#johna

Okay, so I binged the entire season the same day it aired,and I’ve rewatched it 3 times since.I’m truly obsessed with it.

We should set things straight before I start ranting, so you know what you’re getting into with this post.

Did I like the show? DUh, obviously.

Do I think it’s a trashy teenager show? The answer is also yes.

Would I recommend it? Abso-fucking-lutely.

Do I have a lot of opinions about it ? Sure.

Am I going to spend the next 30 minutes writing about them? You betcha.

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much out of this show. I thought that it was going to be a silly story about beautiful teenagers during the summer, a lot of hormones, very cliche moments, and not much else. Good enough to entertain me during quarantine and then forget about it.But I was pleasantly surprised. It’s a weird mixture of the OC meets On My Block. It has all the summery, beach life , rich kids vs the hardworking people of the OC , while keeping the intensity, the treasure hunting and the found family vibe of On My Block . It’s still very different from both this shows, The OC is much more centered in the poor/criminal kid and how he has to get used to being a rich kid and On My Block has a funny element to it that you can only get from a much diverse cast(and OBX is a lot of things, but diverse is probably not one of those). While Outer Banks is about a fun group of friends from the poor side of the island ,how much they don’t like the rich kids, and how cool it’s to be a Pogue even with it’s downsides.

Though if we’re going to talk about casts, and how this one lacks diversity in all it’s forms ( not much lbgtq+ representation,if any, and it’s only the vibe that some characters give you,but nothing explicit. It’s mostly just white straight people causing havoc) we should also talk about how wonderfully cast the main characters are.I feel like this casting crew needs a standing ovation. The main four characters (The Pogues) are wonderfull. They don’t look like 16 year old kids at all but, they are so good together. They have so much chemistry that is barely noticeable that they’re grown adults.The found family feeling is there from the very first minute of the show, and it only grows stronger each episode (which I loved because is one of my favourite tropes) The Pogues gave a very Teen wolf feeling in this aspect,it was very much like the McCall pack, this characters wouldn’t make sense together in any other situation. Kiara is a rich kid from a working family, Pope is a super smart, nerdy kid, John B is from a poor broken family and JJ comes from a dangerous/criminal family. But, as they all are from the Cut and like surfing they fall together perfectly. Seriously, the best scenes in this show are the ones where you get to observe them hanging out together.I think that this works so well, because they have as much chemistry with one another as when they are in a group. With slight exceptions. (I’m talking from a completely platonic view, as I’ll get into more detail in a future post, where I’ll talk about each character and the ships)

JJ and John B are supposed to be the Stiles and Scott of this show and it kind of falls flat. I felt that JJ and Pope had much more of a “brothers from another mother” relationship, than what they each had with John B, and it’s a bit disappointing. In the first few episodes,before the whole Val and Vlad storyline, it felt like they were very close. JJ was practically living with John B. He said they had been friends since the third grade and they give this vibe sometimes, it comes and goes.

John B and Kiara had amazing chemistry, it was playful and borderline flirty at the beginning , but still very pure and really just a nice boy-girl friendship. I loved it! It makes me glad how they don’t force a romantic relationship between kiara and the boys. They’re just a group of friends.

For me pope and kiara had very little chemistry. They were cool if they had more people around but, when it was only them it felt awkward most of the time.You could see that he had a crush on her from very early on but, when they interacted it felt like she was somewhat annoyed by him. Or that she thought he was sweet in a “you are an odd kid” type of way. It was more like they were friends because they had friends in common than them being really friends with each other.

And last but no least, JJ and Kiara. They were awesome, I loved their flirty banter, them butting heads about stupid stuff, and how much they cared about the other. They would always give this vibe of pure and kind friendship in their interactions, and it was heartwarming to see.

And now let’s go ahead and talk about the ending. I’ll try to not spoil much about it but, What the actual fuck? The whole season was so good, you could feel their anxiety about the whole situation, they took their time to discover what was actually going on, and then the last 2 episodes went crazy. Everything got rushed, and there were no good decisions taken. The last 10 minutes felt like I was suddenly watching Riverdale, and it made me a bit mad. They had stayed pretty far from the whole craziness of trying to make a TV show more interesting by doing stupid things, almost until the end. The whole “I’d rather die than be without you” felt absurd. They are 16 and they’ve been dating for 2 weeks tops. That kind of scene would have been so moving, if it was JJ with him or any of the Pogues, really.

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Cameron Dallas (Febuary 2014- October 2018)

Cameron and Sabrina both met at a café. She was walking with Zane when they both accidentally bumped into each other. Their relationship has to be the best thing that's ever happened to both of them. They were both young and in love. All three years were pure bliss. Their social media was filled with a bunch of pictures and videos of each other. In Cameron's netflix show the girl he snuck in the bus is actually Sabrina. She was actually good friends with the magcon boys except for Taylor Caniff. Their breack up wasnt dramatic or anything like that, they both just thought it was best to stay friends since they had a lot in their plate. All in all Cameron and Sabrina are still good friends even though they still love each other up to this day.

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