Outer Banks Season 3 Review: Which Is Unheard Of At The Cancel-happy Streaming Giant?

Outer Banks has returned for a third season on Netflix, riding high off its renewal for a fourth season before these new episodes aired, which is unheard of at the cancel-happy streaming giant. Outer Banks has become a new fan favorite.

The show is no longer… excellent, which is terrible news. Although Outer Banks was never the best program on television, it was still fun. As we approach season 3, that pleasure has largely disappeared, and I’m not sure I even want this show to return for a fourth season.

It was too late when Outer Banks switched on its new “El Dorado” storyline. Like fifty million other adventure series and films before it, it decided that finding the lost city of gold should be its new quest because the gold owned by the Merchants is currently locked in Ward’s vault after he stole it from the Pogues; it just wasn’t interesting enough.

The season’s treasure hunt alternates between three vastly different goals, with the theory that the Pogues are instead pursuing a single golden cross they fought over last season because they cannot retrieve the gold horde.

After all, it is locked away. This is all set against the broader backdrop of the El Dorado expedition led by Big John, the father of John B, and Carlos Singh, a new antagonist.

The resurrection of Big John, which revealed that he wasn’t dead at the end of season 2, has been unquestionably one of the season’s worst elements.

Big John is a flawed character, even tho their first meeting. Although you’re supposed to think he’s terrible and pushing John B in the wrong direction,

I wouldn’t say I liked every second of him being onscreen since he ends up severing John B from his buddies for half the season. He completely contradicts the tone of the show in every way.

The remainder of the show is drama for drama’s sake, and, to be honest, it’s getting a little tiresome that the cast members are never allowed to win for longer than two seconds.

There are some incredibly ridiculous reasons why relationships break down. The Camerons frustrate treasure hunts for the millionth time.

This game has virtually become Uncharted because the original antagonist Ward Cameron has been neutralized and replaced by the less compelling Carlos Singh and his enormous gang of mercenaries.

Nothing about this works. It’s a poor season of a program that, at the very least, used to be better. I’m honestly surprised that Outer Banks was renewed for season 4 if that decision was made due to some Netflix official seeing an advance screening of season 3. It feels like the show has no open plans.

We’ll wait and see what audiences and critics think of it. Although we’re in an odd scenario where only four reviewers appear to have watched the series in America, the audience ratings seem roughly the same as last season.

But the few critic ratings that are in have caused it drops drastically. You could say this is a “for the fans” situation,

but I’m not sure how those fans could appreciate what these characters are going through in this grueling new season. This series has to have an endpoint in mind. Therefore I genuinely hope season 4 can turn things around.

Update: We can do so if you want to discuss the ending in more detail, which presents a different kind of issue.

John B and Sara eventually find El Dorado, which is more of a vast underground gold mine with a central, enormous gold pillar than a city.

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Unusual but valuable perspective on El Dorado. The show then jumps forward 18 months, where the group has at least received credit for the discovery.

However, I imagine you do not get to keep the enormous mountain of gold hidden beneath a country that is not yours and that you also entered illegally.

Both of their fathers pass away during this process. But at least they became well-known, which has its advantages.

An older man who looks to be chasing Blackbeard’s ship and undoubtedly some lost treasure approaches them due to their newly acquired reputation as treasure seekers.

So it appears that’s the idea moving ahead. Although I don’t get how this doesn’t disrupt the series’ total DNA—Outer Banks Season 3 Review, which is meant to be based in OBX itself—the gang is now hired as treasure hunters.

There is also the unresolved issue of Merchant Gold. Throughout the season, the show was satisfied to disregard the query and instead concentrated on the cross and El Dorado.

A strange conclusion should have brought the series to a close rather than launching a brand-new questline. But we will complete Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider with this crew.