We've saved the best (or worst?) for last. When I got to that, I was like, No! Not the kid. I was like, What is happening? She's going off the rails. Especially Theo (Dylan Arnold). "As well as all of the times I hit a death that Love did. "Love's death-I was very mind blown by that," Gabrielle told Marie Claire. Love dies, uttering the words, "We're perfect for each other." She commits to killing him with a sharpened knife, just before Joe stabs her with a poisoned needle. Eventually Love realizes it isn't that she's not a "good enough" wife. How did Love get so much poison? She was growing it in their backyard and storing it alongside her baking supplies all along! She tries to hurt Marienne, inviting her to their house, but ultimately can't. Yes, she poisoned Joe-she just wanted him to slow down so she had time to convince him to love her again. She then cooks an elaborate dinner for Joe during which she reveals her evil master plan. She realizes that it was Joe who killed Ryan because Joe is in love with Marienne. (The winner? Julia.) Another baby will definitely solve all these issues! Then Love finds the smoking gun, of sorts: Joe's bloody t-shirt in Henry's diaper pail. In the finale, Love-fresh off of trying and failing to kill her teenage lover, Theo-is blissfully looking at girl baby names. But ultimately Love's story is a jaw-dropping tragedy, despite her best efforts at being crafty and murderous. We have to give Love some credit for trying to outsmart Joe. I feel like that's what Marienne was not only trying to stress to Love but even stress and remind herself.
In an interview with Marie Claire, Tati Gabrielle, who plays Marienne, said: "When I first I read that scene, I loved it: the idea of two women having a conversation over something that is very touchy and being able to uplift each other through that and save each other through that.At the end of the day, you can never love someone else properly until you love yourself. Marienne takes the advice-even encouraging Love to also run from Joe-and leaves Madre Linda, changing her phone number. Love lets Marienne live and even warns her to "disappear" because Joe is not who he seems to be. Moments before Love attacks Marienne, her daughter Juliet appears at the door and Love has a sympathetic change of heart for a fellow mother. Love divulges Joe's manipulative ways and even that it was Joe who actually killed Ryan. Marienne quickly realizes that Love knows about her and Joe's affair and that she's in danger. But Love gets wind of their romance and once Joe's indisposed, Love texts Marienne to come to their house. She and Joe decide to take their kids and run away together. Marienne (Tati Gabrielle), Joe's library crush, discovers in the finale that her terrible ex, Ryan (Scott Michael Foster) has been killed by a mugger.