It’s time to head back to the OBX, folks. The third season of Netflix’s drama Outer Banks drops on the streaming platform Thursday and anticipation is high. If you somehow missed the Outer Banks obsession during April of 2020, when everyone binged the Dawson’s-Creek-meets-Uncharted series, it’s time to get on it.
Outer Banks is an absolutely ridiculous, absurd show that will drive you nuts and probably make you angry more than a few times an episode. This is the show that purported you can take a ferry from the Outer Banks to the college town of Chapel Hill, after all.
And I cannot recommend it enough.
As we look forward to whatever glorious nonsense happens this season, let’s take a quick look at the endeavors of the first two seasons to make sure everyone is all caught up with where we left off with John B, JJ, Pope, Kiara and Sarah.
In season one, John B (Chase Stokes), Kiara (Madison Bailey), Pope (J.D.) and JJ (Rudy Pankow) — who go by Pogues, the nickname for locals — are on the hunt for a long lost treasure. The fancy and rich Sarah (Madelyn Cline) joins the crew on this journey as the group uses various maps and knicknacks (mostly left by John B’s missing and mysterious father) to attempt to track down the gobs of gold somewhere out there in the OBX. There’s a lot of drama and intrigue (and a few murders), and we learn Sarah’s dad, Ward (Charles Esten), is bad news in the worst way.
The season ends with a cliffhanger as John B and Sarah head into a storm.
BUT IT’S OK! THEY SURVIVE.
John B and Sarah make their way to the Bahamas to try and steal back the gold bars from Ward, but things go awry. While everyone thinks John B and Sarah are dead, life continues in North Carolina. Pope gets involved in a journey searching for a giant gold cross that has ties to his family lineage in the Outer Banks (and rumored magical healing powers — not joking), and things end up with more murders and Ward faking his own death with a yacht explosion.
After all that, no one got any treasure, and John B’s dad is alive!
If you’re thinking, “Wow this sounds like an absolute mess,” well, you’d be 100 percent correct. You should also stop what you’re doing and immediately watch it. Let IMDb user symmetrymis sell you on it with this flawless review:
