![]() Which makes it fertile ground, apparently, for not just one, but two Taylor Swift references in the final two episodes - one of which is an Easter egg. “You” is a dark satire, and a layered character study about a promising young man so damaged by childhood abuse and neglect that his sense of right and wrong has become completely gnarled. ![]() ![]() Will Nadia come get Joe’s ass in a presumed fifth and final season of “You”? “She’s great,” Badgley said, while also claiming he doesn’t know what might happen. Joe calmly explains to her that this way, she gets to survive, even though she’ll go to prison, and in the show’s final moments, Joe says in voiceover that Nadia didn’t speak in her own defense at her trial. He’s also framed Nadia for Eddie’s death. By the finale’s conclusion, Joe has framed - and killed, of course - Nadia’s friend Edward (Brad Alexander), setting him up to take the fall for the Eat the Rich killer. “I think it does kind of feel like a redemption arc to the viewer,” Badgley said.īadgley directed the show’s ninth episode, which neatly sets up the events of the finale: Joe wants to free Marienne but doesn’t know how, his student Nadia (Amy-Leigh Hickman) has discovered Marienne in the basement, and is onto him - and Joe is really sick of Rhys badgering him. (He survives, of course, and wakes up in a hospital with Kate at his bedside.)Ĭharlotte Ritchie as Kate in the finale of “You.” Courtesy of Netflix “Every time, I try: I make it perfect, it’s never enough,” Joe says in anguish, before he pushes “Rhys” off, and then jumps himself. “This is the thing: He still actually wants to save these people!”Īs Joe stands on a bridge over the Thames talking to Rhys, he appears to have faced the reality that everything Joe does, no matter what his intentions, leads to death. “He’s coming up with a logical solution to save people,” Badgley said. In the logic of “You,” and in the twisted mind of Joe Goldberg, this rationale makes sense to him. “What he’s trying to do is to kill a killer.” “Yes, Joe is suicidal technically what he’s doing is trying to kill Rhys,” Badgley said. But really, he wants to kill Rhys, whom he feels plagued by. When I said that, I laughed like, ‘Oh, that’s a normal scene.’”īy the finale, Joe has realized what he’s done - that is, he’s killed a bunch of people, kidnapped his Season 3 love Marienne (Tati Gabrielle) and put her in a cage in the basement of a condemned building. “I realized that scene was waking up and deciding I had to kill myself, and speak to my split-personality figure in the kitchen. He replied, “‘Oh, it was nice, because I finally got to shoot a normal scene,’” Badgley recalled. ![]() Over a breakfast interview in Brooklyn, Badgley was amused when he remembered a conversation he’d with Ritchie at a party for the show, when she asked him how his day on set had gone. Somebody is reading the voiceover, and Penn is moving his eyeline.” “There are many days when he shows up and he has no actual dialogue. “No one is aware, actually, of how little he speaks other than me - because I have to go and never speak!” “No one experiences how little Joe speaks as much as I do,” he said. Courtesy of Netflixįor Badgley, after three and a half seasons of delivering most of his lines in Joe’s voiceover, which he records in a booth alone, having a scene partner like Speleers’ Rhys was completely novel. (He discovers this fact after he murders a completely innocent Rhys.)Įd Speleers as Rhys, Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg. In the show’s seventh episode twist, we learn that Joe barely even knows the real Rhys, and he’s imagined him as his enemy: Joe’s “you,” the person he addresses his narrative to in the template of the series, is, in fact, himself. How could it be otherwise? He’s the problem it’s him. Rhys, in Joe’s absolutely unreliable version of events, was setting him up as the Eat the Rich killer who was murdering members of the upper class social set that Joe had infiltrated.īut Joe, of course, is the serial killer. By the end of Episode 5 of “You,” where Netflix divided the season in two, Joe thought that the killer was Rhys Montrose (Ed Speleers), a brilliant writer and upstart politician. Having set about trying to start a new life as Jonathan in Season 4, as a professor at a London university, he soon found out that there was a serial killer in his midst. Yes, Joe has emerged not only unscathed after reaching his lowest point, but victorious. Charlotte Ritchie as Kate, Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |