In the 'You' Season 3 Trailer, Joe and Love Are Suffocating in the Suburbs

Two years after the second season dropped, You will finally return with its third installment.

Season 2 of the hit thriller followed Joe (Penn Badgley) and his homicidal tendencies to Los Angeles as he fled his past life, landing in the arms of a pastry chef named Love (Victoria Pedretti). Eventually, Joe learned that Love is more similar to him than he thought—and that he's going to be a father.

Netflix just announced that the series will return in October with a chilling teaser narrated by Joe himself. Here's what we know so far about the next chapter of Joe Goldberg's story.

The just-dropped trailer teases a new (doomed) love interest for Joe.

In the official trailer for You's third season, Joe and Love are adjusting to suburban married life and becoming new parents. The suburbs appear to have a suffocating effect on the couple, however, and Joe becomes interested in (or should we say obsessed with?) a pretty blonde in the neighborhood.

Season 3 premieres October 15 on Netflix.

The new teaser welcomes Joe and Love's bundle of joy. It shows a pair of hands, presumably those of Love, making a cake for their newborn. While the hands crush eggshells and wipe drops of blood-red icing off a knife, Joe opines about having a son, at one point saying that the idea of raising a boy like him was "not without his challenges."

The trailer ends with two reveals: that the new season will premiere this October, and that Joe and Love's son will have the literary name Henry. A gender reveal has never been quite so sinister.

You was renewed for a third season in January 2020.

You has been renewed for a third season consisting of 10 episodes, Netflix announced on January 14, 2020. At the time TVLine confirmed that the next installment would arrive in 2021, but didn't specify when. Considering delays caused by the pandemic, it's unclear if the season is still set to arrive this year.

The renewal announcement arrived weeks after Penn Badgley, who stars as lead Joe Goldberg, seemed to let the news slip in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.

When asked about the development of Love's character, Badgley said, "Dare I say, I think in the third season..." And as soon as he realized what he'd said, Badgley tried to backtrack: "I literally know nothing about the third season."

When the interviewer pressed the Gossip Girl star on whether more You would be coming to Netflix, Badgley squirmed, "Technically I can’t…I mean, like, unofficially."

Penn Badgley and Victoria Pedretti are coming back.

Netflix confirmed that Badgley (Joe) and Pedretti, who was introduced in Season 2 as Love Quinn, are confirmed to reprise their roles in Season 3.

You's co-creators Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, who is also the showrunner, are returning as executive producers as well.

And as for the dynamic between Joe and Love in Season 3, Gamble revealed on Us Weekly's Watch With Us podcast, "He has a baby on the way and Love has moved from that perfect girl that he’s trying to win to the real girl, who’s maybe not exactly what he’s expected… to something much more like a wife."

Production has resumed.

Netflix confirmed the news by posting a selfie of Badgley in a You-themed face mask. "We recommend you stay at least 6 feet from Joe Goldberg at all times. YOU Season 3 is back in production," a tweet read.

Some "fresh blood" is joining You Season 3.

In October 2020, it was announced that Badgley and Pedretti would be joined by two new characters in the upcoming third season of You. As noted by one of Netflix's Twitter accounts, "Fresh blood joining You Season 3: Shalita Grant will play Sherry, a 'Mom-fluencer' who appears down to earth, but is actually a mean girl who only pretends to welcome Love into her social circle."

Also joining the new season is Travis VanWinkle, who "will play the wealthy Cary, who invites Joe into his inner circle." Whether or not either new character will survive the season is anyone's guess.

Deadline also reports that Scott Speedman of Animal Kingdom will have a recurring role. "Speedman will play Matthew, a successful CEO, husband, and uncommunicative father," according to the outlet. "He’s reserved, at times mysterious, and has a tendency to be withdrawn, all of which masks a deep well of emotion underneath."

Saffron Burrows, who plays Love's mother, has been promoted to a series regular, the outlet reported in November 2020. Actors Tati Gabrielle (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and Dylan Arnold (Nashville) will also be regulars. Michaela McManus, Shannon Chan-Kent, Ben Mehl, Chris O’Shea, Christopher Sean, Bryan Safi, Mackenzie Astin, Ayelet Zurer, Jack Fisher, and Mauricio Lara will appear in recurring roles.

Deadline announced that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Scott Michael Foster would also appear in You's third season.

Season 3 would shoot in California.

While Season 1 was all about New York, Season 2 saw Joe head to California, and it looks like he's sticking around. As reported by Deadline, a potential third season of You was awarded $7.213 million in the latest round of California tax credits recipients.

Season 3 will explore Joe's abilities as a father.

One of You's executive producers, Sera Gamble, told Cosmopolitan UK, "I will say that we have an idea for season three that is SO exciting that people talk about it in the [writer's] room everyday. So my fingers are crossed... I'll just say, I hope we get the chance to keep making the show."

And speaking on Us Weekly's Watch With Us podcast, Gamble said, "I think the very best thing inside of Joe is his desire to protect innocent young people. That’s so sincere. It’s obvious that he doesn’t have any ulterior motive beyond maybe just wanting another kid to have a better childhood than he did." She continued, "I mean, the argument can be made that he saved both [Paco and Ellie], but the argument can probably more strongly be made that he came into their lives and destroyed them."

One writer is interested in exploring the story of Love's mom.

You showrunner Sera Gamble spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the ending of Season 2, and although she didn't confirm whether Season 3 is in the works, she did drop hints of what she'd want to explore if the show continues.

"The stakes are pretty high. I have so many questions about Love’s mother who’s incredibly in the picture at the end of the season, like how much she really knows about her children," Gamble told EW. "We wrote [the finale] hoping that we will get the opportunity to tell more story because we’re really excited with the seeds planted at the end of season 2."

Those seeds are, of course, (SPOILER ALERT!) the revelations that Love is a killer like Joe, that she's pregnant with his child, and that when they move in together, Joe begins to get fixated on the neighbor. How would Mrs. Quinn react if she knew the truth about her daughter's past? She already has a rocky relationship with Love, as we learn in Season 2; where could their story go next?

The author is writing more sequels.

While Season 1 of You was based on Caroline Kepnes's novel of the same name, Season 2 draws from the sequel, Hidden Bodies.

As yet, there aren't any more Joe Goldberg books, but there could be soon. Kepnes's Twitter bio reads, "Yes, I’m writing a third Joe book. And a fourth. No, I’m not done yet." So watch this space.

Kepnes told i News in September 2019 that in the third book, Joe decides to move to a small island: "He moves there for love reasons, for the greater good. But then he discovers there are no murders because they’re all too co-dependent. It was an exciting challenge to figure out how to kill people in a place where there’s so much intimacy in the community."

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