YOU Season 5 Trailer Sends Joe Goldberg Back To New York — How Will It All End?

Goodbye, YOU. Netflix just dropped the official trailer for the fifth and final season of Penn Badgley's serial killer drama, which premieres in its entirety on April 24, 2025.

"At heart," Joe Goldberg (Badgley) says in the new footage, "I am a normal guy." Uh, literally every other moment of the two-and-a-half-minute preview says otherwise, dude.

Now that Joe is back where his bloody adventures began four seasons ago, his luck — and the luck of anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path — could be running out very soon. But don't take our word for it. Even the final season's official logline warns that Joe's "perfect life is threatened by the ghosts of his past and his own dark desires."

Michael Foley and Justin Lo serve as showrunners for YOU's final season, executive-producing alongside Badgley, Greg Berlanti, Sera Gamble, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo, Marcos Siega and Neil Reynolds.

Badgley wrapped filming the final season in August 2024, an occasion he commemorated by channeling his inner Jools Lebron for a special message to fans, reflecting on his time "playing a romantic icon" with a heavy wink. Hit PLAY on the video below to watch it all go down:

You may recall that YOU's fourth season relocated Joe to London, where he started over as a college professor named Jonathan Moore after faking his own death. But old habits die hard, unlike so many of Joe's previous victims, so it wasn't long before he fell back into his murderous ways.

After finding love with British trust fund baby Kate Galvin (Charlotte Ritchie), Joe's back in New York City for one last hurrah — and his return from the "dead" could also bring some familiar faces out of the woodwork.

"We have kept scrupulous track of everybody who knows anything about Joe who's not dead," then-showrunner Sera Gamble told TVLine at the end of Season 4, clarifying that "the ones who are dead could still appear in dreams and hallucinations." As she put it, "There are some very smart people who are alive. Some of them are in jail, and some of them are basically in witness protection, but there's no reason to believe he's safe."

You can watch a previously released teaser for the series' final season below:

Read on for a breakdown of the new faces we'll encounter in the final season of YOU, then drop a comment with your thoughts below: How do you hope Joe's story will end?

Joe may still be in a committed relationship with Kate (Charlotte Ritchie), but since when has that stopped him from admiring another woman from afar? Or, you know, from way too close?

Enter Madeline Brewer as Bronte, described as an "enigmatic and free-spirited playwright who comes to work at Joe Goldberg's new bookstore."

Prepare for trouble, and make it double: Anna Camp (True Blood) will appear in the dual roles of Reagan and Maddie Lockwood, Joe's twin sisters-in-law, while Griffin Matthews (The Flight Attendant) will play Joe's "snarky yet loyal" brother-in-law Teddy Lockwood