Penn Badgley thinks Joe Goldberg was ‘delivered to his actually acceptable finish’ in “You” finale: ‘Justice has been served’

This text incorporates spoilers for theYou sequence finale.

Whereas Penn Badgley is content material with the place Joe Goldberg leads to the You sequence finale, he is aware of that some viewers could have needed to see his killer character exit in a a lot darker approach than spending the remainder of his days behind bars.

“The finale, to me, it's doing all the pieces that might presumably be achieved in a satisfying method,” the actor tells Leisure Weekly. “I feel he's delivered to his actually acceptable finish. After which the one factor left is to appreciate [that] there isn’t any ending that might fulfill anybody one hundred pc, as a result of justice for a person like Joe isn't in and of itself satisfying. I imply, he's an abuser. He's a killer. He's a foul individual. So I feel being happy is a constructive factor.”

The ultimate episode of the hit Netflix thriller sees Joe lastly arrested and delivered to justice for the murders of Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) and Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail). In its final scene, Joe laments over his insatiable loneliness whereas locked inside a brand new sort of cage: his jail cell.

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Badgley explains {that a} extra gory, dramatic ending for Joe — who, at one level, begs girlfriend Bronte (Madeline Brewer) to kill him earlier than he might be taken into custody — would’ve solely succeeded in giving him the victimhood that he was craving and bringing the present’s heroines all the way down to his stage.

“With Joe, we're delivered to lastly, presumably, like, a impartial place ultimately,” he says. “As a result of if we have been to be happy by his finish an excessive amount of, I feel that may be bloodlust. That might be such as you need to see him be torn aside; you need to see him tortured; you need to see him killed brutally by the ladies who've harm him. However that may be horrible for them. That might be off. That might be bringing them nearer to his stage and us.”

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The 38-year-old admits that solely “time and perspective” can “carry the little bit of satisfaction we’re unable to ship” by Joe’s ultimate moments.

“Should you have been to think about this as an actual man and an actual story and actual victims, the one factor that may actually heal and fulfill is time, so long as justice has been served,” Badgley says. “And I feel, within the case of Joe, justice has been served — particularly due to the additional little twist of the blade with the elimination of his genitalia.”

After begging Bronte to shoot him, Joe does find yourself getting his want — simply perhaps not within the location he would’ve needed. She shoots his penis off simply moments earlier than he’s arrested.

Badgley considers the physique half loss to be a destiny worse than demise for Joe. “He does his worst harm not within the cage, as a result of within the cage he's truly clear about who he’s, or he's the most clear about who he’s,” he says. “And he'll truly put anyone within the cage who must be — males, girls, previous, younger, no matter — however he is not going to carry simply anyone into the bed room. The bed room is a way of thinking: he has a really particular sort of thought of prey, and he refuses to confess that he’s a predator."

It's why he believes Joe "needed to be undeniably captured and revealed because the predator that he’s” on a a lot greater scale as a substitute of dying his notorious glass cage.

"That was tremendous vital, I feel, that he wouldn't meet his finish in a cage, as in all probability folks have been anticipating, however for him to satisfy his finish…. The method begins in mattress, in a state of undress, the place, for the primary time, I feel you see him partaking within the act and also you don't need it to occur," he says. "The entire level is that every one all through the present you need him to have this romantic expertise. And so lastly, the final love scene he's part of is the primary one that’s, I feel, actually turning your abdomen.”

The ultimate season of You is streaming now on Netflix.

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