WARNING! This text incorporates SPOILERS for You season 4.Season 4 half 2 of You got here to an epic conclusion which discovered Joe Goldberg evolving into his most harmful self, however there nonetheless stays a large quantity of residual proof, notably witnesses, which have the chance to implicate him in his crimes. You season 4 made audiences imagine he lastly met a real contender in exceeding his depravity, somebody who was depraved sufficient that they might make Joe reconcile with the demons that lay inside himself. When Joe realizes {that a} worse particular person does not exist and that the “Eat The Wealthy” killer is him, he chooses to simply accept himself in all his perversion.
Now that Joe is essentially the most inclined to behave on his urges, and since he is change into safeguarded by the connections of his rich lover Kate, capturing him seems to be completely tougher. Naturally, Joe’s transformation prompted lingering questions within the You Netflix collection, particularly regarding the characters Joe left behind in residuary harm earlier than escaping into his subsequent life. In line with You showrunner Sera Gamble, there are a number of individuals in Joe’s historical past that would return to carry him down, “Any character who’s not lifeless who is aware of something about Joe, it is truthful sport to exert justice. And any character who’s lifeless, [Joe] has a extremely energetic creativeness” (through Individuals).
9 Ellie
Ellie is probably the viewers’s favourite risk when it comes to earlier characters who might make a You season 5 return. Joe meets his neighbor Ellie, portrayed by actress Jenna Ortega, throughout his season 2 stint in Los Angeles, and though he forces his method into her life with the justification of defending her, Ellie is left deeply distrusting of Joe. Followers have been disenchanted to listen to Jenna Ortega’s You season 4 return was disrupted by her participation within the collection Wednesday, and their disappointment was warranted, contemplating Ellie’s narrative was reduce method too brief.
Ellie just isn’t utterly gone from the present simply but, although. Joe mentions in You season 3 that he continues his obligation to Ellie by supporting her financially, however audiences are conscious that what he believes to be assist additionally clears his conscience about Ellie’s deceased sister, Delilah. Ellie has at all times been cognizant of Joe’s fishy habits, and her apprehensiveness surrounding the circumstances of Delilah’s demise might carry her again to confront Joe. The real affect he is had on her life might have initiated Joe’s suppression of the scope of Ellie’s ache, however Joe is prone to Ellie, and considerably if their periodic communication is ready to unveil his location.
8 Paco
Luca Padovan’s character Paco seems in You season 1 and is one other younger neighbor Joe develops an obsessive parental fixation on. Joe needs to guard Paco from his neglectful mom and her abusive boyfriend, which supplies rise to the false sense of belief and safety Paco finds in Joe. By the point Joe does the “virtuous” deed of murdering Paco’s abuser, it is apparent that Joe has taken benefit of Paco’s intuition to maintain his head down and keep away from battle. Paco stays one in all You’s survivors with a reasonably pleased ending – which on this case is solely dwelling – however his dynamic with Joe can also be probably the most difficult.
All through season 1 of You, the younger subsequent door neighbor is seen crying out for assist – he is regularly hungry, typically sits on the stairwell to avoid the nightmare at residence, and he’s starved sufficient of consideration that he befriends the stranger subsequent door. Paco’s innocence and abuse historical past make his friendship with Joe and subsequent blind eye to Joe’s transgressions woefully justifiable. It isn’t onerous to hope that Paco can develop to study the brevity of his time dwelling subsequent to serial killer Joe Goldberg, however it’s troublesome to know he’d need to course of a whole lot of trauma with a purpose to face Joe as soon as once more.
7 Dr. Nicky
After the demise of Peach Salinger, You season 1 introduces Dr. Nicky (John Stamos) as Guinevere Beck’s therapist and one in all Joe’s earliest onscreen rivals. Though John Stamos’ character is at the moment in jail, framed by Joe because of having an affair with Beck, Dr. Nicky’s season 2 interplay with Love’s brother Forty might foreshadow his return in the way forward for You. Forty had been on to Joe earlier than being murdered, and regardless of Dr. Nicky refusing to confess what he is aware of of Joe’s crimes and secrets and techniques, the shock go to might have confirmed any suspicions of Joe for Dr. Nicky and will immediate him to revisit Beck’s slanderous novel for clues.
