So it is that “The Last Nice Guy in New York” has Joe grappling with the fact that Beck’s real personality might not entirely coalesce with the fantastical version of her he has conjured from her social media accounts. You subscribes to that age-old storytelling maxim of the best villains being the heroes in their own stories, but it’s bold enough to also imply that the heroes – or the victims – might be villains in someone else’s. I don’t believe he’s a danger to the speed-reading stairwell urchin to whom he continually shows kindness and generosity (there was a slight blip in “The Last Nice Guy in New York”, but we all make mistakes), and I believe he’s a victim himself – not of being Friendzoned, obviously, although that’s never fun, but of longstanding abuse which has clearly warped his view of the world and the people who populate it. But I believe he genuinely cares about and wants to protect Beck (Elizabeth Lail), which I suppose is the point. On the other hand, I kind of believe him.ĭon’t misunderstand me – I don’t believe he’s the good guy of this story in the same way he does. He inexplicably fell in love with a woman he met for five minutes, hijacked all her social media profiles, kidnapped her on-again-off-again boyfriend, held him hostage in a chilly vault in the basement of the book store he manages, and by the end of “The Last Nice Guy in New York” has killed him, thus throwing the episode’s title into some doubt. On the one hand, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is a maniac.
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