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You S3 Ep 9: Red Flag
By Tara Ariano
Oct 16, 2021 at 7:00pm
I’m sure there are viewers out there who would dispute my characterizing You as a comedy — an extremely dark one, of course, but a comedy just the same — and to bolster my case as to genre, I would direct those viewers to the opening scene of “Red Flag” (You Season 3 Episode 9) in which Sherry and Cary remain so committed to their tools of healthy communication that they employ a colored flag system to protect honest disclosures…WHILE THEY ARE BOTH TRAPPED IN A CAGE. The absurdities in this, the season’s penultimate episode, only pile up from here!
In the aftermath of the failed fourgy, the Quinn-Goldbergs have split up the workload: Love volunteered to figure out what to do with the Conrads, leaving Joe to set the house aright. In the process, he disposes of all the sex toys, keeps the case of drugs, and then chances upon a zippered pouch containing a handgun. He evokes Chekhov’s famous principle while pondering what to do with it: either he keeps it and probably ends up shooting someone with it, or else he leaves it somewhere for someone else to use on him. For now, he takes it with him…
…to a liquor store, where Dante has directed him in fear that an unresponsive Marienne has gone there. She confirms Joe’s and Dante’s fears: the judge ruled against her. Worse yet, Ryan is moving to New Jersey for a new job in cable news, and bringing Juliette with him. Joe reveals, “I killed someone.” (Elaborating, he only mentions his very first murder, of his mother’s partner.) Marienne agrees with him that this event did not doom Joe for the rest of his life. They both also agree that their kids have given meaning to their struggles. When their faces are, once again, helplessly drawn toward each other, Marienne says she can’t cause any more damage, but Joe promises that she can’t: he’s ending his marriage…and even though this is the oldest line in the book (however much Joe thinks he means it in this moment, Love keeps finding ways to keep him from dumping her!), it gets Joe invited back to Marienne’s, where they finally have sex for real.
Meanwhile, Sherry’s strategy for getting out is to behave as though there is no cage between her and Love, raving about the pastries Love has passed through and reminding her about the letter of introduction she needs to write and deliver to the counselor at the Ashman School — she even offers to help Love write it! Love is thrown by Sherry’s very warm manner before meeting Theo in the alley. He tells her about the video of Joe punching the wall as well as the scope of Matthew’s surveillance. Theo’s leaving town, and he wants Love to come with him. He’ll take he “maybe” for now, and when he goes back to his car and sees a CC camera mounted outside the jeweler across the street pointed toward the alley, he assumes Matthew will see it eventually and flips it double birds.
While Love waits for Joe to see her “WE HAVE A PROBLEM” text, she returns to the cage and uses Sherry’s face to unlock her phone: she needs to post an update to explain Sherry’s silence to her followers. “You are so smart, Love, even under stress,” gasps Sherry. Love tells her to stop trying to be her friend, but Sherry insists they really are friends. She doesn’t even disagree when Love calls Madre Linda a pit of “narcissistic vipers”: narcissism is control, Sherry says. She crafts her influencer persona so that she can choose which flaws to expose. “Look where that got you,” Love snorts. Warming to the theme, Sherry muses that she’s been in a cage of her own making since she had kids — since she got married, even. Connecting on a human level works, for the moment: Love tells Sherry about Theo’s invitation, and about Matthew’s footage. Sherry has a great idea: Love should write a post on Sherry’s blog outing him!
After listening to Love’s message about Matthew’s videos, Joe assumes that Love has probable ly already killed him and the Conrads, but he’s about to absorb an even harder blow: talking with Joe has convinced Marienne that she needs to follow Juliette to New Jersey.
