The pogues are back for another season of shenanigans on Kildare Island in Netflix’s Outer Banks. The Gen-Z–beloved show’s highly anticipated fourth season premiered October 10 and InStyle sat down to chat all things OBX with the three pogue princesses, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, and Carlacia Grant.
In a new episode of InStyle’s Fan Mail video series, the girls answered all the Outer Banks stans’ burning questions, from season four predictions to potential couple pairings. Cline, who plays former-kook-turned-pogue Sarah Cameron, responded to theories that there would a future story arc about her and John B’s (played by Chase Stokes) mothers, as they have never appeared on the show. Although fans have theorized about the topic for years, Cline shut down any speculation surrounding their moms’ whereabouts.
“I am going to go out on a limb, and I think that’s going to be a solid no,” she says. “I had zero conversation with Ward about our mother, just step-mother [Rose]. So I have to assume something really bad happened.”
“Sarah’s also never talked about her mother. I think she left before I was even conceived at this point,” she continues jokingly. “Rafe has never talked about her. Wheezy’s never talked about her. And John B’s mother—they’ve talked about her a little bit but I don’t think she’s ever coming back. She’s in Colorado somewhere. Womp womp.”
Speaking of the show’s parental figures, Cline takes umbrage with the way Stokes’s character reacted to her father Ward’s dramatic faked death in season two—”I had some big beef with that whole situation.”—but Grant adds that their characters have all grown up a lot this season.
“I think all of our characters just go through more life. We’re a little bit older now, we’ve grown, we’re not in our parents’ house anymore,” Grant explains. After finding El Dorado in season three, the crew puts their newfound money together to build a house together. “It’s like a huge dorm with your friends. We have to figure out how to pay bills and be adults and also life is going on around each and every one of us and we’re growing up in different ways.”
The group is all coupled up and have formed some solid relationships—John B and Sarah are “married,” Kiara and JJ are in love, and Pope and Cleo are going strong—but the girls aren’t opposed to switching up the dynamics—just don’t except them to stray too far outside the friend group. Ahem, to those of you shipping Bailey’s character Kiara and killer kook Rafe (played by Drew Starkey), it’s a hard no from Bailey. “I’m a fan of an enemies to lover arc—not here, not on this one. I hope you understand, murder is not a negotiable for Kiara. You can’t even kill a fly around Kiara. It’s a no for me dog.”
She’d much rather see a romantic arc between Kiara and Sarah. Grant adds that she thinks the two are “endgame.”
For even more show insights, watch the full InStyle Fan Mail video, above, and stream Outer Banks on Netflix now.