Season: 5
Genre: Thriller/
Drama
Number of
episodes: 10
Year:
2025
Starring: Pen Badgley, Charlotte Ritchie, Madeline Brewer, Anna Camp, Griffin Matthews
Description: A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man
(Penn Badgley) goes to extreme measures to insert himself into lives of those
he is transfixed by.
Review: In the penultimate season, we saw Joe take a
trip to the United Kingdom, where he was inexplicably allowed to play the
literature teacher. The members of his new elite social circle were not sure of
their lives. His friend Kate, who came from a well-to-do family, knew about
Joes secret, but like some of her predecessors, she found a way to deal with
her lover's killing intent. If only because she only knew half the truth.
In season five, we are several years down the
road and Joe has moved back to New York with Kate. Kate runs the prosperous
family business Lockwood there, but soon finds herself in trouble. This prompts
Joe to overcome obstacles in unconventional ways. In addition, he dusts off his
old bookstore, where he finds an eccentric woman who calls herself Bronte. Joe
decides to hire her as a bookseller, but soon develops an obsession with her.
WARNING! THIS REVIEW MIGHT
CONTAIN SPOILERS!
It's just the same old story, told again, with
some twists and turns here and there. So many things in this season make no
sense. Why does Joe decide to become a public figure, with everything he has
done? And why is Kate still surprised about Joe, when she knows what he is
capable of? And another new woman who Joe claims to be “the one”…..?
Season 4 was already a mixed bag for me, but
season 5 was just bad. I didn’t like it. It had some twists I thought were
pretty good, but most of it was very predictable actually. And in the first couple
of seasons I could still, kind of, understand why women fell for Joe. But not
anymore. It becomes increasingly implausible that women fall head over heals
for him. And I was just hoping, the entire time, that Joe would be exposed.
Because he made so many dumb mistakes (this entire season is filled with dumb
people and decisions by the way), it doesn’t really feel like Joe Goldberg
anymore.
They tried, but they should have ended “You”
after season 3.
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