Is Love (Victoria Pedretti) alive in You season 4?

It had been over a year since we’d gotten new episodes of You on Netflix, making the release of season 4 all the more exciting. If you haven’t finished season 3 or simply don’t remember what goes down in the finale, we highly recommend you go back and watch ahead of the new installment! You season 3 proved to be one of the most twisted yet, and season 4 is also shocking.

Trigger Warning: Suicide

This time around, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) has a new identity and is living in London, England. At the start of season 4, he’s still trying to find Marienne (Tati Gabrielle), and he then forms a new love interest in Kate (Charlotte Ritchie).

Joe discovers a new woman to obsess over each season of You, though he was married to Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti). In season 3, however, Joe kills Love and frames her for his crimes before faking his own death and disappearing across the pond. But is Love really dead? She does not appear in You season 4 part 1, but she does in season 4 part 2. Is she alive?

Spoilers ahead for You season 4 part 2.

Is Love Quinn in You season 4?

We already knew from the You season 4 part 2 trailer that Love would be back. That’s right; the preview ends with a scene of Pedretti’s character sitting in a chair reading a book before she sees Joe and says, “hi, Joe.” Joe, understandably, looks horrified to see her.

But is Love Quinn actually alive? No, she’s not. Her quick appearance comes in season 4, episode 9 when Joe takes a tranquilizer to fall asleep and ends up having twisted dreams. He dreams of Gemma, Kate’s friend who he killed, of Guinevere Beck, his ex-girlfriend he killed, and finally of Love. But of course, all three of these women are dead and this is just a nightmare Joe is having. And honestly, it’s kind of a wake-up call for him to realize he needs to stop killing people. Well, a temporary one.

Love calls Joe out in his dream and says he has a pattern of violence with women, handing him a gun and telling him it needs to stop. When Joe wakes up, he takes this dream as a sign that he should take his own life, but after a failed attempt, he ends up surviving the season. And then he decides he’ll be a serial killer after all.

Going into season 4, we didn’t have much faith Love would actually be alive. Sera Gamble had confirmed that the character really is dead while speaking with Newsweek in a 2021 interview.

You pretty much moved on from the Joe and Love storyline in season 4, but I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say it was wonderful getting to see Pedretti again on my screen. Love was certainly a big highlight of the show.

All 10 episodes of You season 4 are now streaming on Netflix!