(L-R) Charlotte Ritchie as Kate, Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in episode 409 of You. At the end of You Season 4 Part 2, he should be left with nothing. Not only is he seeing no repercussions, but he also got the girl, Kate (Charlotte Ritchie).

I would have been disappointed if throwing himself off the bridge was his punishment if he had died, it wouldn’t have been enough, but this is worse. When I said I wanted Joe to come to terms with who he is, look in the mirror and see he and Rhys were no different, I didn’t mean I wanted him to accept it and walk away. It’s so hard to see past the rage right now. Suppose he understands who he is: What happened to the guilt? I mean, I guess I got what I wanted but at what cost? So Joe understands he has this dark thing inside himself. In my review for You Season 4 Part 1, I explained my expectation for Joe’s breakthrough and his emotional fall when he finally understood who he was.

(L-R) Ed Speleers as Rhys, Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in episode 410 of You. YET, the ending’s narration suggests that we’re to understand Joe’s keen self-awareness and blatant honesty to Kate as… progress? Or was this whole psychosis charade meant to show the audience the most profound delusions Joe is capable of? Were we, the audience, meant to walk away in fear of mental illness? You. If there was anything to come out of this season, it should be that Joe Goldberg is irredeemable.

I was convinced that showrunner Sarah Gamble would end it once and for all, have Joe put himself behind bars, kill himself have Rhys frame him have this elite group of friends murder him, something! I completely missed any set-up for the Fight Club card in You Season 4, Part 2.Īfter all the opportunities to give Joe his just deserts, why give him a brighter future-AGAIN? I was so deep in it that when Joe killed the real Rhys, I thought the writers pulled from the Telenovela/soap opera handbook and used an evil twin plot twist. I was so eager to think Rhys’s (Ed Speleers) presence meant the end of Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) that I completely missed the warning signs. The following contains spoilers for You Season 4 Part 2

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