You Season 5: Latest News, Cast, Teaser Trailer, and Everything Else to Know

Joe Goldberg is the psychopath we somehow just can't get enough of. Every season on Netflix's You, Joe (Penn Badgley) claims that he's trying to overcome his darker side, but so far, his obsessive, murderous ways have won out every time. Whether he's in New York City, Los Angeles, Madre Linda, or London, Joe cannot be anyone other than himself — and viewers have a front-row seat to all his misdeeds.

When the fourth season wrapped in March 2023, fans were immediately asking, "Will there be a You Season 5?" The good news is that yes, there will be — although it will be the show's last season. Here, we discuss the latest news on You Season 5, when the season might release, and what it will be about.

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You Season 5 latest news

Anna Camp and Griffin Matthews have joined the cast of You for the fifth and final season, Variety reported on March 20. Camp will play two roles as twins Raegan and Maddie Lockwood, Joe's sisters-in-law. Matthews has been cast as Joe's brother-in-law, Teddy Lockwood. For more on their characters, and the rest of the Season 5 cast, check out the casting section below.

You Season 5 renewal

You was renewed for a fifth and final season on March 24, 2023, shortly after Season 4 ended. At the time, Netflix tweeted that the series would return for its final season in 2024, although there's a chance that the writers and actors strikes in 2023 pushed back that timetable.

You Season 5 release date prediction

When Netflix announced that You was renewed for a fifth and final season, the streamer said it would come in 2024. But most of Hollywood was at a standstill for months in 2023 as writers and actors went on strike for fair wages, so we're not expecting to see You Season 5 on our screens before late 2024, or possibly 2025.

You Season 5 trailers and teasers

Although fans may have to wait a while to watch You Season 5, Netflix's global fan event Tudum 2023 allowed them to get a small taste. As characters from past seasons flash on the screen, Badgley talks to the camera, saying, "We all know there are many loose ends from Joe's past. The question is: Who are you?" 

Watch the full teaser here. 

What will You Season 5 be about?

Joe has been around the world and found himself back where it all started: New York. At the end of Season 4, Joe fully embraces his dark side (despite spending much of the season trying to fight it). He admits to his most recent love interest, Kate (Charlotte Ritchie), that he's a killer. As with Love, he's found the right woman to fall for. Kate has a darkness of her own, so she takes this news in stride. She also has massive family wealth, which is how she's able to help Joe return to New York and spin his past (remember, he's supposed to be dead) into press gold.

And it seems that returning to New York isn't the only way Joe is reconnecting with his past. He'll also be returning to the bookstore business, where he'll connect with a playwright (played by Madeline Brewer) who works for him. Sounds like Season 1 all over again.

The first season of the series was based on Caroline Kepnes' book You; the second and third seasons were loosely based on her sequel Hidden Bodies. The third book in the series is called You Love Me, but the TV series does not follow it (in either the third or fourth seasons), so it's unlikely that we can draw any conclusions from its storyline, which is set in the Pacific Northwest and centered on a love interest named Mary Kay DiMarco.

You Season 5 cast

Penn Badgley will of course return to wrap up the story of Joe Goldberg. Charlotte Ritchie is also expected to reprise her role as Kate, Joe's new wife.

Madeline Brewer (The Handmaid's Tale) has joined the show in a series regular role, per Deadline. She'll play Bronte, "an enigmatic and free-spirited playwright" who forms a connection with Joe when she comes to work at his bookstore, fueling his "nostalgia for his former self, causing him to question everything his life has become."

It also seems like we'll be spending more time with Joe's rich new in-laws, the Lockwood family. According to Variety, Anna Camp will play dual roles as Joe's twin sisters-in-law, Raegan and Maddie Lockwood. Raegan is described as the Lockwood Corp's "cutthroat CFO," while Maddie is a "thrice-divorced socialite" who's secretly a "master manipulator."

Griffin Matthews will play Teddy Lockwood, Joe's brother-in-law. Per Variety, Teddy "brings authenticity and empathy to a family for whom such things are a foreign concept."

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Where to watch You

The first four seasons of You are available to stream on Netflix.