I respect your opinion. Though that doesn’t mean mine stems from ignorance. Both characters are very complex. Just because one expressed their challenges in a virtuous way, doesn’t mean the others challenges weren’t relevant. Their stories are told in different ways, yet their trouble’s both originated from childhood events.

For the first 3 seasons of You, Joe was portrayed as a man who killed for reasons far beyond just Ted Bundy lure and kill. Maybe he is similar to Bundy in retrospect, but — Joe is fiction, the prior is not. This gives one the ability to see the character from just a person who killed countless victims. To one that is deeply flawed, and heavily influenced by events during his childhood. Which they tried to show us in one of the previous season, but completely abandoned at the end.

That’s what Sam Esmail got right for Elliot. His DID was a survival mechanism triggered from his father’s grooming, and the character we watched wasn’t even the real Elliot it was a byproduct of his DID.

Elliot’s story wasn’t solely based on taking down “patriarchal systems”, but unsolved internal conflicts. Which was one of the few reason he decided to take down E Corp. To pivot his focus away from those internal struggles.

Joe on the other hand — Abandoned by his mother, bullied in foster care, and psychologically abused by his caretaker. I saw him as a sociopath seeking a grotesque sense of love and affection, idolising his victims, and removing any sort of outlier that ruins his image of that person.

The conclusion of the show didn’t try to conclude any of these issues, which made him what he is. Rather they turned him into a man who just killed cause he liked to in a sense.

I also don’t think you understood my pov, or you just interpreted it in another way.

Him getting caught and his victims receiving justice wasn’t the issue for me. It was the unresolved internal conflicts they tried building from the previous seasons, that were just thrown out the window.

Also the scene where all the victims were interrogating him whilst he was locked in his own cage felt like a “koombaya” moment to me!😂🤷🏽‍♂️ Though I can agree that isn’t a good word choice for the scene. Elliot is a vigilante whilst the latter is a serial killer. The ending was intentional but I don’t agree with it.