You Season 3: Netflix release date, cast and everything we know about next series

American psychological thriller series You – based on Caroline Kepnes’ book of the same name – took the internet by storm after it started streaming on Netflix in 2018.

The second season of the hit drama landed on Boxing Day and sees the return of Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg – aka Will Bettelheim – alongside a new cast of LA-dwellers.

The quiet bookseller/obsessive lunatic has fled New York after his ex-girlfriend threatened to expose his true identity to the world at large.

It follows the events outlined in Kepnes’ second novel in the series, Hidden Bodies, with Joe Goldberg continuing to wreak havoc on the lives of unsuspecting friends, loved ones – and this time a celebrity too.

It’s certainly been a wild ride for fans of the show, many of which will be wondering whether the show will return for a third season.

Here’s everything we know so far:

*Warning: major spoilers for You Season 2 follow*

What happened at the end of Season 2?

The final episode of You Season 2 was another divisive finale to a high-profile TV series.

In it, Joe’s history catches up with him, despite him having escaped New York to LA to leave behind a past that includes a murdered girlfriend.

The second series saw Joe move to Los Angeles and become Will, before falling for a woman called Love.

However, the series ends with Love – played by Victoria Pedretti – revealing she has an equally dark side and kills people too.

It’s revealed that Love killed Delilah and Candace, saying she did it for the family as she was pregnant.

Will there be a Season 3 of You?

Penn Badgley returns as a creepy stalker, Joe Goldberg

Officially, it’s yet to be confirmed whether Netflix will be gracing fans with a third series of You.

But – unofficially – there may well be.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, star Penn Badgley was speaking about how Love’s character is evolving after Season 2 reveals that she killed Delilah, and let slip that a third season may be in the works.

“She doesn’t appear to be the same kind of predator,” he said, “she doesn’t appear to be the same kind of… you know, dare I say, in the third season – oh, God!”

When pressed on the existence of a third season, Penn simply responded: “Technically I can’t… I mean, like, unofficially?”

When will the third season of You be released?

The third season of Netflix’s You will be released on Friday 9 April 2021.

That’s according to I’s calculations at least; as the third season of You hasn’t been confirmed yet, we can only speculate on when we might get to see the next installment of the show.

There were 473 days between the debut of the first season and that of the second, so assuming Netflix follows the same pacing in the release of Season 3, we could expect it to launch a similar number of days following Season 2.

473 days from Boxing Day 2019 is Monday 12 April 2021, and since Netflix’s big series usually drop on Fridays, Friday 9 April 2021 seems to be the best bet.