Outer Banks: Did this cast feud affect the Netflix series?

Warning, spoilers. Before continuing the series, it is recommended to watch the 4th season of the TV series “Outer Banks”.

Much awaited by fans, the second part of the Outer Banks series 4 season is finally available on Netflix. This new burst of episodes has made a big comeback on the platform with a very good audience and ranked in the top 10 in 74 countries in several countries.

Rated 4 out of 5 by Josh Pate, Jonas Pate, and Shannon Burke on AlloCiné, fiction is one of the most popular series on Netflix. He has managed to amass a very large fan base since his debut, and fans who are very invested and loyal to Outer Banks.

But season four left a bitter taste for Outer Banks audiences. the reason Possible behind-the-scenes drama between the two cast members of the series that would lead to strange filming conditions and possibly affect the plot of the show.

And no, it’s not Madeline Cline and Chase Stokes, who play the couple Sarah and John Bee, who were lovers in real life. Now the former actors are on very friendly terms and have always claimed to respect the characters that made them famous.

A couple that fans have been waiting for

Since the first season of Outer Banks, fans have expressed their desire for the two main characters of the series to be a couple. They are JJ (Rudy Pankow) and Ciara (Madison Bailey). this ship It was confirmed by those actors who were very friendly at that time.

“This Outer Banks fan theory suggests that Ciara will end up with JJ, not Pope.”

“If JJ and Ciara don’t get together in Outer Banks Season 2, I’m going to be pissed. JJ and Ciara have more chemistry than Pope and Ciara.”

In the year of the release of the first season, the two actors were often seen together on social media and even shared many photos and videos on the set in which they were very close.

And after years of theories and envy, Outer Banks fans had to wait until season three to see the romance between Key and JJ finally come to fruition. Obviously, establishing a love story has won the audience of the series.

From great friendships to tension with those around you?

Unfortunately, at the same time, fans began to notice the distance between actors Rudy Pankow and Madison Bailey. According to netizens, the reason for the possible fight will be personal problems with their partners, as recorded This is a very detailed and detailed topic.

The first is a relationship with Elaine Simek, who was an assistant and photographer at the Outer Banks. The second is a relationship with Maria Lin, a former basketball player turned content creator.

Some fans believe that Rudy Pankow and Madison Bailey’s respective girlfriends are the cause of their friendship ending, and have identified many elements pointing in that direction, including targeted attacks, jealousy, deletion or cancellation of photos on social media, even by the creators of the series.

While we obviously have to use the conditional since none of the parties involved have confirmed anything, fans are sure there’s a bigger story behind the supposed end of the friendship. And unfortunately, this sometimes leads to abusive messages or harassment, which prompted Rudy Pankow to defend his friend Elaine on Instagram in 2021:

“I condemn the disrespect and harassment that the person I love so much suffers every day. It has gotten to the point where lies are being spread and accusations are being made beyond the usual “hate”. Abuse and manipulation are unacceptable, especially when you do not know the relationship personally.”

For her part, Madison Bailey also defended her girlfriend, filming videos in which she explained that she had no problem with Rudy and Elaine, while pointing the finger at fans who ship the actors in real life.

Difficult filming and promotion conditions?

For the promos for the second, third and fourth seasons, fans saw all the events, interviews, but also group photos that the actors were able to do and noticed that Rudy Pankow and Madison Bailey were often far from each other or that they neither spoke nor looked at each other, unlike in the promotion of the first season , where they were very close and friends.

Although Outer Banks Season 3 debuted JJ and Ciara’s long-awaited romance, fans didn’t get many behind-the-scenes photos or juicy, interesting interviews as both actors tried to stay away from the topic. Rudi Pankov even avoided several interviews during the promotion.

Fans were hoping that Season 4 would include more footage of JJ and Ciara, but were disappointed to find that the other couples on the show (Pappy and Cleo, John B and Sarah) had much more romantic scenes. Especially about the 2nd part that was recently released online, which contains very few intimate and romantic scenes between JJ and Kiara.

“These sweet moments between couples and then there’s Giara😶 you can’t make this up”

Some of them even think that the actors were asked to film together as little as possible and not play love scenes, to the extent that the team called in doubles to replace them in certain scenes.

“Don’t tell me they had a liner for JJ when Ki was lying on it??????”

“I hope double JJ is well compensated for the god work he did and Rudy had to do”

“Every possible angle that Ki lays on top of JJ, but none, both of their faces in the frame, I’m going to collapse”

The public doesn’t understand Rudy and Madison’s behavior, if it’s true, and thinks it’s ruined JJ and Kiara’s characters and their long-awaited relationship on the show. Fans are very invested in Outer Banks and feel disrespected and especially affected by character development as the performances are not the same in the last seasons as in the first.

“We hugged and “do you want me to come? Because I’ll have to” we moved on “Oh, he’s back? Sorry JJ” Giara couple from season 1, you will always be famous”

Was JJ’s death really planned?

If you’ve seen the finale of Outer Banks season 4, you know that it ends with a tragic but courageous event: the death of JJ, who was still one of the main characters of the series and, above all, a fan favorite character. The latter will be killed by his own father in front of his friend Kiara.

And we can tell that fans are angry and don’t understand this ending for JJ’s character, who was entitled to a strange psychological development for Season 4 Episode 2. Even this tragic and sudden death seems incongruous to a society that believes. That this conspiracy was not originally planned and that Rudy Pankow was released or went undercover.

“So JJ dies after being stabbed and almost immediately dies, and Sara gets shot and doesn’t get medical attention for a long time! Seriously! If this was a second season, JJ would survive.”

However, the creators had a precise plan for the Outer Banks for 5 seasons from the beginning. Obviously, there were rewrites and reshoots going on during the seasons of the Netflix series, but it’s possible that JJ’s death was planned from the beginning. At least that’s how the creators, including Josh Pate, explained it Netflix Tudum :

“It was a really tough decision because he’s such a big part of the ensemble. He’s setting up an epic fifth and final season. We’re planning a redemption story and a season that embodies the friendship that JJ has come to represent.

JJ’s death was a difficult but necessary part of the story’s architecture, and we plan to honor it as much as possible because we love the character as much as the fans do. And Rudy is one of our great friends.”

“They literally made it up 😭😭😭😭😭 Yeah, you planned JJ’s death… so your whole family canceled on him and his girlfriend, right?

The Outer Banks series has been renewed for a fifth and final season, but fans have already said they no longer want to follow the show, which has now been marked by JJ’s absence.

At this time, it is impossible to know what really happened between Rudy Pankow and Madison Bailey, but it is clear that there was drama behind the scenes, because the death of an emblematic character of the series often hides a delicate situation. How the series will end without this flagship character and whether fans will be satisfied with the ending remains to be seen.

The first four seasons of The Outer Banks are available on Netflix.