The Netflix Original series ‘Outer Banks’ premiered last Wednesday, April 15th, and it’s been trending ever since. The show has been the latest hit for Netflix, with many people finding relief from being trapped in their homes by watching the treasure hunting drama full of picturesque island locations. The good news is, Outer Banks season two may film again in the Lowcountry.
The creator and writer of the show Jonas Pate, who filmed parts of it on Hunting Island and also in Charleston, has announced season two is now in the works.
“Believe it or not were far down the road even on season two,” Pate told his hometown newspaper, WWAY in Wilmington, N.C. “We’ve started writing season two and we’ve already had production meetings about season two.”
If the approval is granted by Netflix, the production for season two will likely take off soon.
Filming may occur again on Hunting Island and in Charleston because Netflix does not allow filming in North Carolina due to it’s House Bill #2. “Unfortunately there’s one tiny bit of HB-2 that doesn’t roll off the book until December of this year,” said Pate. “So, until that’s gone, Netflix is not going to let us shoot in North Carolina.”
With debut seasons of its shows, Netflix tends to wait at least a month or so before making any decisions about renewals. This allows them to look at the data and see how popular a show is and how many viewers watched to the end. They then weigh this against how much the series costs to produce before making a decision about the show’s future.
This means that the earliest we will hear anything about Outer Banks Season 2 will be mid-May.
Undoubtedly popular in the Lowcountry due to its location shoots, 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.
