![]() ![]() “Joe is a perfect device because you can delve into something, but you always have the safety cord or the safety net of, ‘Yeah, but he’s a hypocrite.’ We are all exploring something earnestly, I think. The decision to keep Joe alive is something Badgley was on the fence about. While Joe eventually attempted to kill himself by jumping off a bridge in the final episode of season 4, he survived the fall and pledged to start a new life with girlfriend Kate ( Charlotte Ritchie). ![]() Gamble noted that the show began weaving in Joe’s hallucinations back in season 1, adding that by season 3, “he had a fever, and the inner monologue became a whole separate Joe that was sitting there, taunting him.” It’s one thing to have to justify killing one or two ex-girlfriends, and it is quite another to walk into a season with a minimum of 10 murders under your belt.” The thing that’s particularly fascinating to me is how baroque his justifications have had to become. “Greg would point out that the pressure on him only gets greater the more he runs and tries to start over. “Joe’s character arc is something we had been talking about for a couple of seasons,” she said. Showrunner Sera Gamble, for her part, shared with Vulture in March that the Fight Club-like narrative is something she and executive producer Greg Berlanti had planned for a while. Not taking anything away from him and his transgressions.” “And so I think I was just trying to help the concept do what it does best. “If you think it’s about him, that’s when you’re too much under the spell,” he explained. In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies But the show is most valuable when you’re under Joe’s spell and you’re watching it, again, as more as an exploration of us, rather than just about him.”Īfter part 1 of the Netflix hit’s fourth season premiered in February, viewers were led to believe that Badgley’s character - formerly Joe, now Jonathan Moore - had jetted off to London to begin a new life as a better person before the Eat the Rich Killer, unveiled as Rhys Montrose ( Ed Speelers), began killing his friends. And that’s good on one hand, because it means we’ve made this thing in a compelling enough way that that’s what it does. “And if we forget that and get lured in by his unreliable narration and think we’re actually in a story about a man who’s trying to change and trying to fall in love and trying to find somebody, well then we’re too much under Joe’s spell. “I think what the show was doing is, like, a campy exploration of our most toxic misconceptions of love and power and ourselves,” Penn Badgleyexplained to The Hollywood Reporter about the show’s epic plot twist after part 2 hit Netflix on Thursday, March 9. ![]() He’s back! Joe Goldberg proved that a leopard doesn’t change its spots - and nothing is how it seems - on season 4, part 2 of You. Warning: This story contains spoilers from season 4, part 2 of You. ![]()
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