Warning: This post contains spoilers for the season 4 finale of Outdoor benches.

Only the good die young, and JJ Maybank was definitely a good one.

Outdoor benches fans are mourning – and outraged – after Part 2 of Season 4 premiered on November 7 and ended with a first of its kind: JJ (Rudy Pankow), the OG Pogue, died.

JJ and Kiara (Madison Bailey) had the treasure they’d been hunting, the Blue Crown, and were running for it through the sandy streets of Morocco when JJ’s biological father, Chandler Groff (J. Anthony Crane), got out of prison. nowhere and grabbed Kiara and threatened her with a knife in her neck.

JJ gave Groff the Crown in exchange for Kiara’s life, but Groff brutally stabbed him anyway.

After the fatal stab, Groff – who was revealed to be his biological father in the dramatic mid-season finale – ran away, leaving JJ to breathe his last in Kiara’s arms.

As she cried and he struggled to hold on, he told her that his wish – which the Blue Crown could grant – had already come true. “I already got my wish. Everything I wanted.”

“Take care of the others,” JJ told Kiara before he took his last breath. “I love you, Ki.”

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“Everyone you know is going to die. Your father, your mother, even your best friend,” said John B (Chase Stokes), as a montage of JJ’s moments with John B and the rest of the Pogues from the past four seasons played .

“I like to think it’s not so much how many years you get, but what you do with them. And JJ put it in. A whole life in those 20 years,” John B said as the emotional montage played on.

“Adventure, romance. Some tough stuff, that was part of it. Sacrifice. And friendship,” John B added. “If JJ was the king of anything, he was the king of friendship. He kept us all together. He was the best friend we ever had.”

The Pogues appeared to bury JJ in the Moroccan desert, and as the season 4 finale came to a close, Groff escaped with the coveted Blue Crown, and the Pogues sat destitute in their grief by a fire before Rafe (Drew Starkey) led them into the confused. .

‘Groff said he was going to Lisbon. I don’t know, if it was my friend I’d probably go after the guy who just killed him,” Rafe said.

Pope (Jonathan Daviss) told him to shut up. But Kiara, in the rage of her grief, agreed.

“He’s not wrong,” she said. “Do you think JJ would be sitting here if it was one of us? Do you think he wouldn’t do anything?

“We all know what JJ would do,” John B agreed. “He would get revenge.”

The episode ended with a dramatic shot of Kiara, the flickering fire reflecting off her face as she declared that the Pogues were out for “revenge.”

Fans weren’t shy about their opposition to the writers’ choice to kill off JJ, with one fan writing in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that the show is now “ruined” because JJ died, while another wrote that he deserved so much’. better than this.”

“John B and Sarah may be the main characters of the show…but JJ was the reason people watched it and kept OBX going and now that’s ruined,” another fan wrote.

Outdoor benches season 4 is now on Netflix.