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*Warning – Spoilers Below* 

It’s Official, Outer Banks has closed the door on its story. 

For the majority of the episodes I was having my own questions on whether or not the legend of the Blue crown was real or not. I think that is what made this season feel okay to watch, the audience was going through some of the same emotions that the characters were going through and so you could relate a little bit. There was a lot of this season that I really didn’t like, frankly I feel like it ruined the show for me. 

Honestly I have a lot more feelings about this final season than I expected that I would. After the end of last season I was really only watching to see how they wrapped up the story, I certainly wasn’t expecting to enjoy any of it, and I did enjoy some of it but overall I wasn’t that big of a fan. I genuinely never imagined that I would say this but, my issue with the season wasn’t them not bringing JJ back. I’m actually glad that they didn’t, although I do wish they never killed him in the first place. 

As much as I love the OG Pogues and was incredibly upset with losing JJ last season, I think it made more sense for him to not come back. Right from the beginning, the show has the notion that ‘you can’t kill a pogue’. OBX has never been a realistic portrayal of life, however by having them actually lose someone it gave a certain edge to this final season. 

There were many moments where I was sure that we could lose another one of the pogues before the show ended, but to say it made me anywhere near as upset as when JJ died would be a lie. At one point I even questioned if they all might die and this was a story told by John B and Sarah on the loss of all their friends. 

I really did love that the season started with a flashback to how Kie and JJ met and obviously the subsequent second flashback with JJ stealing. It gave more depth to their relationship without bringing JJ back from the dead. The casting was spot on for the pair’s younger selves. 

Also in no way did I not enjoy the acting, I thought everyone this season was incredible and was very committed. However I just don’t think that the script did the characters justice, we literally ended the show with the Pogues essentially becoming kooks.

If I’m completely honest, my first biggest bug bear was that I really wasn’t a fan of how Kiara acted throughout most of this season. I absolutely understand that her boyfriend/best friend was killed in front of her by his dad and there was nothing she could do to save him. However it was mentioned that JJ would not want this and with Pope going through his own troubles about killing someone, I’m shocked by how much she wanted to and eventually did kill Groff. The wrecklessness that she showed for 90% of the episode just didn’t make any sense to me. 

The fact that she put herself in many situations where she could die herself just to kill Groff was insane, and then for the ending to be that because she murdered him she was healed made no sense. I was genuinely hoping after her moment with the blue crown and the flashbacks that she would give up on killing Groff but apparently not. To me she would still be mourning JJ heavily and if not be more upset because killing Groff was never going to bring back JJ.

It seemed like a relief that he was gone so now she could move on with her life, I get the premise of why her character would be so different after JJ’s death but even the fact that none of the other pogues really tried to stop her shocked me. We could have had a conversation between Kie and Rafe about how killing someone doesn’t make you feel better, or even between Kie and Pope, and he had to kill to save himself, Kie intentionally murdered someone who wasn’t even trying to kill her. I just wish that her character had a better closure at the end of the season than murder, especially since it paints the idea that an eye for an eye is an okay thing and that it will make everything feel better. 

My other biggest bug bear about this final season was the timeline. It genuinely hurt my head to think about where we actually were. We had so many flashbacks and flashforwards that by the third episode I was baffled as to when things happened. I just truly did not understand how everything linked together in the timeline and if I was watching the ‘present’ or ‘past’. Also with ten episodes I think a lot of it could have been slowed down, every single episode was so full on with about fifteen different things going on at once and jumping timelines and locations made it very confusing. 

The amount of things that happened to Sarah whilst she was pregnant and at no point really other than when she passed out was recognised that there could be an issue with the baby was ridiculous. She was literally jumping from one bridge to another and rolling, then climbing through a car window, getting punched in the gut and multiple other things that definitely would not be recommended for a pregnant woman. 

I completely get that the show has always essentially been a recount to John B’s child so them not having a child at the end of the show wouldn’t have made any sense, but truly the most mention we got about the safety of the baby was from Rafe. 

On the topic of Rafe, I’m actually really annoyed that he didn’t have repercussions for killing Peterkin. Honestly it just grated on me that he seemingly gets to go and live the life he wants to with the woman he loves. I think a better ending for Rafe would have been for him to turn himself in, it just removed any form of growth that he had over the seasons and sent him straight back to season one Rafe, running from cops. 

It was genuinely like the point of season 5 was to just blow up everything (sometimes literally) that was there in season one. Yes we had the flashbacks from over the seasons but honestly every time I saw one of those season 1-3 flashbacks it just made me wish the show had stopped after season 3. The innocence and family bond of why so many people loved this show just got completely dissolved in this season. 

Overall I think if I was to recommend this show to someone I would say to watch Season 1-3 and stop, I just think this season could have been so much better and actually brought a good ending to the pogues but it just missed the mark massively.

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