[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Outer Banks Season 4.]
The Pogues usually are not executed but! The sun-soaked Netflix collection set within the Outer Banks of North Carolina (however has since gone international) will return for Season 5. Half 2 of Season 4 premiered in November 2024 and dropped twists that can change the course of the present endlessly.
The streamer renewed the collection for a fifth season earlier than Half 2 dropped, however will probably be the ultimate season. Outer Banks has been very good at churning out seasons quick, so what’s the state of affairs with Season 5? May we see the ultimate season in 2025? Right here’s a rundown of all the most recent updates.
When is Outer Banks Season 5 popping out?
Netflix hasn’t introduced a premiere date for Outer Banks Season 5. The streamer introduced the present’s renewal on November 4, 2024. The fifth season hasn’t gone into manufacturing but, so it’ll doubtless be late 2025 or 2026 earlier than Season 5 comes out. There’s been only a yr between seasons, aside from Seasons 2 and three.
Is Season 5 the ultimate season?
Sure, Season 5 would be the remaining season of Outer Banks. Co-creators and government producers Jonas Pate, Josh Pate, and Shannon Burke launched the next assertion:
“Dispatch to all Pogues:
Seven years in the past, in the summertime of 2017, we got here throughout a photograph of youngsters on a seaside at nightfall throughout an influence outage. That photograph sparked an concept for a narrative of 4 greatest pals who solely need to have a superb time on a regular basis. From this starting, we imagined a thriller that might result in a five-season journey of journey, treasure looking, and friendship.
On the time, seven years in the past, it appeared unattainable that we’d actually get to inform the entire 5 season story, however right here we’re, on the finish of our fourth season, nonetheless chopping away.
The fourth season was our longest and hardest – however most rewarding – to supply. The season ends with a function size episode, which we predict is our greatest, strongest episode. We hope you are feeling the identical manner.
Now, with slightly unhappiness, but additionally pleasure, we’re placing Season 4 behind us, and are turning to Season 5, by which we hope to deliver our beloved Pogues house in the best way we imagined and deliberate years in the past. Season 5 will probably be our final season, and we predict will probably be our greatest but. We hope you’ll be a part of us for another paddle out to the surf break.”
Who will return for Outer Banks Season 5?
Nearly all of the solid is predicted to return for the fifth and remaining season. This contains Chase Stokes as John B, Madelyn Cline as Sarah, Madison Bailey as Kiara, Jonathan Daviss as Pope, Carlacia Grant as Cleo, and Drew Starkey as Rafe. Starkey notably repped the Netflix present on the 2025 SAG Awards in February 2024.
Given the stunning twist on the finish of Season 4, Rudy Pankow isn’t anticipated to return as JJ (extra on that under). Nonetheless, he might return in flashbacks!
What occurred on the finish of Season 4?
Outer Banks Season 4 went full throttle on the bombshells. The Pogues (together with Rafe) headed to Morocco to chase down the blue crown. Sarah discovered she was pregnant within the midst of the insanity.
Nonetheless, the most important twist was JJ’s loss of life. JJ was stabbed by Chandler Goff (J. Anthony Crane), his organic father, after discovering the blue crown. Kiara was with him in his remaining moments as he bled out from his damage. The devastated Pogues buried him in Morocco and vowed to avenge his loss of life and get the blue crown again.
Followers have been understandably outraged about JJ’s loss of life, however the creators have burdened that the choice to kill off the beloved character had been constructing because the present’s begin.
“It’s been type of lurking in his DNA from the start. He’s actually a tragic determine, and the thought of mortality, and also you solely have a finite window — it’s additionally a theme of the present,” Pate instructed The Hollywood Reporter in November 2024. “It’s one thing John B. has talked about from the primary season. So imagine it or not, that is one thing that was at all times form of baked within the cake, and we simply wished to inform the story as elegantly and apparently as potential.”
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