Are we the problem?
Or is Joe just looking to skirt taking culpability for his crimes?
Penn Badgley has some thoughts.
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg on ‘You’.Credit:Clifton Prescod/Netflix
Clifton Prescod/Netflix
This article contains spoilers for the final season ofYou.
Its unfair, putting all of this on me.
Arent we all just products of our environment?
Badgley on ‘You’.Courtesy of Netflix
Hurt people hurt people.
I never stood a chance… Maybe we have a problem as a society.
Maybe we should fix whats broken within us.
Maybe the problem isnt me.
But is his hypothesis right?
For Badgley, the answer isnt that cut and dry.
It couldn’t be about him.
He’s not real.
So that’s kind of plain and simple to me.
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg and Madeline Brewer as Bronte on ‘You’.Courtesy of Netflix
I mean, I think again: do we need to see him change?
What would actually be the conditions for him to change meaningfully?
Is that what anybody wants to see?
So it’s frustratingly true, I think, his statement in the end.
This one [You] does have something to do with our…
I actually think its like a cultural-level love addiction, which is not at all actual love.
And so in the end, I do think it’s about us rather than him, he says.
He has always been a romantic icon.
People are meant to fall in love with him and see him as a romantic figure.
That is actually the point.
And now the exercise is over.
And what has Badgley learned in the end?
All of my 30s, he says.
It’s possible that these reflections have led me towards being a better man and husband and father.
I don’t know, but it’s possible.
The final season ofYouis streaming now on Netflix.
