Everything to Know About You’s Potential Season 5 on Netflix: From Story Lines to the Show’s Future

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Taking a twisted turn. Netflix’s You offered a series shakeup when Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) decided to move back to New York after unleashing a murder spree in London — but the story might be just getting started.During season 4, Joe initially seemed to have his darker tendencies under control as he started over yet again.

The second half of the season, however, introduced a plot twist with Joe actually being responsible for the deaths he was trying to investigate.“It has to go to this place for five episodes where it’s like, ‘Is he going to become a hero as we’ve all wanted him to?’ It doesn’t make any sense when Joe becomes a hero,” Badgley explained to British GQ in March 2023 about his character’s initial arc. “This is the only place the show could have ever gone and remain relevant, remain responsible, remain intelligent, remain sensitive, but true.”The Gossip Girl alum noted that You “has been building” toward the audience seeing Joe “in a different” light.

Meanwhile, showrunner Sera Gamble hinted that the narrative shift would continue to play a big role in Joe’s evolution if the show is renewed for a fifth season.“We have spent four seasons constructing these characters who are violently wealthy, but not all of them are that smart or that ruthless,” she told E!

News that same month. “If Joe is all of the things that he is and now has unlimited resources and access, he’s become the thing that he envied and judged from afar.