Outer Banks Season 4, Episode 9 ‘The Storm’ provides us the worst JJ, the one letting intrusive ideas lead him, after which the most effective JJ, the one pushing towards the dangerous ideas and selecting to stay. It’s principally a whole season’s value of character progress for him in a couple of minutes, and it leaves us afraid of what’s to return.
However as a single, separate hour of this present, it’s a very nice showcase of what has made Outer Banks profitable. These children are household to one another, and we are saying that in lots of exhibits, however hardly ever does it apply in addition to it does right here. They’re the kind of household that might soar off a sinking ship to avoid wasting you. And that doesn’t come round fairly often.
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WOULD HAVE BEEN DOING ME A FAVOR
Outer Banks Season 4, Episode 9 ‘The Storm’ is JJ principally giving up. And why wouldn’t he? Positive, he’s received the Pogues and he’s all the time had the Pogues, however his id retains taking hit after hit after hit. There’s solely a lot you possibly can take earlier than you break. And JJ has by no means had the muse to do something however break. He’s all the time been left behind by his household. He’s solely ever been chosen by his mates. So, in truth I’d have been extra shocked if he didn’t break.
That doesn’t imply it doesn’t harm, after all, or that the present handles his breakdown all that properly. As a result of JJ breaking down? That is smart. Solely John B. attempting to get by to him? Yeah, no that half doesn’t observe. Kiara has all the time been the one to carry a mirror to JJ’s worst instincts, and although John B. is his greatest buddy, Kiara is the love of his life. If anybody was going to make him see there was extra to stay for it was Kiara.
However the present makes the choice to not let her try to as a substitute places all of it on John B. And he tries, he actually does, however JJ isn’t budging. Self-hatred is a robust drug, and when you’re in a spiral, it’s actually arduous to get out. Satirically, for JJ, what snaps him out of it isn’t his buddy or his girlfriend speaking to him, however worry. Concern that one thing would possibly occur to his mates. That’s why he will get up, why he says sufficient. He’s afraid of the storm and he’s afraid for the folks he cares about. As a result of even at his lowest, he cares. Actually, he’s all the time cared extra about others than himself.
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WHAT IF WE MADE HIM GODFATHER
That is John B. performing together with his coronary heart, and boy does it really feel like JJ deserves it after he jumps in after Sarah and saves her life. However JJ isn’t truly the only option to be anybody’s godfather, at the least not now. Logically, I believe each John B. and Sarah know that. However do we actually select godparents logically? We don’t. So in a manner, I suppose JJ is the one selection that is smart.
However the essential half isn’t the phrases, or the selection, and even JJ lashing out, it’s John B.’s phrases about what JJ means to him. I’m unsure I’ve ever cried as arduous watching this present as I did on this John B. and JJ scene as a result of don’t inform me this isn’t love. Typically you discover the love of your life and your greatest buddy finds the love of his life, however the different love of your life is that buddy that was all the time there with you, by thick and skinny. That’s what John B. and JJ are to one another. Greater than mates, brothers by selection.
And positive, that second is damaged they usually don’t get to reaffirm it till later within the episode, however that doesn’t make it much less true. Outer Banks has been a present about ships, and about mates, however above so many different issues it’s been a narrative about JJ and John B. and the way they made it from two children taking pictures the sh*t with one another to the boys they’re at this time. What a journey it’s been, hasn’t it?
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Issues I believe I believe:
- Look, at this level contemplating what number of crimes we’re racking up, what’s yet one more?
- Okay, actual discuss: we haven’t gotten practically sufficient precise Jiara as a pair content material. That’s a really dangerous signal, for me.
- Rafe redemption arc can chunk me.
- That is robust as a result of I do know I stated his mates ought to be holding JJ accountable, he wants that, but additionally poor man is simply destroyed.
- Shoupe is lowkey by no means as dangerous as he needs to be.
- THEY’RE FAMILY.
- Not trusting Rafe is a stable selection.
- “What if we made him Godfather?” AND WHAT IF I CRY?
- Bawling at JJ and John B., as everybody who has watched this present for 4 seasons ought to.
- “You’re gonna screw up that child like my father screwed me up,” is a low blow JJ.
- Why isn’t Kiara attempting to speak to JJ?! She’s the one he’s more than likely to hearken to.
- JJ going “sufficient of this shit” is a temper, although.
- Man, the best way he didn’t assume. He simply jumped.
- THIS REUNION.
- And JJ isn’t any biggie. YES, BIGGIE.
- The way in which he hugs again John B on the finish? SOMEBODY SEDATE ME.
Outer Banks Season 4 is obtainable to stream on Netflix.