You season five trailer shows killer Joe Goldberg going ‘back to where it began’

The latest trailer for season five of Netflix psychological thriller You has disclosed its launch date, and shows Joe Goldberg returning to New York for the show’s “killer finale”.

It will be the final season of the show, which has followed the life of Goldberg, played by Penn Badgley, since 2018, as he dates women while contending with his dark impulses as a sociopathic obsessive stalker and serial killer.

The season, which was initially due to air last year, but was postponed amid actor and writer strikes, will be released on Netflix on April 24.

In the new trailer, the protagonist can be heard saying: “Hello you, do you remember me? Because I remember you.

“Here we are together again, back to where it began, a lot has happened, these many years together, identities, cities, loves, complications.

“But all that led me here to now, where I was always meant to be. And the one constant, the one thing that has always been there for me, is you.

“You, who have been there the whole time, and will be there with me ’til the end.”

The clip shows Joe returning to the Mooney’s book shop where he worked during the series’ first season, and snippets of him washing blood off his hands.

Joe’s behaviour caught up with him after three seasons of You, when he faked his own death and moved out of California.

In season four, he took on a new identity, as university English professor Jonathan Moore, in London, and met new love interest gallery manager Kate Galvin, played by Fresh Meat and Call The Midwife actress Charlotte Ritchie.

EastEnders actresses Tilly Keeper and Amy-Leigh Hickman and Outlander and Downton Abbey actor Ed Speleers also appear in the fourth series.

At the end of season four Joe returns to New York, using his original name, where in season one he met Guinevere Beck, played by Once Upon A Time actress Elizabeth Lail, and worked as a bookseller.

In season two and three Joe was based in California, where The Haunting actress Victoria Pedretti played Love Quinn, his primary love interest, wife and mother of his child.

Based on the best-selling novel by Caroline Kepnes, the show aired on Lifetime for its first season before being taken on by Netflix.