Goodbye, YOU. Netflix has confirmed that Penn Badgley’s serial killer drama will return for its fifth and final season in 2025.
“Joe Goldberg returns to New York to enjoy his happily ever after… until his perfect life is threatened by the ghosts of his past and his own dark desires,” teases the final season’s official logline.
Netflix continues to play up the “ghosts of his past” angle in the show’s new teaser art, which references many of the people — both dead and alive, and everything in between — who have had the great displeasure of crossing Joe’s path.
Those names include, but aren’t limited to, Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail), Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), Tom Lockwood (Greg Kinnear), Marienne Bellamy (Tati Gabrielle), Benjamin “Benji” Ashby III (Lou Taylor Pucci), Delilah Alves (Carmela Zumbado), Malcolm Harding (Stephen Hagan), Adam Pratt (Lukas Gage) and Dr. Nicky (John Stamos).
Check out the fresh art in full below:
Badgley wrapped filming the final season in August, an occasion he commemorated by channeling his inner Jools Lebron for a special message to fans, reflecting on his time “playing a romantic icon” with a heavy wink. Hit PLAY on the video below to watch it all go down:
You may recall that YOU’s fourth season relocated Joe to London, where he started over as a college professor named Jonathan Moore after faking his own death. But old habits die hard, unlike so many of Joe’s previous victims, so it wasn’t long before he fell back into his murderous ways.
After finding love with a British trust fund baby, Joe’s back in New York City for one last hurrah — and his return from the “dead” could also bring some familiar faces out of the woodwork.
“We have kept scrupulous track of everybody who knows anything about Joe who’s not dead,” then-showrunner Sera Gamble told TVLine at the end of Season 4, clarifying that “the ones who are dead could still appear in dreams and hallucinations.” As she put it, “There are some very smart people who are alive. Some of them are in jail, and some of them are basically in witness protection, but there’s no reason to believe he’s safe.”
Read on for a breakdown of everything we know (officially) about YOU‘s final season thus far, then drop a comment with your hopes for Joe & Co.
Joe may still be in a committed relationship with Kate (Charlotte Ritchie), but since when has that stopped him from admiring another woman from afar? Or, you know, from way too close?
Enter Madeline Brewer as Bronte, described as an “enigmatic and free-spirited playwright who comes to work at Joe Goldberg’s new bookstore.”
Prepare for trouble, and make it double: Anna Camp (True Blood) will appear in the dual roles of Reagan and Maddie Lockwood, Joe’s twin sisters-in-law, while Griffin Matthews (The Flight Attendant) will play Joe’s “snarky yet loyal” brother-in-law Teddy Lockwood