and One Tree Hill-but there are also hints of National Treasure, Summer Catch, The Goonies, Into the Blue, How to Get Away With Murder, The Notebook, all of the John Hughes movies, and somehow, that movie about drug dealers that was poorly narrated by Blake Lively. The show is most obviously inspired by The O.C. Netflix has recently been attempting to corner the market on specific subgenres with its original series, but with this one the streamer tried to corner every market in one fell swoop. But it’s also a show about a group of friends searching for sunken treasure after the father of one of the friends disappears off the face of the earth. Outer Banks, which has sat in Netflix’s Top 10 since it premiered in April, is a show about kids from the wrong side of the tracks it’s a show about young love a show about fathers and sons a show about how we hold onto the summers of our late adolescence so tightly because we know they’re the last vestiges of true freedom. And there is an overwhelming difference between the two. Everything that follows this scene is pure Outer Banks, Netflix show. “But who cares about the turtles, I guess,” she resigns.Īll of this stuff-ocean-view houses, the constant construction of more of them, increased worry for turtles-is pure Outer Banks, North Carolina. ![]() Soon, two more teenagers who look like men appear on screen along with a girl who looks more age-appropriate and is bemoaning the fact that the construction has displaced a turtle habitat. ![]() In a weirdly stained T-shirt and with a ratty, wringed bandanna around his neck and almost all of the buttons on his shirt unbuttoned, he takes a swig from a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon before balancing on the apex of the roof, his Converse All Stars bending. Outer Banks begins with a man standing atop a half-built home overlooking the ocean. “We’re the Pogues, and our mission this summer is to have a good time, all the time.” -John Booker Routledge
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