Character Relationship Map: You

Characters

• Joe Goldberg (played by Penn Badgley) — protagonist

  The series protagonist, a bookstore manager who becomes dangerously obsessive and violent toward his romantic interests. He relocates across cities to escape his past, assumes new identities, and repe...

• Guinevere Beck (played by Elizabeth Lail) — protagonist

  An aspiring writer whom Joe meets in New York City and becomes obsessively infatuated with. He uses social media and technology to track and watch her, while removing obstacles to their romance.

• Kate Galvin (played by Charlotte Ritchie) — supporting

  A woman Joe encounters in London during his fourth season. He develops romantic feelings for her while posing as an English professor and trying to clear his name after being framed for a series of mu...

• Love Quinn (played by Victoria Pedretti) — supporting

  An avid chef whom Joe meets in Los Angeles. Joe falls into his familiar patterns of obsession and violence while trying to make their relationship succeed, unaware at first that Love has dark secrets...

• Dottie Quinn (played by Saffron Burrows) — supporting
• Marienne Bellamy (played by Tati Gabrielle) — supporting

  A local librarian who becomes the focus of Joe's romantic obsession during his life in Madre Linda. In the fourth season, Joe follows her around Europe while attempting to locate her.

• Maddie Lockwood / Reagan Lockwood (played by Anna Camp) — supporting
• Sherry Conrad (played by Shalita Grant) — supporting
• Nadia Farran (played by Amy-Leigh Hickman) — supporting
• Phoebe Borehall-Blaxworth (played by Tilly Keeper) — supporting
• Cary Conrad (played by Travis Van Winkle) — supporting
• Theo Engler (played by Dylan Arnold) — supporting
• Candace Stone (played by Ambyr Childers) — supporting

  Joe's ex-girlfriend, who seeks revenge after he buried her alive before his relationship with Beck. Joe moves to Los Angeles and adopts a new identity in part to avoid her.

• Adam Pratt (played by Lukas Gage) — supporting
• Ellie Alves (played by Jenna Ortega) — supporting
• Delilah Alves (played by Carmela Zumbado) — supporting
• Rhys Montrose (played by Ed Speleers) — supporting
• Forty Quinn (played by James Scully) — supporting
• Peach Salinger (played by Shay Mitchell) — supporting
• Matthew Engler (played by Scott Speedman) — cameo

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Love Quinn → Forty Quinn (Siblings) — Love's protective bond with Forty shapes her choices and is connected to the Quinn family's history of violence and control.

  "Forty is Love's brother. Love supports him through his project and grief, while describing him as unpredictable and trying to manage the consequences...

• Joe Goldberg → Love Quinn (Marriage and destructive partnership) — Joe and Love mirror and threaten one another as lovers, spouses, co-parents, and violent partners.

  "Joe pursues Love in Season 2, learns that she has committed violence, and enters family life with her in Season 3. Their marriage deteriorates amid s...

• Joe Goldberg → Guinevere Beck (Obsessive romance) — Joe's idealized romance with Beck becomes a pattern of surveillance, control, and violence whose consequences resurface years later.

  "Joe meets Beck in the bookstore in Season 1, secretly monitors her, and pursues a relationship with her. Beck eventually discovers his secrets, and h...

• Sherry Conrad → Cary Conrad (Married partners) — Their partnership is tested by captivity and danger, and they confront the crisis together.

  "Sherry and Cary are imprisoned together in Joe and Love's basement in Season 3 and face the threat as a couple."

• Joe Goldberg → Candace Stone (Former partners and adversaries) — Their former romance becomes a source of fear, exposure, and lasting suspicion surrounding Joe.

  "Candace is identified as Joe's former partner in Season 1, and Joe's memories and evasions make her disappearance a source of suspicion. He relocates...

• Joe Goldberg → Marienne Bellamy (Obsession and threatened romance) — Joe's pursuit of Marienne repeats his pattern of turning attraction into surveillance and control.

  "Joe becomes fixated on Marienne while married to Love in Season 3. In Season 4 he follows her around Europe, and Season 5 revisits their affair and i...