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Joe’s going to need to prevent this from occurring by solving Marienne’s “impossible problem”: Ryan. There’s precedent of a sort, as we flash back to poor Nurse Fiona. Now she has a brace on her wrist and her boyfriend has no compunction about yelling at her in her office where the kids can hear. Little Joe sees Travis pause at the stop of the same staircase he didn’t push his own bully down, but when a memory of killing his mother’s boyfriend causes him to hesitate, Travis walks away and Joe misses his chance; soon after that, news comes that something bad has happened to Nurse Fiona. In the present, Joe once again comes across the gun he’d brought with him to Marienne’s. His internal monologue is resolved: “Ryan has to die.”
Joe gets home to good news: Love tells him about Sherry’s blog post, which has already sent a phalanx of “suits” from Matthew’s company to his house. “It must be said, Love is good at all of this,” Joe’s internal monologue grudgingly admits. When they’re hugging in relief, Love feels the gun in his waistband and, after getting over her shock, suggests they use it to deal with the Conrads: “We could make it look like a murder-suicide. Worked for us once before.” “Listen to her,” grumbles Joe’s internal monologue. “Our marriage cannot end soon enough.”
Next door, Theo has JUST put some of the most salient videos on a flash drive when Matthew’s main suit Jean (Marcia Cross!) orders him into his office. She invites him to show her what he thinks Joe or Love did, on the basis of which she…basically describes all the events surrounding Natalie’s death and its cover-up with impressive accuracy. Matthew knows how crazy his theory sounds, and Jean gently suggests that Natalie was “a beautiful, flawed person” who kept secrets from him, and then less gently reminds him that all this evidence of his illegal spying has got to go before the authorities come looking for it. Matthew very reluctantly complies.
Love’s last stop before driving the letter to Ashman is to collect trash from the cage. Now Sherry’s gambit is to get Love on her side by driving a wedge between Love and Joe: “Fuck him, letting you fix a marriage that never stood a chance in the first place!” Love cannot countenance this criticism of her beloved teammate, and shoves the gun into the pass-through compartment: one of them is going to shoot the other, and Love will release the survivor.
For all Joe’s complaints about Love’s “impulsiveness,” he is certainly not displaying much pragmatism when he stalks Ryan to the gym. He intends to kill Ryan with an overdose of Cary’s drugs (though he also has a knife), but Ryan gets the jump on him. They grapple, and Ryan goes over a parking lot railing to a small green space below.
When this fails to kill Ryan, Joe is forced to race down there and stab the shit out of him, walking away when the first couple of yoga students come out and can still see Ryan’s assailant up the block. All this talk of surveillance cameras and Joe doesn’t assume there’s one directly outside the door of this public establishment? …Okay!
Speaking of, Theo pulls up the Natalie playlist Matthew had been fixated on and notices something Matthew somehow hadn’t: the camera at the jeweler’s caught Joe putting something in the trunk of Natalie’s car and driving it out of the alley. Theo goes straight to the bakery — which is closed but with the front door unlocked? — looking for Love, including in the basement while, in a room Theo doesn’t enter, Sherry and Cary are arguing about whether the walls of the cage are bulletproof. Theo is about to leave when he hears a gunshot…
…because Cary has tried, and failed, to shoot the door open, and the ricochet has struck Sherry in the ear.
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Joe and Chekhov did not predict this outcome! Sherry’s just seized the gun and turned it on Cary when Theo uses a stand mixer to break down the door. As they scream explanations and beg Theo to get them out, he refuses to believe Love has had any part in their imprisonment, but does focus on the matter at hand and go searching for a key…
…which he finds just in time for Love to return, scary calm, and tell him he has to leave town and never come back. He begs her to go with him, but with tears streaming perfectly down her cheeks, she says she can’t. Theo seems to realize through this conversation that the Conrads’ accusations are true and Love is involved, particularly when she asks him to return the key and claims she’s going to let them out as soon as he leaves. He’s barely taken one step toward the door when Love bludgeons him with a fire extinguisher. The blow sends him tumbling down the stairs, where he strikes his head and bleeds A LOT.
