You Season 5 Will See The Last Of Joe Goldberg
One of Netflix’s most popular series, You returns for its fifth and final season. Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) makes his exit from our screens, one way or another, as he returns to New York City in one more set of episodes- but it looks like his past may well be finally catching up with him.
What is season 5 of You about?
Season 4 of You, which was split into two parts, wrapped up back in early 2023 with Joe heading to New York City after having some time in London, alongside Kate (Ghost’s Charlotte Ritchie). With the show revealing that the season’s mysterious figure, “The Eat the Rich Killer,” was actually Joe all along, he accepts that he is a truly bad person and a killer at heart. Having attempted to take his life by jumping off a bridge, he survives. Still at his side when he awakens in the hospital is Kate, who accepts his confession and promises to forgive him if he remains honest. But of course, he resumes his murderous ways.
Now back in New York City, Joe’s hopes of moving on and living his perfect life are dashed. The show is “back to where it began”, as Netflix says, and Joe’s past is coming back to haunt him. In the show’s release date announcement teaser trailer, his past love interests Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail), Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) and Marienne Bellamy (Tati Gabrielle) all make an appearance, along with Kate, and there’s a foreboding sense throughout that Joe (and we) are hurtling toward something bad. “Hello, you. Do you remember me? Because I remember you,” we hear in his voice. His closing words of the teaser, as he ponders the journey he’s been on, hint at a reckoning: “You, who have been there the whole time and will be there with me to the end. Goodbye, You.” So what’s in store for Joe, as he’s haunted “by the past and his own dark desires”? Will he escape this last story unharmed, or meet his end?
The rest of the cast includes Madeline Brewer (who plays a free-spirited playwright named Brontë that Joe encounters), Griffin Matthews (The Flight Attendant), Anna Camp (True Blood) and Natasha Behnam (The Girls on the Bus). Season 5 arrives on Netflix on 24th April.
