makeout session.

* BigFancyHouse:

* CastFullOfRichPeople: Just about everyone is unusually wealthy, and subverted only with Beck in Season 1. She couldn't pay rent and often had to stay in demoralizing or bad jobs, as a TA, in order to make money. It's also clear in the book that Joe is very poor, but in the series, he has no problem packing up and leaving LA at the drop of a hat, and apparently doesn't struggle to pay rent despite all of this.

*** Joe's mother was abused as well, but she did neglect him in the grocery store while drawing herself to other men, and she did abandon him. Joe met up with her later and asked if she did not ever love him. She said she did, but she could not take care of him. She did ask him to come with her and her other son and start a new, but he did not.

** [[spoiler: The Season 3 finale "What is Love?" shows a lot of homages to movies such as ''Film/{{Audition}}'' (Love paralysing Joe and later getting killed herself) and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' (Joe burning down his house to escape)]].

* SlashedThroat: This appears to be [[spoiler: Love's]] preferred method of killing people.

* UpperClassTwit: Joe clearly views Forty this way.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Subverted pointedly in Season 2. Love tells Joe that Forty thinks his first love was a nineteen-year-old au pair who "seduced" him when he was 13. She immediately says that this was abuse and the lie is simply Forty's way of dealing with the trauma.

* StockholmSyndrome:
** Subverted by [[spoiler:Beck. She makes Joe believe that she loves him and understands him, before stabbing him so that she could get away.]]
** Played straight by Will in Season 2. He genuinely comes to admire Joe.
** Implied to be the case with Joe and Mr. Mooney. Joe genuinely cares for and admires the old man, despite his upbringing including verbal abuse, slaps to the face, and being locked in a cage for days on end. That said, he does refer to Mooney as "a Soviet prison guard," so he's not completely clueless about how badly he was treated.

* WhamEpisode: "Candace" in Season 1. [[spoiler:Joe and Beck's relationship goes through standard-ish ups and downs as evidence begins to pile up that Joe killed his ex. Then, at the end, after Paco tips Beck off about Joe's hiding place in the bathroom ceiling, she discovers a box of CreepySouvenirs that prove that her boyfriend is a SerialKiller, which earns her a one-way ticket to the glass cage when Joe finds out.]]