6 Sherry
Sherry Conrad’s season 3 function as Madre Linda’s most pompous “Momfluencer” didn’t shield her from getting swept up within the deadly drama of Love and Joe. Nonetheless, Sherry (Shalita Grant) capitalizes off of the harrowing kidnappings she and her husband endured, advertising and marketing the expertise that they had below Love and Joe as a type of couple’s remedy. Sherry might be too caught up within the ensuing fame, and it might be why she hasn’t pursued justice for the You season 3 plot factors that dictated her seize; however now that Joe is again within the media and modifying the Love narrative, Sherry might resurface along with her personal standpoint.
5 Cary
Sherry’s husband Cary, portrayed by Travis Van Winkle, has witnessed Joe’s depravity first-hand, and it occurs method earlier than he and his spouse are kidnapped and locked in Joe’s glass field. Within the season 3, episode 5 looking journey that’s meant for Joe to unleash his deepest animal intuition, Joe shoves Cary off of a cliff inflicting Joe to imagine he is killed the Madre Linda husband. Cary recovers in that episode, praising Joe for his fearless masculinity, however the conclusion of You season 3 raises questions to how Cary feels about Joe upon the consideration of their complete historical past and Joe’s new narrative because the hapless sufferer to Love Quinn.
4 Marienne
Former obsession Marienne Bellamy (Tati Gabrielle) is an plain candidate within the lengthy record of characters who might lastly be capable of defeat Joe. Except for his present love curiosity, You’s season 4 Londoner Kate Galvin, Marienne is the one survivor of Joe’s romantic compulsions. Marienne is aware of, and declares to Nadia in season 4, half 2 that Joe must die to ensure that her and her daughter to stay with out concern or repercussions; and her profitable escape from Joe conveniently units up a possible You season 5 confrontation between the 2.
Marienne has sure benefits in defeating Joe that many different victims or witnesses don’t. Whereas Joe has killed and captured dozens, Marienne is without doubt one of the few who has gotten to know Joe personally, or as near personally as doable, and has seen the evolution of the Joe she met within the Madre Linda library to the Joe who has kidnaped her whereas utterly dissociated. As a result of she survives and escapes Joe by tricking him into pondering she is lifeless, Marienne is rife with alternative in Joe’s demise if she needs to take it.
3 Nadia
It might appear as if Joe takes a liking to You’s season 4 character Nadia, however her destiny proves that Joe has no qualms in taking down anybody who might expose him. Nadia is arguably Joe’s most harmful contender, and her wit and intelligence makes her the quickest to attach the pseudonym Jonathan Moore to the killer Joe Goldberg. Finally, Joe is ready to body Nadia by the tip of season 4 half 2, however there’s a saving grace in that Marienne’s escape might assist free Nadia – and so they might take down Joe collectively.
2 Kate
Kate Galvin, who’s performed by actress Charlotte Ritchie, seems to be the lover that lastly accepts Joe for the monster that he’s. You season 4 suggests Joe confesses to being the assassin dubbed the “Eat The Wealthy” killer when Kate visits him in hospital – whereas she appears to take Joe in with open arms, the You collection by no means disappoints in disguising who individuals actually are. If Kate does certainly have incriminating data on Joe and plans to make use of it for good, her motive might stem from her personal redemption story and the need to change into a greater particular person than her dad.
1 Theo
It is superb that Love Quinn’s flame Theo (Dylan Arnold) was in a position to make it out alive within the You collection, particularly as a result of he was witness to Sherry and Cary locked in Joe’s glass cage. Of You’s record of characters, Theo most represented some semblance of morality, and his survival might mark an inquisition into his former lover Love and the couple she locked in her bakery basement. It is too early to guess who will carry Joe to his final demise in You‘s future – however too many characters know an excessive amount of about him, and will probably be exhilarating for audiences to see simply who will get to carry him down for good.