WHO WILL SURVIVE THE YOU SEASON 3 FINALE? And HOW?!!?!??!?!?
I’m sure there are viewers out there who would dispute my characterizing You as a comedy — an extremely dark one, of course, but a comedy just the same — and to bolster my case as to genre, I would direct those viewers to the opening scene of “Red Flag” (You Season 3 Episode 9) in which Sherry and Cary remain so committed to their tools of healthy communication that they employ a colored flag system to protect honest disclosures…WHILE THEY ARE BOTH TRAPPED IN A CAGE. The absurdities in this, the season’s penultimate episode, only pile up from here!
In the aftermath of the failed fourgy, the Quinn-Goldbergs have split up the workload: Love volunteered to figure out what to do with the Conrads, leaving Joe to set the house aright. In the process, he disposes of all the sex toys, keeps the case of drugs, and then chances upon a zippered pouch containing a handgun. He evokes Chekhov’s famous principle while pondering what to do with it: either he keeps it and probably ends up shooting someone with it, or else he leaves it somewhere for someone else to use on him. For now, he takes it with him…
…to a liquor store, where Dante has directed him in fear that an unresponsive Marienne has gone there. She confirms Joe’s and Dante’s fears: the judge ruled against her. Worse yet, Ryan is moving to New Jersey for a new job in cable news, and bringing Juliette with him. Joe reveals, “I killed someone.” (Elaborating, he only mentions his very first murder, of his mother’s partner.) Marienne agrees with him that this event did not doom Joe for the rest of his life. They both also agree that their kids have given meaning to their struggles. When their faces are, once again, helplessly drawn toward each other, Marienne says she can’t cause any more damage, but Joe promises that she can’t: he’s ending his marriage…and even though this is the oldest line in the book (however much Joe thinks he means it in this moment, Love keeps finding ways to keep him from dumping her!), it gets Joe invited back to Marienne’s, where they finally have sex for real.
Meanwhile, Sherry’s strategy for getting out is to behave as though there is no cage between her and Love, raving about the pastries Love has passed through and reminding her about the letter of introduction she needs to write and deliver to the counselor at the Ashman School — she even offers to help Love write it! Love is thrown by Sherry’s very warm manner before meeting Theo in the alley. He tells her about the video of Joe punching the wall as well as the scope of Matthew’s surveillance. Theo’s leaving town, and he wants Love to come with him. He’ll take he “maybe” for now, and when he goes back to his car and sees a CC camera mounted outside the jeweler across the street pointed toward the alley, he assumes Matthew will see it eventually and flips it double birds.
While Love waits for Joe to see her “WE HAVE A PROBLEM” text, she returns to the cage and uses Sherry’s face to unlock her phone: she needs to post an update to explain Sherry’s silence to her followers. “You are so smart, Love, even under stress,” gasps Sherry. Love tells her to stop trying to be her friend, but Sherry insists they really are friends. She doesn’t even disagree when Love calls Madre Linda a pit of “narcissistic vipers”: narcissism is control, Sherry says. She crafts her influencer persona so that she can choose which flaws to expose. “Look where that got you,” Love snorts. Warming to the theme, Sherry muses that she’s been in a cage of her own making since she had kids — since she got married, even. Connecting on a human level works, for the moment: Love tells Sherry about Theo’s invitation, and about Matthew’s footage. Sherry has a great idea: Love should write a post on Sherry’s blog outing him!
After listening to Love’s message about Matthew’s videos, Joe assumes that Love has probable ly already killed him and the Conrads, but he’s about to absorb an even harder blow: talking with Joe has convinced Marienne that she needs to follow Juliette to New Jersey.
