This text comprises discussions of kid abuse and suicide.
Cease studying this proper now if you have not completed all of “You” — spoilers are coming!
The fifth and ultimate season of “You,” the Netflix sequence that lets famous Taylor Swift fan Penn Badgley play a serial killer satisfied he is truly some form of white knight, is lastly out … which suggests we will lastly assess Joe Goldberg’s (Badgley) physique rely. No, I do not imply how many individuals Joe has dated all through the sequence; I am speaking about how many individuals he is killed.
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In case you have forgotten precisely what went down within the present’s first 4 seasons, this is the overview. Joe Goldberg, who presents himself as a hopeless romantic however truly appears to like homicide far more than he loves love, had a very troublesome childhood; his organic father abused each him and his mom, and in the end, a younger Joe shoots and kills him. Joe is then adopted by Mark Blum’s bookstore proprietor Mr. Mooney, which is why Joe is operating the New York Metropolis retailer, Mooney’s, on the outset of season 1 when he meets an enthralling, stunning aspiring author named Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail). He kills her too (as soon as she figures out that he is a creep and assassin by discovering that he has a plexiglass cage within the basement of the bookstore the place he retains his victims).
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That cage is Joe’s fixed. It goes with him to Los Angeles in season 2, the fictional group of Madre Linda, California when he settles down along with his spouse Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) in season 3, to London in season 4 when he assumes a brand new identification throughout the pond after killing Love (and her brother), and again to New York in season 5 when he returns to the Huge Apple along with his rich and seemingly understanding spouse Kate Lockwood (Charlotte Ritchie). All in all, earlier than season 5 of “You,” Joe kills 18 folks, together with Beck’s pal Peach Salinger (Shay Mitchell), Kate’s boyfriend Malcolm (Stephen Hagan), writer Rhys Montrose (Ed Speleers), and extra. So what about season 5?
Who does Joe Goldberg kill in Season 5 of You?
When Joe and Kate settle in New York, the 2 are working collectively to make sure that no one finds out that Joe has ever murdered anybody, together with Rhys Montrose (and Kate’s personal father Tom Lockwood, performed in season 4 by Greg Kinnear). Sadly, a high-ranking government at Lockwood Industries — which Kate now runs — named Bob (Michael Dempsey) signifies that he is aware of a factor or two about Joe’s sordid previous and the truth that Kate is protecting it up, so what does Joe do? Clearly, he kills the man and makes it appear to be Bob died by suicide.
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As season 5 progresses, Joe, true to kind, turns into infatuated with a younger aspiring playwright named Bronte (Madeline Brewer), who begins working with him at Mooney’s; after deciding that he’s, actually, in love with Bronte, he begins an affair along with her and is characteristically pushed completely nuts when she ghosts him. He tracks her right down to a distant home owned by the dad and mom of considered one of her pals, and when he finds Bronte there, he talks her again into the connection … solely to come across her apparently merciless ex-boyfriend Clayton (Tom Francis) there. Joe cracks the man’s cranium like an egg throughout a bodily struggle, solely to discover a hostile Bronte — who focused him as a result of she was as soon as pals with Beck and wished to carry him accountable — and considered one of her pals recording all the factor.
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These are Joe’s two main kills throughout season 5 (he additionally kills a state trooper within the sequence finale in a determined try to flee). So what occurs to him because the sequence ends?
What occurs to Joe Goldberg on the finish of You?
This is the factor. Joe solves just about all of his issues by committing homicide, and at a sure level, persons are going to catch on. Finally, Kate, Bronte, considered one of Joe’s former flames Marianne (Tati Gabrielle, rocking the identical shaved head she sports activities in her function on “The Final of Us”), and a British college pupil he framed for her homicide of her boyfriend named Nadia (Amy-Leigh Hickman) all principally workforce as much as trick him and take him down, although Bronte appears to have a change of coronary heart after a fireplace at Mooney’s almost kills her, Joe, and Kate. (We’re truly led to consider that Kate dies within the inferno, nevertheless it’s later revealed that she survived, albeit with some scarring that she wears as a badge of honor.) Bronte and Joe abscond to a home collectively to start out a brand new life — after Joe, “freed” from his marriage to Kate, proposes to Bronte — however what he does not know is that Bronte continues to be decided to disclose his true nature to all the world.
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Bronte and Joe have a showdown on the rural property the place he additionally seems to kill her by drowning her (after taking pictures her) — however like Kate, Bronte survives and will get the final phrase when she shoots Joe in, uh, his household jewels. Bronte ensures that justice is served, Kate raises Joe’s son Henry (Frankie DeMaio) in peace, and everybody will get a cheerful ending … aside from Joe, who seems to be in solitary confinement with solely letters from very intense feminine followers to maintain him firm. Contemplating that he is killed over 20 folks, this appears fairly cheap.
“You” is streaming in its entirety on Netflix now.
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