![]() The show is positively littered with characters and plot threads that feel like they might have been relevant or even important in a 13-episode season or a YA novel that offered more breathing room. Stokes, who looks and sounds like a less dynamic Penn Badgley, and Cline, also calling to mind your pick of comparable ingenues, have an occasionally appealing chemistry even if almost nothing in their characters’ relationship makes any sense in the event that the season takes place over a week. ![]() Like, if you removed the references to the scholarship interview Pope is preparing for, he might not have any dialogue, while reducing Kiara to “object of affection for all” leaves that character with no real agency of her own other than “Who will she end up macking with?” And yes, the characters in Outer Banks say “macking” a lot and I don’t know if the dependence on dated slang is meant to point to their isolated geography or if it’s just more nostalgic pandering. That the Kooks are all cartoonish doesn’t necessarily mean that the Pogues are marvelously developed characters. I kept watching in the hopes that several poorly conceived secondary villains might die violent deaths, which isn’t exactly what you want in a show in which most of the characters are supposed to be 16 (even if the actors playing the parts appear to be in their mid-twenties, as befits the genre). The last three episodes, which easily could have been condensed as two (or maybe even one) hours, become the rare example of a show in which narrative momentum relies exclusively on every single character doing the dumbest thing possible. The treasure hunting offers a couple of minor thrills and some off-kilter notes of humor, but it’s usually followed quickly by class warfare material undone by how absurdly one-dimensional every Kook other than Sarah is. When Outer Banks is going about its treasure-hunting business, there are engaging moments, some entertaining following of clues and one use of Gullah that I desperately wish had been an intentional piece of the show’s cultural awareness rather than a one-off detail that most viewers will surely ignore. It’s the same reason none of the Pogues literally announce, “Pogues never say die!” You’ll just be thinking it. The premiere features a beach party brawl in which the only reason Topper doesn’t bellow “Welcome to The OB, bitch!” at his vanquished foe is probably because creators Josh Pate, Jonas Pate and Shannon Burke assumed audiences would be able to fill in the blanks themselves. Sarah Cameron (Madelyn Cline), briefly formerly Kiara’s best friend and now her antagonist, is perhaps the queen of the Kooks, dating ultra-preppy Topper (Austin North), a WASP-y jerk so repellent he makes William Zabka’s pre- Cobra Kai version of Johnny Lawrence look reasonable and endearing. ![]() If the Pogues are the scrappy poor kids in this landscape, their rivals are the Kooks, children of the resident upper class. (Rudy Pankow), the troublemaking son of an abusive drunk Pope (Jonathan Daviss), the allegedly smart kid who never does anything smart the entire series and Kiara (Madison Bailey), technically more economically comfortable than her pals but allowed to tag along because they all seem to be in love with her. John B lacks all guardianship, but he has lifelong friends in J.J. John B (Chase Stokes) narrates and drives the story - and yet somehow, in 10 episodes, fails to generate a single Beach Boys reference even from older residents - as the son of a missing man obsessed with the Royal Merchant, a vessel sunk and vanished in 1829, but rumored to have gone down with $400 million in British gold. Our heroes are the Pogues, the blue-collar kids on an island fiercely divided between the haves and have-nots. UPDATE: ANYBODY THAT VIOLATES THE SPOILER RULE WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM THE SUB.Set in the Outer Banks of North Carolina - filmed with acceptable replication in South Carolina locations - the series is a story of class warfare and treasure hunting, not always in that order. ![]() To view the spoiler, simply hover your cursor over the text. You can hide spoilers in comments by using the syntax without the quotation marks: >"!Spoiler!"!Spoiler Text!<Īdd the scope of the spoiler in the brackets. Indicate a post that contains spoilers by marking it with the spoiler button and flair. Season 3 - 2023 Rules and Guidelines No Spoilers Outer Banks: A group of teenagers from the wrong side of the tracks stumble upon a treasure map that unearths a long buried secret.
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