• Joe Goldberg → Kate Galvin (Romance and partnership) — Their relationship grows from guarded attraction into a partnership entangled with Joe's concealed history and Kate's power and responsibilities.

  "Kate introduces Joe to her London social circle in Season 4, and their relationship continues into Season 5. Kate later learns more about Joe's past,...

• Love Quinn → Dottie Quinn (Mother and daughter) — Dottie's pressure and the Quinn family's history weigh on Love's attempts to create a stable family life.

  "Dottie is Love's mother and pressures her in Season 3. Joe discusses the suspicious fate of Love's former husband with Dottie."

• Matthew Engler → Theo Engler (Father and son) — Their family connection is part of the Madre Linda events and the risks created by Joe and Love's actions.

  "Theo is identified in the Season 3 context as Matthew Engler's son, and a local professor confronts Joe and Love after his son is endangered."

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Joe Goldberg → Delilah Alves (Captive and threat to Joe's secrets) — Delilah's discovery of Joe's crimes turns her into a captive, while Joe's uncertainty about her fate exposes his fear of being revealed.

  "In Season 2, Joe imprisons Delilah after she discovers his secrets and considers whether she might expose him. He later finds her apparently dead in...

• Guinevere Beck → Peach Salinger (Close friendship) — Their friendship is close and influential, but Peach's protectiveness and Joe's suspicions complicate Beck's relationships.

  "Peach is part of Beck's close social circle and tries to influence Beck's choices. Beck later writes an essay about Peach that goes viral and earns h...

• Joe Goldberg → Peach Salinger (Rivalry over Beck) — Their antagonism grows from competing claims over Beck's wellbeing and Joe's efforts to remove Peach as an obstacle.

  "Joe believes Peach is manipulating Beck and interfering with his relationship. Peach suspects Joe of stalking her, stealing her belongings, and attac...

• Love Quinn → Sherry Conrad (Captive and adversary) — Love's effort to contain the consequences of her violence turns her relationship with Sherry into direct antagonism.

  "Love and Joe imprison Sherry and Cary after the conflict in Madre Linda escalates. Love believes they must act together and that the Conrads have to...

• Joe Goldberg → Nadia Farran (Investigator and target) — Nadia's inquiries bring her into opposition to the danger and concealment surrounding Joe.

  "Nadia follows a hunch in Season 4 and later scrambles for a solution as Joe's history and the London events unfold. Season 5 continues to place her a...

• Joe Goldberg → Rhys Montrose (Identity-linked antagonist) — The Rhys connection is tied to the anonymous messages, the London murders, and a secret that follows Joe into his later life.

  "In Season 4, Joe is contacted by an anonymous stalker calling himself Hello, Joe, and the murders in the London social circle lead into the Rhys stor...

Story Analysis

Across five seasons, Joe repeatedly recasts obsession as love and violence as protection. New relationships and identities offer temporary resets, while the consequences of his past accumulate and return.

Plot Progression

1. Season 1: Beck and the Obsession — Joe meets Beck and turns his fascination into secret surveillance and a controlling romance. Conflict with Peach and the return of Candace's history expose the danger behind Joe's self-image.
2. Season 2: Love and the Past — Joe relocates to Los Angeles and becomes involved with Love while attempting to hide his identity and past. Love's confession about Delilah changes Joe's understanding of their relationship and its da...
3. Season 3: The Suburban Marriage — Joe and Love try to build family life in Madre Linda as murder, suspicion, and Joe's fixation on Marienne undermine their marriage. Their attempts to contain the consequences culminate in a destructiv...
4. Season 4: The London Mystery — Living under a false identity, Joe enters Kate's London social circle and becomes implicated in a series of murders. Anonymous messages, police attention, and Nadia's suspicions make Joe's new life in...
5. Season 5: The Past Returns — Joe attempts to maintain a stable life with Kate while family conflict and scrutiny challenge his account of himself. Evidence and accusations connected to Beck, Marienne, Love, and other past events...