For Pedretti, Love’s murderous impulses come from the same places that Joe’s do.

“I think her core qualities are still present when she’s murdering people, in the same way Joe’s core qualities are still there when he’s murdering people,” she explained. “He has this dialogue in his brain that he’s being led to these things out of a great need to protect others. There’s no actual evidence of that. In the case of Love, there really is. She is protecting Joe. If [Joe’s ex-girlfriend] Candace and [his neighbor] Delilah had gotten out, Joe would have gotten got. She shows up for him in that moment. Obviously, it’s a crazy thing to happen. In her great efforts to protect the ones she loves, she’s willing to do anything, even if that means ending somebody else’s life.”

Pedretti – and us, the audience – may not have known what Love was capable of at the start of season two, but we definitely do now. All we can say is this: that neighbour next door better watch her back. Don’t be borrowing a cup of sugar from the Bettelheim/Quinn household. It might be laced with arsenic.

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