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Netflix's Outer Banks Season Finale Recap: All Your Questions, Answered


If you’re obsessed with Netflix‘s new series Outer Banks, you’re not alone. The beachy teen drama is a perfect mix of Riverdale, Gossip Girl, and The O.C. with a little bit of The Goonies mixed in, so it’s no surprise it’s a hit both with critics and fans alike.

The show centers on John B. Rutledge (Chase Stokes), a 17-year-old who lives in the Outer Banks region of North Carolina and leads a band of not-so-rich misfits named the Pogues: JJ (Rudy Pankow), Kiara (Madison Bailey), and Pope (Jonathan Daviss). After John B.’s father mysteriously disappears and leaves behind hints of where the Pogues can find a $400 million treasure, they set out to find it.

They’re not the only ones hunting for the gold, of course. On the other side of the spectrum, we have the Kooks, the Outer Banks’s rich elite, of which Sarah (Madelyn Cline) is a part of. Her father, Ward (Charles Esten), is also hellbent on finding the treasure, and the other Kooks in town—including Sarah’s boyfriend, Topper (Austin North), and brother, Rafe (Drew Starkey)—love undermining the Pogues whenever they can.

As you can imagine, it doesn’t take long for things to come to a head. By the Outer Banks season finale—spoiler warning—Sarah has dumped Topper and fallen deeply in love with John B. The two flee to the Bahamas, where the treasure is now located, after it’s revealed that Ward is the one responsible for the disappearance (read: murder) of John B.’s father. And there’s a new romance on the horizon, too, for Kiara and Pope.

With so many cliffhangers and no confirmed season two, we chatted with Madelyn Cline to figure out where the Kooks and Pogues go from here. She answered all our questions about the finale and then some. Read on.

Glamour: What were your thoughts when you saw where Sarah was going in the season finale?

Madelyn Cline: We have such great writers, and they’re very, very receptive to our ideas. I remember there was a point when one asked me, “Do you think you, as Sarah Cameron, would choose your family or John B.?” I remember thinking on it and telling her, “I wholeheartedly believe Sarah is 100% absolutely head over heels for John B., and I think she absolutely would get on that boat with him.” There’s one part in the show when John B. tells Sarah, “You’re all I have.” I told the writer that at that point John B. is also all Sarah has. Her world just crumbled around her, so it’s a no-brainer that she would have gotten on that boat with him and risked everything.

So what do you think will happen next? Do you think they’re going to set up shop in the Bahamas or get the treasure and come back?

In my mind, what I see is this Blue Lagoon or Castaway-type scenario where they get to the Bahamas and have the gold bars, and they live in this really romantic, Bonnie and Clyde-type Blue Lagoon world. They’re just in this honeymoon phase of, “We’ve run away from home, we’re in love, we’re in this beautiful place, and there are no problems.” I would really love to see everything they’ve been running from catch up to them. I think they might have to go back to the Outer Banks because of the Pogues and confront all the things they’ve been running from.

How do you think Sarah will process what came out about her father? Could you see them having some kind of relationship? Where do you think that relationship’s going to go?



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Outer Banks Season 2: Everything We Know So Far


Warning: Major Outer Banks season one spoilers ahead.

People are slowly but surely discovering Netflix’s new teen drama, Outer Banks, and becoming obsessed. It’s hard not to fall in love with it, especially if you’re fond of shows like The O.C., Gossip Girl, and Riverdale. Set in North Carolina’s Outer Banks region, this soapy series follows a group of high schoolers as they hunt for a $400 million treasure. Intermixed with this high-stakes quest are all the things you’ve come to expect from high school-centric content: love triangles, petty fights, and beautiful people staring vacantly into space.

But Outer Banks has some serious teeth, too. There’s major class warfare between the Pogues—the not-so-wealthy kids on the treasure hunt—and the Kooks, the rich elite, some who are also keen on finding the gold. A few characters on the show battle substance abuse issues or come from broken families, including John B. (Chase Stokes), whose father’s mysterious disappearance kicks off everything. There are real issues underneath Outer Banks’s glossy, sun-kissed sheen.

I ripped through the first season’s 10 episodes in record time and am currently salivating for more. But is Netflix going to give us an Outer Banks season two? Based on that explosive cliffhanger of a finale, let’s hope so, but the streaming platform hasn’t announced anything yet. Until then, let’s do what all fans do in times of uncertainty: theorize about what’s to come. Here’s everything we know about the potential of an Outer Banks season two:

Will there be an Outer Banks season two?

Netflix hasn’t announced anything yet, so unclear. An official confirmation probably won’t happen for at least a few more weeks. Netflix no-doubt has to see how the show performs before making any big decisions.

