Netflix’s original hit show YOU returns for its fifth and final season today.

Lots has happened for troubled man Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) over the years, and the new season doesn’t pause for questions. Here are five things you need to know before you take a stab at the series finale.

*Warning: this contains spoilers for YOU seasons 1-4.

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1. Love is dead. Literally.

Going all the way back to Beck Guinevere (Elizabeth Lail) in the first season, Joe’s love interests end up six feet under. Joe fell for Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) hard, but on-the-nose names and homicidal tendencies aren’t enough to keep him satisfied. Their toxic love burned down in the third season—Joe made sure of that—and New York is still choking on the ashes.

2. Speaking of New York, Joe’s living there again. But he’s rich now.

Perhaps the only smart thing Joe has done is marry into wealth. First with Love, now with Kate Lockwood (Charlotte Ritchie). It’s the latter’s wealth, however, that gets him off the hook for the former’s murder. Because of this, he’s able to clear his name of any wrongdoing against Love Quinn and all the other victims from the previous seasons. He can drop his alter ego, Jonathan Moore, and go back to being plain old Joe. All he has to do to maintain his innocence is gaslight a dead woman.

3. He has custody of his son.

Yes. The same Joe who killed his only father figure when he was just a boy is now tasked with raising a child in a loving, safe household. Little Henry (Frankie DeMaio) is young enough to forget that Love is his birth mother but old enough to understand what people say about his father. He’s not to be underestimated, and Joe is not prepared.

4. Marienne is very much alive.

One of the few to survive Joe’s advances, Marienne Bellamy (Tati Gabrielle) is a symbol of hope and danger. Nadia Farran (Amy-Leigh Hickman) figured Joe out in the third season and rescued Marienne from his makeshift prison. Joe murdered Nadia’s boyfriend and framed it on her in retaliation, but he has no idea Marienne is still breathing and knows everything.

5. Joe still doesn’t understand women.

He understands them on paper though, especially if it’s from the page of a Victorian romance, but he can’t quite put his finger on the real deal. He doesn’t understand their intentions as much as he thinks he does, and he also doesn’t understand why women feel safer with other women than they do with him. He can’t even understand why they all remind him of his mother, the first person he killed for. All he knows is that they’re perfect until they’re not. Something about them making their own informed decisions really grinds his gears, but that’s something for Joe to unpack.

YOU will come to an end on Thursday, April 24, exclusively on Netflix. Check out my spoiler-free review here.