Netflix renews ‘You’ for a final season

The fourth season of you he established himself among the elites of England and, with chaos unfolding again around Joe Goldberg, the most charming stalker found a way to return to New York with his head held high. It is time to write the last chapter of him, as considered by Netflix, which has renewed the psychological thriller for a fifth and final season.

Of course, this renewal is accompanied by bad news: Sera Gamble, co-creator of you along with Greg Berlanti and showrunner for the first four seasons, she is stepping down as chief creative officer. She wants to focus on other projects after devoting the last five years to the character created by Caroline Kepnes in literature. “I feel proud of everything I have achieved and I feel privileged to pass the torch”, she has communicated in a press release.

Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo, executive producers and writers of the series, will take the reins from Sera Gamble

And who will be their replacements? Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo, who already served as executive producers and writers for the play, after working on it since the first and second seasons respectively. They will have to close the path of Joe Goldberg and finalize the initial plan of Gamble and Berlanti, who always imagined you as a story with five seasons.

For you, this arc of five seasons is quite a triumph. Developed for Lifetime, an American cable channel, it went unnoticed by linear television on traditional television in decline. With the license agreed by Netflix, however, the character played by Penn Badgley became an international phenomenon. The fourth season, which premiered in two parts (the first, on February 9, and the second, on March 9), accumulates more than 323 million hours viewed among subscribers.

The creative challenge of you consists of the portrait of Joe Goldberg: a man who considers himself a kind of prince charming when, in reality, he is a psychopath who harasses the women he likes. Penn Badgley, who was known to the public for his work on gossip girlon more than one occasion he has criticized or ironized the reactions of a sector of the public, which idealizes the toxic behavior of his character.

Besides, you has managed to reinvent itself. The first season was a twisted take on the romance genre with a psychopath in the title role; the second imagined the consequences of Joe fixing on a person as psychologically volatile as himself; the third put him on the ropes by exploring the search for sentimental stability, in addition to increasing social criticism; and the fourth explored made a comment on the genre whodunnit and the fictional model popularized by Agatha Christie, in addition to giving it a twist.

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