You Season 3 Ending Defined
With the fourth season of You quickly arriving on Netflix, viewers might have to refresh their reminiscence on the earlier season, which premiered over a 12 months in the past. Right here, we revisit key moments within the season 3 finale in an interview with showrunner Sera Gamble, initially revealed on October 16, 2021. Main spoilers for You season 3 lie forward.
Followers have been desirous to meet up with Joe Goldberg since You season 2 ended, and season 3, now streaming on Netflix, didn’t disappoint. From the murders to the marital drama to Joe’s a number of amorous affairs, the third chapter of Netflix’s hit collection was each bit as juicy as we hoped, and its finale left us with the cliffhanger to finish all cliffhangers.
Govt producer and showrunner Sera Gamble breaks down the stunning season 3 finale with ELLE.com, and dishes on what followers can anticipate when You returns for a fourth go-round.
Is Love actually useless?
That is in all probability our greatest, burning query after watching season 3. Whereas some viewers are in all probability hoping that Victoria Pedretti’s Love remains to be alive, in keeping with showrunner Gamble, her destiny within the finale is fairly remaining. “Inevitable might be an excellent phrase for it, truly,” Gamble tells ELLE.com. “For those who consider it simply via the lens of Joe as a personality, his loves finish in tragedy as a result of they don’t seem to be constructed on a basis that can ever work. When it comes to writing the story and making the present, we knew that we had a two-season story for this couple, that the turning level was once we discover out who Love actually is on the finish of season 2.”
Watching Joe and Love’s relationship develop and disintegrate was definitely enjoyable (although typically painful), and it was simply as enjoyable to put in writing. “It was fairly juicy. There’s rather a lot between them,” Gamble says. “There are positively occasions the place it makes excellent sense for them to be collectively, however I do not suppose they actually had what it takes to be a long-term relationship. There have been positively occasions this season, particularly in the direction of the tip the place we very a lot considered Love as Joe’s antagonist, however we had been effectively conscious that is simply because we’re telling the story from the viewpoint of [Joe], who’s our protagonist.” Gamble continues, “Actually, should you put them on paper, she’s not doing something worse than he’s. In actual fact, may be the other….She did do extra murdering than he did.”
Love’s destiny might have been a shock to viewers, however the actors had been truly fairly ready for it. “Penn and Victoria each knew that in all probability [the season 3 finale] was going to finish together with her useless. That was in all probability what it was going to be,” Gamble explains. “However I will be sincere. There have been positively days within the author’s room the place we had been like, or possibly she runs away and we will play some extra with this character later.”
Nonetheless, leaving Love’s storyline open simply did not really feel proper. Gamble says, “Ultimately it felt like we actually needed to go there. In a manner it is just like the character is so highly effective within the season that we actually felt like we could not half-ass the ending.”
Will we see Henry once more?
In a full-circle second, Joe deserted his and Love’s son, Henry, within the season 3 finale. The load of his determination is felt all of the extra deeply by viewers who know that Joe was additionally deserted by his personal mom.
“I believe feeling like he had to do this will have an effect on him deeply. I do not suppose abandoning a toddler would ever go away,” Gamble explains. “And I do know that there is sure issues in Joe’s wiring which can be a bit of totally different than another individuals, however not that.”
As for whether or not Henry can be again in later seasons, the powers that be are giving nothing away. “I am unable to actually reply the query about what that can be sooner or later,” Gamble teases. “For now, he has made what I believe is a reasonably good move to go away him with mother and father who can correctly mother or father him and defend him. And I could not actually say what the longer term will carry after that.”
Lots of characters survived Season 3. Will any of them come after Joe? And can Joe seek out Marienne (Tati Gabrielle)?
The suburbs turned an exceedingly harmful place to be with Love and Joe in them, however various characters (together with Sherry, Cary, Matthew, Dante, and Theo) all survived season 3. “I hope it does not seem to be we’re getting smooth, that so many individuals did not die,” Gamble jokes. “Some individuals died and [Joe is] positively in search of Marienne on the finish of the season. That is why he is flown to Europe.”
As for whether or not any of these survivors may be in search of revenge, Gamble says, “To begin with, something dangerous that may occur to Joe, we’re all in favour of exploring…anybody who is aware of what his deal is, anybody who’s a free finish.”
Particularly, Love and Joe’s married pals, Sherry and Cary, survived, and had been impressed to start out a enterprise primarily based on their time within the notorious cage. “When it comes to individuals you actually thought would possibly die…I believe from the second we meet them, we’re like, ‘Oh, they don’t seem to be going to outlive the season,’” Gamble says. “However it turned essential to us to have a married couple within the season who additionally went via an actual crucible of their relationship, in order that we may truly maintain anyone up and say that is what it seems to be like when it is good. That is what it seems to be like when individuals hear to one another and they’re really placing one another’s pursuits on the forefront of their consciousness. I’ll admit that as a author’s room, we had been actually rooting for Sherry and Cary the entire time.”
