‘You’ Part 2: What happens to Joe in Finale? Taylor Swift Easter Egg?

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Penn Badgley Breaks Down ‘You’ Part 2: From That Insane Joe Goldberg Twist to a Taylor Swift Easter Egg https://t.co/gk0dXMhEUF
- Variety (@Variety) March 11, 2023

• At the conclusion of Season 4 of the Netflix thriller, Joe Goldberg is back in New York City, alongside his billionaire girlfriend Kate - sitting on top of the world, his past misdeeds (aka many murders) have been wiped clean and erased, as funded by Kate.

• Penn Badgley and Sera Gamble (the “You” showrunner) think any justice coming for Joe will have to wait: “Unfortunately, while we all may desire to see this man punished, what actually tends to happen with men like this is that they don’t necessarily.”

• Gamble said the writers have been building up to Joe’s personality splitting. “Joe goes crazier every season. And if you if you trace back, he’s always been delusional in his thoughts,” she said. He’s hallucinated before, she pointed out, when “he saw another version of himself” in Season 3.

Easter Egg(s):

• In the episode Badgley directed, when Joe has learned that his Rhys side kidnapped Marienne and he figures out where he’s stashed her, he can’t get the code to work on the cage. “One, two, one, three, eight, nine” he intones several times, becoming frantic. The significance of those particular numbers? “The code to the cage is Taylor Swift’s birthday,” Badgley said with a laugh. But Joe isn’t a Swiftie, no matter what the cage’s code is. “I think, unfortunately, he would despise her,” Badgley said. “Because she’s successful and blond, maybe? I don’t know, but I think he would.”

• “You’s” second Taylor Swift moment is onscreen and obvious in the finale. After Joe has resolved things in London, and seemingly confessed all to Kate, “Anti-Hero” plays over the wrap-up montage. The song, of course, is significant in Badgley’s world as the song that he used for his first TikTok. Did they use the song, with its Joe-appropriate title, because of his video? Yep, they did.

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• The show hasn't been yet renewed for a fifth season.

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