
We’ve all consumed so much of it, so I find that it’s harder to be surprised.” “That’s always exciting.”Īdds Victoria Pedretti, “It’s fun when you can subvert people’s expectations on television these days. “I was into it, because it was like, ‘Oh, this is going to go in some other direction,'” Penn Badgley tells TVLine. The conversation at the beginning of Season 3 was ‘What do you think would happen if you were a viewer?’ And it’s that Michaela would be in the whole season, so we were like, ‘She’s got to go in Episode 1.'”įor the record, the actors who play Natalie’s killer and the object of her affection are both down with the brutal twist. So we did a lot of stuff in Season 2 to try to do that. “I’m going to say this, and Future Me is going to be really pissed that I said this out loud: With a show like this, where Season 1 was such a particular fun, twisty ride coming off of Caroline book, we really had to prove to you at the beginning of Season 2 that we would still be able to surprise you. “You do have to keep switching things up,” showrunner Sera Gamble tells TVLine of the big twist. As soon as Love puts the pieces together and figures out that something is happening between Natalie and Joe, she bashes the poor woman over the head… and kills her. Unfortunately - spoiler alert, again! - that bakery is the last place Natalie ever goes. The two women even become friends, with Natalie putting on her realtor hat to help Love find a spot to open her new bakery.


In fact, the only surprise here is that Joe finds the wherewithal to reject her advances, returning home to release all of his pent-up sexual energy on Love. So it’s no surprise when Natalie invites Joe over to her home, “accidentally” cuts her hand on a wine glass, then takes him to her reading room for a little bump and grind. He also puts on his finest stalker cap and follows Natalie to the library, where she keeps the flirtation going by leaving a book for him at the front desk. And you know it’s love, because Joe even gives Natalie the Beck Special (aka pleasuring himself in public while thinking about her).
