
“ crazy because I feel like at the time, nobody wanted to feel nostalgic about it. “I’ve been tagged in TikToks or posts and it’ll be captioned something pertaining to how they feel nostalgic for like the first time ‘Left Hand Free’ would play,” Cline said. During lockdown, people were able to find joy in the immersive nature of the show, as well as through various internet trends it spawned-many of which featured the soundtrack’s iconic song, “Left Hand Free” by alt-J. Stunning shots of the Outer Banks (which were actually filmed in Charleston, South Carolina) and the action-packed, high-stakes treasure hunting provided much-needed escapism in the early months of 2020. “I think it’s a positive way to remember the time you know, in such a hard time.” “I feel grateful our show came out when it did, and I think we have a different relationship to our fans because of it, and a different closeness and relatability with our audience,” Bailey said. The cast had to experience the success of Outer Banks from afar, and although they were deprived of a live premiere, they were able to engage with fans over social media. Season one was filmed in 2019, and came out on April 15 the following year-just one month after COVID-19 was declared a national emergency. Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix © 2023 Episode 301 Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix © 2023

This gets a bit repetitive, but what keeps viewers coming back are the friendships that withstand family divisions and high-stakes sparring about the gold, accompanied by genuinely hilarious banter. In season two, Cleo (Carlacia Grant) comes into the mix when the Pogues follow the treasure to her home city of Nassau in the Bahamas.įor three seasons, the show has followed a rinse-and-repeat plot structure of the Pogues learning about more treasure connected to the Royal Merchant, competing with a new “big bad” adult to find it, having it stolen from under their noses, and then returning to the Outer Banks to face the consequences of the illegal and irresponsible acts they committed in the pursuit. Along the way, they pick up Sarah (Cline), a Kook princess who falls in love with John B and joins the “Pogues for Life”-or “P4L”-group. Unlike the boys, Kie has Kook parents who disapprove of her hanging out with Pogues. The main ensemble began with John B and his best friends JJ Maybank (Rudy Pankow), Pope Heyward (Jonathan “JD” Daviss), and Kiara (Bailey). The kids’ journey starts on-and always returns to-the titular islands, which are divided geographically and economically into the “Kooks” and “Pogues”: the ultra-wealthy and the lower class that works for them. Protagonist John B Routledge (Chase Stokes) ropes his friends into this quest begun by his father, “Big John” (Charles Halford), who is presumed dead when the show begins and left behind his research about the gold. Outer Banks follows a group of teens and their continuous pursuit of a legendary gold treasure that was aboard the shipwrecked Royal Merchant. 23, we had the opportunity to speak with Cline and Madison Bailey, who plays Kiara “Kie” Carrera, about season three, their experiences filming over the course of the pandemic, and their meteoric rise to fame in the process. Ahead of the hit show’s third season release on Feb.
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It feels like coming home,” Madelyn Cline, who plays Sarah Cameron on the Netflix series Outer Banks, told the Voice.

“Every time we come back to film, it does feel familiar.
