The fourth season of Outer Banks aired its second half of episodes last week, concluding with a dramatic finale and the death of a main character. I don’t know how everyone else feels, but I have some thoughts about this season. So, if you haven’t watched yet, disregard this column because it does contain spoilers.

Right from the jump, the season feels different. Things are moving quickly. We see a glimpse of time after the Pogues found the gold and took it to make money. However, the gold wasn’t worth as much as I anticipated. They then have to find a place to live and see JJ’s house is up for sale by the bank, so they head off to bid on the Maybank property.

All the Pogues had a prior discussion about what they would be willing to spend to get the property. Still, JJ disregards any aforementioned conversation and buys back the house, using nearly all the gold money.

As if it couldn’t get worse, JJ then takes the little remainder left and bets it on himself to win a motorbike racing contest, getting John B to help him out.

When he loses, the Pogues are out of luck- money-wise. Then, they are approached by Chandler Groff and Wes Genrette about an offer to search for an amulet linked to Blackbeard.

This is where the show dives into the unrealistic.

For them to be Pogues, it seems they have connections everywhere, and JJ just so happens to have a connection to someone who knows the exact coordinates of Blackbeard’s ship crash.

Coincidentally, they also have the Captain’s ship log and know where the amulet is hidden.

I’m not trying to be Debbie Downer, but it is insane to me that in only episode two, the Pogues already find the amulet- something people have been searching hundreds of years for, and they find it on their first try.

Of course, they are faced with danger as someone tries to attack them underwater, but still, the odds are just too good.

They escape, and get wind of a larger treasure the amulet is related to.

While the search for this treasure wages on, JJ is still dealing with personal issues and gets a letter from Wes Genrette. He is forced to confront his father, learning that he is really the son of Chandler Groff.

Again, the odds are too wild.

As many times as Luke (JJ’s thought to be dad) has been arrested, the Sheriff’s office never noticed a kid and thought there was no birth certificate of this kid. On top of that, his real mother Larissa Genrette, supposedly drowned with her son, but the Sheriff’s Office never wondered where the baby was when her body was recovered.

Come on Shoupe! I know you’re smarter than this.

As JJ’s life begins to unravel, things are taken to the next level when the house the Pogues bought is rezoned and taken right from under them.

He is determined to make the people pay and feel the same pain he is feeling, so he breaks into multiple businesses, and lights the town on fire, causing a serious uproar.

But, real dad Chandler Groff offers to help him and help on the treasure hunt, except he doesn’t do that at all. He takes JJ out into the middle of the ocean for a little father/son bonding and then throws him off the boat.

Miraculously, the Pogues find JJ and he has survived. Again, the odds are wild. You found your friend in the middle of the ocean, with no GPS, after a fight and being on the run, and he survived.

The Pogues refuse to go down without a fight and try and locate a boat to follow Groff to Morocco for the real treasure.

While en route to Morocco, they encounter a horrible storm with over 20-foot swells, crashing through the glass of the boat, and knocking John B down. As Sarah tries to check on him, she falls off the boat and JJ dives in the middle of the storm to save her.

The next day, we see them shipwrecked, everyone is somehow fine, not even a scratch. They start a fire and cook some fish. It’s during that time Sarah reveals she’s pregnant and John B is going to be a dad.

We enter into the final episode with the Pogues walking from this deserted island all the way into Morocco, despite not having phones or maps.

Within 20 minutes of the episode, Groff is found. This seems just insane to me that halfway across the world in a foreign country of thousands, you’d run into the man and dad that stole your treasure. Nevertheless, he is found and he leads Rafe (who tagged along) to the treasure, except Rafe dumps him in a well and seeks the treasure on his own. As John B and the gang seek the same treasure, they come across this well and find Groff.

Now, Groff was pushed, we were made to believe he seriously injured his legs. John B and his friends refuse to help but provide him water and go on to the treasure, where they again battle it out with mercenaries seeking the treasure. After hours of fighting and a sandstorm, JJ reaches the top of this animal and locates a crown that has been missing for thousands of years.

As he gets down and goes to hug Kiara, he is confronted by Groff, who made it out of the well, and to JJ and his friends. This is absolutely ludicrous. No one could’ve climbed out of that well, hitchhiked a ride to a forbidden treasure trove, and miraculously found JJ in a sandstorm. But, I digress, he did. He asks for the crown and JJ gives it to him in return for Groff not hurting Kiara. Unfortunately for Groff, the crown wasn’t enough and he stabs JJ, before running off with the crown.

I cried and cried at the memories of JJ, and I don’t usually cry at television shows, but it was hard to watch.

What made it more difficult was knowing the anger everyone had with JJ in the days leading up to this and knowing the pain they were all now feeling.

Overall, this season was a tough watch and moved into the realm of the impossible. Season 5 will be the final season, and if I had to guess, it will show John B and the other Pogues getting justice for JJ, and the entire show will have been a story John B and Sarah were telling their child about how they became treasure hunters and how the child got his or her name, as JJ’s request was to name the boy or girl JJ.