A few days before “You” season 5 Premiere for NetflixI went to see Christopher Landon’s “drop” in theaters. When we got out of “Punchy, ridiculous thriller” In broad daylight, my friends were quick to dismiss it, in order to get involved in the usual but incorrect practice to conflict highbrow quality with entertainment value. “Drop” is not a film brand (although some of Marc Spicer’s shot will stay with me for a long time), but it kept me busy, maintained and invested in the final result.
The same approach will pay off at the end of ”You“Created by Sera Gamble and Greg Berlanti and was brought to the bloody finish line of Showrunners Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo. If you are stuck with the series so far, you registered for outrageous turns, cartoon and an exorbitant number of murders, all bound together Penn BadgleyBewitching performance. It’s not prestige TVBut it is unpologetically entertaining, and season 5 delivers everything that got the audience obsessed with this series.
Set a few years after Joe steps from the dead in London, He is now part of a productive power pair with Mrs. Kate (Charlotte Ritchie) and back in his old Manhattan who stomps land. Kate and Joe are loved for their love story and hard philanthropi but when someone threatens their new status quo, Joe handles it in the old-fashioned way and turns the fuse on blowing up his entire life.
There is also a new responsibility in the form of Brontine (Madeline Brewer), a manic-pixie-literary framgirl perfectly calibrated to reveal Joe with just one look. She is written as a boring Ingenue, who must be conscious, and illustrates how imaginative Joe perceives women and how little it takes to tempt him away from life that he is said to have so dear (Badgley and Brewer is close to the same age, but Bronte is clearly intended to be in her early thief – which reads less as patronize
In fact, Joe and Bronte’s interactions lead to some of the best comedy of the season, all at the expense of our pseudo-feminist murderer (she loves books! She hates the rich! Is she the one?). Badgley is legitimately laughing loudly when his character reacts to her smallest hints of flirtation, falls into his usual pattern with predictability for sitcom level, which all reinforces his constant failure with change. Badgley is still magnificent in a dark, demanding and disturbing role and turns Joe into a master class of internality that never soften his unfortunate nature. It has been a killer performance, from beginning to end, and undoubtedly the reason why the show found both popularity and endurance.
He is not the only one who has fun during the last hurray; A Role Heights must be Anna Camp As Kate’s twin half -sisters, both as exaggerated and delightful. The “Pitch Perfect” star is completely but shows up in the stage -stalking double roles and sinks her teeth in the series’ unpleasant tone that she has been there from the beginning (what a better way to lean into the show’s campness than with literal Camp?). Griffin Matthews skillfully balances this as the founded brother Teddy, and more players dive in and out through the ten episodes.
Like their previous seasons, season 5 starts slowly before gaining speed-but Netflix made the smart decision to release the whole thing at once, unlike Season 4’s incorrect two-part drop. Midway Twist paves the way for Uncharted Narrative Territory, from Joe’s close relationships with his public persona and the unanswered issues of his past.
Sure, he can’t exceed his fate forever – but my goodness, it’s been fun to see him try.
Rating: B-
“You” season 5 now flows on Netflix.