When would it premiere?

Again, unclear. With production on Netflix shows halted because of the coronavirus, timelines for so many premieres are in limbo. The earliest air date, though, would probably be spring 2021—if the show is even renewed to begin with.

John B. and Sarah on Outer Banks. 

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What would season two cover?

I mean, so much. Just think about where we left off in the season one finale. John B. (Chase Stokes) and Sarah (Madelyn Cline) are on their way to the Bahamas—where the treasure now is—after fleeing the Outer Banks; Pope (Jonathan Daviss) and Kiara (Madison Bailey) have a thing going on; and we still don’t know what will happen to Ward, the one actually behind the murder of John B.’s father. There’s so much ground to cover that a second season would practically write itself. So let’s keep our fingers crossed it happens.

Until then, Outer Banks season one is currently streaming on Netflix.



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Grey's Anatomy Season 17: Everything We Know So Far


Warning: This post contains spoilers for Grey’s Anatomy.

Grey’s Anatomy wrapped up its 16th season on April 9 with an episode that very much felt like a season finale, even though it wasn’t planned as one. The show, like the rest of the Hollywood, was forced to shut down production due to the coronavirus pandemic, which meant the final four episodes were never shot and won’t be seen.

Shortened or not, the show’s season ended in true Grey’s fashion—with a lot of drama. The Grey-Sloan team finally figured out what was wrong with Dr. Richard Webber—thanks in no small part to Dr. DeLuca, who’s still struggling with his mental health—and performed a life-saving surgery. Meanwhile, Amelia gave birth to her and Link’s son. Owen discovered Teddy cheated on him with fellow doc Tom Koracek. And Meredith is still sort of flirting with the hot doc that Cristina Yang sent her way earlier this season, Cormac Hayes. And, of course, fans are still recovering from the sudden departure of Alex Karev after Justin Chambers left the show.

The creative team behind Grey’s Anatomy is already looking ahead to next season, even if they’re not yet sure when they’ll be able to resume shooting. Showrunner Krista Vernoff spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about what’s next and said the writers will start working again in early May.

“We’re waiting to see what happens with the world. I will start a season 17 writers room in May, and, at that point, I imagine our conversation will be about starting our story from where we left off in season 16. But I don’t think we can take unproduced scripts that we didn’t shoot and shoot them,” she said. “We’re going to have had a break and have new ideas. We’ve been texting each other ideas already. Some of those things that we had decided, we’re changing because we’ll have had a break and have come up with better ideas. And some of it is going to have to change because you’re taking what was going to be a regular episode and have to turn it into a season premiere and that will require some reimagining.”

Here’s everything else we know so far about season 17:

The premiere date. Typically, a show like Grey’s Anatomy would return to ABC in September, but given the state of the world right now, everything is up in the air. Vernoff told THR there are a lot of factors that will determine when people can get back to work. “The Writers Guild is thinking about all of those things,” she said. “There are conversations about, will testing be more widely available by that point? Are you testing people when they go to work?…I’m trying not to think about it too much because no one knows anything and next week everything could change.”

The cast. “There are no notable cast member departures happening between seasons,” Vernoff said. PHEW.

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Every Season of Friends, Ranked


When Friends premiered in 1994, no one could have predicted that it would become a massive hit, propelling all six stars—Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer—and their characters into the cultural zeitgeist to the point that lines like “We were on a break!” instantly conjure up memories of an entire decade-long courtship between two people none of us have met.

What’s more interesting, though, is how long the show’s popularity has lasted since it went off the air in 2004. It’s still headline news when Cox says she’s binge-watching the show. Look in the background of the Vanderpump Rules cast members’ homes and you’ll see that iconic peephole frame. Even Taylor Swift performed “Smelly Cat” during her 1989 World Tour, with the help of Kudrow herself.

But what makes Friends so memorable, relatable, and re-watchable isn’t the one-off jokes or meme-able moments (though, they certainly help): It’s the characters. Friends is about everyday people hanging out and growing up. That’s the whole premise of the show, and yet it feels so magical.

The only reason any of the plot lines had stakes—the only reason it even mattered who lived where and slept with who—was that we were invested in the characters. Audiences connected with and cared about Chandler, Phoebe, Ross, Rachel, Monica, and Joey. They were the heart and soul of the show. The essential premise and set-up didn’t change from season to season, so character growth became the ultimate goal of the series. As we watched the six Friends age in real time, we felt like we got to know them and determine what was good for them—or, more important, what wasn’t.

