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Outer Banks
Show · 2020 · ★½☆☆☆

Just finished season 4 of Outer Banks and here’s the only explanation I can come up with for why it is so bad: the writers strike must have started around episode 5. The first few episodes although not the best at least make sense in terms of the previous 3 seasons & viewer expectations. It then jumps the shark. 

It’s not that you need a willing suspension of disbelief; you need to willingly remove all intellect & taste. The last episode may be one of the worst tv episodes in history— seriously, it could rival the Seinfeld finale. BUT please watch it — so I have more people who I can chat with about how truly awful this season was. 

My only hope is that season 5 starts with JJ getting out of the shower and telling Kiara about the crazy dream he had a la Bobby in Dallas. There is no other hope to save this catastrophe. 



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Anyone want to accept @nounishprof's invitation to watch Outer Banks?

Personal note: I couldn't even bring myself to watch it during the darkest days of the pandemic- and strike-fueled series voids. I did, however, watch a season of Singles Inferno and untold Spanish melodramas. 😂

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Oh this really should only be undertaken by those who have watched the other 3 seasons for the full effect. However — if you just watch the last 2 episodes of season 4, you still get a pretty good understanding of how bad this is.

Hmmmm — I don’t think I’ve compared those two. tbf I’ve only watched the first season of Animal Kingdom which was phenomenal and at a much higher level of writing, acting etc than Outer Banks but I guess it’s similar in genre — some teen drama plus adventure.