Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is the luckiest guy in New York. Or so he claims in the latest teaser for YOU season 5. For better or for evil, we’re still hooked on this show and we can’t wait to see how the final season ends. Will Joe get his happily ever after with his latest love, Kate (Charlotte Richie)? Or will the past come back to haunt him?
Rounding out the main cast are Madeline Brewer, Anna Camp, and Griffin Matthews. And don’t be shocked when some old faces make an appearance—this season does, after all, see Joe return to his home of New York. And that means heading back to where it all began, in every sense of the phrase.
“I think somehow coming back to where it started allowed for it to just become grounded in the way that it needs to also have this kind of spectacular finish,” Badgley tells TUDUM. The new season picks up three years after Joe and Kate left London for New York. Kate is now CEO of the Lockwood Corporation, and Joe is by her side every step of the way. He’s even been dubbed Prince Charming by the public (fancy that!) and they’re using their power to do some good in this world…for now.
Showrunner Michael Foley says, “We loved the idea of things coming full circle for him. We’re excited by the fact that Joe came home as such a different person than [who] we saw in Season 1. At the core of our final story for Joe is this dichotomy of the old and the new.”
“One of the most fun things about this season is the Prince Charming aspect, that Joe is actually famous,” adds showrunner Justin W. Lo. “All the other seasons, he’s been really under the radar. That’s how he is able to move from season to season and place to place, because of his anonymity. Now that he is well known in New York, social media is on him. That’s something fun for us to explore.”
YOU returns to Netflix for its fifth and final season on April 24.
