Author: Michael

Netflix’s “Outer Banks” was built on a simple conceit, spoken both as an elevator pitch for the series and a promise to the audience by John B (Chase Stokes) in the first episode: “The Outer Banks, paradise on Earth.” When series creators Jonas Pate, Josh Pate and Shannon Burke launched their sun-soaked, treasure-hunting adventure in 2020, they did so with an incredibly specific sense of place, whether audiences had traveled to the titular North Carolina barrier islands or not. They bound themselves to the land, both the fantasy of its natural beauty and the reality of living at the beach…

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