Why It’s Time For Netflix to End ‘You’ After Season 4

Joe Goldberg’s bullshit has run its course. 

How much longer could we go on watching a relatively average white man get away with literal murder? Not long. But the popular Netflix series You has already gone on for four seasons and even survived a cancelation on Lifetime after Season 1 before making its way to the streaming service.

The show is about a dangerously obsessive young man who goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of the women he is transfixed by. You sent the wrong message about love from the start, but viewers were more than glad to buckle in for the ride. While watching the advanced screeners for the new season of the show, I found myself ready for the story to end. The first batch of the fourth season dropped on Feb. 8, and the second half won’t arrive until March so I won’t spoil the finale. While there isn’t any clarity about the show’s future as of yet, they should really call it quits now. 

For four seasons, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) has traveled from coast to coast, and now across the Atlantic, terrorizing women and those in their proximity all in the name of a sick, twisted obsession he believes qualifies as love. But his pursuits have nothing to do with love; it’s all just a maniacal fixation. In Season 3, we see him living in the suburbs with his wife Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), and their child. We start the season off thinking he has finally done away with his killer past after he has found someone he can live his truth with (Love is a fellow killer), but it is only a matter of time before he is staring out the window fascinated by their next-door neighbor and then falling in love with a librarian named Marianne. For him, even Love’s deranged love was not enough. He wanted more.