The return date for Season 5 has been teased

The fifth and final season of You It will come sooner than You He thinks.

Netflix confirmed on Thursday, December 19, that you will be returning in 2025. According to the synopsis, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) returns to New York “to enjoy his happily ever after until his perfect life is threatened by the ghosts of his past and his dark desires.”

In addition to Badgley, 38, season 5 stars Charlotte Ritchie, Madeleine Brewer, Anna Camp and Griffin Matthews. Teaser art The final season is teased Joe’s “Fatal Farewell” and the “Guilty Treasures” in his possession.

Youwhich debuted on Lifetime in 2018, introduced Badgley as a serial killer whose obsession with the girl grew to terrifying levels. Based on books he wrote Caroline KipnisThe series was more successful After it moved to Netflix in its year Sophomore season.

Badgley previously teased that the writers of You didn’t plan on giving his character a happy ending.

“This is the way things have to be, because he has an irrefutable problem, and if it’s like, ‘They’re made for each other, all he needs to find is someone who kills people too,’ then that’s not justice,” he said. Entertainment Weekly In 2019, in reference to the third season between Joe and Victoria PedrettiLove Queen character. “I think that reflects reality because I don’t think people who kill say, ‘I just need someone who can do the same thing.’”

As Joe It developed a larger fan baseBadgley doubted the possibility of salvation, explaining to salon In February 2023, “The series is never a clinical portrait of a serial killer or a man with mental illness. So the fun that we can have when we do all this is that it’s not supposed to be real. And to me, that doesn’t take anything away from it. It’s meant to be exploration and exercise. There’s an element of fantasy and camp that allows us to do a lot of things, and again, I think we benefit from it.

He continued: “If you have done the things that Joe did, then change means coming to terms with yourself that you have killed more people than you can easily count on one hand. If you are really there, I think what will require your reconciliation, let alone any kind of governance in society, is more than you have indicated at this point that you are capable of doing, because you have done those things. “

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Appropriate conclusion. Penn Badgley isn’t the biggest fan of Joe Goldberg – and the actor has often expressed interest in seeing the fictional character’s story come to an end. You, which debuted on Lifetime in 2018, explored the serial killer as his obsession with the girl grew to terrifying levels. Based on (…)

With Joe’s return to New York, there have been various theories about possible on-screen transformations. Badgley Join the fun By teasing the possibility of someone familiar returning in the final season.

“I hear you’re on the edge of your seats, waiting and watching for your epic conclusion,” Badgley said in a pre-recorded message at Netflix’s TUDUM event in June 2023. “More importantly, consider what, or should I say who, Joe will face when he finally returns to New York. Although I can’t say who yet. We all know there are many loose ends in Joe’s past. The question is: who You?”