However for anybody hoping Scott Speedman’s Matthew may be again, that at present sounds unlikely. “That was among the best days of the season, once we heard he may be all in favour of being on the present in any respect,” Gamble says. “I’ve by no means gotten so many texts from pals that had been excited as when his casting was introduced.”
Will Joe’s mom get extra display time in future seasons?
A flashback within the finale revealed that Joe’s mother moved on and began taking care of one other little one after abandoning her son. Successfully, she left Joe behind for good, a lot to the chagrin of our antihero. However the maternal affect in Joe’s life may be again for future installments of the collection. “That is positively a chance. We’ve not nailed down any specific story, however in so some ways, when you concentrate on Joe, all roads lead again to her, so she’s an essential presence within the story,” Gamble reveals. “So I believe it is one thing we’d at the very least be tempted to poke at.”
Was Episode 3, which featured Joe and Henry getting sick with the measles, intentional commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic and the anti-vax motion?
Whereas parallels will completely be drawn between You‘s measles storyline and the present COVID-19 pandemic, the episode was truly written pre-pandemic. “It is positively attention-grabbing to have this season come out now as a result of this dialog may be very entrance and heart as we speak. And that occurs generally, whenever you write TV, which you must write a couple of 12 months earlier than it comes out, the place abruptly it is extremely related in methods you could not have predicted,” Gamble tells us. “We figured that story out in February 2020. So it is earlier than we knew that there can be a pandemic on this nation. And never solely that, it was many months earlier than the dialog was even actually about vaccines.”
She continues, “It is not so totally different, this isn’t actually a brand new dialog. It is simply very sharp and really heightened proper now. However it’s a dialog that may be very a lot ongoing on this nation. And the potential for a really younger little one being sick is simply the only scariest factor that might occur to a mother or father.” As for Love’s response to assembly an anti-vax mother or father, Gamble says, “A part of our objective was to only put Love and Joe in conditions the place they might actually be examined and possibly impressed to knock somebody over the top and throw them in a cage.”
Will there be a Season 4 of You?
Netflix revealed days earlier than the season 3 premiere {that a} season 4 of You is a go.
And Gamble has been prepared, even earlier than the subsequent installment was confirmed. “The method each season to date has been that [executive producer] Greg Berlanti and I’ve lots of textual content and telephone conversations nearly what can be cool for the subsequent factor,” she reveals. “And we have now been having them a couple of potential season 4 since in all probability earlier than we began capturing season 3. He’s at all times so nice about arising with these large transferring items which can be actually stunning and nice. So we’re positively armed and able to strike if we needed to do it.”
Is Joe’s transfer to Paris everlasting?
Joe’s transfer to Paris reminded us a bit of of Carrie Bradshaw’s journey to the town manner again when. “I have been listening to Emily [in Paris] rather a lot, however I like Carrie,” Gamble says. As for whether or not Joe has moved to France or one other nation for good, Gamble explains, “I believe, sure. If we do one other season, you get to see someplace new.”
Transferring to a different continent makes lots of sense for Joe. “Simply talking for myself, I actually like the thought of him being someplace that is very totally different than the place he is been and the place he does not essentially totally perceive the entire cultures which can be occurring round him,” Gamble teases. “That is only a juicy place to place him in.”
And for anybody that seen the New York shoutout within the remaining moments of the finale, Gamble tells ELLE.com, “I do not know what Joe is considering in that second, however I do consider New York as his residence, greater than another place and by no means say by no means, proper? If we get to inform the story for lengthy sufficient, possibly he’ll pop again over there in some unspecified time in the future.”
Finally, Joe Goldberg might have left the suburbs behind, however his time there was enjoyable whereas it lasted. “The irony of it’s that they transfer there as a result of it is such a secure setting for them and their child, however all of these components make it a foul place to kill anyone as a result of individuals are watching, there’s lots of safety, everyone’s speaking to one another,” Gamble says. “So it was good as a result of it turned up the warmth on them a bit of bit.”
Amy Mackelden is a contract author, editor, and incapacity activist. Her bylines embody Harper’s BAZAAR, Nicki Swift, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, ELLE, The Impartial, Bustle, Healthline, and HelloGiggles. She co-edited The Emma Press Anthology of Sickness, and beforehand spent all of her cash on Kylie Cosmetics.