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**Spoilers ahead for the series finale of Outer Banks, now streaming on Netflix**
A year or two ago, if you asked any viewer of the hit Netflix series how they could see the series ending, they likely would have predicted a wedding for Sarah Cameron (Madelyn Cline) and John B. (Chase Stokes), who left off Season 4 with the loss of a best friend, JJ (Rudy Pankow), and a baby on the way. Call it intuition or call it needing a happy ending, fans may have been able to see it coming, but it certainly doesn’t take away from the tearjerker flash forward, which shows Sarah and John B. walking down the aisle and tying the knot, and doing it with their friends and the new JJ, their son, by their side.
“It’s sweet, I loved it,” Cline tells DECIDER of the finale and the last moments of Outer Banks as a whole. “That’s why I think it might be my favorite sequence that we shot.”
For Stokes, getting to cap off the nearly decade-long experience with a marriage for Sarah and John B. felt like the only way to end things, especially because it was what he was sold on from the very start.
“You know, Jonas Pate, when we started this thing, he said that that’s exactly how it was going to end,” Stokes shared, telling DECIDER that the series creator intended to end the series by finally giving the fans the much-requested wedding of the Pogue prince and Kook princess. “So I think in knowing that when we started this, that was how he hoped it to end, that it did go that way, it was a really cool thing. A lot of shows don’t get that opportunity.”
As for the other cast members who got to watch the moment unfold in front of their eyes, it was just as meaningful, says Kiara actress Madison Bailey. Not only did it mark a happy ending for her character — who was finally moving past the heartbreak of JJ’s death and channeling her energy in honoring him and keeping his memory alive — but it also made for a sequence that finally brought together everyone from the cast for the first time.
“I love the John B.-Sarah wedding ending. I think you said this earlier, it tied it with a bow,” Bailey — who spoke with DECIDER alongside Cline and castmate Carlacia Grant — said. “We had something that had a lot of people in the courthouse at one point [in another season], but the vibes were angry. Completely different vibes, the vibes were off.”
Thankfully, the vibes were well in order for the day of filming the wedding scene after an especially tumultuous journey to make it to a happy ending this season. According to Stokes, everyone in the cast was ecstatic to have a day of lighthearted, non-aerobic fun while bringing to life the scene that fans have been dying to see since day one. Oh, and to get to be completely dry for once.
“Everything leading up to that, like the hurricane, was chaos to shoot. I mean, I’ve never been more damp in my life for longer periods of time,” Stokes said with a laugh. “I’ve just never been more damp.”
While we’re sad it’s over, we have to be thankful it happened.
The final season of Outer Banks is now streaming on Netflix.
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