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Meet John B, a teenage PBR swiller and serial class-skipper who wants
nothin’ but a good time. He’s on his own, living in perennial partydom
and delinquent squalor — his dad has been “missing at sea” for nine
months, and the uncle who’s supposed to be his legal guardian is out of
the picture. His crew consists of rich girl Kiara (Madison Bailey),
smart guy Pope (Jonathan Daviss) and loose cannon JJ (Rudy Pankow); they
boat around the island and pound brewskis and stir up some trouble,
e.g., taunting the Paul Blarts guarding the construction site of a
seaside mini-manse.
Island? Mini-manse? Right: This is the Outer Banks, a string of
islands along the North Carolina coast, where “you either have two jobs
or two houses,” John B says in voiceover. He and his pals call
themselves the Pogues, the working-class types who charter boats and
make low country boil for the Kooks, the richie-riches who have to order
their staff to fish their modern-art sculptures out of their swimming
pools after a hurricane whams into the coast. Consider the setting set.
While surfing some SICK-BRO waves during the hurricane, John B and
Pope spot a boat struggling in the water. Once the storm passes, the
Pogue foursome find the same craft at the bottom of a nearby marsh; John
B dives down and finds a motel key, which might open the door to some
summertime mischief. But: A body washed up. The motel room is home to a
gun and wads of cash, succulent trouble bait for the klepto JJ. The cops
— some of whom are just fine with skimming a little something for
themselves from the evidence — sniff around, as are two greasy
black-denimed heavies with a thirty-aught-six. The kids have really
stirred up some crap this time, and Pope has visions of his merit
scholarship going up in flames.
As teens with cash stuffed in their bathing suit liners tend to do,
our protags throw a kegger, and John B gets in a fight with Topper
(Austin North), the sneering Kook boyfriend of Sarah (Madelyn Cline),
the daughter of John B’s employer. We learn that John B’s dad said he
“might have to vanish for a bit” right before he vanished and was
officially declared kaputskies. The plot then stirs up a couple of
whoppers: One, there’s a legend of a lost ship carrying $400 million in
gold — THINKY-GUY EMOJI. And two, the kids find an old compass on the
sunken boat, an artifact that belonged to John B’s dad — DOUBLE
THINKY-GUY EMOJIS!
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