The Outer Banks still has a serious death problem and I was hoping Big John’s fate would end

Spoiler alert: The following article contains spoilers from Outer Banks Season 4, Part 1.

Outer Banks there is a huge problem – the series keeps killing off characters only to have them come back. (and then die again), and season four unfortunately continued this trend. Netflix’s action-adventure detective teen drama follows John B and his group of Pog friends living in the Outer Banks. The series begins with John B dealing with the disappearance of his father and trying to avoid being sent to a foster home. This leads to him and the other Pogs finishing what Big John started when he went missing, searching for gold from the King’s Merchant.

After his first adventure in Outer Banks In the first season, the Pogs continue to find themselves in (and dangerous) treasure hunting situations throughout the show. As a result, many people die around them. However, whenever a major or minor character dies, their death is often revealed to be fake. While the idea of ​​Back from the Dead was exciting at first, it became boring after four seasons. I thought (and hoped) that the teen drama would keep its false deaths in the past after Big John’s final demise during Outer Banks The third season ends, but in the fourth season someone is still resurrected.

Outer Banks Season 4 continues the show’s “Deadly Stakes” issue

Netflix series keeps bringing characters back from the dead

At the end Outer Banks season 4, episode 3, Lightner kidnaps Cleo and takes her to a ship, where she sees Terrence. As some may remember, Terrence last appeared in season two, episode three, and it was implied that he died during a shootout with the police. Since he was never seen again, many assumed Terrence was dead and that was it. Instead of, Terrence appears in Outer Banks The fourth season and the fact that he is alive serves as the shocking cliffhanger of the third episode. However, in the next episode, Terrence dies for real when Lightner shoots him.

Terrence’s presence in Outer Banks The fourth season continues the series’ tradition of raising the dead. First, many thought Ward killed Big John until it was later revealed that he had survived. John B was eventually reunited with his father, only for Big John to die for good at the end of the third season.

Besides, Ward faked his death in a boat explosion in the second season. Ward came back from the dead at the end of episode 9, but Sarah and Rafe’s father died for good in Outer Banks season 3 finale. So, the Netflix teen drama faked the deaths of three of its characters only to kill them off again, giving the series a false sense of high stakes. Two fake deaths are more than enough for any TV show. Meanwhile, Outer Banks Can’t seem to give up this trope (it should only be used once), bringing the total to three in season four.

Outer Banks can’t keep killing all the Pogue parent figures.

Most of the Pogues’ parents are dead or terrible people.

Unfortunately, most of the Pogue parents in the Netflix series are either dead, creepy, or missing. only Outer Banks a character with great and real parents – the Pope. Meanwhile, John B.’s father has died twice and his mother’s whereabouts are unknown; Sarah’s father also died twice, the fate of her mother is also unknown; Kiara’s parents sent her to a camp for troubled teenagers against her will; How Outer Banks in the Season 4 finale, it is revealed that JJ’s abusive father is not his biological father, and his biological father is (supposedly) evil, while his mother died when he was an infant; and Cleo’s only father, Terrence, is dead.

Outer Banks writers like to give their characters as much trauma as possible, especially when it comes to their families. Although some parents are still alive, they could easily die (like Luke) in future episodes. Eventually, it got to the point where I had to stop. Outer Banks can’t keep killing off adult characters, especially if their deaths are fake (but that doesn’t mean any of the Pogs have to die).

Major Outer Banks fakes have already made the deaths less significant

Future deaths in the series won’t matter much

As a general rule, each TV show should only be allowed to have one fake death. The first one is always shocking and exciting, but if the show becomes more of a “resurrection from the dead” theme, the deaths become meaningless. Every time a character dies, viewers will have a hard time believing that they are really dead (even if they are) because resurrection has become a common occurrence in the series.

Character deaths are included in stories to affect not only other characters, but also the audience. The show will start to lose that effect if they bring multiple characters back from the dead, and that’s exactly what happened with Outer Banks​​​​. So, in the future, the Netflix teen drama should put an end to fake deaths. However, given his history and Terrence’s resurrection from the dead in External Banks season 4, the series will never know.