Like hundreds of millions of other people, I have been an avid fan of the murder-thriller-romance series You since it first landed on on December 26, 2018, having begun life on the Lifetime channel.

As such, I have had an almost seven-year relationship with the show, which sees the obsessive serial killer protagonist Joe Goldberg, played by take extreme measures to ensure the women on his radar pay attention to him.

After the last series, I and the other fans had a two-year wait for this fifth and final season, so expectations were very high. Unfortunately, no amount of Joe's twists and turns could meet my hopes, thanks to its nonsensical plot points and a conclusion that hugely disappointed.

I had a day off when it landed on the streamer on April 24, and excitedly sat down to binge it first thing. This series brings the show full circle and sees Joe back in New York and in the bookshop he owned. His basement prison is still intact, and he is now embracing his dark side rather than continuing to pretend to himself that he was a "good guy" who killed because he had to.

At the end of season four, he confessed his crimes to lover Kate Galvin (Charlotte Ritchie), accepting he was a bad guy. Given her own dark secrets, she accepted his murderous past and the pair promised to stay together and keep each other on the straight and narrow. It appeared Joe had the happy ending his victims were deprived of.

Indeed (spoilers ahead), when it opens, he is living in marital bliss with Kate and his son Henry, whom he has been reunited with after leaving him on the doorstep of his coworker, Dante Ferguson's (Ben Mehl) house after his first wife Love's (Victoria Pedretti) death.

They are living a charmed life as part of the upper echelons of society after Kate inherited her father's business and a chunk of his estate after Joe murdered him. A huge amount of time is spent explaining how normal and tedious this life is, which honestly makes for pretty boring viewing.

However, it is not long before Joe's murderous tendencies start to emerge again, not towards a woman he has been admiring but rather someone intent on exposing Kate's past foibles. This murder has a ripple effect, and it is not long before he once again has a woman held hostage in the glass prison in his shop basement.

While this is a very satisfying callback - that room was as much a character in season 1 of You as Joe- things quickly go downhill. In an attempt to "give fans what they want", producers have brought back a lot of familiar faces and people who survived Joe's obsession. The result is an overcrowded mess with plot twists galore.

The first twist kicks in halfway through the 10 episodes and is actually extremely clever, serving as a tool to bring back a key character. It then quickly goes downhill as more and more characters reappear and Joe's fate is "sealed" several times before he finally gets his comeuppance.

I don't want to ruin the ending for people, but suffice to say, Joe's final fate, when they eventually get to it, is not what I, or I would surmise many other fans, expected for the character. It is deeply dissatisfying and feels like a cop out.

The final few episodes are completely bonkers as they throw everything but the kitchen sink at it. There are numerous moments which felt like organic endings, but they do a 360 and reset. By episode 10, I was wishing it could have been two episodes shorter so I didn't have to engage with the silliness.

After so many years watching the show, this ending really felt like a disservice. In trying to please everyone, the show became a hot mess and was not the finale this gripping show deserved or needed.