Followers had been shocked when one beloved character died through the season 4 finale of Outer Banks — and the showrunner is admitting they “second guessed” their determination.
Warning: Spoilers beneath from Outer Banks season 4, episode 10.
After a tumultuous treasure hunt, JJ (Rudy Pankow) was handed the blue crown by his organic father, Chandler Groff (J. Anthony Crane) — and was stabbed. JJ died from the harm, capturing followers’ hearts when he advised Kiara (Madison Bailey) that he beloved her.
Whereas talking with Leisure Weekly on Thursday, November 7, co-showrunner Shannon Burke mentioned they “all the time” knew they had been going to kill JJ. Regardless of his homicide being deliberate, Burke admitted the writers “100%” thought-about altering the story to not have him die.
“It’s actually scary. We had talked about, ‘One of many Pogues might be going to must die,’ and Rudy appeared actually excited that it might be him,” Burke mentioned. “All of us thought it might in all probability be JJ, and as you’re going alongside, it looks like it might occur to him as a result of he takes so many dangers and it’s arrange within the story as logical and in addition terribly emotional.”
Burke continued, “As we bought nearer to the second, it was scary and we weren’t positive — we had been positively questioning if we had been going to do that. We had been actually hesitant and we weren’t positive it was going to work, however everyone did their finest work for it and I believe it’s actually efficient and ultimately, it makes story. However we had been extremely unsure about doing it till the final minute.”
Burke defined that it felt as if the story was “transferring in that course,” pointing to the thought of the entire sequence — having 4 youngsters develop up collectively.
“We second-guessed ourselves as we bought nearer, and on the day of the filming of that, I assumed all of them did such an important job. Everybody was crying on set,” she mentioned. “Maddie was nice, Rudy was nice, and Tony was so evil. All of them introduced their A-game, and it breaks my coronary heart each time I see it. Once we noticed it filmed, that’s after we had been like, ‘Oh, that is going to work.’ We cry each time we see it. It’s simply heartbreaking.”
Courtesy of Netflix Outer Banks season 4 hasn’t ended but, however followers have already acquired solutions to a few of their largest questions on this season’s largest onscreen twists and turns. The hit Netflix sequence, which premiered in 2020, launched viewers to a coastal city within the Outer Banks of North Carolina that’s divided into two […]
Whereas JJ is not alive, Burke isn’t against the thought of bringing Pankow again for the sequence’ fifth and last season. “I wouldn’t put it out of the realm of risk,” she mentioned. “I wouldn’t say for positive, however I wouldn’t be shocked if it occurred.”
Following JJ’s demise — and the outcry from followers — Pankow, 26, mirrored on his character’s arc, and supreme demise.
“For JJ, he has to guage each second in his life, if it’s value it [to take the risk], and I believe it’s always, yeah, it’s for him,” Pankow advised Netflix’s Tudum on Thursday. “Even all through the ache and the struggling and the struggles for JJ, it’s value it for him to go to that size. He lives his life to the utmost fullest, and I don’t assume he regrets any a part of it.”
Outer Banks season 4 is at the moment streaming on Netflix.