Finale

It was if they didn't know how to end it, asked ChatGPT what the final season should be, and went with the first idea it spit out.

To make matters worse, they did this weird 4th wall breaking "moment" that attempts to teach the audience something we all already knew: Joe is the antagonist in the story and deserves what he gets.

I kept getting this sense that they were attempting to subvert the audiences expectations. But because we already knew what was supposed to happen, it didn't subvert at all, fell flat, and gave us an empty finale that didn't do justice to the 4 incredible seasons that came before it.

This one will definitely into the same category of Game of Thrones-where the audience's intelligence is mocked and the finale spits out a dud.

I find the ending of season five incredibly disappointing for so many reasons. Rather than delivering a finale that pushed the plot into unsuspected realms of thought provoking complexity, especially given its former unpredictable narrative trajectory, it felt like the finale was finished more for the sake of wrapping things up nicely, eliminating any complexity, rather than to truly challenge the story and return true closure to characters initially depicted in thought provoking ways. Instead of Joe being his unpredictable self, with all its insanity and dark undertones, Joe reined it in to calm, boring Joe after this build-up. The story had enormous tension build-up and high hopes of character introspection, yet fell flat and fell back on tired tropes we've seen countless times before. There was no shocking or grand twist that deserves the weight of the season into a necessary powerful conclusion with emotional heft. The writers appeared to be taking a route of least resistance rather than risking the outcome of truly daring conclusion. Instead of finishing with whatever shocks fans to compliment to overwhelming viewers positively shock, it left me unsatisfied, uninspired, and forgetting its potential.

Collectively, I couldn't help but feel disappointed as the narrative and story did not have the final punch that contained promise built throughout the seasons. While its plot line was enormous and entertaining, the ending left me thinking it will not inform thought you would expect from the finale after seeing some promise with narrative development built into the writing. It didn't make you rethink and feel compelled that a story should really stand out, yet somehow this ending stripped any bite left from the plot, leaving useless void of an anticlimax with overwhelming disappointment, which is why I was truly dissatisfied.

I'm so sick of hamfisted feminist ideological garbage. "You" was an excellent psychological thriller in spite of that, but they got completely carried away in the finale. It's absolutely underwhelming and a massive shame. Seasons 2, 3, and 4 were all phenomenal with engaging finales. This finale was flaccid.

It felt like the writers abandoned the show's core identity in favor of virtue signaling. Instead of delivering the tight, suspenseful, and morally complex storytelling that defined earlier seasons, they leaned into cartoonish caricatures and forced messaging. Joe's character arc, which had always been nuanced and disturbing in a captivating way, was flattened into a bizarre justification of his actions that didn't align with the careful buildup we'd seen before.

Worse, the finale lacked the edge and risk that made the show such a standout. Gone were the sharp twists and layered tension-replaced instead with tidy, unearned resolutions and an over-reliance on monologues that felt like lecture notes rather than dialogue. It's frustrating to watch a show that once balanced social commentary with gripping storytelling so well fall prey to the very pitfalls it used to critique.

The whole season 5 was excellent until the last episode. You can tell the writer is hesitated and afraid to stay true to the story till the end. The writer tried so hard to turn Bronte into a hero that nothing making sense. Her character becomes ridiculous, unbelievable, annoying.

Joe begging to shoot him after running around the wood like a monster, does not make sense.

Characters supposed to be dead were brought back to life which again cheapen the story. I feel that we could have an epic conclusion if the writer is not afraid to be bold. Unfortunately, what we got is a sloppy episodes that makes no sense.

Honestly, the final episode was a complete mess - absurd and downright disrespectful to the audience that stuck around all this time.

(Spoiler alert incoming!) Bronte gets shot and somehow - magically - manages to run away on a broken leg like she's auditioning for The Flash?! How exactly did she overpower Joe, a character who's been portrayed as physically dominant the entire series? Then Joe finds her, drowns her... but surprise! She just wakes up moments later, totally fine, tracks Joe down instantly, and takes him down like it's nothing. Oh, and the police arrive at the speed of light too, because why not?

Also, why did Joe completely lose his intelligence in this last season? He casually leaves incriminating writings lying around like he's begging to be caught. And Bronte's betrayal? It was painfully obvious from the start! Why would Joe - who has been paranoid and calculating for years - trust a random woman who popped out of nowhere?

And let's not even get started on Kate. Not only does she miraculously survive, but she faces zero consequences for her corrupt actions - from covering up child cancer scandals to casually ordering a hit via Joe. We're just supposed to root for her happy ending? Seriously?

There are so many ridiculous, recycled plot points too. Joe falls into yet another messy love triangle. His wife suddenly stops loving him just in time for a new woman to appear. Kate's brother, who literally pulled a knife on Joe, ends up being treated like a sweetheart. And Joe, who once planned every move meticulously, now clumsily locks the wrong twin sister in a basement without even masking up or knocking her out properly? Come on.

Joe, despite all his horrifying actions, was a complex and captivating character. He deserved a much more meaningful ending than this laughable, lazy spiral into prison. Honestly, a powerful, tragic death would have been a far more fitting closure - not this circus act.

Maybe - just maybe - if the writers had taken a scene from Breaking Bad's ending episode, they could have delivered something truly memorable instead of this disappointing mess.

This show was supposed to be about Joe's journey, not Bronte's, not Kate's, not random new characters crammed into the last minute.

Sad to see such a promising show go out like this.