Outer Banks Season 4 Part 1 Premiere Recap: Easy Come, Easy Go (Especially When JJ’s Around) — Plus, Grade It!
The main lesson of Outer Banks’ Season 4 premiere: A Pogue and his money are soon parted, especially when said Pogue has a boatload of insecurities and tends toward the impetuous. (Yeah, we’re looking at you, JJ.)
But we’re also getting ahead of ourselves. Read on for what happens in “The Enduro,” then we want to hear what you thought of the hour.
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WHILE YOU WERE GONE | “So you might be wondering, what happens after you find the lost city of El Dorado, get blown up, two of your parents die, and you’re stranded in South America with a sack full of gold?” John B. voiceovers at the top of the episode. “Well, let me catch you up.”
He then flashes back to 18 months earlier, walking us through the time glossed over in the Season 3 finale jump. The teens returned home with 20 lbs. of pure gold, which netted them nearly 1.2 million dollars that they immediately put into a joint account. Pope points out that splitting the money equally (after paying JJ’s restitution) will give them each a couple hundred thousand dollars, but pooling it means they can buy JJ’s property — which is going up for auction — and create a communal home/business that would essentially be Poguelandia 2.0. Everyone’s in, particularly Sarah and Kiara, whose families have made it clear that they’re not welcomed back.
The first problem: JJ lets his emotions get the best of him during the property auction, and the teens wind up WAY overpaying for his land. That irks everyone, but they shake it off and successfully open a bait-and-tackle shop and charter ship business on the dock they build behind the house. Still, Pope warns, the $13,000 property tax bill is coming, so they’ve got to save their last gold nugget to pay it.
“But c’mon,” John B. says. “How long were we really gonna stay out of trouble?”
ONE BAD DECISION BEGETS ANOTHER | The morning of The Enduro, a dirtbike race, JJ has a little news for John B.: He’s bet on himself, and he used the last nugget to do so. John B. is incredibly angry, even moreso when JJ asks him to be his wingman during the race and cover him if Topper — also competing — and his Kook friends try any funny business. John B. reluctantly agrees, and JJ assures him, “I got this, man.”
He definitely does not got this. Topper wins the race, and the Pogues are staring down a $13K bill due in seven days with no savings or working capital to pay it.
“But that’s when our luck turned,” John B. notes. After the local paper writes about their El Dorado discovery, they’re lauded at heroes. As we saw in the Season 3 finale, Wes Genrette approaches them after a ceremony and invites them to his estate to talk about Blackbeard.
And now we’re all caught up to the present day, when Kiara, Sarah, John B., JJ, Pope and Cleo make their way to Genrette’s super creepy old home. Genrette’s daughter and her baby died under mysterious circumstances, and rumors about the family have spread through the town for years. The house’s overall overgrown, moldy, falling-apart vibe doesn’t make the Pogues feel any better; they’re about to leave when Genrette’s also-weird-but-in-a-different-way son-in-law, Chandler Groff, answers the door and invites them in. Nothing feels good about this situation, but desperate times call for a high degree of Pogue discomfort, and the kids reluctantly come inside as the episode ends.
Now it’s your turn. What did you think of the premiere? Grade it via the poll below, then hit the comments with your thoughts!
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