Penn Badgleys turn as the now iconic Joe Goldberg finally comes to an end.
The fifth and final season of the Netflix and Warner Bros. hit series.You” is almost here, with lead star/executive producer/director Badgley back in New York as Joe confronts his past.
Season 5 has Joe returning to New York to “enjoy his happily ever after… until his perfect life is threatened by the ghosts of his past and his own dark desires,” the log reads.
Charlotte Richie reprises her role in Season 4, with Madeline Brewer, Anna Camp and Griffin Matthews joining the cast.
This will be the first season of “You” without executive producer Sera Gamble as showrunner; Writers and executive producers Michael Foley and Justin Lo are now co-showrunners for season 5. Gamble will remain an EP, along with Badgley, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo, Marcos Siega and Neil Reynolds.
Badgley earlier told IndieWire that the viral Netflix series ending with season 5 after the shocking twist of season 4.
“It feels to me like Joe needs to get what’s coming to him, and now he has more to fall for because he has all this power and wealth,” Badgley said. “For me, with this concept and with this character, we’ve always wanted to be responsible and it’s not just something that we can let go because it’s going well.”
Teasing a “spectacular denouement” for the series, he added: “Now Joe has power. There’s a set of circumstances that didn’t exist before. It’s actually a deeper change. In a way, you don’t think he’s happy at all. It’s really horrible feeling. In a way it reflects reality, as long as you don’t think Joe is winning. You see a man getting everything he wants. It’s spiritually resonant to me.”
The “Gossip Girl” alum continued, “The show has always been about taking some of our low-key toxic tropes about love and relationships and turning them on their head, or following them to their disturbing conclusions in a way, and bringing it back. for us in a way that’s fun and disturbing at the same time. So if it can do some of those other things, thematically, it does. But I don’t think it does nearly as well it just does with love as an idea, as a notion.”
Season 5 of “You” premieres April 24 on Netflix. Check out the teaser below.
