You’s Penn Badgley Talks Season 5 Ending, Joe Goldberg’s ‘True Colors’

Penn Badgley is sharing his thoughts on You Season 5, emphasizing how important it is for his character, Joe Goldberg, to be recognized as the monster he has always been since the show premiered in 2018.

From the very first season, You has made it clear that the show’s protagonist shouldn’t be the one to root for. However, the weirdly desired character’s gestures toward his love interests — even going so far as to kill anyone who gets in his way — have somewhat made him a “romantic icon” for some viewers. 

What did Penn Badgley say about his character’s fate in You Season 5?

Joe Goldberg managed to stay off the authorities’ radar for four seasons, but in Season 5, the character finally faces the consequences he’s long deserved. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Badgley discussed how crucial it is for the character to be recognized as he truly is — evil.

“What I believed was critical was that Joe finally be undeniably and very viscerally perceived and felt as a sexual predator, because that’s what he is. The first episode, he’s masturbating in the street outside a woman’s apartment, who nine episodes later, he strangles. When you say it like that it’s awful, and I’m sorry to say it like that. It’s jarring, right? But it’s like, guys, that’s what happened,” said Badgley. 

The actor had always wanted to stray away from the character’s “charming and seductive” persona and expressed how important it is for him that the final season is peeling off the character’s darkest layers. 

“So it was important that was where he’s sort of frozen and caught in his most vulnerable state, and that, for better or worse, our female protagonist, Bronte or Louise, played by Madeline Brewer, I think brilliantly, she was as dangerously close to a moment of nonconsensual sex,” Badgley added.

He continued, “For the first time we’re seeing really the true colors of this man and what he’s doing, and for the first time ever we see him in the act and we don’t want it to happen. It was really important to me that he’d be deconstructed as a romantic icon. I was singing that song since season one, but I was really explicit with it with the writers throughout this season.”

You Season 5 is now on Netflix. The first four seasons are also available to stream on the platform. 

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