Next month, Joe Goldberg, the serial killer who simply loves love, will return for his final stab at a happily ever after in You‘s fifth and final season.

Season 4, which bowed roughly two years ago, found Penn Badgley‘s twisted bookseller moving to London after faking his death in the previous season. There, Joe found himself wrapped up with a murderer called the Eat-the-Rich Killer. A late-season twist, however, revealed that the person he’d identified as the butcher was a figment of Joe’s imagination. It was him the whole time. Womp womp.

After a failed suicide attempt, Joe finds himself reconnecting with love interest Kate (Charlotte Ritchie). He confesses everything to her, and she not only takes him back, but uses her significant resources to help cover up his crimes and rehabilitate his image. The season ends with them returning to New York City, where he spontaneously buys a bookstore.

It’s a full-circle journey for the series, one that former showrunner Sera Gamble told us will interrogate “what kind of justice would be fair and appropriate for a guy like Joe.” As we wait to find out, read on for everything we know about You season 5, including its release date, cast, trailer, and more.

Is there a You season 5 trailer?

There is. Watch it below.

What is You season 5 about?

According to Netflix, “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.”

That’s a pretty vague synopsis, but the trailer offers some more clues. For one, Joe has achieved a level of fame via his relationship with Kate, putting him in the public eye in a way that could very well resurrect some of those “ghosts.”

Also, though he knows he’s lucked out and should endeavor to protect his life with Kate, he simply cannot resist the love bug. In the trailer, we meet Bronte (Madeline Brewer), a young woman who wanders into his bookstore and triggers a new obsession. (It’s season 1 all over again.) We’ve seen how this goes.

As for Kate, her success is being threatened by her twin sisters, Raegan and Maddie Lockwood (Anna Camp), who want their father’s business for themselves. Joe knows one solution to that problem, but Kate is reticent.

“You want us to kill everyone who’s suspicious of us for the rest of our lives?” she asks in the trailer. “Is that so wrong if it’s for the right reasons?” Joe retorts.

What have the creators and stars said about You season 5?

Former showrunner Gamble teased You‘s final chapter when we chatted with her after the season 4 finale, saying that Joe’s been “unleashed” following his stint in London and induction into high society.

“He has, in some ways, really gotten out of his own way,” she told EW. “[He’s] been working at half-power basically this whole time with the fact that he still holds the idea of romantic love in such high esteem. Love and mentorship are so important to him. That’s really the double-edged sword that still remains. He’s not like the Superman of killers where he has no Achilles heel. If only he didn’t believe in love so desperately, he could just do this forever.”

She elaborated in an interview with E! News: “We have spent four seasons constructing these characters who are violently wealthy, but not all of them are that smart or that ruthless. If Joe is all of the things that he is and now has unlimited resources and access, he’s become the thing that he envied and judged from afar. It gives us a lot of new opportunities.”

Speaking to Joe’s ultimate fate, Gamble told us, “We have some ideas that we’ve been talking about pretty much from the beginning. The thing that we have the most is an ongoing debate. Certainly [executive producer] Greg [Berlanti] and I have talked with Penn about like, this is something we’re envisioning for the end, but it’s really the debate about what kind of justice would be fair and appropriate for a guy like Joe. And then do we believe that he would get that kind of punishment? My short answer is, maybe not from the American system. But there might be other ways.”

Badgley touched on this as well in a chat with The Hollywood Reporter. “[As] much as we like watching the arc of Joe, we also want him to be brought to justice,” he said. “But, death or prison? Are they that satisfying? What do we even mean when we say ‘brought to justice;? Do we really want vengeance? Do we want revenge? Do we want torture? What is it that people want? And, what is actual justice? They’re not necessarily the same thing.”

He added, “I think he actually can go to a new place and, if and when it happens, it’ll probably be this spectacular resolution that everybody’s hoping it could be, because now he has further to fall. He has power and the stakes are high. He’s not just some guy anymore.”

Will Marienne return in You season 5?

Joe’s obsession with Marienne (Tati Gabrielle) found him chasing her across the ocean in season 4. It also, of course, led to her attempted murder. Thankfully, Marienne appeared to escape Joe’s wrath at the end of the last season, having faked her death and absconded to Paris to live peacefully with her daughter.

Gamble made it sound as if the show was happy to leave Marienne with that happy ending. “Anytime someone is still out there, it’s both a threat to Joe and also a continuing threat to them,” she told us. “I’ll just be honest with you, it’s rare, but sometimes we get to give somebody a happy ending, at least for now.”

She continued, “Marienne was a character we just didn’t wanna tear to shreds at the end of the day. She had been through so much by the time we met her. She was the character who kind of broke Joe’s brain because she has so much integrity. So we figured that was a worthy pursuit to bend ourselves into crazy shapes, to figure out a way to get her out of the season alive.”

Don’t celebrate just yet, though. Set photos uploaded to Getty Images confirm that Gabrielle filmed scenes for You season 5, so her role in the story doesn’t appear to be over just yet.

Who’s in the You season 5 cast?

In addition to Gabrielle, Richie (Ghosts, Wonka) will reprise her role as Kate, Joe’s wife in You season 5. The trailer also highlights Amy-Leigh Hickman (EastEnders, Safe), who played Nadia, the English student who was framed for murder last season by Joe.

There are several new additions to the cast this season. As previously mentioned, Brewer, best known for her roles on Orange Is the New Black (2013) and The Handmaid’s Tale (2017–present), plays Bronte, a playwright who works for Joe at his bookstore. “As the two connect over literature and loss, Bronte stokes in Joe a nostalgia for his former self, causing him to question everything his life has become,” reads Netflix’s description of the character.

Anna Camp, a veteran of True Blood (2009, 2013–2014) and the Pitch Perfect franchise (2012–2017), plays a dual role as Kate’s twin sisters, Raegan Lockwood and Maddie Lockwood.

Netflix describes the characters thusly: “Raegan is the cunning, cutthroat CFO of the Lockwood Corp who has her eyes on the throne and will crush any adversary … be they family or not. Maddie, on the other hand, presents as the unserious twin, a thrice-divorced socialite whose job is ‘vaguely PR.’ But make no mistake, a master manipulator lies beneath Maddie’s frivolous facade.”

Another Lockwood is played by Griffin Matthews, who previously appeared on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022). Matthews’ Teddy Lockwood is described as a “confidante who was never fully accepted by the Lockwood family.”

When is You season 5 coming out?

You season 5 will premiere in its entirety on April 24, 2025.

How to watch You season 5?

You season 5 will stream on Netflix, where you can also stream the first four seasons.

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