Spoilers for The Map That Results in You and Outer Banks are forward! You may watch them with an Amazon Prime subscription and a Netflix subscription, respectively.
I’ve been an Outer Banks fan since day one, which implies I’ve additionally been a Madelyn Cline stan for a really very long time. So, I used to be thrilled to take a look at her new streaming undertaking, The Map That Results in You, when it premiered on the 2025 film schedule. Whereas I anticipated to benefit from the movie – and I did – I used to be shocked by the odd and distinguished parallel it shared with the aforementioned Netflix megahit.
In The Map That Leads To You, Madelyn Cline’s Character Follows A Man On A Quest That’s Impressed By His Grandfather’s Journal
Within the book-to-screen adaptation of JP Monninger’s The Map that Results in You, Madelyn Cline performs Heather, a lady who’s taking a European trip proper earlier than she begins her job within the large metropolis. Whereas on a prepare from one vacation spot to a different, she meets Jack (KJ Apa), a person who’s touring to the locations his grandfather wrote about in his journal.
As they bond, they resolve to journey collectively, and so they wind up in some wild a wistful conditions. Nonetheless, Jack is sick, and he hasn’t advised Heather that. So, their excellent journey ends in a really unhappy method. Love prevails, although, and the 2 wind up adventuring collectively once more by the tip of the movie.
Whereas Heather is 100% completely different from Cline’s OBX character, Sarah, the boys they select to observe and the circumstances that they discover themselves in due to stated boys are…weirdly…related, as we’re about to debate.
In Outer Banks, Madelyn Cline’s Character Follows A Man Who Is On A Quest That’s Impressed By His Father’s Work
So, keep in mind that quest Jack was on? Nicely, in Outer Banks, John B. (Chase Stokes), Sarah’s love, has additionally been on a quest. And when she met him, he was particularly utilizing his (presumed) lifeless dad’s work to search out treasure.
Usually talking, I discover it bizarre that John B. and Jack are each on these intense journeys which are impressed by lifeless or thought-to-be lifeless kin. They’re each motivated to a fault to reach these expeditions, and it winds up leaving them every with tunnel imaginative and prescient that Cline’s characters must cope with.
Clearly, Jack doesn’t drag Heather into the near-death conditions John B. and Sarah discover themselves in continuously on Outer Banks. In the meantime, John B. is just not harboring a secret sickness like Jack is.
Nonetheless, it’s actually onerous to disclaim the wild similarities between the boys Cline’s characters resolve to observe. Like, what are the percentages that she does two tasks the place her love pursuits are on a mission to observe within the footsteps of their late relative? Feels slim to me, nevertheless, it occurred, and truthfully, I’m glad it did.
I actually get pleasure from each these tasks and the adventures inside them. These adventures wouldn’t have occurred if Heather and Sarah hadn’t gone on these quests with Jack and John B. Due to this fact, we in all probability wouldn’t have gotten the enjoyable, epic and adventure-driven Map That Results in You and Outer Banks.