Penn Badgley has officially ranked the wildest Joe Goldberg moments from YOU and it’s so chaotic

If you’re anything like me, then your morning started with a bowl of cereal and a full mental breakdown because YOU season five just dropped. And with it, the return of Joe Goldberg, the book-loving, gaslighting, toe-chopping maniac we somehow keep rooting for?

Joe is the kind of guy who could blink, and it’d be a red flag. So naturally, narrowing down his wildest moments feels impossible. But to save us the effort, YOU star Penn Badgley (aka Joe Goldberg himself) has ranked the top 10 wildest Joe moments, and honestly? He nailed it.

Here’s how Penn Badgley blind-ranked the wildest Joe Goldberg moments across all seasons of YOU – and yes, that includes the infamous pee jar incident.

10. Joe kills Peach

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Look, Joe’s killed a lot of people, but Peach just didn’t make the cut (pun fully intended). Even Penn was like “eh, they blur together,” which says a lot about how desensitised we all are.

9. Jasper cuts Joe’s finger off

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Penn actually loved this moment, but once Joe buried someone alive (yes, that’s coming up), it got bumped down to ninth. It’s giving: pain, but make it forgettable.

8. Joe buries Candace alive

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This was literally in Penn’s top spot… until it wasn’t. It got dethroned because Joe apparently had something even more deranged up his bloody sleeves.

7. Joe pees in a jar and forgets it

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Yes, this happened. And yes, it’s real. Yes, he just left it there. According to Penn, “that’s just stup*d,” which… fair.

6. Joe kills Love and cuts off his own toe to fake his death

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Oh, you thought faking your death by DIY-amputating your own toe was subtle? It lands at number six, because apparently there’s wilder things than that. Wild.

5. Love kills Natalie

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We’re including other characters’ chaos now? Okay. But this one was peak messy suburban murder drama. Penn gave it a very casual middle-of-the-road five.

4. Beck finds Joe’s creepy murder box

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Remember the teeth? The tampons? Same. Penn rated this high because even he was like, “Yeah that’s gross.”

3. Forty drugs Joe

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This one sent Joe into a full-on acid trip and honestly, it was one of the more fun breakdowns. Still deranged, but entertaining.

2. Joe and Love try swinging

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Sexual experimentation in suburbia? For these two? You just know that ended badly. It was a top-tier disaster, so Penn threw it near the top of the list.

1. Joe has a split personality that manifests as Rhys Montrose

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This twist had everyone yelling at their screens. It’s giving Fight Club but British and with more murder. Penn crowned it the wildest Joe moment of all – and yeah, he’s not wrong.

According to the man behind the madness himself, these are the most Joe Goldberg-core moments to ever Joe Goldberg.

We laughed, we gasped, we questioned our taste in fictional men. Again.

So now that you’re emotionally wrecked all over again, Penn has one final task for you: “That was easier than I thought it would be. So now you have to do what’s even easier — just watch YOU season five.” Sir, yes sir.

Season five of YOU is available on Netflix now. For all the latest Netflix news, drops, quizzes and memes like The Holy Church of Netflix on Facebook. 

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