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 totally potential that we’ve seen the final of Joe Goldberg. , in some weird universe the place this insanely common present would get axed with out a loudly trumpeted final-season announcement.
So let’s function below the idea that it’ll be again for (a minimum of) another spherical. What can we count on from Joe’s triumphant return to New York? How will he resolve to make use of (and presumably abuse) his second probability at life? And which of his outdated frenemies may he encounter now that he’s again within the States?
Staff 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. Whenever you’re carried out, drop a remark with your individual hopes for Joe’s future.
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HOME SWEET HOME
Picture Credit score: Netflix screenshot The fifth season of YOU would have a full-circle really feel to it, with Joe returning to the place all of it started. However as hinted within the closing 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.
“All of us like the thought of seeing him come dwelling once more in such a distinct option to New York,” Gamble says.
As Taylor Swift would say to Joe, “Welcome to New York. It’s been ready for you.”
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‘LOVE’ INTEREST
Picture Credit score: Netflix screenshot When Season 4 wraps, Joe is “in a relationship that, on the face of it, appears fairly nice,” Gamble says. “So the query is, how does he f–ok that up, actually?”
If historical past is any indication, it received’t be lengthy earlier than one other fairly face comes alongside to present him a renewed sense of objective. In any case, “He’s nonetheless Joe, and he nonetheless lives for love in so some ways,” Gamble provides.
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GUESS WHO!
Picture Credit score: Courtesy of Netflix Now that Joe is again from the “useless,” there’s additionally no telling which faces from his checkered previous might resurface.
“We’ve saved scrupulous monitor of everyone who is aware of something about Joe who’s not useless,” Gamble says, clarifying that “those who’re useless might nonetheless seem in desires and hallucinations.”
However right here’s the half that perked our ears proper up: “There are some very good people who find themselves alive. A few of them are in jail, and a few of them are mainly in witness safety, however there’s no cause to imagine he’s secure.”
Dr. Nicky (John Stamos)? Ellie (Jenna Ortega)? The chances are countless!
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A STUDENT’S REVENGE
Picture Credit score: Netflix screenshot And let’s not overlook about Nadia. On condition that she’s at the moment in jail, framed for the murders of Rhys and Edward, the poor lady actually has nothing to lose. So what would cease her from a minimum of making an attempt to show her former professor, even when she has to do it from the within?
“If she’s carried out as a lot as she did in in Season 4, she’s most likely not going to close up for too lengthy, so I positively assume she nonetheless has some combat in her,” actress Amy-Leigh Hickman says. “You’ve seen that in her loads, particularly in the way in which that she helps Marienne, so I feel she would attempt her luck getting out and taking Joe down once more. I wouldn’t put it previous her.”
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ROOM FOR ONE MORE?
Picture Credit score: Netflix screenshot Although it’s unclear whether or not actor Ed Speleers would return as Joe’s darkish passenger, he definitely stays very a lot a part of Joe’s psyche when Season 4 involves an finish.
“We offer you a few scene and a half the place we allow you to assume that he’s really gotten a contemporary begin and has rid himself of the Rhys a part of himself,” Gamble says. “After which we let you know… no, by no means.”
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THE ART OF THE KILL
Picture Credit score: Netflix screenshot Joe went on fairly the non-public journey in Season 4, finally changing into a “much less conflicted model of himself,” Gamble explains, and his philosophy shifting ahead will replicate his progress.
“There’s a enjoyable new query we get to ask: What’s Joe like when he doesn’t need to make each homicide an unintentional ‘Oh, he tripped and fell’ factor that places him inside inches of the police instantly?” Gamble provides. “What if he admitted to himself what he was doing and he gave it somewhat little bit of stable 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 “actually a Season 5 query,” Badgley says. “I feel we’re going to be taking a look at that then. I feel we’ve bought to test again in.”
(Wait, a present a few man who knowingly plans and commits murders of so-called deserving folks whereas delivering monotonous narration? Dexter Morgan would really like a phrase.)
