Season 5 of You, launched April 24 on Netflix, brings Joe Goldberg’s long-running story to a dramatic shut. After years of stalking, manipulation, and homicide throughout main cities, Joe (performed by Penn Badgley) lastly faces the results of his actions.
The ultimate season sees Joe trying to flee to Canada together with his spouse Kate Galvin (Charlotte Ritchie), after surviving a hearth in his bookstore basement. However Kate wasn’t working alone, she secretly teamed up with survivors Marienne (Tati Gabrielle) and Nadia (Amy-Leigh Hickman) to cease him. Their objective: entice Joe in his notorious glass cage.
The trio additionally managed to show Joe’s newest obsession, author Louise Flannery aka Brontë (Madeline Brewer), in opposition to him. Brontë, who had her suspicions, realized the reality about Joe after studying extra concerning the demise of her mentor Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail), killed in season one.
After rescuing Joe from the hearth, Brontë performed alongside. When Joe proposed, her internal ideas revealed her true intention: “I’m the one individual on the earth that may cease you.”
The couple went on the run to upstate New York, hiding in a distant cabin. Brontë was momentarily tempted by Joe’s allure however stayed centered. Throughout a romantic boat experience, she known as it ‘peak romance,’ however the second didn’t final.
That evening, she confronted Joe in mattress, pulling a gun from behind the pillow. She compelled him to confess what actually occurred to Beck and made him take away the components he wrote in her posthumous e book.
The confrontation was interrupted when Joe acquired a name from his son Henry. “You tried to kill Mother,” Henry stated, calling his father “the monster beneath my mattress.” The phrases hit Joe onerous. “I really like him a lot. Perhaps he deserves higher than me,” Joe cried. “Why? How? How did I change into this individual?”
Joe attacked Brontë and shot her within the facet. The 2 fought within the woods. Brontë known as 911, and with police closing in, Joe begged her, “Kill me. I deserve it…You get to be the one who kills me.”
Brontë refused. “I’d reasonably you reside the remainder of your life alone in jail,” she stated. Joe lunged at her once more. This time, she shot him within the groin, and each have been arrested.
Joe was later convicted in court docket for murdering Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), Beck, and Beck’s pals Benji (Lou Taylor Pucci) and Peach (Shay Mitchell). “Ultimately, Joe Goldberg was made to see all of himself,” Brontë stated within the last narration. She additionally added, “I unintentionally turned him right into a strolling d–k joke,” referencing the harm Joe suffered.
Kate survived the bookstore hearth and determined to assist Marienne’s profession as an artist. Her brother Teddy (Griffin Matthews) remodeled Lockwood Corp right into a nonprofit.
The collection ends with Joe in jail, studying The Executioner’s Music by Norman Mailer. In a voiceover, he says, “The loneliness, oh my god. The loneliness…That is endlessly. It’s unfair. Aren’t all of us simply merchandise of the environment? Damage individuals harm individuals.”
Then, after studying a fan letter, he provides, “Perhaps we now have an issue as a society. Perhaps the issue isn’t me. Perhaps it’s you.”
Do you suppose Joe Goldberg deserved his last destiny in Season 5 of You?
He deserved a special ending
I truly nonetheless favored him as a personality
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