AND Finally available on Netflix You 5the fifth and last season of one of the most disturbing and fascinating series of recent years. Six years after his debut, the story born from the pen of Caroline Kepnes and brought to the screen from Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble reaches the conclusion: and the narrative circle of the character of Joe Goldberg, the bookseller and serial killer with a double face, interpreted by the magnetic Penn Badgley, also closes.
It all started as a romantic obsession to transform, episode after episode, season after season, in an epic of evil. The journey into the darkness of the human mind ends where it started: in New York. But this time, will Joe finally punished for his crimes? Or will he manage once again to manipulate, kill and run away?
You 5 It is on Netflix. What happened in previous seasons
In the first season of Youu Joe Goldberg is a New York bookseller who falls in love with Beck, aspiring writer. But his obsession soon turns into control, stalking, manipulation and murder. Beck ends up in the famous glass cage, a symbol of Joe’s sick love.
In the second season Joe moved to Los Angeles and meets Love Quinncharismatic chef but equally dangerous. The two recognize themselves in their dark part and begin a relationship.
The third season sees them married to a son, Henry, in the suburbia of Mother Linda. However, the apparent normality conceals betrayals, jealousies and a crescendo of violence that culminates with the death of Love.
The fourth season moves to London: Joe, under false identity, teaches at the university and binds to Kate, an offspring of the financial elite. But, soon involved in a spiral of murders, he begins to see and dialogue with a hallucination: Rhys Montrose, his assassin alter-ego. Joe tries to commit suicide but survives, ready to start again (again) from the head.
Charlotte Ritchie and Penn Badgley in a you (Netflix) scene.
You 5the plot of the fifth season (with spoiler)
The fifth season starts from New York. Joe returned where everything started, this time as Kate’s husband, who became CEO of Lockwood Corporation. Officially he is a powerful manrespected, appointed “Prince Charming” by the press. But behind the facade of perfection is hidden, as always, the abyss.
In the library he manages, Joe assumes Bronte (Madeline Brewer), a fascinating and mysterious woman, who awakens instincts in him who thought dormant. But Bronte is not what it seems: he works undercover to frame Joe. In the meantime, figures of the past are back, such as Dr. Nicky (John Stamos), Ellie (Jenna Ortega) and Conrad (Shalita Grant and Travis Van Winkle). Meanwhile Rhys – the psychotic alter ego – reappears among the mirrors of his mind. In parallel, Joe tries to deal with his son Henry at a distance and helps Kate in making the company more “ethical”.
A scene by You (Netflix).
But the double life does not hold up, and soon the castle built on lies and blood begins to collapse. The climax of the season is the psychological and physical struggle between Joe and Bronte. Wounded and defeated, the protagonist must deal with his faults. It is the first time we see it really vulnerable, disarmed, without more fictions or illusions. It’s really the end. Or maybe not.
You 5the review
The final season of Youu does not betray expectations. Dark, twisted, at times visionary, brings the journey of its protagonist to the extreme. Writing becomes more tight, the darkest direction, the most tormented Badgley interpretation than ever. Joe is now a tragic figure, crushed by his own mythology: he is no longer just a predator, but a victim of his delusion. Bronte proves to be a worthy antagonist: his mission of personal justice is intertwined with ambiguous feelings, which make the final confrontation a clash between two opposite fragility. The return of well -known faces has a final budget taste, but never slips into free nostalgia.
The real strength of Youueven this season, is The ability to make us empathize with a monster: let us enter his head, to make us shiver while we find ourselves, after all, to hope that it will do it. The ending is cathartic, painful and – for once – right. After years of escapes, Joe Goldberg finally faces the showdown. And us with him.
From Gossip Girl to Youu: Penn Badgley is Joe Goldberg
Penn Badgley was born in 1986 in Baltimore. Reaches world popularity with Dan Humphrey’s character in Gossip Girl (2007-2012), New York adolescence icon. He also works in the cinema, including Easy Girl (2010) with Emma Stone. With Youufrom 2018, returns absolute protagonist and reinvents himself as a dramatic actor, challenging the public with A morally ambiguous, disturbing and – paradoxically – fascinating character.
I woman © RESERVED REPRODUCTION