Here’s what happens to every major character in the ‘You’ season 5 finale – Business Insider
2025-04-24T21:01:00Z
Here’s what happens to Joe, Kate, Bronte, and every character in the “You” season 5 finale ending.
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in the series finale of “You.”
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in the series finale of “You.” Netflix
In a full-circle moment for the series, Joe ends up in a different kind of cage: a prison cell.
During a violent confrontation in the woods with Bronte, who had been deceiving him all season long, Joe is captured by the police and is forced to take accountability for his wrongdoings in a messy trial.
He’s convicted of the murders of Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail) and Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti). Joe is also charged with first-degree murder and is sentenced to life without parole for the murders of season one characters Benji Ashby (Lou Taylor Pucci) and Peach Salinger (Shay Mitchell).
“One thing’s clear, Joe Goldberg will never be free again,” Bronte says.
The last scene of the series finale shows Joe behind bars, wearing an orange jumpsuit with his hair buzzed. Of course, his literature choice is on-the-nose: Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The Executioner’s Song.”
“So, in the end, my punishment is even worse than I imagined,” Joe says in the narration. “The loneliness. Oh, my God. The loneliness. No hope of being held. Knowing this is forever.”
But even in jail, Joe is still deluded and refuses to take responsibility, saying that it’s unfair to place all the blame on him. It also doesn’t help that he gets validation from creepy fan letters written by people who believe him and want to act out their sexual fantasies with him.
“Why am I in a cage when these crazies write me all the depraved things they want me to do to them?” Joe wonders as he lays back on his prison cot and reads his latest unsettling fan mail.
“Maybe we have a problem as a society,” Joe concludes. “Maybe we should fix what’s broken in us. Maybe the problem isn’t me. Maybe… it’s you.”
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