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Neflixs ‘You’ is Back for Season 5! Release Date, Spoilers and Who Is Returning From Joe’s Past
Back for more? Penn Badgley is returning as Joe Goldberg for a fifth season of Netflix’s You. The highly popular show is slated to premiere in 2025 and fans are curious for details about who’s returning from Joe’s past.
Will There Be a ‘You’ Season 5?
Netflix confirmed on March 24, 2023, that the popular series would be returning, sharing, “Goodbye… YOU,” in a social media statement, adding, “Joe Goldberg will return for the fifth and final season of YOU.”
Showrunner Sera Gamble told The Hollywood Reporter in February 2023, “We have an idea for season 5 that we’re excited about. It was never anyone’s intention to run this one into the ground. When we’re done, we’ll be done. And we’ll pack it up.”
She noted that the idea is “not to crank out episodes forever.” However, the writers want to “feel like we have told the complete story” with Joe.
“This is a show that is in the tradition of these single-lead shows with a guy who does increasingly bad things,” Sera added. “The beautiful thing about it is that when his arc is complete, so is the show.”
When Does Season 5 of ‘You’ Premiere?
You season 5 premieres on Netflix on April 24, 2025. According to the streaming service, the fifth season will be the last.
“I signed a six-year contract right out the gate. So they could do two more [seasons] if they wanted. I think if there’s another season, I think it’s only going to be one,” the Gossip Girl alum said on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast in February 2023. “But I know that everybody concerned, from the top on down, nobody wants this show to become tired, because that’s when Joe is the most disgusting. That’s when the show stops having the intelligence that it has.”
Who Is Starring In Season 5 of You?
Joe has left a trail of victims still among the living who would love to seek revenge on him. In a teaser trailer released by Netflix on June 17, 2023, Penn told viewers, “I’ve heard you’re on the edge of your seats waiting and theorizing about the epic conclusion of You, More importantly, you’re considering what — or should I say who — Joe will come up against as he finally returns to New York.”
“Though I can’t say who just yet, we all know there are many loose ends from Joe’s past. The question is who are you?” he added as various characters from across the show’s four seasons were shown. Jenna Ortega‘s Ellie Alves from season 2 made an appearance as did John Stamos‘ Dr. Nicky from season 1. Season 3 and 4’s Marienne Bellamy, played by Tati Gabrielle, was shown and she would definitely want revenge on Joe after being left for dead in London, as would season 3 couple Cary and Sherry Conrad, played by Travis van Winkle and Shalita Grant, who escaped from Joe’s cage. They too were shown in the promo.
How Did ‘You’ Season 4 End?
Following a few pretty wild plot twists, it’s revealed that (shocker) Joe is actually the “Eat the Rich” killer and has been in a state of disassociation for most of the season.
“You’ll know what the next season would be when you see the end of this season,” Sera revealed, seemingly referring to the fact that Joe is returning back to New York with his new love interest, Kate (Charlotte Ritchie). “We tell you what the idea is.”
How Will Joe Goldberg’s Story End?
According to the official logline for season 5, Joe returns to New York City after a failed attempt at his “happily ever after.” However, his seemingly “perfect life” is set to be “threatened by the ghosts of his past and his own dark desires.”
Sera previously teased a possible storyline about Joe being back in the United States.
“It would be nice to end his arc with some form of justice,” she said, in part, during the same Hollywood Reporter interview. “Guys like this don’t usually see a lot of justice from the world. That’s challenging to plot. How does Joe Goldberg go down in a world where he’s been branding people with bricks in broad daylight for years? And he’s cute! And he gets away with it. The deeper question that we frequently pitch in the writers’ room is, what’s real justice? What would hurt him the most?”
What Happened in the ‘You’ Season 5 Trailer?
The You season 5 trailer started with Joe back in New York reciting his classic line, “Hello, you. Do you remember me? Because I remember you.”
The clip began with Joe returning to Mooney’s Bookstore, where he remembered Guinevere Beck walking through the aisles. “Here we are together, back to where it began,” he said.
Joe’s memories of his lovers-turned-victims haunt him as the camera shifted to reveal his bloodstained hands, before cutting to him sprinting through the woods.
“A lot has happened these many years together, identities, cities, loves, complications,” he told cameras. “But all that led me here, to now, to where I was always meant to be. And the one constant, the one thing that has always been there for me, is you.”
The preview abruptly revealed a glass box, the same one viewers saw him use to imprison people, as Joe is flooded with flashbacks from his past.
“You, who have been there the whole time, and will be there with me to the end,” he can be heard saying. “Goodbye, you.”
“A killer finale,” the trailer signed off.
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