You Season 5 Review: Joe Goldberg a disappointing, approximate goodbye
Penn Badli, starring the psychological thriller ‘U’, starred as Show-Runar, premiered the conclusion of his season on 24 April. The show that concludes his journey with Goldberg, which is facing the consequences of its dark past, navigating individual turmoil. As the last season comes out, familiar faces and new challenges emerge, the question of whether redemption or decline is awaited.

Release date: 24 April, 2025
There are thriller that develop brilliantly with each passing season – whether it is through the joint or subtraction of the characters, sharpening the storyline, the beginning of the jaw leaving twist, or even something that is simple as the change of scenes. When ‘AAP’ first premiered in the fall of 2018, this psychological thriller brought with a tide wave of anticipation and enthusiasm around the style. A psychiatric bookstore manager with a painful past and a dark passion with a glass cage? The Bad-Boy trop was so skillful that the word-off-mouth spread like a Wordfire, eventually provoked the show for global success, making it almost a convict.
Fast-forward seven years, and ‘you’ have finally come to your much awaited-and, courage, very important-fin. Joe was left with Little with Goldberg (Pen Badgley), serial killer and obscected stacker. In the seasons, every emotion, every defect, and every intensity of its deep defective psyche was dissected. Initially, his character’s unwelling was thrilling, even addictive. However, as the years passed, it became clear that even the creators were struggling to dig from their moral gray heroes. By the end, it was clear: nothing left to expose.
Goldberg – who was haunting a past as a fully incomplete bookstore manager with a past because it was upset – now married to Kate Lockwood (Charlot Richie), lifting his young son, Henry and Living that seems to be an ideal life. Nevertheless, his shared history in London comes back to harass him, which triggers the chaos that set the last season into speed. His serious pledge to start a renewed in New York came at a destructive price. Guinevere Beck and Dr. Nikki’s friends and relatives emerged from the shadow to ensure that hell-bants to ensure that which finally faces the results that they have developed for a long time.
However, in the classic who, in fashion, after crossing the path with Bronte (Medaline Brever), a fierce, ibsen-covotting red-headed playrite, their careful curate cure begins to uproot the mask. The moment he holds him secretly in his book shop, until that moment he finds himself surrounded by him, which is almost poetic in his mind – however, in his mind, it is anything.
Meanwhile, the drama of the Lockwood family intensifies, especially when Kate’s sister, Reagan, sinks mysteries from her past in London. Her marriage and the dangerous attraction of bronze torn, which finally reaches the braking point?
The season was designed as the ultimate sand -off – and perhaps it was given on that promise, at least on paper. However, the story’s prediction sometimes reduced the impact. While some twists and a compelling performance of Kate Lockwood’s Twin Sisters, Reagan and Maddy injecting fresh energy, the closing often felt like a resonance of its first season. The story returned to New York, but this time, which is no longer hidden behind a false identity. She who is Goldberg – is not left to hide anywhere with a billionaire philanthropist, and a public person. This change offered a very important breath of fresh air, yet, contradictory, the exposure also felt the story disorganized and less suspense.
Goldberg’s depiction of Penn Badale is of artificial sleep. The concept of love is anything opposite that the average person can fathom. Their understanding of women is deeply, almost sadly, flawed – and yet what makes him so compelling is the raw vulnerability that he is associated with his violence. Which confuses the illusions, collided with their own pain and estimates, surprise you: is she a hero or a villain? The show does never answer that question at any time. Finale tries to add dots, which connects the distorted notion of humanity – but is it successful? It is left to the audience to decide.
The final season is pepard with cameos, which is sufficient to distract the audience from the main issue: repetition. Gone is the feeling of leaving the jaw which defines the first two sessions. And yet, in its closing moments, the show draws you back. As a long -time viewer, who has survived five sessions, you almost feel like one of the victims when he closes his eyes with you and says that ‘you’ was never a problem – you were.
‘U’ premiered his final season on Netflix on 24 April. The finale consists of ten an hour episode, which is True who mits in your psyche in Goldberg Fashion.