This article contains spoilers for the finale of You season 5.
If you're anything like us, you have been *locked in* to You's final season. The culmination of the serial killer thriller sees anti-hero Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) embarking on a new life as the husband to Kate Lockwood, a former art dealer who's sooo filthy rich that Joe is able to reclaim his real identity and return to NYC.
However, in classic Joe fashion, he falls head-over-heels for a new woman: playwright and bookworm Bronte (played by Madeline Brewer). His infatuation sparks a familiar cycle of stalking, scheming and murder but, this time around, there's a twist.
Bronte initially, secretly, set out to get revenge on Joe as she suspected he had killed her TA Guinevere Beck. While pretending to fall for him she actually falls for him, until she sees through his nice guy act once and for all.
This leads to an explosive confrontation in the show's final episode as she holds him at gunpoint, forcing him to redact the edits he made to Guinevere's book. Joe then turns the tables and manages to shoot Bronte, but doesn't kill her, and a battle ensues between the two.
She runs away and calls the police but he finds her and tries to drown her. In the end, Bronte shoots him and he gets escorted away in handcuffs.
Speaking on the tumultuous episode, Penn Badgley has revealed that he "fought" to wear as little as possible in the final sequence and explains how this adds another layer of interpretation onto the scene.
"I actually fought to be as naked as possible in that last sequence because he needed to be as dangerously close to being witnessed finally as a sexual predator that he was," Penn told People. "He needed to be seen in that way to be kind of saying to everybody, is this what you needed to see in order to realize who he is? We withheld it from now, but is this what you need to see? And that's, I think, a really juicy kind of engagement and question with the viewer that we're all a part of."
