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Outer Banks has been a hit for Netflix, with people stuck in their homes across the world enjoying the escapism of watching the teens hunting for treasure in a selection of picturesque outdoor locations. However, Netflix has not yet renewed the show for Season 2, as the streamer tends to look at a month's worth of viewing data before making a decision on any series' future.
This does not mean, however, that the stars and showrunners of Outer Banks have not started planning out Season 2, or started thinking about what they want their characters to face in future episodes. In interviews given since the show launched on Netflix, the Outer Banks crew have revealed the following:
Outer Banks Season 2 is already being written
Speaking to USA Today, showrunner Jonas Pate has revealed that he is in the process of writing Season 2, and that he and collaborators Josh Pate and Shannon Burke envision the show as what the website called a "four-season novel."
Talking about writing during the coronavirus outbreak, Pate joked: "It turns out being quarantined and writing are practically the same."
Season 2 will start in The Bahamas...
After the finale of Outer Banks Season 1 saw John B. (played by Chase Stokes) and Sarah Cameron (Madelyn Cline) on a boat on the way to Nassau, Pate revealed that Season 2 if it is green-lit will begin on the Caribbean island.
Pate told The Wrap, "It's definitely looking like The Bahamas at the beginning of Season 2, that that's where we're gonna go."
Speaking of the ending of Season 1, he added: "Yeah, I would say it's probably not a false promise.It's not a misdirect or something. But we'll just see where it goes." He added to USA Today: "There would be a couple episodes that take place, at least partially, in the Bahamas, it unfolds into a bigger mystery. We keep our old villains and we add some new ones. But it always comes back to the Outer Banks."
Central to these episodes, Pate added, would be how John B. and Sarah survive in this new country. He said: "For John B and Sarah, this is really fight or flight. We don't have anything on us, except a chunk of gold. How do we manage our lives?"
...But won't forget about the characters left in the Outer Banks
While the show will follow Sarah and John B. to The Bahamas, that does not mean the show will not return to OBX. Pate told The Wrap: "We're gonna follow all those stories for Kaira [Madison Bailey], JJ [Rudy Pankow] and Pope [Jonathan Daviss] and keep developing them for sure. And the mystery element is something we want to expand on and we have several ideas about how that could happen."
The cast's hopes for Season 2
Discussing what he hopes The Pogues left in North Carolina experience in Outer Banks Season 2, Pankow told HollywoodLife, "The Pogues are so tight in season 1, and I would love to see them get crushed by what happened with John B. and really struggle with finding the Pogues' bond again and that closeness."
Stokes, meanwhile, said to Entertainment Tonight of John B.'s plight after the finale "If we expose ourselves to this captain [on the Nassau boat], all of a sudden there's a bounty on my head.
"Anybody who wants money is gonna look at that like, 'Uh huh, these two kids are kind of sweet but a little bit of extra cash sounds a little bit better than having two kids on my boat.'
"The reality of the stakes [are] staying alive and staying innocent until John B. finds a way to prove himself innocent in this entire thing... he's got to remain anonymous until he gets some sort of resolution."
Outer Banks is streaming now on Netflix.
