The man who has played the infamous character for five seasons talks with The Hollywood Reporter about bringing the Netflix series to a close, that intense season finale and displaying Joe as the monster he truly is.

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.

“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.