With the ultimate 5 episodes of YOU Season 4 now streaming, the query on everybody’s thoughts is: What’s subsequent for Netflix’s favourite serial killer?
The Penn Badgley-led thriller hasn’t formally been renewed for a fifth season, so it’s completely doable that we’ve seen the final of Joe Goldberg. You know, in some weird universe the place this insanely widespread present would get axed with no loudly trumpeted final-season announcement.
So let’s function beneath the idea that it’ll be again for (not less than) yet one more spherical. What can we count on from Joe’s triumphant return to New York? How will he determine to make use of (and presumably abuse) his second likelihood at life? And which of his outdated frenemies may he encounter now that he’s again within the States?
Team YOU isn’t at liberty to reveal all of these secrets and techniques, however we nonetheless managed to get some thought-provoking intel from showrunner Sera Gamble.
Grade the season in our ballot beneath, then learn on for some early “Season 5” intel from showrunner Gamble, Badgley and extra. When you’re finished, drop a remark with your personal hopes for Joe’s future.
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HOME SWEET HOME
The fifth season of YOU would have a full-circle really feel to it, with Joe returning to the place all of it started. But as hinted within the ultimate scene of Season 4, Joe’s life would barely resemble the one he left behind all these years in the past — save for his little bookstore buy that Kate talked about, not absolutely conscious of her boyfriend’s distinctive historical past with bookstores.
“We all like the idea of seeing him come home again in such a different way to New York,” Gamble says.
As Taylor Swift would say to Joe, “Welcome to New York. It’s been waiting for you.”
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‘LOVE’ INTEREST
When Season 4 wraps, Joe is “in a relationship that, on the face of it, seems pretty great,” Gamble says. “So the question is, how does he f–k that up, really?”
If historical past is any indication, it gained’t be lengthy earlier than one other fairly face comes alongside to provide him a renewed sense of function. After all, “He’s still Joe, and he still lives for love in so many ways,” Gamble provides.
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GUESS WHO!
Now that Joe is again from the “dead,” there’s additionally no telling which faces from his checkered previous might resurface.
“We have kept scrupulous track of everybody who knows anything about Joe who’s not dead,” Gamble says, clarifying that “the ones who are dead could still appear in dreams and hallucinations.”
But right here’s the half that perked our ears proper up: “There are some very smart people who are alive. Some of them are in jail, and some of them are basically in witness protection, but there’s no reason to believe he’s safe.”
Dr. Nicky (John Stamos)? Ellie (Jenna Ortega)? The prospects are limitless!
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A STUDENT’S REVENGE
And let’s not overlook about Nadia. Given that she’s presently in jail, framed for the murders of Rhys and Edward, the poor woman actually has nothing to lose. So what would cease her from not less than making an attempt to show her former professor, even when she has to do it from the within?
“If she’s done as much as she did in in Season 4, she’s probably not going to shut up for too long, so I definitely think she still has some fight in her,” actress Amy-Leigh Hickman says. “You’ve seen that in her a lot, especially in the way that she helps Marienne, so I think she would try her luck getting out and taking Joe down again. I wouldn’t put it past her.”
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ROOM FOR ONE MORE?
Though it’s unclear whether or not actor Ed Speleers would return as Joe’s darkish passenger, he actually stays very a lot a part of Joe’s psyche when Season 4 involves an finish.
“We give you about a scene and a half where we let you think that he’s actually gotten a fresh start and has rid himself of the Rhys part of himself,” Gamble says. “And then we tell you… no, not at all.”
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THE ART OF THE KILL
Joe went on fairly the non-public journey in Season 4, in the end turning into a “less conflicted version of himself,” Gamble explains, and his philosophy transferring ahead will mirror his development.
“There’s a fun new question we get to ask: What is Joe like when he doesn’t have to make every murder an accidental ‘Oh, he tripped and fell’ thing that puts him within inches of the police immediately?” Gamble provides. “What if he admitted to himself what he was doing and he gave it a little bit of solid planning?”
Penn Badgley echoes the showrunner’s sentiments, confirming that Joe has “embraced” that as his new philosophy, which continues to “change and evolve.” Joe’s new outlook is “really a Season 5 question,” Badgley says. “I think we’re going to be looking at that then. I think we’ve got to check back in.”
(Wait, a present a couple of man who knowingly plans and commits murders of so-called deserving individuals whereas delivering monotonous narration? Dexter Morgan would really like a phrase.)
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