Netflix’s You delivers a superb ending as Season 5 draws the curtain on the show after seven years. The series finale seals the fate of the obsessive serial killer Joe Goldberg with one last conflict. Fans are now eager to know what happened to Goldberg in the final episode and whether he was brought to justice.
Here’s everything to know about Joe Goldberg’s final moments in the finale of You Season 5.
Does Joe Goldberg die or get caught in You Season 5’s ending?
Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) ends up getting caught and sent to prison at the end of You Season 5.
After almost dying in a fire that consumed his bookstore basement, Joe made it out alive and tried to sneak through the Canadian border. His wife Kate had joined hands with his previous victims Nadia and Marienne. The three women also opened Joe’s newest muse, Louise Flannery a.k.a. Brontë’s, eyes to the monster he really is. They confirmed that Joe is the murderer responsible for killing her writing TA, Guinevere Beck, way back in Season 1. Convinced of his crimes, Brontë sets out to take down Joe for good.
Although she briefly caved to the idea of a happy romance with Joe, Brontë soon got back on track at the end of You Season 5. The night they broke into a cabin, she pulled a gun on him and demanded to know what really happened to her friend, Beck. The interrogation led to a violent physical altercation between Joe and Brontë, which ended with Joe shooting her. However, she escapes, and later in the woods, she manages to call 911, allowing the authorities to close in on them.
Before police could reach them, Joe urged Brontë to kill him herself. “Kill me. I deserve it. You know you have it in you. Please, you’re more like me than you want to admit. You get to be the one who kills me, Brontë. This is how our story ends,” he pleaded.
However, Brontë refused, saying that she would rather watch him rot in prison alone than give him a swift death. Joe then lunges at her, but Brontë gets the best of him and shoots him in the groin. The ending of You Season 5 sees Joe getting convicted for all his crimes and sentenced to imprisonment.
