This article contains discussions of addiction, mental health, and suicide.

In the 5th and final season of "You" — the soapy, heightened Netflix drama that features Penn Badgley as killing machine Joe Goldberg — we reunite with some established characters and meet some new ones, one of whom is Madeline Brewer's character Bronte. A playwright who's been breaking into Mooney's and ends up working there, Bronte, who seems to have christened herself after the family of famous authors that included Kate, Charlotte, Emily, and Elizabeth, immediately catches Joe's eye. Even though he's ostensibly happily married to Kate — whose wealth, privilege, and influence allowed Joe to reclaim his name and identity after pretending to be Jonathan Moore in London in season 4 — Joe finds himself drawn to Bronte, and if you've ever seen this show before, I bet you can figure out where this is all going.

New Jersey native Brewer has...