You is a drama-thriller TV series created by Sera Gamble and Greg Berlanti and starring Penn Badgley, Tati Gabrielle, Charlotte Ritchie, Lukas Gage and Ed Speleers, alongside other cast members. You season 4 Part 2 has 5 episodes, each around 50 minutes long.
This You season 4 ending explained article contains spoilers!
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So, if you didn’t really catch hold of the exposition (because, frankly, too much), You season 4 tells us that all of these ‘urges’ that Joe has are a manifestation of a darker side of his psyche that he has split open to give birth to Rhys. No, the real Rhys has no idea about who Joe is – the Rhys that he keeps seeing is a part of himself, someone he has created after obsessively stalking and collecting information on him for days on end.
Thus, after realising what he has done to Marienne (i.e., stalking, drugging and capturing her in the infamous glass cage), Joe finally lets go of (read: dumps) her on a park bench after thinking that she has died of an allergic reaction. It was a setup concocted by Nadia and was just insane enough that it worked.
Meanwhile, with Kate’s father Tom in the picture and exercising his right on his daughter, Joe, once again, has ‘no choice’ but to get involved and play the White Knight. He murders Tom, frames his aide and gets rid of the problem on Kate’s road. Realising that he is the problem, Joe chooses to end his life but unfortunately for him, he is rescued by the police.
When Kate learns of his little adventure, she asks him for the truth and Joe opens up about everything to her, even telling her that she killed Love. Kate forgives him, telling him that she is similar to him and that they can hold each other accountable and learn to be better. In the end, it turns out that Kate inherited all of her father’s empire and has created an entire fake personality for Joe with some of his truths and they are trying to ‘save the world’ together.
You Season 4 Ending Explained
Who is Rhys?
Well, technically, Rhys is actually a part of Kate’s original group. He was a writer and was running for the elections. However, he wasn’t the Eat the Rich killer. In fact, he had no idea about Joe’s existence. The Rhys that Joe knew was a part of Joe’s own psyche that he concocted in order to dissociate from the darkness inside him. It was his attempt to be the White Knight for the people that he loves after his failure to accept that he has a darkness inside him that destroys those he gets close to.
Although they don’t really get into what Joe is actually going through, it is mentioned that he probably suffered from a psychotic break and is hallucinating after Love’s death and giving Henry up.
Does Joe’s Rhys die in the end?
In the hospital after Joe’s suicide attempt, Joe realises that he can’t find Rhys anywhere. He assumes that Rhys died in the river, but in actuality, we see in the later scene that Rhys has completely taken over Joe, and the person that we see is with Kate and talking about world peace and whatnot is actually Joe’s darker side who is stalling and waiting for his next victim to take out.
Who is the Eat the Rich killer?
It’s definitely not Rhys. It’s actually Joe himself, acting under his delusion while (apparently) suffering from a blackout. He was the one who got rid of Kate’s friends.
What happened to Nadia?
In an attempt to get evidence against Joe, Nadia makes the bold move to break into his flat one last time and finds his secret stash of incriminating evidence in his library. Of course, Joe finds her and Eddie lurking around, and, in classic Joe fashion, he murders Eddie, pins the blame for Rhys’s death on him and then pins Eddie’s death on Nadia.
In the end, Nadia does go to prison, and unfortunately, she refuses to speak in her defence.
What happened to Phoebe and Adam?
After going broke, Adam tries to use a vulnerable Phoebe as a meal ticket only for Kate’s father, Tom, to get rid of him. Phoebe does get the help that she needs after running out of her own wedding, and passersby on the street find her walking around in a delirium.
In the end, Phoebe moves to Thailand to teach children there English, and by the looks of it, she is really enjoying it – which is such a sweet and fitting end for her.
Is Marienne able to finally reunite with her daughter?
Well, thanks to Nadia’s quick thinking, Marienne falsified her own death in order to get out of Joe’s grip. She took a few beta blockers to slow down her heart enough so that her kidnapper doesn’t find out. When Joe realises that Marienne died of an allergic reaction, he dumps her body on a park bench so that her daughter gets some answers about her mother.
Fortunately for Marienne, Nadia comes around to help her wake up after Joe leaves and in a scene in the end, we see her back with her daughter, disgusted with Joe and Kate’s attempts to clean up his image and his reputation.
You season 4 is streaming on Netflix.
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