‘Outer Banks’ Renewed For Fifth & Final Season Ahead Of Season 4 Part 2 Debut On Netflix

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EXCLUSIVE: The Pogues from OBX are headed for one final epic quest. In a case of good news-bad news for fans, the popular Netflix action-adventure YA series has been renewed for a fifth season, which will be its last.

The pickup comes ahead of the Nov. 7 debut of Season 4 Part 2 whose trailer was unveiled Saturday by the cast at Poguelandia LA, a live fan event that is part of Netflix’s Outer Banks on- and off-screen brand expansion.

In a “Dispatch to all Pogues,” which you can read in full below, Outer Banks co-creators and executive producers Jonas Pate, Josh Pate and Shannon Burke explain the decision to end the series after five seasons by recalling how a summer 2017 photo of teenagers on a beach at dusk during a power outage inspired them to conceive the series. “From this beginning, we imagined a mystery that would lead to a five-season journey of adventure, treasure hunting, and friendship,” they said, admitting that at the time, “it seemed impossible that we would really get to tell the whole five-season story.” The trio can now fulfill their original vision and are already working on Season 5, which is currently being written. “With a little sadness, but also excitement, we’re putting Season Four behind us, and are turning to Season Five, in which we hope to bring our beloved Pogues home in the way we imagined and planned years ago,” they said. “Season Five will be our last season, and we think it will be our best yet.” In the letter to fans, which the Pate brothers and Burke appropriately signed off with “P4L” (Pogues for Life), they also spoke of Season 4 being their “longest and hardest – but most rewarding – to produce,” teasing “a feature length” finale, “which we think is our best, most powerful