‘You’ creator hints at what’s subsequent for Season 5 of Netflix hit

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By Lauren Sarner

March 12, 2023 | 9:17am

The hit Netflix sequence “You” starring Penn Badgley has ended its fourth season, and though there’s no Season 5 renewal but, creator Sera Gamble mentioned that she’s deliberate Joe’s future.   

The next accommodates spoilers for the top of “You” Season 4. 

“There definitely may very well be extra,” Gamble, 39, instructed The Put up. “We have now an thought for what occurs subsequent. However, we hope for the perfect and put together for the worst. I really feel like in case your present hasn’t been picked up and also you write a season finale that’s solely satisfying if it’s a cliffhanger – and we’ll let you know what occurs on the opposite aspect – it’s tempting the gods to cancel you.”

The thriller follows Joe (Penn Bagley), an obsessive stalker / serial killer who thinks of himself as a complicated romantic. Every season exhibits him relocating to a brand new metropolis, turning into obsessive about a brand new girl, and ingratiating himself into a brand new circle of (obnoxious) associates, earlier than the present veers into demise and destruction. Season 4, which was break up into two elements (each now streaming) adopted Joe as he moved to London, posed as a professor, obtained himself right into a good friend group of posh Brits, after which our bodies began falling.

The season ends by revealing that one in all Joe’s new acquaintances, fellow killer Rhys (Ed Speelers) has been useless for some time, and when Joe continued spending time with him, that model of Rhys was merely in Joe’s thoughts. 

“The day we began speaking about this, I walked into the writers’ room like, ‘We’re gonna do ‘Struggle Membership.’ It’s how we talked about it within the writers room,” mentioned Gamble.

“We got here from the attitude of Joe as a personality turning into more and more unhinged. The concept was that he would ultimately attain a degree the place he couldn’t actually misinform himself anymore. So, the a part of him that wanted to proceed to behave like that on the planet would simply break up off solely, and simply cease bothering the great a part of Joe with the small print of it, in order that Joe might go on believing that he was an excellent man.” 

The finale ended with Joe again in New York Metropolis, now well-known and wealthy, with a rich new girlfriend, Kate (Charlotte Ritchie). Gamble mentioned that if there’s a Season 5, it’s going to decide up from there. 

“We actually like the concept of Joe coming full circle to New York, however being in such a distinct place – being among the many folks he was judging as a Brooklyn boy in Season 1, and having limitless sources, but additionally having misplaced the anonymity that helped him get away with every thing he obtained away with the final time that he was in New York.” 

Penn Badgley additionally just lately made headlines for voicing his want to have fewer intercourse scenes within the present. Gamble mentioned that didn’t influence the story. 

“The dialog that he and I had was very a lot about what we had been asking him to do as a performer, and bodily what the script was demanding of him, when it comes to contact with different folks. And that could be a basically technical factor to handle. There was no a part of the dialog that was about rewriting the type of present we had been making. Penn and I  remained on the identical web page about that.

“However, in terms of ensuring that each one that is engaged on a present is heard about one thing as fundamental as consent to the touch one other individual…that’s one thing the place my job is just to listen to what he’s saying, what he wants, and to speak him by it to come back again and what we will do to attempt to assist with it.”