Content warning/Editors note: This review will feature spoilers for “Outer Banks” season four, part two.
Part one of “Outer Banks” season four was full of unpredictable, but highly anticipated plot twists. Part Two has given fans even more. Part One, which was released on Oct. 10, followed the Pogues; John B. Routledge (Chase Stokes), Sarah Cameron (Madelyn Cline), Kiara Carrea (Madison Bailey), JJ Maybank (Rudy Pankow), Pope Heyward (Jonathan Daviss), and Cleo (Carliacia Grant) around the Outer Banks of North Carolina. They are hired by Wes Genrette (David Jensen) to find Elizabeth Genrette’s lost amulet and break a curse that Genrette believes has been placed upon his family. This first half of season four ends on a huge cliffhanger, revealing that Luke Maybank (Gary Weeks) is not JJ’s biological father. Instead, his father is Chandler Groff (J. Anthony Crane), Wes Genrette’s son-in-law.
Throughout the second part of season four, the Pogues continue their search for the Blue Crown and join forces with Chandler Groff along the way. Unfortunately, it turns out that Groff has been deceiving the Pogues. JJ trusts Groff after recently discovering his paternal connection so, in turn, the rest of the Pogues do as well. They follow a map to Morocco in search of their treasure, being chased by Officer Shoupe (Cullen Moss) on the way. They are competing with another group who is also in search of the Blue Crown and will seemingly stop at nothing to find it first. On their hunt for this treasure, the Pogues are joined by Rafe Cameron (Drew Starkey), Sarah’s older brother, who is also after Groff for stealing $400,000 from him.
I enjoyed watching the second half of “Outer Banks” season four. It was interesting to learn more about JJ’s past and birth family after the immense cliffhanger at the end of Part One. JJ is such an essential character to the Outer Banks plot and so beloved by the fans. I appreciated a season dedicated to him and was very curious to discover more about who he is. I liked that the Pogues continued to adventure and search for treasure, a way to go “full kook,” but I also enjoyed watching them settle down and create a home for themselves as they did with Poguelandia on the old Maybank property.
My biggest protest against this season was the ending. Viewers are again left on a cliffhanger with another major, emotional moment and a long hiatus until the next season. JJ is dead, the Pogues and Rafe are stuck in Morocco, and Groff is getting away. After four seasons of getting to know and love JJ as a character, many fans—including myself—are shocked and displeased with his death. However, I do think this development sets up a good plot for season five and I am eager to see the finale of this show.