I’d argue that the quality of the writing on Friends had its ebbs and flows, as it does on any long-running series, but stayed, overall, very high. Most moments felt earned, and the show never resorted to gimmicks to keep audiences interested. Friends stayed true to its tone for a full decade. There are no “bad” episodes—all of them have at least one great storyline happening. But even so, there are certain areas that yielded funny, fruitful, memorable plots (love triangles!) and certain areas that did…not. (Remember when Ross had a pet monkey?)

With character, jokes, individual episodes and overarching themes all taken into consideration, I’ve ranked the 10 seasons of Friends from worst to best. Or, more accurately, these are ranked from most uneven to most completely stellar.

Seasons 8 & 9

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Grey's Anatomy's Showrunner and Ellen Pompeo React to The Shortened Season Due to Coronavirus


Grey’s Anatomy season 16 is coming to an end sooner than expected. On March 27, ABC announced that the medical drama will not resume production on the final four episodes of Season 16, meaning the season will end Thursday, April 9, with episode 21 serving as the finale.

After learning that the current season of Grey’s Anatomy will officially be cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ellen Pompeo and showrunner Krista Vernoff took to Twitter to reassure upset fans the impromptu finale will still be a “satisfying” one.

Though some fans are disappointed, the good news is the new finale episode, titled “Put on a Happy Face,” will be jam-packed with drama and a new potential love story. According to the description, “Hayes asks Meredith a surprising question, Owen makes a shocking discovery,” and “Link tries to convince Amelia to take it easy during the final stage of her pregnancy.”

Plus, Vernoff promised fans that any lingering question will be answered next season in a new Twitter statement. (The series had already been renewed for Season 17.) “We are disappointed that we don’t get to complete our storytelling this season,” she tweeted on March 27. “The good news? 1621 plays like a satisfying finale! It’s not where we planned to end, but it’s beautiful & the questions that linger we will answer next year. #GreysAnatomy #StayHome”

Ellen Pompeo, who has played Dr. Meredith Grey for the past 15 years, also reacted to the show’s shortened season via Twitter.

“When you hear the full season of #GreysAnatomy is not going to air,” she tweeted with a throwback pic of Meredith.

Although clearly not ecstatic about the news, the actor is looking on the bright side. For one, Killing Eve, starring her former co-star Sandra Oh, is returning earlier than planned!

Pompeo even teased a fan after they asked if this means the season finale will not be “full of people dying.”

“That’s what that means,” she quipped.

Grey’s Anatomy is just one of many TV and movie productions that shut down in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19. They’re also among a number of medical dramas that donated supplies to hospitals amid the pandemic.

“At Grey’s Anatomy, we have a back-stock of gowns and gloves which we are donating as well,” Vernoff said in a statement to Good Morning America on March 19. “We are all overwhelmed with gratitude for our healthcare workers during this incredibly difficult time, and in addition to these donations, we are doing our part to help them by staying home.”





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This Is Us Season 5: Everything We Know So Far


Season four of This Is Us just ended—read our recap about the finale with Justin Hartley for more—but creator Dan Fogelman is already hard at work on the next season. “I’ve written the season premiere for season five,” he said on a call with reporters, “and there’s something big that happens. We have our entire plan mapped out for seasons five and six.”

That’s welcome news for fans who can’t wait to reunite with their favorite characters, especially during these uncertain times. “I feel like a small thing we can do is keep our [TV] world moving and provide an hour-long reprieve for people,” he says.

So what can you look forward to when the series returns? Here’s what we know. Caution: Some spoilers ahead.

Season five will likely air this fall. Of course, everything depends on when it will be safe to go back to work following the coronavirus pandemic. Production on This Is Us usually starts in July for the show to premiere in mid to late September. We’ll let you know as soon as NBC announces a start date.

The new season will be about re-birth. The theme for season four was expansion (as in new characters) and ambitious storylines (the deep future). Fogelman says season five, however, will be about uplifting moments and new beginnings. “I’m very excited about that, especially with where the world is right now,” he says. “I would call it almost a re-birth that will come next season. [There will be] a lot of new beginnings and particularly the words birth and re-birth is going to be a big thematic part of next season.”

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The main cast will return. Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Sterling K. Brown, Justin Hartley, Chrissy Metz, Susan Kelechi Watson, and Chris Sullivan will all be back, along with recurring characters like Madison (Caitlin Thompson) and Jack Damon (Blake Stadnik). While it may not seem like there’s as much to uncover in past storylines, Fogelman says that’s not true. “Jack and Rebecca will always be in the show in those past timelines, plus younger versions of the kids,” he says. As for future storylines, Fogelman says the show will continue to move forward into later years, and not just the deep future where Jack Jr. lives. “It’s so interesting to think we started with Rebecca and Jack, with him sitting with a towel, and then decades later there will be all these human beings that will be offshoots of these people.”



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