What Happens to Joe Goldberg in You Season 5? Ending Explained
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 as he deserved.
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. Meanwhile, 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, which becomes her only motivation for saying yes to his proposal.
Although she briefly caved to the idea of a happy romance with Joe, Brontë soon got back on track. 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. Now out in the woods, Brontë somehow managed to call 911, allowing the authorities to close in on them.
Before they 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 starkly refused, saying that she would rather watch him rot in prison alone than give him a swift death. Joe made a final attempt to subdue her by lunging at her with all his might. But Brontë got the best of him and shot him in the groin. The series satisfyingly ends with Joe going through a harrowing trial, which ends with him convicted of all his crimes and sentenced to imprisonment.
