![]() In the words of JJ as the Pogues were being chased out of that half-built mansion by security guards: “Let’s go.” They are ordered according to three things: their overall quality, their contributions to the show, and, most of all, my personal preferences. What follows is a ranking of everything in Outer Banks’ Outer Banks-the people, the artifacts, the rituals. We know much of our world, but this one has yet to be thoroughly studied. The existence of this other universe demands documentation, though. The way in which Outer Banks so brazenly flouts reality is deeply funny, incredibly watchable, and, quite frankly, impressive. Instead, there’s drugs, murder, inlets for days instead of ocean, and a class war between the Pogues (poor kids) and the Kooks (rich kids) that is on the verge of boiling over. (Reminder: The Outer Banks is an island in the Atlantic Ocean.) There is no Duck Donuts in Outer Banks no talk of the Wright brothers’ first flight in Kitty Hawk. As someone who’s vacationed in the Outer Banks a handful of times, I can’t claim to know about the demographics of its year-round citizens or its local politics, but I definitely know that the Outer Banks in Outer Banks is not the one that I’ve visited-the biggest hint is that, save for that opening scene, you hardly ever see the ocean in Outer Banks. Because while it’s named after a real place, it exists in a world of its own. The way in which Outer Banks so brazenly tries to be everything is deeply funny, incredibly watchable, and, quite frankly, impressive.īut Outer Banks is coming for the fantasy corner, too. ![]() OUTBANK SHOW HOW TOand One Tree Hill-but there are also hints of National Treasure, Summer Catch, The Goonies, Into the Blue, How to Get Away With Murder, The Notebook, all of the John Hughes movies, and somehow, that movie about drug dealers that was poorly narrated by Blake Lively. The show is most obviously inspired by The O.C. Netflix has recently been attempting to corner the market on specific subgenres with its original series, but with this one the streamer tried to corner every market in one fell swoop. But it’s also a show about a group of friends searching for sunken treasure after the father of one of the friends disappears off the face of the earth. Outer Banks, which has sat in Netflix’s Top 10 since it premiered in April, is a show about kids from the wrong side of the tracks it’s a show about young love a show about fathers and sons a show about how we hold onto the summers of our late adolescence so tightly because we know they’re the last vestiges of true freedom. And there is an overwhelming difference between the two. ![]() Everything that follows this scene is pure Outer Banks, Netflix show. “But who cares about the turtles, I guess,” she resigns.Īll of this stuff-ocean-view houses, the constant construction of more of them, increased worry for turtles-is pure Outer Banks, North Carolina. Soon, two more teenagers who look like men appear on screen along with a girl who looks more age-appropriate and is bemoaning the fact that the construction has displaced a turtle habitat. In a weirdly stained T-shirt and with a ratty, wringed bandanna around his neck and almost all of the buttons on his shirt unbuttoned, he takes a swig from a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon before balancing on the apex of the roof, his Converse All Stars bending. Outer Banks begins with a man standing atop a half-built home overlooking the ocean. But Netflix made the right decision to insist on inclusivity and we completely agree with them.“We’re the Pogues, and our mission this summer is to have a good time, all the time.” -John Booker Routledge Apparently, the next best filming location was in South Carolina-and for what it’s worth, creator Josh Pate agreed with Netflix’s decision, telling Wilmington Star News, “When we wrote, it was 100 percent Wilmington in our heads. Netflix rightfully objected to the state’s controversial House Bill 2 (aka the “bathroom bill”), an anti-LGBTQ+ piece of legislation from 2016 that discriminates against the transgender community. ![]() At least, according to an OBX surf shop owner, who told Esquire that Outer Banks “should have been called South Carolina Beaches or something.”įair, buuut… There’s a Good Reason They Ditched North Carolina ![]() The show was shot in Charleston, South Carolina, a geographical area *so* similar, most people wouldn’t be able to tell it apart from the real Outer Banks-unless you’re a local, in which case the show probably isn’t cutting it. ![]()
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