Hello, You. Back for a fifth season, I see?
That’s right: Netflix’s favourite serial killer will be returning to our screens one last time in 2024. The announcement from the streaming giant comes hot on the heels of season four’s success, which saw Joe (that’s Jonathan, to us Brits) gallivanting around London on yet another murderous spree.
You can read our review of You season four right here.
The season wrapped with Joe’s return to New York, arm in arm with new beau Kate (Charlotte Ritchie). This move sets Joe back firmly in his hometown where the story began all those years ago. But there’s one difference this time: he’s rich, powerful, and on top of the world – a tremendously dangerous combo for this globetrotting sociopath. So where does that leave him heading into the new season?
Speaking on how Joe’s newfound wealth could impact season five, season four’s showrunner Sera Gamble explained “we have spent four seasons constructing these characters who are violently wealthy, but not all of them are that smart or that ruthless […] If Joe is all of the things that he is and now has unlimited resources and access, he’s become the thing that he judged from afar. It gives us a lot of new opportunities”.
Netflix also confirmed this will be Joe’s final jaunt, and the show will be calling it quits when season five wraps. Badgley feels this will be Joe’s “grand finale” and the images conjured up by this statement can only be described as horrifying. In a separate interview, he also commented that the creative team want to avoid the show “becoming tired”.
In this fifth and final spin around the block, Netflix is shaking up the creative team. Executive producers Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo will be taking over the role of showrunner, with Sera Gamble stepping down. In her final farewell, Gamble said “I feel lucky to have worked with an artist as gifted and thoughtful as Penn Badgley [and] privileged to pass the torch”.
Whatever that torch looks like, we can’t wait for one last murderous jaunt!
Words by Kate Padley
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