Joe

Joe Goldberg is a charming and seemingly normal bookstore manager who becomes obsessed with his girlfriends and often resorts to extreme measures to control their lives and eliminate any threat to the relationship. He is the biological son of Raphael Passero and Sandy Goldberg, the adoptive son of Ivan Mooney, the father of Henry Goldberg, widower of Love Quinn, and husband of Kate Lockwood. He is a lunatic serial killer and obsessive stalker who uses technology and social media to stalk the people that he says he loves. In the first season, Joe, a bookstore manager in New York, meets Guinevere Beck, an aspiring writer. He quickly becomes obsessed with her and starts stalking her on social media, using the information he finds to get closer to her. Using his charm and intelligence, Joe manipulates situations to insert himself into Beck’s life, presenting himself as the perfect boyfriend. As their relationship deepens, Joe begins to see obstacles in his way, such as Beck’s friends and her casual boyfriend, Benji Ashby. Determined to protect his relationship and ensure that Beck stays with him, Joe resorts to extreme measures, including kidnapping and murder, to eliminate anyone he sees as a threat. Meanwhile, Joe also develops a protective relationship with Paco, a young boy who lives in the same building and suffers from his mother’s neglect and his stepfather’s abuse. Joe sees Paco as a younger version of himself and tries to protect him, justifying his violent actions as a way to save those he loves. As the season progresses, Joe’s obsession with Beck becomes more intense, and he does everything he can to control every aspect of her life. Beck, on the other hand, starts to sense that something is wrong and begins to suspect that Joe is not who he appears to be. Joe is an obsessive man who develops nefarious feelings for innocent women and fills them with a desire to date them and be loved by them. He is incredibly selfish when it comes to this, as he is willing to hurt and even kill others to do so. He would lock people in his iconic glass cage and keep them captive if it would benefit his mission to woo his love interests, showing a large lack of consideration for other people. Ultimately, getting and staying in a relationship with these women has thus far never worked out, either because they lose interest in him or discover his crimes. Joe is deeply afraid of being arrested for his crimes and goes to great lengths to prevent that from happening. He murdered Beck by brutally assaulting and strangling her to death when she learned of his murders of Elijah Thornton, Benji Ashby, and Peach Salinger. That being said, Joe is shown to have boundaries and limits that he tries not to cross, even if it would benefit him to do so. This includes harming children or their parents. Joe Goldberg is a handsome man, 1.74 meters tall, with brown eyes and dark brown wavy hair that varies in length throughout the series, it is the shortest in season 1 and the longest in season 4. He is generally seen with a simple, casual clothing style, often wearing basic, comfortable clothing such as t-shirts, jeans, and sneakers. Their appearance is seen as common and discreet, which contributes to their ability to go unnoticed in different situations.