Season 5, released on April 24, 2025, was the final season of You. The series followed the dark and complicated life of serial killer Joe Goldberg, played by Penn Badgley. After previously disguising himself as Professor Jonathan Moore, Joe returned to using his real identity.
In Season 5, Joe returned to New York with his wife, Kate Lockwood, played by Charlotte Ritchie. Kate was a powerful business leader and head of Lockwood Corporation, and her awareness of and involvement in Joe’s crimes developed further over the course of Seasons 4 and 5, as Joe’s violent instincts began to resurface again in the city where his story first began.
Filming locations of Season 1
The story began with Joe, who was a bookstore manager in New York. Everything seemed normal until he met an aspiring writer, Beck (played by Elizabeth Lail), and became obsessed with her. What started as a crush soon turned into something much darker.
Logos Bookstore, located at 1575 York Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, was used as the exterior for Mooney’s Bookstore, Joe’s workplace in the series. His home in the series was filmed in the Bronx, while Beck’s apartment exterior was filmed in Manhattan, although the exact address differed from the fictional address used in the show near Union Square.
The dramatic subway scene in Episode 1, where Beck fell onto the tracks, was set at Greenpoint Avenue Station but was filmed at the abandoned lower level of Bowery Station. The Charles Dickens Fair that Beck attended was shot in Nyack, with key scenes filmed at Veterans Memorial Park and O’Malley’s bar on Main Street.
Filming locations of Season 2
Joe tried to start afresh in Los Angeles, using the name Will Bettelheim, and got attracted to a woman named Love Quinn (played by Victoria Pedretti).
Joe started working at Anavrin, a high-end grocery store with a book section. These scenes were filmed at Urban Radish, located at 661 Imperial Street in the Arts District, east of Downtown LA.
His other job at a storage facility named Lock of Fame was filmed at a real Life Storage facility in Los Angeles.
Several real-life homes in Los Angeles were featured in the show. The filming of Joe’s new apartment was done at the exterior of a building at 1830 Winona Boulevard, just a few blocks east of Hollywood. The house of Love’s twin brother, Forty, was filmed outside 3122 Nichols Canyon Road, in the scenic Hollywood Hills.
The house belonging to the creepy stand-up comedian Henderson was shot at 621 South McCadden Place in the Wilshire neighborhood. The mysterious Amy stayed at a spooky old Airbnb, a house from the early 1900s located at 892 West Kensington Road in Angelino Heights, which looked like it was straight out of a ghost story.
Several well-known spots in Los Angeles appeared in the season, including the Los Feliz Theater, a cinema built in the 1920s located on North Vermont Avenue, which was seen near Joe’s apartment. Another location was Juanita’s, a Mexican restaurant in Ontario, California, which was used as a filming location.
Filming locations of Season 3
Season 3 picked up where Season 2 left off, with Joe living in a new home with Love in the fictional neighborhood of Madre Linda. The Madre Linda neighborhood was fictional, and filming took place in suburban Los Angeles areas, including Van Nuys and South Pasadena.
The South Pasadena Public Library, located on Oxley Street, was used to film the Madre Linda Library, the place where Joe worked and met his new obsession, Marienne. Other locations in Season 3 were mainly filmed on studio backlots in Los Angeles. A set at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, known as “French Street,” was used to film Love’s bakery scenes. In the final episode, Joe’s trip to Paris was recreated on Warner Bros. backlot sets, including Hennessy Street, rather than being filmed in France.
Filming locations of Season 4
In this season, Joe had a new identity — Jonathan Moore, a man with a beard and a grand job as a college professor in London, where he became part of a stylish group of smart professionals and wealthy socialites, including Kate (played by Charlotte Ritchie), who was an art gallery director, and Lady Phoebe (played by Tilly Keeper), who was a social media celebrity.
His new workplace was filmed at Royal Holloway University in Egham, Surrey. Founded in 1879, this constituent college of the University of London was known for its impressive Founder’s Building, inspired by the Chateau de Chambord in France’s Loire Valley and its grand Victorian architecture. Joe, aka Jonathan’s library scenes, were not filmed at Royal Holloway, but at Lincoln’s Inn, which was one of the historic Inns of Court near Chancery Lane in central London.
One of the most stunning locations in the season was Knebworth House, a historic country house that had stood since the 15th century. This was where Joe was seen surrounded by what he called “the most insane, damaged people on Earth.” This house was not only known for hosting music festivals since the 1970s but had also appeared in several films and TV shows, like Batman (1989) and The King’s Speech.
Both the exterior and interior of the house were shown in the series, including the beautiful State Drawing Room, which had a ceiling decorated with symbols from the Bulwer-Lytton family and a stained-glass window of Henry VII.
Filming locations of Season 5
In Season 5, the story took place several years after Season 4, showing Joe and his wife Kate returning to New York. Joe was publicly known as Kate’s husband, and the couple was photographed by the media while dining at the famous Central Park restaurant, Tavern on the Green.
Henry, Joe’s son from his relationship with Love Quinn, had remained in Paris with Dante and Lansing at the end of Season 3, but Season 5 confirmed that Joe reconnected with him later. Joe was also seen walking through the park, where he encountered a new love interest.
In another episode, Joe and his new love interest visited a literary estate sale and a salon in Astoria, Queens. Laurel Diner in Long Beach was also one of several New York-area filming locations used in Season 5.
