Some of the choices in You’s final episodes are painfully contrived and convenient, but the show does deserve credit for finally (and fully) leaning into the darkness and misogyny that’s always lived at the heart of its story. It’s not a perfect ending, but it’s a generally emotionally satisfying one, and perhaps that’s the most surprising twist of all.

What role Bronte plays in all this, whether she becomes an intellectual or even a physical love interest for Joe, is yet to be seen. It seems that Joe is attracted to her because she provides something Kate doesn’t, even though he loves Kate as much as anyone he’s ever met. That complex dance is going to be interesting to watch.

Ultimately, You Season 5 is a welcome back-to-basics conclusion. It isn't reinventing the wheel, which is good considering how last season's shakeups were received, and it doesn't leave any glaring plot holes for us to ponder. There's still a lot of TV logic about how things happen, but nothing outside the realm of the show.

While Badgley is still terrifyingly great at playing a menace, and he’s joined by a captivating Madeline Brewer this time around, You struggles to stick its (predictable) landing.

The bodies continue to pile up as he goes along. But for many viewers, the first thing to croak it will be their attention-span as an already silly series commits the unforgivable sin of becoming indulgent and, finally, straight-up stultifying.

It's more straightforward but also less rewarding, and the show suffers for it.

Largely it plods towards the end, through a series of increasingly convoluted and repetitive plot twists that are silly even by You’s standards.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

This show was a fairly enjoyable binge, they just didn't know how to write a satisfying ending. I get that one of the main themes is toxic masculinity vs feminism, but shooting off Joe's little Joe was such an insanely clichéd way to end it. This is truly adding insult to injury at that point, and it sounds like something out of a feminist fan-fiction version of the show. Joe makes so many idiotic and impulsive choices towards the end that it just doesn't feel like the same character anymore. It was also ridiculous to see a group of redditors become his ultimate undoing. Penn Badgley is as great as he ever was though.

I don’t know how someone can turn a good story into a bad one. They tried so hard to wrap everything up in the most idiotic way possible, and unfortunately, they succeeded. It feels like the director and writer of Season 5 managed to ruin everything about the story and the characters. It started off almost well, but with every bit of effort they had, they somehow managed to end it in the worst way imaginable. I wish they had never produced the last season—it completely ruined everything.

lol who wrote the last episode slop, it's totally idiotic it doesn't make any sense directing wise nor character wise but a very good episode at sermonizing especially the part where they replace joe's inner monologue with that of the fiver 'hero'. The series should have had a perfect ending on season 3 with Love when they had good actors, characters, writers and directors.

I can not believe what they did to this show with the final season. Ugly chick, poor writing, and overtones of woke slop. it was such a great show...