- It’s the hit Netflix psychological thriller – and now first-look images of You season 5 have emerged
- The series will once again star Penn Badgley as serial killer, Joe Goldberg
- Here’s everything we know about season 5 of You so far
He’s the serial killer we love to hate.
So it’s good news for fans of Joe Goldberg – as first-look pictures have emerged from the filming of season five of You!
The hit Netflix show, which stars Penn Badgley as the protagonist, began shooting the latest installment in March this year – and the photos show that The Handmaid’s Tale actor Madeline Brewer is the next woman to get dangerously close to Joe, in her role as playwright Bronte.
But when will the season air, and who else can we expect to see in the cast? Read on to find out more…
When will season 5 of You air?
Although we don’t currently have a concrete release date for the series, we can perhaps expect to see You back on the streaming service in late 2024, as there tends to be 18 months to two years between each season.
The last series followed Netflix’s pattern of releasing episodes in two batches, so it’s expected that fans will have to wait to watch the full show.
As the first four seasons have all been made up of 10 episodes, it’s likely that the latest installment will follow suit.
What can we expect from the series?
The Joe we left at the end of season four is more powerful than ever – and with a whole PR team now at his disposal to help mop up his crimes, and a partner who is willing to overlook them, what could be more chilling?
Just how his latest love Kate plays into this narrative is as of yet unknown – but by Joe’s own admission, anyone he loves inevitably ends up dead… so her future isn’t exactly looking rosy.
Sera Gamble told The Hollywood Reporter that the plan is to incorporate some type of consequence for Joe – and that this is how You, in theory, should end.
“The conversation we have among the writers, between [show co-developer Greg Berlanti] and I, and a lot with Penn is about the fact that it would be nice to end his arc with some form of justice. Guys like this don’t usually see a lot of justice from the world,” said Gamble. “That’s challenging to plot. How does Joe Goldberg go down in a world where he’s been branding people with bricks in broad daylight for years? And he’s cute! And he gets away with it.
“The deeper question that we frequently pitch in the writers’ room is, ‘What’s real justice? What would hurt him the most?'”
In an interview with E!, Gamble added, “We have spent four seasons constructing these characters who are violently wealthy, but not all of them are that smart or that ruthless. If Joe is all of the things that he is and now has unlimited resources and access, he’s become the thing that he envied and judged from afar. It gives us a lot of new opportunities.
“I am thinking of all of the terrible, terrible stuff that very privileged wealthy people get away with. If we get to go into the writer’s room and figure out another season, these are exactly the conversations we’ll be having.”
So it’s pretty much nailed on that Joe will meet some kind of downfall – and Badgley wants an answer to what justice would really mean for the character.
“If it’s not answering that question, because it is a tough one, maybe it’s figuring out an even more refined or elegant way to pose that question,” he told NME. “That’s what we have an opportunity to do and I think what the writers have been positioning [the show] to do the whole time. The ending that they’ve pitched to me, I think it is that.
“Part of the reason I’m even able to say this is because of what Greg Berlanti shared with me: his idea about how it could end… and I can’t tell you what it is!”
In terms of who could be the character to make Joe face up to his crimes, there are plenty of people he has wronged (and who are, crucially, still alive).
Amy-Leigh Hickman, who played the now-incarcerated Nadia, told Digital Spy, “I think that if [Nadia] can pull off everything she did in season four, there’s not much she can’t do. So I wouldn’t put anything past her, I wouldn’t [put it] past Joe as well. I think that’s something they have in common, weirdly.”
And Tati Gabrielle, who played Marianne in season four, said she doesn’t think her character has “gotten her peace yet”, adding, “I do think she deserves that. She’s had a hard life, man. She just needs a break. I would love to see more for Marienne. If she’s not part of taking down Joe, I just want her to be able to witness it.”
Who is in the season 5 cast of You?
Joining Badgley and Brewer in season five will be Charlotte Richie, who plays Joe’s partner Kate Galvin after the pair got together last season.
Pictures also circulated earlier this month which showed the couple alongside a young boy, played by Frankie Demaio.
While Demaio’s role hasn’t been announced just yet, some eagle-eyed fans are convinced he plays Joe and Love Quinn’s son, Henry – a character who we haven’t seen since the end of the deadly season three showdown, after Joe left his infant son with his neighbors.
Other newcomers to the show include Pitch Perfect star Anna Camp in the dual roles of Raegan and Maddie Lockwood, and Griffin Matthews will star as Teddy Lockwood.
Pete Ploszek will apparently play Joe’s brother-in-law, husband to Reagan, Natasha Behnam, and Tom Francis.
Will there be another season of You after the latest one?
Fans of the psychological thriller will be saddened to hear that season five will be the last series of You – sob! However, you can revisit all the action on Netflix.
