How ‘You’ Season 5 Bosses Crafted Joe Goldberg’s Final Takedown
Note: This story contains spoilers from “You” Season 5, Episode 10.
While “You” has seen Joe Goldberg’s murderous habits take him to some very dark, gruesome places, Penn Badgley and showrunners Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo knew the Netflix series’ fifth and final season had to find the character at his “most horrific.”
“We were all about trying to make Joe see what he is,” Foley told TheWrap. “We were about waking the audience to what they were co-signing all this entire time, and that meant him being his most animalistic, not pulling any punches and not falling in love with him so hard that we forget what we’re really trying to say here and what he is.”
Whereas past seasons saw Joe narrowly escape his indiscretions relatively unscathed, the showrunners went into Season 5 planning knowing it was the end of the road for “You” after receiving a renewal...
While “You” has seen Joe Goldberg’s murderous habits take him to some very dark, gruesome places, Penn Badgley and showrunners Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo knew the Netflix series’ fifth and final season had to find the character at his “most horrific.”
“We were all about trying to make Joe see what he is,” Foley told TheWrap. “We were about waking the audience to what they were co-signing all this entire time, and that meant him being his most animalistic, not pulling any punches and not falling in love with him so hard that we forget what we’re really trying to say here and what he is.”
Whereas past seasons saw Joe narrowly escape his indiscretions relatively unscathed, the showrunners went into Season 5 planning knowing it was the end of the road for “You” after receiving a renewal...
- 4/25/2025
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
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