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You’s Penn Badgley bids farewell to Joe Goldberg, calls Netflix show finale ‘satisfying’

‘There can never be a sixth or seventh or however many seasons,’ says the actor of the way Netflix psychological thriller series You ended

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Penn Badgley in New York at the premiere of season five of thriller series You on Netflix. The actor reflects on the character he plays, Joe, and why there “can never be a sixth or seventh or however many seasons”. Photo: EPA
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He has been Joe Goldberg, the well-read manager of a New York bookstore.

He has been Will Bettelheim, a worker at a trendy Los Angeles health food market.

He has been Jonathan Moore, a literature professor at a London university.

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And he has been Goldberg again – but as a married man, a father and a budding philanthropist.

No matter the name, he was the seemingly perfect significant other whose charming and considerate exterior hid a delusional, disturbed and dangerous sociopath who goes to extreme lengths – like killing nearly two dozen people – to insert himself into the lives of the women who became his obsession.

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Now Penn Badgley has shed all of those identities. His journey on the series You, now on Netflix, reached its conclusion with the release of the drama’s fifth and final season.
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