Joe Goldberg has ended his story.
The fifth and ultimate season of Penn Badgley’s Netflix thriller “You” is now streaming. The actor performs Joe Goldberg, a bookish romantic who thinks of himself as delicate — and has a nasty behavior of murdering individuals wherever he goes.
So, does the ultimate season of “You” let Joe off the hook for his crimes? Does it finish with him useless? Or, does it finish with him in jail, struggling the implications of his actions?
Spoilers beneath for “You” Season 5.
Finally, the present ends with Joe behind bars.
Season 5 finds Joe again the place it began, in New York Metropolis together with his British spouse, Kate (Charlotte Ritchie), and younger son, Henry (Frankie DeMaio).
As a result of Kate is a high-powered enterprise exec, she and Joe change into well-known and are invited to all of the splashy society occasions. Joe graces journal covers, and turns into often known as her supportive husband. The general public thinks he’s Prince Charming.
All isn’t effectively between Joe and Kate, although. As he turns into disillusioned together with his life, Joe meets Bronte (Madeline Brewer) and begins an affair together with her.
She’s simply his kind: a down-on-her luck lady who enjoys discussing books with him.
Midway by way of the season, a twist is revealed: Bronte isn’t who she appears to be. She catfished Joe.
Her actual identify is Louise, and she or he was shut with Joe’s first sufferer from Season 1, Beck (Elizabeth Lail).
When Beck died, Louise was distraught and suspicious in regards to the circumstances. She ended up discovering a gaggle of like-minded web sleuths to crew up with as a way to take down Joe.
After her good friend Dominique (Natasha Behnam) catches Joe killing somebody on video and live-streams it to the world, Joe’s star falls. He even finally ends up on the duvet of the New York Submit, with the headline: “Joe Goldmurderer.”
Joe is livid to be so misunderstood by the general public.
There are twists and turns in his romance with Bronte / Louise, as a result of though she was teaming up together with her associates to dupe and expose Joe, it seems she actually did fall for him, and begin doubting his guilt.
Ultimately, Bronte / Louise agrees to run away with Joe to start out a brand new life collectively – however at this level, she’s as soon as once more making an attempt to reveal him as a assassin.
After the couple takes refuge at a secluded home, Bronte / Louise holds Joe at gunpoint and calls for to know what occurred to Beck.
The battle over the gun, and their combat quickly trickles exterior, with each of them wounded, working by way of the woods.
She manages to name the cops, who chase Joe and catch him.
The present ends with Louise’s voiceover telling us that Joe was placed on trial, his crimes have been uncovered, and now he’s in jail.
The digicam reveals Joe with a shaved head and in a jail jumpsuit, sitting alone in a jail cell.
He nonetheless doesn’t take duty for his actions, although – as he reads horny letters that “fans” despatched him.
“So in the end, my punishment is even worse than I imagined,” he says in a voiceover. “The loneliness, oh my god, the loneliness. No hope of being held…this is forever. It’s unfair, putting all of this on me. Aren’t we all just projects of our environment? Hurt people hurt people.”
As he reads one explicit letter, he asks himself: “Why am I in a cage when these crazies write me all the depraved things they want me to do to them? Maybe we have a problem as a society.”
As “Creep” by Radiohead begins to play, Joe proclaims: “Maybe the problem isn’t me…maybe it’s you.”
