You Season 5: Shocking Twists and Dark Secrets from Season 4 Revealed!

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Since You Season 4 concluded in March 2023, approximately two years have passed since the events of the previous installment. As we eagerly await the debut of Season 5 – the last season – on April 24, 2025, it would be beneficial to revisit all that unfolded prior to this point.

Ever since you premiered on Lifetime back in 2018 before shifting to Netflix for subsequent seasons, the psychological thriller has kept fans captivated. The series follows Joe Goldberg, portrayed by Penn Badgley, who presents himself as an ordinary Joe but is actually a serial killer hiding in plain sight. As the story unfolds, viewers listen to his internal dialogue where he rationalizes his horrific acts, often starting with an obsessive fixation on a woman. He stalks her, wins her affection, and then becomes dangerously fixated to the extent of eventually imprisoning her while wrestling with his own inner struggles. Once the cycle is complete, he moves on to his next victim.

Joe Becomes the Hunted, Not the Hunter

Season 4 commences with Joe continuing to be overly focused on Marienne (Tati Gabrielle). In a bid to locate her, he journeys to London. Successfully finding her, he ponders letting her escape when she accuses him of being a murderer. Elliott (Adam James), who serves as Love’s (Victoria Pedretti) father’s fixer, devises a false identity for Joe, causing him to assume the persona of Jonathan Moore – a university English professor. As he interacts with Kate, his obsessive behaviors resurface once more. He establishes connections with Rhys Montrose (Ed Speelers), an author who appears to comprehend Joe on a level that no one else does.

As bodies begin to pile up, with Kate’s irritating boyfriend Malcolm (Stephen Hagen) being the first, Joe finds himself in a state of perplexity. Did he kill Malcolm? He can’t recall. The situation becomes even more puzzling when he starts receiving cryptic messages about the murders from someone claiming to be the perpetrator. Then, the killer demands that he kills Kate, but Joe is unable to comply. As Kate’s friends grow suspicious, particularly since Joe is the newest among them and the death toll continues to rise, they begin to accuse him.

As Kate’s childhood friend Roald (Ben Wiggins) relentlessly follows him due to his suspicion towards him, Joe unfortunately falls into the hands of the real murderer, Rhys. Trapped in a dungeon on Kate’s childhood estate alongside Roald, Rhys admits that he grew up impoverished and resented the rich, leading him to commit the murders. He then ignites the dungeon and flees. Remarkably, Joe finds a way to break free and liberate Roald. Later, on television, Rhys announces his intention to run for mayor. In light of this revelation, Joe is certain about what he must do. He has to eliminate Rhys.

The Big Season 4 Twist No One Saw Coming

The mind-blowing twist isn’t unveiled until the last episode of season four, which has been the most astonishing so far. Joe finds himself in a tight spot as one of his bright students, Nadia (Amy-Leigh Hickman), who shares an interest in true-crime tales, becomes aware of his actions and grows wary. On the other hand, Rhys assigns Joe a final mission: to eliminate Tom Lockwood (Greg Kinnear), Kate’s father and Rhys’ political adversary. To increase the tension, Rhys abducts Marienne and warns that he will kill her if Joe refuses to obey.

When Joe dines with Kate and encounters Tom, Tom discloses that he’s aware of Joe’s real identity and that Joe has been deceiving everyone. However, Tom presents a deal: eliminate Rhys for him, and Tom will keep quiet. Joe journeys to a rural cottage where Tom had stated Rhys was hiding after an exposé exposed the falsehoods in Rhys’ memoir. Yet when he gets there, Rhys doesn’t recognize Joe. In a fit of rage and perplexity, thinking Rhys is being dishonest, Joe unfortunately ends up taking Rhys’ life.

In this very instant, the startling revelation surfaces: Rhys has been nothing more than a product of Joe’s imagination throughout. Consequently, all the actions, the mocking, the messages – they were all orchestrated by none other than Joe himself. This discovery leaves Joe in a state of utter confusion. In essence, it turns out that he was, regrettably, the one who carried out each and every murder, oblivious to the fact that he was the perpetrator. Rhys, however, was an innocent bystander with no involvement whatsoever in these events.

The Walls Close in on Joe… Or Not?

As Joe grapples with his actions and mental instability, Nadia encounters Marienne imprisoned within a glass enclosure. Joe had never freed Marienne; instead, he drugged and abducted her, keeping her captive all this time. In his detached state, Joe had inadvertently erased the memory of his actions, but eventually recalls where he had hidden her. Meanwhile, Nadia reassures Marienne that she has a strategy to facilitate her escape.

Filled with remorse and the actions he’s taken, Joe resolves that the only way to break this vicious cycle is by taking his own life. However, before doing so, he feels compelled to rescue Marienne first. Upon reaching her location, he finds her unconscious, seemingly having overdosed on what he thought were medications he had left for her. In an attempt to make it seem like she overdosed elsewhere, he moves her body to a park. To his surprise, however, she’s not really deceased. Nadia swapped Marienne’s medication with beta blockers to lower her blood pressure, making her appear dead but keeping her alive.

After murdering Tom to liberate Kate from his grip, a decision that led him to leap off a bridge into the water below, Joe’s actions caught up with him and the police arrived in time, preventing his death. In the hospital, it was revealed that Kate had inherited all her father’s wealth and had concealed the truth about Rhys’ demise, claiming Joe as the culprit. This cover-up, she explained, was done to protect Joe, whom she believed acted under her father’s instructions. Finding out that Kate had forgiven him, or at least accepted his darker self that she was aware of, Joe chose to embrace his own shadowy nature.

He constructs a complex web of false evidence, leading people to believe that Edward (Brad Alexander) murdered Rhys, and that Nadia was responsible for killing him in self-defense. In reality, it was he who had killed Edward, the helpful fellow student, to avoid being caught. Now, the innocent and promising young woman named Nadia is wrongly accused and faces punishment for crimes she did not commit.

In the Season 4 finale, everyone seems to be advancing, even Marienne who returns safely to Paris to reunite with her daughter Juliette (Dallas Skye). However, Joe continues to think she is deceased. Simultaneously, Joe and Kate relocate to New York, completing the loop in their story. In this new setting, Joe regains his identity and manipulates the tale surrounding the supposed demise of his past lover, Love. Ironically, he presents himself as her victim.

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2025-04-18 00:02