Warning: Spoilers below.“Outer Banks” killed off one of its most beloved characters during the Season 4 finale.JJ Maybank (Rudy Pankow) was murdered by his biological father, Chandler Groff (J.
Anthony Crane).Groff went after JJ and Kiara (Madison Bailey) to get the Blue Crown.He held a knife to Kiara’s neck and JJ handed the Blue Crown over to save Kiara.
However, Groff stabbed JJ who died in Kiara’s arms.“I already got my wish.Everything I wanted,” JJ told Kiara in his final breaths.“Take care of the others.
I love you, Kie,” he added.An emotional montage then played of JJ’s moments with the other Pogues with a narration by John B (Chase Stokes).After JJ’s death, Kiara reunited with the rest of the Pogues as they decided to go after Groff and seek “revenge” for JJ.Pankow, 26, played JJ since the Netflix show’s premiere in 2020.
The series was renewed for a fifth and final season before the final episodes of Season 4 dropped on Thursday.Fans took to X (formerly Twitter) to express their devastation over fan-favorite JJ’s death.“You are telling me that the character who went through the most trauma and finally deserved a happy ending got murdered.Throw it away!” one person tweeted.“There is no #OuterBanks without JJ Maybank,” someone else said.
“‘I love you’ as last scene for a death trope is purely evil,” another fan wrote.“jj maybank come back it can’t end like this.”A different angry tweet read, “there is no outer banks without jj.
there is no pogues without one of the members, there is no s5 without jj.a huge script hole and all this because the actors have personal problems between them.
professionalism sent greetings.”“I’m still shocked by JJ’s death,” another viewer confessed.“I didn’t expect that someone from the Pogues will be killed before the series ending.
It was a bold move.His last scene with Kiara destroyed me.”“Taking everyone’s favourite character away? Who’s decisi...