Kate’s fate in Kate season 5, explained by Charlotte Ritchie

Warning: Major Spoilers to come for season five of “You” from Netflix.

The last chapter of the successful series of Netflix “You” has arrived, and star Charlotte Ritchie is (mainly) delighted that her character, Kate Lockwood, was alive.

The fifth season of “You”, published Thursday, resumed three years after Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and Kate turned to her hometown of New York at the end of season four. Everything is fine for the now married couple, but Joe’s dark side can only be deleted so long, and once he reappears and invigorates it, their relationship becomes heavy.

Ritchie told Business Insider that Kate had all at the time that Joe is – she had just denied on this subject. This season is “a real lesson to accept the reality of your situation,” said Ritchie.

When Kate finally sees clearly, she decides that the only way to stop Joe is to kill him.

“She is really afraid of him and what he can do,” said Ritchie. “I think she just sees how this man is constantly getting with everything, and she is like” he should no longer exist for us to be safe. There is no system in the world that could prevent it from us. “”

Kate recruits Joe season three Love interest in Marienne Bellamy (Tati Gabrielle) and season four character nadia (Amy-Leigh Hickman) to help him. This is a way in which the final season is loose together of the series and provides a closure for other favorite fans characters.

“What I like in this series is that they really look into the genre. They really look into the history of the series,” said Ritchie. “I think it makes all narrative justice.”

In a dramatic moment of the penultimate episode, after having taken a physical altercation, Kate and Joe find themselves on the ground of the basement of Mooney while the bookstore rises in flames.

Resigned and more truthful than ever and thinking that they both reached their end, Joe admits that he killed Kate’s father and murdered love. Relieved, Kate reveals that she secretly recorded the confession of Joe and will send her to the authorities.

“You got me,” said Joe. “You can die happy.”

It is a scene which, like many in the show, finds humor in unconventional moments.

“I love the fact that it is in there, just Kate and Joe, both commenting on how absurd is and how much they will die,” said Ritchie. “I just think it’s a big scene. I think it’s really well written.”

Neither Kate nor Joe died at that time, and Ritchie complicated feelings about her character who escapes from fire.

“I was so happy because I grew up to really like this character, and I found that it was so fun to go in the middle of doing it,” said Ritchie. “But I also had the impression that if there was never a poetic justice in death, there was justice in Kate going down with him.”

“I really don’t believe in people who die because they have done bad things, but in the world of justice of this program, there is such a redeemer to the disappearance of Kate that it would have been ok,” she added.

With Joe locked up for life in the final, Ritchie said she was happy that Henry had a coherent and stable parent. But still, Kate is not innocent.

“She has done quite despicable things and she got in scratch and was responsible for the falls of many people,” said Ritche. “So yes, I was on the closure about what should happen to her, but I was obviously very happy that she does not pass.”

Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo previously declared to the co-showrunners Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo that they were ready for them to have fans to have variable reactions to the fate of Joe in the final and their choice to put him behind bars. Ritchie too is still struggling with this conclusion.

“I feel so mixed on this subject,” she said.

After several seasons to see Joe doing terrible and horrible things, she does not know what an end could adequately be her story to greenhouse.

“There is no spell that corresponds to a life like that,” said Ritchie. “But I have the impression that isolation is a good punishment for him. The fact is that I do not have the feeling that he will reflect or grow. It will not be a formative or spiritual experience for him. In general, it is not for people. As far as I can say, the lonely configuration seems simply exhausting people, except for incredible exceptions.”

Example: in the final scene, Joe reads a scary fan letter and says that maybe the problem is not him-it may be society.

“I find the thing that revises letters is a fairly interesting turn, and its ability to return it to its admirers and women who asked to be involved with him,” said Ritchie. “He will never accept responsibility.”

While the press tour of season five ends, Ritchie is already missing the casting and the crew, including her frequent scene partner Badgley.

“I love Penn,” said Ritchie. “I think he is such a decent and thoughtful and committed actor. He is such a charming friend. He is very funny. And he is committed to this role in a way that means that when you work with him, you can do the same.”

After seeing Kate go from closed and cold to flourish in the last season, Ritchie will fail to explore more sides of her.

“And I’m going to miss the scandalous scenarios that are constant. Like, the non-stop drama, daily situations, different in high octane Hautoctane where people are constantly about to extort someone or about to kill someone,” she said. “This kind of high drama level, I’m going to miss.”

Season five of “You” is now in trouble on Netflix.