Joe’s going to need to prevent this from occurring by solving Marienne’s “impossible problem”: Ryan. There’s precedent of a sort, as we flash back to poor Nurse Fiona. Now she has a brace on her wrist and her boyfriend has no compunction about yelling at her in her office where the kids can hear. Little Joe sees Travis pause at the stop of the same staircase he didn’t push his own bully down, but when a memory of killing his mother’s boyfriend causes him to hesitate, Travis walks away and Joe misses his chance; soon after that, news comes that something bad has happened to Nurse Fiona. In the present, Joe once again comes across the gun he’d brought with him to Marienne’s. His internal monologue is resolved: “Ryan has to die.”
Joe gets home to good news: Love tells him about Sherry’s blog post, which has already sent a phalanx of “suits” from Matthew’s company to his house. “It must be said, Love is good at all of this,” Joe’s internal monologue grudgingly admits. When they’re hugging in relief, Love feels the gun in his waistband and, after getting over her shock, suggests they use it to deal with the Conrads: “We could make it look like a murder-suicide. Worked for us once before.” “Listen to her,” grumbles Joe’s internal monologue. “Our marriage cannot end soon enough.”
Next door, Theo has JUST put some of the most salient videos on a flash drive when Matthew’s main suit Jean (Marcia Cross!) orders him into his office. She invites him to show her what he thinks Joe or Love did, on the basis of which she…basically describes all the events surrounding Natalie’s death and its cover-up with impressive accuracy. Matthew knows how crazy his theory sounds, and Jean gently suggests that Natalie was “a beautiful, flawed person” who kept secrets from him, and then less gently reminds him that all this evidence of his illegal spying has got to go before the authorities come looking for it. Matthew very reluctantly complies.
Love’s last stop before driving the letter to Ashman is to collect trash from the cage. Now Sherry’s gambit is to get Love on her side by driving a wedge between Love and Joe: “Fuck him, letting you fix a marriage that never stood a chance in the first place!” Love cannot countenance this criticism of her beloved teammate, and shoves the gun into the pass-through compartment: one of them is going to shoot the other, and Love will release the survivor.
For all Joe’s complaints about Love’s “impulsiveness,” he is certainly not displaying much pragmatism when he stalks Ryan to the gym. He intends to kill Ryan with an overdose of Cary’s drugs (though he also has a knife), but Ryan gets the jump on him. They grapple, and Ryan goes over a parking lot railing to a small green space below.
When this fails to kill Ryan, Joe is forced to race down there and stab the shit out of him, walking away when the first couple of yoga students come out and can still see Ryan’s assailant up the block. All this talk of surveillance cameras and Joe doesn’t assume there’s one directly outside the door of this public establishment? …Okay!
Speaking of, Theo pulls up the Natalie playlist Matthew had been fixated on and notices something Matthew somehow hadn’t: the camera at the jeweler’s caught Joe putting something in the trunk of Natalie’s car and driving it out of the alley. Theo goes straight to the bakery — which is closed but with the front door unlocked? — looking for Love, including in the basement while, in a room Theo doesn’t enter, Sherry and Cary are arguing about whether the walls of the cage are bulletproof. Theo is about to leave when he hears a gunshot…
…because Cary has tried, and failed, to shoot the door open, and the ricochet has struck Sherry in the ear.
Joe and Chekhov did not predict this outcome! Sherry’s just seized the gun and turned it on Cary when Theo uses a stand mixer to break down the door. As they scream explanations and beg Theo to get them out, he refuses to believe Love has had any part in their imprisonment, but does focus on the matter at hand and go searching for a key…
…which he finds just in time for Love to return, scary calm, and tell him he has to leave town and never come back. He begs her to go with him, but with tears streaming perfectly down her cheeks, she says she can’t. Theo seems to realize through this conversation that the Conrads’ accusations are true and Love is involved, particularly when she asks him to return the key and claims she’s going to let them out as soon as he leaves. He’s barely taken one step toward the door when Love bludgeons him with a fire extinguisher. The blow sends him tumbling down the stairs, where he strikes his head and bleeds A LOT.
WHO WILL SURVIVE THE YOU SEASON 3 FINALE? And HOW?!!?!??!?!?
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