After filming part of its first season at Hunting Island beach and the lighthouse last spring, the new Netflix series, Outer Banks, is premiering on the popular streaming app starting on April 15th.
Filmed in Charleston and on Hunting Island (you’ll recognize it for sure), the setting for the show is, of course, the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
The show follows a tight-knit group of teens in the Outer Banks. When a hurricane kills the power for the summer season, it sets off a chain of events that force the friends to make life-altering decisions.
The show portrays the OBX as sunny and beachy, but with a major class divide. You’re either super-rich or you’re working two jobs in this town, per narrator John Booker Rutledge (actor Chase Stokes). The central characters in the story are in the working two jobs category, which is why when they find out that John’s missing father somehow acquired $400 million in gold, all hell breaks loose and it leads to an all-out treasure hunt, mixed with some romance, of course.
Some have described the show as a blend of the popular series’, Riverdale and The O.C., and some have described it as the movie Goonies, with prettier people.
Filming last May on Hunting Island stirred a bit of a buzz in the Beaufort area when a call went out for paid extras. Several local teens and younger adults were cast in the show by the time the filming wrapped up on Beaufort’s sea islands.
Check out the trailer for the show below. You’ll see some familiar sights, staircases and sand. All 10 episodes of Outer Banks hit Netflix on Wednesday, April 15th.
