Will There Be You Season 6? Explained
A long-awaited fifth season for You made it to Netflix several days ago, and some might be craving more after finishing all the ten episodes. Here’s everything we know about the future of Penn Badgley’s hit show.
It’s fair to say Netflix ’s You has been quite a shocker ever since the first season was dropped on the platform.
Somehow, however, the show’s addictively eerie storyline was something that fans wanted more and more after each new installment.
In the latest season, Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg has finally faced the justice he’s been trying to avoid all along, but the prison bars don’t always mean the end of the story.
Still, You has just wrapped its last chapter up, so there’s no way the show is coming back with some more atrocities — here’s why the fifth season was always meant to be the final one.
You Season 5 Is the Definite Finale
It might be yet another shocker to the show’s fans who weren’t ready to say goodbye to New York City’s most charming killer, but the plan was unveiled by You’s execs Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter in 2023 when season 5 was announced.
“Ever since our friends at Alloy shared Caroline Kepnes’ fantastic book we have always conceived it as a five-season journey”, Berlanti revealed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter back then.
“Even in the early conversations with Penn, the idea was not to crank out episodes forever; it’s to feel like we have told the complete story. And though I feel like tonally, we’re very different and we are not trying to sell Joe as any kind of a hero with a straight face. This is a show that is in the tradition of these single-lead shows with a guy who does increasingly bad things. The beautiful thing about it is that when his arc is complete, so is the show”, Schechter added, making it clear that the fifth season was the most definite and pretty satisfying ending for Joe’s story.
Joe Goldberg’s Story Comes Full Circle in Season 5
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The new instalment’s finale is a pretty clear sign of nothing else coming in Joe’s way now that he got what he deserved, which means the story made it to its happy ending, even if Joe didn’t.
“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”, You’s exec Michael Foley revealed in a recent interview with Tudum.
In fact, Joe was never meant for any kind of happy ending, just due to his whole nature not fitting right for it.
“He’s not actually a person who just needs somebody who loves him. He’s a murderer! He’s a sociopath. He’s abusive. He’s delusional. And he’s self-obsessed. You can’t fool yourself into thinking that he just needs somebody who’s right for him. Nobody’s right for him!” Joe’s actor Penn Badgley told Entertainment Weekly back in 2019.
