1 week Ago By Mamta Raut
It’s true what they say - a good series is good until it becomes famous enough for makers to stretch the plotline into more seasons, where it loses all tracks and goes off the rails. That’s the case with ‘You’ which recently returned with its fifth and final season on Netflix. We learn that the killing spree of Joe Goldberg has finally come to an end.
He was arrested and convicted for murdering Beck and Love. And those convictions have led to more cases of murders coming to the fore. The internet’s favourite serial killer is done for, but even in the series' final moments, he didn’t expect his fault.
Instead, Joe pinned the blame on society for turning him into a monster, and Penn Badgley who plays the role, partly thinks what Joe said was true. “It's a cop out from him but it's also true because, at the end of the day, he's not real and we are. And so we've been watching a show about him and he no longer exists, so it is about us.
It couldn't be about him. He's not real. So that's kind of plain and simple to me,” he told Entertainment Weekly.
A post shared by Netflix US (@netflix) When ‘You’ was first released, everyone fell in love with Joe, a serial killer with a savior complex. It didn’t matter if you saw him as a flawed human or a humanized villain, who can kill for love, literally, and then get rid of the body too. He was this epitome of boyfriend material that people went crazy for, wanting to watch more how he let his intrusive thoughts win.
It’s not at all bad, it’s just frustrating that something that starts so well can’t sustain that initial interest. Mostly, the show stood out to the masses because the general idea here was to not center highlight on the victims but instead on the perpetrator of the crimes, where Joe inevitably becomes the dramatic focus and the narrative engine. And so much of a callus has grown over our collective psyche about his brutal killings that we passionately wanted to look more into the dark abyss that Joe creates.
“It’s unfair, putting all of this on me. Aren’t we all just products of our environment? Hurt people hurt people. I never stood a chance.
.. Maybe we have a problem as a society.
Maybe we should fix what’s broken within us. Maybe the problem isn’t me. Maybe it’s you,” Joe’s voice narrates when he is locked up in a jail cell.
A post shared by Netflix US (@netflix) Penn Badgley explained why Joe thinks everyone is to blame for what became of him, “I mean, I think again: do we need to see him change? What would actually be the conditions for him to change meaningfully? Is that what anybody wants to see? That would actually be a very different show with a very different pace and tone and ethos, and it wouldn't be as popular as it is. So it's frustratingly true, I think, his statement in the end.” All episodes of ‘You’ are available to stream on Netflix.
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