You Can Finally Stop Stalking Netflix — You Season 5 Just Dropped An Explosive Trailer
Joe Goldberg will officially be back in NYC next month.
Despite what he himself would argue, Joe Goldberg isn't a good guy. And while viewers have come to love watching Joe get himself in and out (and back in) trouble again and again, his days of stalking and killing have to come to an end eventually… but when? It’s been just over two years since You Season 4 debuted on Netflix, with Joe facing off against the Eat the Rich Killer once more. One can assume that everyone’s favorite fictional stalker will find a way to get out of, well, any situation he winds up in — but will there be a You Season 5 to clue us into what really becomes of Joe? And, if so, when?
Pro: Netflix renewed You for another season back in April 2023. Con: The streamer also confirmed that You Season 5 will be the last jaunt for old Joe. In the time that has passed since we’ve seen him last, Netflix has kept fans satiated with teasers, hints, and cast additions. But the latest update really has the internet in an uproar.
That being said, here’s what we know about the show’s fifth season and where Joe will go from here.
What’s Season 5 going to be about?
According to the official synopsis, “In the epic fifth and final season, Joe Goldberg returns to New York to enjoy his happily ever after... until his perfect life is threatened by the ghosts of his past and his own dark desires.”
So, as predicted, Joe is moving again — we’ve followed him from NYC to LA to San Francisco to London — only, this time, he’s headed back to where it all began. Will he do what he always does after moving to a new place, though: take on a new identity and murder a bunch of people? Or will he actually have a true redemption arc before the series ends?
For Penn Badgley, who plays Joe, the return to NYC is especially meaningful. For the first time in more than a decade, he returned to Stage B at Silvercup Studios in Queens. The first season of You filmed on a different lot. “Returning to the Mooney set on these stages was particularly poignant because this is where we shot Gossip Girl,” he told Tudum. “And I hadn’t really been back here except for one day of camera testing a long time ago ... So it was creating new memories but with something that is already also quite iconic.”
Regardless of how it all goes, Badgley feels good about saying goodbye in the City That Never Sleeps, telling Tudum, “I do think that the show is best in New York City. It’s where it started. It’s where it’s ending. It’s fitting.”
When does You Season 5 come out?
The last hurrah hits Netflix on April 24.
Is there a trailer yet?
There is now! On March 10, 2025, Netflix dropped the trailer and first-look images for You’s fifth and final season.
Whew! This is going to be an intense send-off. Returning to NYC means Joe will have to choose between who he was, who he has become, and who he really wants to be. And waging that kind of internal war could come with ~a lot~ of casualties.
Still, Joe hasn’t killed in three years. He’s raising his son Henry (RIP, Love) and helping his ultra-wealthy partner Kate turn the Lockwood Corporation into the pinnacle of charitable endeavors. Could he be a changed man, at long last?
It’s not surprising that the final season is going full shock and awe. In a 2023 interview with Happy Sad Confused, Badgley pointed out that the one thing the series wanted to avoid was ever becoming stale. "I signed a six-year contract right out the gate. So they could do two more if they wanted," he shared back in February 2023. "I think if there's another season, I think it's only going to be one. I think — this is my understanding, but I don't know, I really don't know. But I know that everybody concerned, from the top on down, nobody wants this show to become tired."
In a March 2023 interview with IndieWire, Badgley also said he felt as though it was finally time for Joe’s dark indiscretions to catch up with him. "It feels to me like Joe needs to get what’s coming to him, and now he has further to fall because he has all this power and wealth,” Badgley said, adding, “We’re needing to see Joe come to a conclusion."
Who’s in the Season 5 cast?
This series has never let fans down when it comes to new cast additions with changing seasons, and Season 5 holds true to that pattern. Joe is part of a powerful family, and through that family, we meet a few exciting new characters: Kate’s twin sisters Reagan and Maddie (both played by Anna Camp) and Kate’s half-brother Teddy (Griffin Matthews).
As we see in the trailer, Joe has bought back his beloved Mooney’s. It’s there he meets another new face — Madeline Brewer’s Bronte, an enigmatic and free-spirited playwright who may just bring the old Joe out of his newly minted 1%-er shell.
Speaking of Brewer, Badgley told Tudum, “I think she’s exceptionally talented, and we’re lucky to have her this season. Maddie and I have this special thing going, where [the story’s] crazy, and you have to find ways to make it light and normal every day. But then you also have to really key into each other and make this crazy stuff work.”
Sounds like it really will be a killer last run for Joe Goldberg.
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