History Series / OuterBanks

The main cast of Pogues, John B (Chase Stokes), the leader of the group and avoiding child services after his father went missing 9 months ago, JJ (Rudy Pankow), John B's best friend and regular problem creator, Pope (Jonathan Daviss), the "brains of the operation" and Merit Scholar candidate, and Kiara (Madison Bailey), who is technically a Kook but hangs with Pogues and cares deeply about conservation, uncover a lot more than they bargained for when they decide to loot a boat that sunk during a hurricane. In the process, they end up being tangled with the Camerons, a Kook family that John B works for, consisting of Ward (Creator/CharlesEsten), his son, Rafe (Drew Starkey), and his daughter, Sarah (Madelyn Cline).

Outer Banks is a 2020 Netflix adventure series created by Josh Pate, Jonas Pate, and Shannon Burke that centers around a group of teens from the Outer Banks of UsefulNotes/NorthCarolina who call themselves The Pogues. The Pogues spend their days working, surfing, partying, and getting into scrapes with the Kooks, the upper class that rules the other half of the Outer Banks.

The main cast of Pogues, John B (Chase Stokes), the leader of the group and avoiding child services after his father went missing 9 months ago, JJ (Rudy Pankow), John B's best friend and regular problem creator, Pope (Johnathan Daviss), the "brains of the operation" and Merit Scholar candidate, and Kiara (Madison Bailey), who is technically a Kook but hangs with Pogues and cares deeply about conservation, uncover a lot more than they bargained for when they decide to loot a boat that sunk during a hurricane.

** Ward Cameron also abuses his 3 children throughout the show
*** Ward enables his son Rafes dangerous and deadly behavior, helping him cover murders and ignoring his obvious mental health concerns
*** Sarah is repeatedly kidnapped, locked in rooms and even strangled by Ward, who chooses to protect his son rather than his daughter

** And again in "The Coastal Venture": [[spoiler:Ward faked his death by escaping using the scuba gear, and his plan to get the Cross of Santo-Domingo onto the titular ship and sell it to pay off his debts and end up being hundreds of millions richer afterwards was [[TheChessmaster all set up in advance.]]]]

* {{Beware the Nice Ones}}: Pope, when [[spoiler: Rafe tries to choke Kiara and Pope descends into Berzerker mode.]]

* {{Did Not Get the Girl}}: [[spoiler: JJ, who's implied to have been shot down by his crush, Kiara.]]

** Season 1 ends with [[spoiler: John B and Sarah presumed dead at sea, with the former still wanted for Peterkin's murder. This leaves the Camerons and the Pogues reeling from his daughter's and their friend's supposed deaths.]]

** Cleo does one to Pope when she thinks he's [[spoiler:a stowaway on "The Coastal Venture" and was trying to call security on him.]]

* ItBelongsInAMuseum: [[spoiler:John B says this about the Cross of Santo-Domingo after the Pogues find it, and the rest of the season focuses on their attempts to get it back from the Limbreys and Camerons and return it to the Heywards.]]

** And again in "The Coastal Venture": [[spoiler:Ward faked his death by escaping using the scuba gear, and his plan to get the Cross of Santo-Domingo onto the titular ship and sell it to pay off his debts was [[TheChessmaster all set up in advance.]]]]

* ActionGirl: Cleo in Season 2, who plays a big part in getting John B and Sarah the Royal Merchant Gold. [[spoiler:She later shows up as the boiler room manager on The Coastal Venture, putting up a fight against Pope when she thinks he's just a stowaway.]]

* {{Disappeared Dad}}: John B explains early on that his dad has been missing at sea for nine months. We find out later that [[spoiler: he was injured by Ward, thrown overboard, and later died on an uninhabited island.]]

* LeftStuckAfterAttack: [[spoiler:When the shipworker guarding the armory finds John B having broken into it, he attacks using the fire axe John B used to break the locks. The axe stays stuck in the wall long enough for John B to get away with a pistol.]]

* WhamEpisode: The end of "My Druthers", where [[spoiler:Ward committs suicide by setting off a bomb on his boat with him on it, and falsely confessing to Peter in his VideoWill, allowing Rafe to go free.]]

* CatapaultNightmare: John B wakes up from one where Ward goes to Nassau and kills him over the gold.

* CatapaultNightmare: John B wakes up from one where Ward went to the island and presumable killed him over the gold.

* TraumaCongaLine: In the first two episodes, John B nearly gets caught by the cops, then actually gets chewed out by the sheriff, beaten up by who's essentially the Kook leader, almost drowns in the marsh, gets shot at by hired assassins, has his home invaded by said assassins, has to run away from the lighthouse owner, gets arrested after doing so, gets fired from his job, and is forced to give up the compass that he lost it for.

* {{CPRCleanPrettyReliable}}: Done on [[spoiler: Sheriff Peterkin]]. Averted, it's bloody and [[spoiler: doesn't work.]]

* {{PlatonicDeclarationofLove}}:

* {{IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship}}: Plays a role in Kiara's rejection of Pope's and John B's advances.

Outer Banks is a 2020 Netflix Adventure Series created by Josh Pate, Jonas Pate, and Shannon Burke that centers around a group of teens from the Outer Banks of North Carolina who call themselves The Pogues. The Pogues spend their days working, surfing, partying, and getting into scrapes with the Kooks, the upper class that rules the other half of the Outer Banks.