Penn Badgley
Newsweek US
|May 16, 2025
IS THERE A SATISFYING WAY TO BRING AN END TO JOE GOLDBERG’S STORY on Netflix’s You? To Penn Badgley, who has played the serial killer and sexual predator for the past five seasons, “We give a nod and a wink to the kind of satisfaction you want.”
Despite knowing his devious ways, “the viewers were purposefully withheld from seeing him actually, truly abuse and murder someone he—quote, unquote—loves until the very end.... You finally see him as a sexual predator. From day one, like 20 minutes into the pilot, he’s masturbating outside of her window.
What more does anybody need to see?” In this season of You, many will see similarities to Gossip Girl, the show that made Badgley famous. “My experience on Gossip Girl was a meditation on celebrity, and my experience on You
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