“I actually fought to be as naked as possible in that last sequence because he needed to be as dangerously close to being witnessed finally as a sexual predator that he was,” Badgley told People in a story published April 25.

After five seasons, 23 murders, and enough instances of Stockholm syndrome to keep psychiatrists in work for years, Netflix’s YOU has come to a close with Joe Goldberg’s final incarceration. Penn Badgley, you are now finally off the hook.

Although Joe Goldberg doesn’t meet his maker at the end of “You” Season 5, he is the victim of a devastating shot to the groin, which Penn Badgley said takes away his “worst weapon” in a satisfying ending.