You Season 5 premieres April 24, bringing Joe Goldberg back to New York for a deadly homecoming. Haunted by his past, he faces new foes, including his wife Kate’s family and a mysterious playwright.
Last Updated: 09.05 AM, Jan 31, 2025
Season 5 of You will premiere in the next couple of months, so get ready for the gruesome conclusion to Joe Goldberg's story. According to the Joe-narrated teaser and the ominous image, the last season of the thriller will debut on April 24 with all ten episodes.
On Thursday, Netflix released a fresh teaser for the highly anticipated fifth and final season. While attending Netflix's Next on Netflix event, Penn Badgley's character Joe says "Goodbye, You" in a teaser. Joe returns to New York, but his history quickly follows.
His perfect life is threatened by the ghosts of his past and his own dark desires, according to the logline.
Penn Badgley informed Tudum while filming in New York in July that every season they find a way to make it fresh and relevant. And this season, he thinks somehow returning to its roots helped it become grounded in the way it needs to also have this kind of outstanding finale.
Joe, the protagonist of You—a film based on Caroline Kepnes's novels—is a hopeless romantic who loves books and has a violent streak. He claims to love multiple women, but he also murders anyone who stands in his way. Although Joe's quest for love started in New York, it continued in Season 2 to Los Angeles, in Season 3 to the stifling San Francisco suburbs, and most recently, in the newly opened fourth season, to London. He was finally forced to embrace the inescapable truth—that he is not a good man—something he had evaded for far too long—as he was swept away in a genre-hopping drama that took place across the pond. After the season ended, Joe went back to New York City with his rich partner Kate (Charlotte Ritchie, she/her) and a risky new outlook on life, which Badgley is eager to investigate because Joe has finally realised that his previous ways of living were essentially immoral.
Returning to New York for his happily ever after, Joe Goldberg faces challenges from his past and his own dark ambitions in the dramatic fifth and final season—until his perfect life is jeopardised.
The showrunner and executive producer Michael Foley tells Tudum that they always said that they would stop after five and that, in a perfect world, they would bring Joe back home to New York. Additionally, Justin W. Lo is an EP. The thought of him making a complete circle was quite appealing to them. They are thrilled that Joe returned home in such a transformed state compared to his self from Season 1. This old-versus-new contrast is important to our last Joe narrative.
Joe encounters a young woman (Madeline Brewer) who causes him to question his privileged lifestyle and faces opposition from his wife Kate's siblings as the season progresses.
With Badgley and Ritchie already cast, Brewer rounds out the cast as the mysterious and independent playwright Bront, who takes a position at Joe's new bookshop. Joe begins to doubt his life's direction as Bronte fuels his nostalgia for his past self as they bond over literature and sorrow.
Griffin Matthews portrays Joe's sardonic and devoted brother-in-law, Teddy Lockwood. Even though he was never truly welcomed by the Lockwood family, Teddy is a trusted confidante who helps them understand the value of authenticity and empathy.
As Joe's identical twin sisters-in-law, Raegan and Maddie Lockwood, Anna Camp is juggling two roles. Whether they are relatives or not, Raegan, the shrewd and vicious chief financial officer of Lockwood Corp, has her sights set on the throne and will smash her enemies. Contrarily, Maddie, a socialite who has been through three divorces and whose work description is "vaguely PR," plays the role of the unserious twin. Underneath Maddie's superficial persona, nevertheless, is a superb manipulator.
Badgley remarked that there are many loose ends in Joe's past, as the film shows footage of several individuals that Joe has harmed over the course of the previous four seasons. John Stamos' Dr. Nicky, Jenna Ortega's orphaned Ellie, Shalita Grant, and Travis Van Winkle's bougie Conrads from Season 1 are just a few examples. But Badgley can't say which of Joe's victims made it through Season 5 just yet.