You Season 5: An Anticlimactic End to a Show that Overstayed Its Welcome

Honestly, this show should have ended after Season 3. Everything that followed felt like a slow, drawn-out decline, losing the intrigue and energy that once made it such a compelling watch. Joe can only get away with so much for so long before it becomes repetitive and stale. After the already disappointing Season 4, I was cautiously hopeful that Season 5 might at least give the story a meaningful and thrilling conclusion. Instead, it ends the series on an anticlimactic and forgettable note.

The best parts of this final season revolve around how it ties back to the first season. It was nice to see certain characters return and to get answers to lingering questions that had been hanging over the show since the beginning. Those callbacks provide a bit of nostalgia and offer the only real sense of payoff for longtime viewers. However, beyond those moments, each episode felt like filler. The pacing was sluggish, and there was little sense of urgency or momentum pushing the story forward.

Most of the side character plots—aside from those involving Joe and Bronte—were just not engaging. The writing seemed disinterested in making the new characters feel three-dimensional or their arcs meaningful. Even when the "big twist" finally happens midway through the season, it only provides a temporary jolt. You hope that this will push the story into a more exciting direction, but instead, it quickly fizzles out and goes back to dragging its feet.

What’s more disappointing is that it genuinely felt like everyone involved was just going through the motions. The cast, the writers, even the showrunner—it all lacked the passion, sharpness, and tension that the earlier seasons thrived on. Instead of feeling like a thrilling conclusion, Season 5 feels like a group of people fulfilling a commitment they’d rather have wrapped up already.

To be fair, the ending does make an effort to reflect on Joe’s actions and the consequences of his choices. It ties up the narrative in a way that thematically makes sense. However, when it comes to the actual experience of watching it, Season 5 felt meandering, uninspired, and ultimately forgettable. For a show that once hooked audiences with its thrilling storytelling and complex character study, it’s a shame to see it limp to the finish line like this.