Everything Penn Badgley Has Said About How Netflix’s ‘You’ Should End for Joe Goldberg: ‘He Needs to Die’

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A fitting conclusion. Penn Badgley is far from Joe Goldberg’s biggest fan — and the actor has often expressed his interest in watching the fictional character’s story come to an end.You, which originally debuted on Lifetime in 2018, explored the serial killer as his obsession for a girl grew to terrifying heights.

Based off books by Caroline Kepnes, the series found larger success after it moved to Netflix in its sophomore season.As a new audience found the show, Badgley candidly addressed his mixed feelings toward his role. “Joe is not actually looking for true love,” the Gossip Girl alum told Entertainment Weekly in 2019. “He’s not actually a person who just needs somebody who loves him.

He’s a murderer! He’s a sociopath. He’s abusive. He’s delusional. And he’s self-obsessed.”At the time, the Netflix star applauded the show for not allowing Joe to have a happy ending with a love interest.“This is the way it has to be because he has an irrefutable problem and if it was just like, ‘They were made for each other, all he needed to find was somebody who kills people too,’ that’s not justice,” he added, referring to the season 3 arc between Joe and Victoria Pedretti‘s character, Love Quinn. “I think it’s reflective of reality because I don’t think people who kill are like, ‘I just need somebody who can do the same.’”Badgley later weighed in on the widespread fascination that fans had with his character. “There are times where Joe is so impossibly sympathetic and even honest and brave.

Sometimes he’s the exact perfect balance between chivalrous and allowing his partner to be autonomous and empowered,” the John Tucker Must Die star explained to InStyle in January 2020. “He’s actually in some ways made to be the perfect guy